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Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said yesterday that the enterprise software model is being blown up by the rising use of tablets.
While travel companies aren't the only corporations and large businesses interested in enterprise software changes, they're definitely among the affected.
Schmidt was speaking to chief information officers and information technology professionals at Gartner Symposium ITXpo in Orlando.
In a three-minute excerpt, shown in a YouTube clip below, Schmidt is seen discussing how enterprise software has been disrupted.
The rapid growth of tablet usage in the workplace "broke the model" of the past decade, in Schmidt's view:
"The third phase (of enterprise disruption) is driven by tablets and it looks like the majority of enterprise computing will happen on mobile devices.... It looks to me you're going to have to dismantle existing infrastructure to work in the mobile model. It's happening right before your eyes."
We may be moving to a world beyond licensed B2B server-side applications to a mix of cloud-based servers and local servers, which will require a complicated restructuring for many online travel companies and other businesses.
Schmidt said regardless of whether Google, Amazon, or another company wins the battle for cloud enterprise software sales, corporations "have to make the transition" to public, mobile-friendly infrastructure.
Of course, it is in Google's interest to champion a post-SAP, post-Oracle phase, where it appears that much of enterprise computing will happen on tablets. Google stands to gain if the concepts and user interface behind Google Now -- a mobile app geared toward travelers and commuters -- could be applied to corporations.
It's Schmidt's hope that the Google Now concept of an Android-based app providing "the right information at just the right time before a user even asks for it" could be applied in the workplace as an enterprise solution.
Google hopes that its Now application could graduate from telling a commuter long will it take to get home to telling workers about complex enterprise questions regarding datacenter operations via its inference engine.
Yet even if that's a pipe dream and Google isn't able to profit from the disruption, Schmidt's line of thinking that enterprise software is being disrupted could still be plausible. Expect many developers and CIOs to mull over these predictions.