Do you think you know what an application is? Well, think again. Back in the day, “application” was simply another word for computer program. It ran in one place, either as a monolithic mass of computer code, or perhaps as a carefully architected set of distributed components on a handful of servers.
Welcome to the twenty-first century, folks. Ask any teenager about applications and they’ll look at you funny, hold up their smartphone, and say, “You mean, apps?” Today, mobile apps are leading the reinvention of the application, filtering down from the consumer space into all corners of the enterprise. The world has changed. Applications have changed. And enterprise IT itself is undergoing rapid reinvention. Digital transformation represents an end-to-end rethinking of what it means to put an application into the hands of customers.
Beyond the rise of mobile
The democratization of IT has upended the notion of an enterprise application, as digital transformation initiatives drive the assembly of increasingly complex, distributed, mainly cloud-based apps that deliver enterprise value to technology consumers—within companies of all sizes and among the public at large.
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