Mobile Technology: Binding Social and Cloud into a New Enterprise Applications Platform

Nowadays, the IT industry is revolving around the build-up and adoption of a new platform characterized by mobility, cloud-based application and service delivery, and value-generating overlays of social business and pervasive analytics. The paper explores the convergence of mobile, cloud, and social applications, as well as the effects of the enterprise and the emergence of the new enterprise application platforms. In the beginning, the authors set the stage, while showing the expansion of mobile, cloud, and social applications in the business information system, as they were found in the literature. The authors then look over the IT trends, especially the consumerization of IT, as reasons and basis for the information systems embracing of mobile. Afterwards, the authors present a mobility roadmap for the enterprise and illustrate the reconfiguration of the enterprise application platform.