Know That Application Owners Will Have Greater Influence On IT Purchasing

Partners must understand the app-centric mindset enterprises are adopting.  With applications having become the lifeblood of enterprises, IT leaders are under pressure to satisfy continuous integration and delivery requirements for apps as they decide on the tools, techniques and skills they'll need.

Meanwhile, application owners want IT to empower them with self-service capabilities that allow them to build in services such as security, load balancing and auto scaling into applications. Sizable IT investment and CIO mindshare will be geared toward developer-friendly, software-driven choices, and consumption-based, use-as-you-go platforms and services.