While I was at Mobile World Congress this year, I spent quite a bit of time looking at augmented reality solutions.

From all my cloud related conversations, I’m gaining a strong impression two worlds are colliding. On the one hand, most of the CIOs I talk to are focused on providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), whether it is internally to their business users, or externally as service providers. But when I look around me and talk to end-users, they seem interested in the delivery of “applications.” Many of them don’t even talk about cloud; they rather discuss app download and functionality. I’d say this is close to what SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) represents.

In this modern age, businesses of all sizes are fundamentally structured around some use of software. The importance of agility comes up in various contexts more frequently in the wake of an IT world dominated by cloud, big data, mobile, and social technologies. Whether in reference to software development or response to market fluctuations and competition or implementation of new technology, agility is a key element of successful businesses.

Economy of Time

Do enterprise app stores really represent choice or are they the reheated version of applications simply sanctioned by enterprise IT?