Time for CIOs to Create Cloud-Based App Stores
August 10, 2013
Grazed from eCommerceTimes. Author: Jeffrey Kaplan.
I’ve been charting the evolution of the corporate app store idea in this column for more than three years. Until recently, most of the focus has been on how various service providers and other institutions can establish app stores to resell apps to their customers. Now, enlightened CIOs are discovering they can also implement internal app stores to control the consumerization of IT and satisfy their corporate constituents.
I was first intrigued by the notion of banks and other institutions becoming commercial app store providers in 2010. Innovative companies like Bank of America and Staples have deployed online marketplaces with varying success…
Bank of America launched its appstore to strengthen its relationship with small- and mid-sized businesses. Staples added its App Center to its already robust online presence to add a rapidly growing array of Software as a Service and other cloud services to its portfolio from traditional office products…
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