Lack of standardisation fragments markets, but too much might stifle innovation - in the reflected glow from Mobile World Congress 2010, what now for mobile applications?
Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 19th February
We ask our distinguished panel of analysts and experts for their top five predictions for IT growth through 2010 and beyond now that the IT spending recession appears to have bottomed out.
Much hyped, consumer friendly, and not the first tablet PC, however supported by a loyal following and complementary products, does Apple's iPad have a role as a business device?
Buying and selling goods online is no longer just a simple matter of point and click. The reality of where customers are located is complicating matters.
With a commodity productivity application, the most effective delivery is on the lowest-cost platform or from a provider. The problem is that 20 or 30 years ago, people put everything on mainframes. They wrote it all in code.
Like a lot of big, old industries, the banking function is essentially a function nowadays of software, standard protocols, high-performance (yet standard) IT systems ... and soon impeccable cloud computing credentials.
In a complex mobile market with diverse handset platforms it is difficult to spot what might be a successful mobile application, but there is a model for identifying mobile application momentum - Q-Mass - the Quocirca Mobile Assessment
Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 17th November
As the notion of cloud computing continues to permeate the collective IT imagination, an offshoot vision holds that multiple business-to-business (B2B) players could use the cloud approach to build extended business process ecosystems.
