Strategic advice to leverage new technologies

There has been so much investment in IT by every company over the past years with the intention of making the business more competitive by improving productivity, optimizing the supply chain, enabling e-business, and so on.

Mobility will be one of the most sought-after enterprise initiatives in 2013. But implementing mobile devices and applications presents organizations with a number of issues and considerations.

Collaboration methods and tools are evolving rapidly because of a confluence of recent trends:

You are in the change agent business.

With the advent of devops, everyone in the software industry seems to have breathed a simultaneous sigh of relief. The problems of deployment would suddenly all be gone and the differences and past grudges between development and operations are a thing of the past:

• Software delivery -- on track

• Transition from development to operations -- smooth and without problems

Although mobile computing is not new, there has been a lot of discussion lately about it, and about having an effective mobile/social strategy. The first question we need to ask is: what should your mobile strategy be?

Misunderstood, poorly identified, and often brushed aside, the gap between strategic business demands and the ability of deployed IT solutions to meet those demands grows by the day.

Mobile device management will continue to play a key role in enterprise mobility in 2013 as organizations accelerate their use of smartphones and tablets in an effort to increase employee productivity and enable the business to respond more efficiently to customer wants and needs.