To prove our point, we have developed and released 9 Free Supply Chain Apps that employees, vendors and customers can access immediately from any browser (http://babblewareinc.com). We have designed the “standard” transactions to provide value to companies that want to collaborate, improve efficiency, achieve accuracy and even improve visibility.

Access to business applications need to be portable; i.e. when I’m at work, I’ll use my laptop, when I’m on the road, I’ll use my non-smart phone with browser access, when I’m at home, I’ll use my iPad. Mobile based Apps, that are sexy, don’t do anything towards this issue. First of all, only 20% of the 217M mobile phones are smart phones. Of that there are numerous operating systems and versions of operating systems. Building anything for this market is incredibly limiting. 80% of mobile phones have and use browsers. One version of code, 80% of the market is instantlyl accessible.

Angry Birds has its place as there is no need to connect to an Enterprise Application. Yet, IT needs to stop making the mistakes that they suffer every day from the past. The Legacy applications they run today (including brand new versions of ERP & Best of Breed) choke the ability of the company to constantly address the change that requires more and more each day.

So much so that we openly talk about the Disconnect between IT and Business. Really? IT, which is part of the Business….is disconnected from it? I believe it isn’t their fault. It is the sins of the past and the architecture imposed that makes this happen. Breaking the cycle allows the I of IT to become Innovation.