BYOD for tablets and smartphones represents only the first shock of the mobile explosion. There is an even larger change coming, one defined by greater (not less) heterogeneity in device and OS, combined with myriad of new data sources. Driving all of it is a demand for ever-richer user experiences – a new kind of “experience economy”, where the winners are those companies that deliver the most compelling experiences to the user’s device of choice. Appcelerator co-founder and CTO Nolan Wright investigated what these changes mean to the ways we build apps, connected them to public and enterprise data, and measured the results – as well as what it all suggests for the future of enterprise IT.
Nolan Wright is the co-founder and CTO at Appcelerator, based in Mountain View, CA. Before co-founding Appcelerator, Nolan led engineering and product management for Vocalocity, a VoiceXML platform company. Nolan started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and then went to work for Netscape. Nolan graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.