“If pre-millennium IT was considered the domain of geeks and propeller heads, and the noughties was the era of the customer-centric IT department, IT is now entering a third age – that driven by the needs of digitisation, according to Gartner.

IT organisations have been warned for some time that change is coming, but this year there is a perfect storm, said Dave Aron, vice-president and Gartner fellow.

The third era of technological and societal trends in enterprise IT – driven by social media, cloud computing, analytics and mobile enablement, along with the internet of things (IoT) – will change the make-up of IT.”

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