The state-of-the-art of Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud Computing an empirical analysis

Abstract

Recent years have seen explosive emergence of the SMAC era, which is a combination of Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud Computing. The uses of Social networking are growing rapidly to collaborate at all levels of the extended enterprise. Employees are using Mobility to enhance the productivity. Apart from this people started to use Analytics based on big data and Cloud Computing which provides diff erent services like Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This abundance of services help businesses to develop approximate solutions that ultimately leads to leverage public IT infrastructure, minimizing cost of ownership and minimizing time. The deployment of SMAC in IT sector not only enhances the decision making capability but also allows them to rollout new unchecked business models and increase their reach to customers. Enterprises need to fully understand the capability and utilization of this emerging trend in order to make sense of their intended dominance in the next few years ahead.

Determinants of Smart Digital Infrastructure Diffusion for Urban Public Services

“…SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) drove early digitization at personal, enterprise and governance space a decade back (Dewan & Jena, 2014), with recent addition of Internet of Things, AIOps, MLOps, CICD and DevOps, 5G telecommunication network, distributed cloud computing, cloud-native, cyber security, Drones and Robotics (MoneyControl, 2020). Key component of SmartCity connectivity is enabled by 5G telecom standard and Edge computing (Chatterjee et al, 2017), which will make IoT mainstream to many businesses and industries by connecting billions of devices and running Analytics on data generated by IoT devices (Joseph et al,2017) (Gartner, 2020).…”

A strategic analysis of SMAC technology

“…An organization's Chief Information Officer (CIO) can utilize a SMAC strategy to stay competitive, differentiate the organization, and provide a great customer experience. The CIO charged with the development of IT and computer systems, can promote the implementation of SMAC technology in order to create more efficient IT processes, rework older processes, and find areas where new IT tools can be successfully introduced (Dewan et al, 2014). Data integrity and electronic data safety and responsibility, also a corporate responsibility of the CIO, can be addressed through utilization of the cloud (Higgins & Clark, 2013;Dewan et al, 2014).Social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are four technologies integrated into one central theme: social applications such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Blogger and analytic applications such as financial, weather, and flight information are used on smart technologies and mobile data devices while the cloud can be accessed from mobile or desktop technology (Benedict, 2012;Cognizant, 2014).…”