Business technology has gone through major changes every decade. We began with expensive and monolithic business applications with minimal functionality and extremely high maintenance costs during the mainframe era. With the advent of PCs and client-server computing, business applications made a shift towards siloed functional applications with rich content and relatively smaller infrastructure costs. As we begin the 21st century, the proliferation of internet computing has pushed business applications to become feature-rich, standards-based, and tightly-integrated business solutions. The focus now is on business processes that transcend functional areas and use a more holistic approach to cover your entire business eco-system. In addition, analytic and collaborative solutions have become far more sophisticated, with data warehouses, dashboards, portals, and workspaces. If anything, these trends are accelerating. Moore's law, which essentially states that technology capabilities will double every 18 months, is alive and well.

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