New Applied Mobile solutions serve the full spectrum of transactional, analytical and social computing capabilities. Accordingly, they may depart from traditional app design and deployment concepts. Focused in scope and simple in execution, if only from the user’s perspective, these apps have more in common with ‘applets’ than with conventional multi-purpose feature-rich enterprise applications. This is precisely what makes them so powerful – they are elegant solutions to well-defined problems, and the designed for operations on-the-go. The enterprise arms race has begun in these spaces and more – with big disruptions ahead for organisations that trail their competition.
For the past few years, the IT crowd has been enamoured by ‘as-a-service’ concepts and the potential to unleash the power of distributed computing, virtualisation and ubiquitous networking. The message being spread is one of capacity and cost – the ability to tap into a nearly unlimited scale of computing power, storage, platforms and software with the hope of lower overall technology spending. Cheaper and faster are interesting terms to the bottom line, but better is a term that business can really get excited about.
Capability Clouds move beyond the building blocks of capacity to deliver finished services that directly address business objectives and enterprise
goals. Instead of talking about machine images or database instances, the discussion shifts to the analytics cloud, the testing cloud or the sales cloud. And the conversation moves from the CIO’s office to the CEO’s office and the boardroom.
There have been three main drivers of cloud adoption thus far; a preference for operating expense over capital expense, speed to solution, and flexible, scalable access to specialised resources – be they technology, software or people. The capability cloud can add opportunities for agility and innovation in how business processes – even business models – are acquired, composed and revised.
As capability clouds adoption continues to mature, it will require and enable more hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. With the rapid pace of change, increasing success stories, the level of investment and innovation – not to mention the hype and attention – CIOs must be prepared to answer how they leverage the ecosystem of capabilities, services and value networks delivered by the cloud.
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