Changing the three trends in business: Mobile, social, cloud computing

Business is facing a volatile environment, and the needs of customers and employees are changing. The world is changing, driven by three of market shifts-mobile, social and cloud. These three trends change our contact content, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31492.html "> Contact and Trading methods.

Obviously, the move changed the way we contact. We're going beyond laptops and smartphones. As we connect tablets, automobiles, machinery and medical devices together, the world is migrating to billions of connected devices. According to Ericsson and Cisco's estimates, as we seek to implant sensors into almost everything, there will be 50 billion of connections by 2020. These devices, complex as a tablet computer, can easily be used to monitor humidity sensors. We have been talking about the consumption of it for years. It is becoming reality and not all bad. Consumers now have the will to buy their own equipment and bring it to the workplace-and this year, CIOs will be open to this trend. As a result, companies raise the rate of employee mobility from 15% to 80%. In terms of equipment and enterprise support assets, the move to change the content of our connection is so obvious.

In addition to changing the things we connect, mobile also changes the way business contacts are made. Not only is the device changing, but the software layout is also changing. This is probably the first time in 15 years that someone intends to use an operating system other than Microsoft as the basis for their software. There are at least four important competitors in the next-generation operating system. I'm sure it will take hours to argue the winners and losers in this fight, but the end result is the same. There will be a fundamental change in the software landscape. Existing enterprise applications will be refactored so that they can run on multiple operating systems. The application is adapted to the screen and has network capabilities. Most importantly, the design of the new application follows the principle of mobile priority. The emergence of these new post-PC apps will change our IT vendor objects. Maybe Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. However, this does not guarantee that the software market, at least $450 billion trillion in market capitalisation, will move to new suppliers as a result of this shift. The progress of mobile web means that some companies are now considering writing the entire application running on the web.

The second trend is that socializing, socializing and moving together change the way business communicates with customers and employees. Socializing has changed the way corporate marketing and customer service delivery are delivered. But socializing is not the exclusive consumer. Social software is changing our enterprise collaboration tools and changing the way business applications, such as CRM, communicate within. The game mechanism is used in the retail business, and as a reward mechanism it is also used in the commercial environment.

Finally, cloud and virtualization are shaking the foundations of an enterprise's infrastructure. The new computing patterns brought by the cloud change storage and processing. CIOs are considering network virtualization, not just VPNs, but also an opportunity to decouple network services from underlying physical hardware. Because many companies are choosing a hybrid cloud environment, it is evaluating the strengths of both internal and external solutions. Cloud services provide a test and development environment for new applications and open the floodgates for new software innovations and new pricing and SaaS distribution patterns. On the one hand, mobile-social-cloud empowers businesses by allowing employees to access enterprise data anywhere, and improves communication with better social collaboration tools. On the other hand, it is overwhelmed by security, compliance and rapid change. As a result, it is not surprising that virtualization strategies, as well as business and mobility, have become the most concerned topics for IT leaders for 2012 years. In fact, more than 60% of the respondents listed it as a matter of priority.

We are at the beginning of the next 20 years of it evolution. These trends will create the largest transfer of technology since the Internet. Successful companies will use these technologies to revolutionize business. I look forward to seeing these changes happen.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)