The big four business tech trends of mobility, cloud, social and big data essentially make up what is described as the ‘third platform’. Considering that the speed of transformation is faster than any mainframe or client/server platform adoption, according to the IDC “89% of all future IT spending will be in the third platform.”
With IT departments moving away from inflexible legacy systems, the industry is rapidly awaking to the need to reskill in order to leverage more agile platforms and solutions.