Social, Mobile, Cloud and Information-- a "Nexus of convergent forces" Gartner says will build the "technology platform of tomorrow," changing user behaviour while creating new business opportunities.
Each of the 4 individual forces is innovative and disruptive on its own right, but combined they are "revolutionizing business and society, disrupting old business models and creating new leaders."
Gartner continues, "Mobile devices are a platform for effective social networking and new ways of work. Social links people to their work and each other in new and unexpected ways. Cloud enables delivery of information and functionality to users and systems. These forces of the Nexus are intertwined to create a user-driven ecosystem of modern computing."
Social is proof of consumerisation driving enterprise IT-- introducing the personal activities such as sharing comments, links and recommendations. It also drives the other 3 Nexus forces through its demand for mobility, the cloud and data analysis.
Mobile computing according to Gartner forces "the biggest change to the way people live since the automobile," with mass adoption driving the creation of new infrastructure and business models as it shifts the status quo.
Cloud computing is the glue holding the Nexus together-- without the cloud, social interactions cannot happen at scale, mobile access fails to connect to a wide variety of data and functions, and information remains stuck inside internal systems.
Information is ubiquitous-- accessible from anywhere, any time, on any devices, through its being stored everywhere thanks to social, mobile and cloud.
"To take advantage of the Nexus of Forces and respond effectively, organizations must face the challenges of modernizing their systems, skills and mind-sets," Gartner concludes. "Organizations that ignore the Nexus of Forces will be displaced by those that can move into the opportunity space more quickly-— and the pace is accelerating."
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