It’s not the devices your employees are bringing that you should be worried about: It’s the expectations they’re bringing that should keep you up at night. (My sincere apologies to our US readers to whom I’ve disturbed just before a holiday.)

Double-degreed, techno-savvy, mobile-phone-dependent young professionals now entering the workforce will expect a totally different experience from what your business apps deliver today. At a recent event, Gartner analyst, Val Sribar broke it all down, explaining that next-generation business apps will have to look and act like consumer applications. That’s right. That means your apps will need to meet a whole new set [...]

The nexus of the cloud, social media, mobile and big data will drive business apps to be more like consumer apps. How will you deliver these next-generation business apps? Will you build a brick wall around development or welcome user input? Some IT managers say they spend their jobs today preventing people from creating their own apps. But that’s the [...]

I had the opportunity to attend the CITEworld conference on Consumerization of IT here in NYC a few weeks ago. It was a really well run day, and wanted to share a few things I learned. The conference really impacted how I think about the opportunity in the application integration space. Mobile is bigger than I realized. A lot bigger. Yet, [...]