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Business is booming for Android, according to the latest analysis from SkillSoft’s Books24x7 ITPro collection. Android outranked iPhone in the number of searches by IT professionals for information and support on the open source mobile platform over the last twelve months. The results indicate Android’s growing popularity in the business community and reflect the development potential of the open source platform as techs and developers look for further guidance.

Excel took the top spot overall, with Java and ITIL in second and third place as most popular subject search terms for the year. SkillSoft’s Books24x7 online collections includes access to more than 20,000 digitised IT and business books, as well as book summaries and executive reports.