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SoMoClo: converged IT infrastructure for business transformation

A radical transformation of IT infrastructure where Social, Mobile, and Cloud function as one

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Aberdeen Group is working to introduce SoMoClo, an over-arching strategy regarding a radical transformation of IT infrastructure where Social, Mobile, and Cloud function as one, creating the opportunity for radical business transformation.

2010
IT infrastructure has come a long way since the heyday of client-server architecture.

In 2010 many organisations incorporated cloud services, social business, and enterprise mobility into core IT.

However, these technologies first appeared on the scene as data and technology silos, concurrent but not necessarily connected (see figure 1).

2011
In 2011, the previously siloed IT structures began to overlap and merge (see figure 2):

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Social-Cloud: In a recent study of organisations which use cloud-enabled social business solutions to collaborate in real-time, Aberdeen found that 73 per cent of top performers (identified by a number of metrics, including their ability to share business-critical information throughout their company almost 50-times faster than the industry average) were able to work cohesively with departments with no direct reporting relationship in place.

Top performers were 1.8 times more likely than the industry average to display this quantitative measure of teamwork.

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