CIOs Must Exploit Smartphones, Tablets and Cloud Services
IT departments were slow to adopt the PC. Adam Hartung says CIOs need to learn from that mistake and be bold about adopting cloud services and mobile computing.
IT departments were slow to adopt the PC. Adam Hartung says CIOs need to learn from that mistake and be bold about adopting cloud services and mobile computing.
Now what? In the face of a deepening business slowdown, a global credit crunch and a wildly fluctuating stock market, what should corporate IT departments do next? Gartner's top answer at its Symposium/ITxpo 2008 conference this month: Prepare for hiring freezes and layoffs.
This whitepaper will explain how to grow your business by sharing enterprise data and services via application programming interfaces (APIs). • Open APIs, once used only by leading technology companies such as Amazon and Facebook, have become much more prevalent • Open APIs are projected to reach 30,000 by 2016, compared to less than 600 in 2007 • A well thought-out open API strategy can drive innovation and help you compete in today’s business environment.