Mobility, cloud, big data challenge CIOs

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Admire Moyo.

Though there are many trends percolating through the local IT space, enterprise mobility, cloud computing and big data are presenting CIOs with the biggest challenges. So says Michael Vincent, director for innovation and strategy at Deloitte Consulting, who is also a keynote speaker at the upcoming CSSA President’s Awards. Vincent believes each of these trends will receive critical importance on the CIO’s radar in the coming 12 to 18 months.

Mobile strategy

Regarding enterprise mobility, Vincent says large enterprises have moved rapidly in adopting the revolutionary potential of mobile apps to both enable and transform business processes. He explains that as CIOs gain experience in the design and engineering of good mobile apps, there tends to be an explosive growth in the number of apps in and around the enterprise…

To unleash the full potential of mobility at enterprise level, Vincent urges organisations to channel that growth through a sensible mobility strategy and towards advance planning of enterprise enablement, including mobile app management, mobile device management (BYOD) and enterprise app stores…

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