Baseline Magazine has an article about the four fastest growing areas of IT. They don’t say much about the trends but I’m not surprised by what I see and obviously about where an enterprising person can attain some career advancement…………
Keep an eye out on Baseline Magazine. I expect they will release more in depth information about the trends. None of these areas are a surprise.
Mobile/Tablet device usage for enterprise use will only be truly adopted when enterprise applications can be made available on these devices with enterprise-standard security.
Talking to a CIO client last week, he mentioned that last year business executives purchased new tablet devices and wanted to connect them up with corporate e-mail. This year, they want the device to deliver enterprise apps and content in a user-friendly manner, but securely.
A new solution called SharePoint2Go (www.sharepoint2go.com) aims to deliver exactly this: Secure mobile SharePoint on any device.
The solution renders SharePoint as a user-friendly mobile app and provides Single Sign-On to multiple SharePoint sites and farms.