App Store Technology Helping Businesses Manage Software

There's a huge productivity gap between modern software and the aging manner in which most enterprises nevertheless distribute and manage applications on personal computers.At a time when business models and whole industries are being upended by improved use of software, IT providers inside of enterprises are everything considered painstakingly provisioning and maintaining PC applications in much the same way they did in the 1990s.Even more, with using these older models, most enterprises don't even know what PC apps they have in use on their networks and across thousands of computers. That means they're as well lacking that visibility into how, or even if, these apps are being used, and they may even be paying for licenses that they don't need to.To examine the ongoing problems around archaic PC apps management and how new models -- taking a page from the popular app store model -- can rapidly boost the management of PC applications, BriefingsDirect recently interviewed the President and CEO of Embarcadero Technologies, Wayne Williams. Wayne has more than 15 years of experience in founding and leading companies. He was appointed CEO of Embarcadero Technologies in 2007 and he is a former COO, Senior Vice President of Products and CTO at Embarcadero.The interview was conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: Embarcadero Technologies is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]Here are some excerpts:

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