Top Four Disruptive Technologies Today

Sept. 18, 2013
How Cloud Storage and Computing, Big Data, Mobile Communications and Social Media are Changing Business Operations

Enrique Andaluz, industry solutions manager of Worldwide Discrete Manufacturing for Microsoft, says there are four technologies alive today that have disruptive powers. Cloud storage and computing, big data, mobile communications and social media have significantly changed how workers operate and how owners run businesses. In this article, Janet Kreiling, contributing writer for sister publication The Journal, discusses the affects these four types of disruptive technologies have on the way companies manage their businesses and how the technologies are changing existing business models when used together.

Read the full article on The Journal.

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