# IT’s New Role

- ## Traditionally, in all the previous models, 2 key roles for IT:

  - Infrastructure provider and application builder

- ## Infrastructure provider - role remains

  - provide defined service levels
  - eliminate the network as the constraining factor in building applications
  - Information storage, management and processing power may become a “utility”
  - Manage the costs of providing the infrastructure the business needs

- ## Application builder - not what it used to be

  - aside from package implementations, building new applications is now part of “futurizing” every organization

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