IBM envisions new breed of enterprise cloud apps
September 5, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.
IBM is just starting to see hints of the new breed of apps that will become possible as more businesses start adopting cloud computing. I had a chat last week with Ric Telford, vice president of IBM Cloud Services. I tossed a range of questions at him about the demands IBM is getting from customers. But the conversation seemed to keep coming back to apps.
Telford has a vision of a new breed of apps that are “born-on-the-cloud apps as opposed to born-on-the-enterprise,” he said. “We’re entering the next generation of enterprise apps where it’s basically going to follow the models you see on the consumer side,” he said…
He gave an example of an app offered by the U.S. Open. Delivered via the cloud, the app integrated social media feeds and had analytics capabilities that could predict who would run matches. The app was available on five different mobile platforms, he said…
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