The Death of the Publishing IT Department?

Publishing Perpectives

The emergence of a cloud-based book publishing infrastructure will change everything about how we do our jobs.
In recent years we have already witnessed how basic business tools like word-processing, email, presentation software, and spreadsheets have been reinvented as cloud services (i.e. Google Docs). Evidence abounds of increasingly specialized cloud-based software applications for publishers — applications that may have once lived on company servers, but are now accessed through shared platforms on the Web.
Cloud infrastructure will force a change in the role of the publishing IT department from that of a service shop that builds and maintains infrastructure, to that of a consultant whose job it is to understand how new digital tools and practices can have the greatest impact within the organization and then act as an agent for change.
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