Nearly five years ago, Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed that “software is eating the world,” and he is probably surprised how much of the world is actually influenced by software today. Nowhere is this more true than in the brave, new world of the Internet of Things (IoT).

No matter which market forecast you read, the commonly held view is that nearly every product and service will be connected over the next decade. And these connections wouldn’t be of much value unless there is software in place to determine what data points should be captured and what actions should be taken in response to the information being collected.

Given that IoT’s business benefits must be measured in improved products and better customer support, as well as higher sales at lower costs, the software development process must be more inclusive than the past. DevOps … Read More »

As ‘software eats everything’, the pressure to build more agile and robust platforms to support the software development process is becoming increasingly intense. Yet, a debate continues to rage over who should be responsible for building and administering the software development systems.

THINKstrategies believes the cloud is providing a new path to circumvent this conflict so organizations can concentrate on generating leading edge software on a continuous basis. Click here to read our perspectives on the Cloudnexa blog.