Gartner defines strategic
technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise
in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high
potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar
investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.
Mobile Device Diversity and Management - Through
2018, the growing variety of devices, computing styles, user contexts and
interaction paradigms will make "everything everywhere" strategies
unachievable. The unexpected consequence of bring your own device (BYOD)
programs is a doubling or even tripling of the size of the mobile workforce.
This is placing tremendous strain on IT and Finance organizations. Enterprise
policies on employee-owned hardware usage need to be thoroughly reviewed and,
where necessary, updated and extended. Most companies only have policies for
employees accessing their networks through devices that the enterprise owns and
manages. Set policies to define clear expectations around what they can and
can't do. Balance flexibility with confidentiality and privacy requirements.
Mobile Apps and Applications – The applications built on cross
platforms have good amount of acceptance.
Improved JavaScript performance will begin to push HTML5 and the browser as
a mainstream enterprise application development environment. Developers should
look for ways to snap together apps to create larger applications. The market
for tools to create consumer and enterprise facing apps is complex with well
over 100 potential tools vendors. For the next few years no single tool will be
optimal for all types of mobile application so expect to employ several. The
next evolution in user experience will be to leverage intent, inferred from
emotion and actions, to motivate changes in end-user behaviour.
The Internet of Everything - The Internet is expanding beyond
PCs and mobile devices into enterprise assets such as field equipment, and
consumer items such as cars and televisions. The combination of data streams
and services created by digitizing everything creates four basic usage models –
Manage; Monetize; Operate; Extend. These four basic models can be applied to
any of the four "internets” (people, things, information and places). Enterprises should not limit themselves to
thinking that only the Internet of Things (i.e., assets and machines) has the
potential to leverage these four models. Enterprises from all industries
(heavy, mixed, and weightless) can leverage these four models.
Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker - Bringing
together personal clouds and external private cloud services is an imperative. Hybrid
cloud services can be composed in many ways, varying from relatively static to
very dynamic. Managing this composition will often be the responsibility of
something filling the role of cloud service broker (CSB), which handles
aggregation, integration and customization of services.
Enterprises that are expanding into
hybrid cloud computing from private cloud services are taking on the CSB role.
Terms like "overdrafting" and "cloudbursting" are often
used to describe what hybrid cloud computing will make possible. However, the
vast majority of hybrid cloud services will initially be much less dynamic than
that. More deployment compositions will emerge as CSBs evolve (for example,
private infrastructure as a service [IaaS] offerings that can leverage external
service providers based on policy and utilization).
Cloud/Client Architecture - Cloud/client computing models are
shifting. In the cloud/client architecture, the client is a rich application
running on an Internet-connected device, and the server is a set of application
services hosted in an increasingly elastically scalable cloud computing
platform. The client environment may be a native application or browser-based;
the increasing power of the browser is available to many client devices, mobile
and desktop alike.
The Era of Personal Cloud - The personal cloud era will mark a
power shift away from devices toward services. Users will use a collection of
devices, with the PC remaining one of many options, but no one device will be
the primary hub.
Software Defined Anything - Software-defined anything (SDx) is
a collective new term that encapsulates the growing market momentum for
improved standards for infrastructure programmability and data center
interoperability driven by automation inherent to cloud computing, DevOps and
fast infrastructure provisioning. As a collective, SDx also incorporates
various initiatives like OpenStack, OpenFlow, the Open Compute Project and Open
Rack, which share similar visions.
Web-Scale IT - Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class computing
that delivers the capabilities of large cloud service providers within an
enterprise IT setting by rethinking positions across several dimensions. Large
cloud services providers such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc., are
re-inventing the way IT in which IT services can be delivered. Data centers are
designed with an industrial engineering perspective that looks for every
opportunity to reduce cost and waste. Web-oriented
architectures allows developers to build very flexible and resilient systems
that recover from failure more quickly.
Smart Machines - Through 2020, the smart machine era will blossom with
a proliferation of contextually aware, intelligent personal assistants, smart
advisors (such as IBM Watson), advanced global industrial systems and public
availability of early examples of autonomous vehicles. New systems that begin
to fulfill some of the earliest visions for what information technologies might
accomplish — doing what we thought only people could do and machines could not
—are now finally emerging.
3-D Printing - Worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to
grow 75 percent in 2014 followed by a near doubling of unit shipments in 2015.
While very expensive “additive manufacturing” devices have been around for 20
years, the market for devices ranging from $50,000 to $500, and with
commensurate material and build capabilities, is nascent yet growing rapidly.
The consumer market hype has made organizations aware of the fact 3D printing
is a real, viable and cost-effective means to reduce costs through improved
designs, streamlined prototyping and short-run manufacturing.
Source: Gartner, Inc.
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