Business IT solution development generally follows specific trends and overlapping eras. The first, calculation, occurred as digital products and services wholly replaced adding machines and other mechanical business devices. The second, computation, mirrored the evolution of digitized solutions for increasingly complex processes and applications. The third, consolidation, found vendors creating products and services that extended IT into virtually every business process and strategy. The fourth and most recent era, comprehension, began a decade or so ago.
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IBM's New PureSystems Promise to Ease Big Data, Cloud Adoption
Posted by: Charles King February 19, 2013 05:00 AMBusiness IT solution development generally follows specific trends and overlapping eras. The first, calculation, occurred as digital products and services wholly replaced adding machines and other mechanical business devices. The second, computation, mirrored the evolution of digitized solutions for increasingly complex processes and applications. The third, consolidation, found vendors creating products and services that extended IT into virtually every business process and strategy. The fourth and most recent era, comprehension, began a decade or so ago.