Resourcery Embraces ‘3rd Platform’ of Global IT Revolution

Resourcery, a systems integrator in West Africa is setting the pace in embracing the “third platform” of the global IT industry.

This was disclosed by Tani Fafunwa, managing director of the company at the 18th IT News Africa Innovation dinner sponsored by SAS (a global leader in business analytics) and attended by Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from leading business organizations in Nigeria. 

In his opening remarks Fafunwa, who moderated the event, said that the information technology industry is in the middle of a once in every 25 year transition. He said IDC calls it a transition to the 3rd Platform. 

“Mainframes represented the 1st Platform, personal computers the 2nd platform and the 3rd platform will be based on smart connected devices.”

Fafunwa noted that during the Mainframe, 1st Platform era, there were millions of users and thousands of applications.

Dominant companies included Digital Equipment, ICL, IBM, NCR etc.

This was followed by the 2nd platform of personal computers, Local Area Networks, client server technology and the internet.” 

At the peak of this platform there were hundreds of millions of users and tens of thousands of applications.

Dominant companies were Microsoft, Intel, Dell, HP, Cisco, IBM and others. 

The 3rd Platform is smart connected devices, broadband, social technologies, cloud and big data.

 In this era there are billions of users with millions of applications at their disposal. 

The 3rd platform transition can be seen in some stunning global statistics; there will be over one billion smart devices sold in 2013, up from 725m last year; global mobile data traffic in 2012 was 61 times the size it was just five years ago.

He went on to say; “Resourcery started in the era of the 1st Platform (Mainframe) but we could not participate effectively.  We were lucky the global IT ecosystem was already moving towards the 2nd Platform, which we embraced, first selling PCs then focusing on and leading in the networking space by partnering with global technology companies like Cisco, Systemax, SAS, Microsoft, and HP.  Here we were able to have an impact and champion many innovative IT based services in West Africa.”

“The same drive we had when we set-out on the 2nd Platform carries on today as we gradually shift to the 3rd Platform era. We have fully embraced Cloud Services – helping organizations determine their best route to the Cloud and offering Virtualized Servers, storage, Big Data Analytics, Social Collaborative Technologies.  We also help organizations deploy secure their networks which is becoming more complex with the BYoD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) trend”

Fafunwa summed it up by saying; “This is the most exciting time in information technology.  The shift to the 3rd Platform presents vast new opportunities and threats and it will create new IT leaders and losers both globally and locally.

This is also true for our customers who will either embrace this new platform or watch as their competition out performs them in the marketplace.”