{"id":8012,"date":"2014-05-30T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:19:31","slug":"weekly-recap-the-most-important-trend-of-2014-how-to-get-started-in-the-cloud-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/weekly-recap-the-most-important-trend-of-2014-how-to-get-started-in-the-cloud-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: The most important trend of 2014, how to get started in the cloud, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn which trend will have the largest impact on the business world this year, tips for getting your company into the cloud, why we are now in the &#8220;Post-Post PC Era&#8221;, and more.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20140520\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">How to get started in the cloud<\/span><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Cloud development']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/8-questions-to-ask-before-developing-applications-on-the-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">Cloud computing<\/span><\/a> has progressed from a niche buzzword to a business essential in recent years. But if you\u2019re still lagging behind, what\u2019s the easiest way to get started?<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140530_MostImportantTrend_Trend']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jeffbercovici\/2014\/05\/28\/the-most-important-technology-trend-of-2014-according-to-mary-meeker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">The most important trend of 2014<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWhile we\u2019re seeing shifts underway in media consumption, education, healthcare, commerce, security and a host of other areas, there\u2019s one trend that\u2019s the biggest reimagination of all: The amount of available data we now must deal with.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140530_MostImportantTrend_PostPostPC']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/software\/productivity-collaboration-apps\/microsofts-nadella-were-in-post-post-pc-era\/d\/d-id\/1269246?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">We\u2019re in the \u2018Post-Post\u2019 PC Era<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday that technology is entering a &#8220;post-post&#8221; PC era in which highly personalized and flexible digital experiences, rather than specific devices or operating systems, will rule the day. Are your business applications ready for that world? Are they ready to <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Mobile']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/solutions\/mobile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">work across all devices and platforms<\/span><\/a>? <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">How CIOs can lead their company\u2019s information business<\/span><br \/>\nAs companies try to capitalize on data\u2019s rapid growth,  one issue that looms large is finding senior-leadership capacity to manage the huge program of organizational change that data analytics demands. Without this leadership, <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'BI Projects Fail']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/7-reasons-why-business-intelligence-projects-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">data projects have little chance of success<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn which trend will have the largest impact on the business world this year, tips for getting your company into the cloud, why we are now in the &#8220;Post-Post PC Era&#8221;, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly Recap: The most important trend of 2014, how to get started in the cloud, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn which trend will have the largest impact on the business world this year, tips for getting your company into t"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13962,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/13962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}