Enterprise In 2013: Enterprise Ascends Into The Cloud
December 27, 2013
Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Michael Singer.
In looking back over the past 12 months, it’s apparent businesses pushed the envelope of the programmable web. Instead of being influenced by consumer apps and trends like BYOD, employers this year looked inward to solve their internal business problems.
Companies have expanded the use of potent business partners, providers, and platforms at the expense of more consumer-driven technologies that defined 2011 and 2012. Here now are the biggest influences on business, with a heavy reliance on cloud computing and avoidance of government intervention…
It’s a tossup between these two events to figure out which has more impact for business. The $7.2-billion purchase of Nokia is expected to increase Microsoft’s reach outside North America but is also likely to expand Microsoft’s reach into open source frameworks such as Symbian and Android…
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