Trends Identified
Virtualization
How the shift from physical to logical is moving up the value chain – and setting the stage for a potential (cloud) revolution Virtualization is in many ways a mature capability – with solid adoption across compute, storage, and network layers. It is not a top technology trend because it is new, but because its scope is growing across the stack and expanding to cover facilities, operations, and even business layers. Virtualization is critical to many strategic goals of IT, including IT cost reduction, data center consolidation, architecture rationalization, and the migration from physical to logical that currently culminates in cloud computing. Few other emerging enablers have as much potential to help improve service management, reduce capital expense and ongoing costs, and positively affect every stage of the IT lifecycle.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte
Information Automation
From automating “what I need to do” to automating “what I need to know” Information technology has grown up in a processdominated era where automation has focused on the question “What do I need to do?” and the “I” of IT has been something of an afterthought. We believe we have now decisively entered a new era, where automation can help answer a bigger question: “What do I need to know?” In this era, the ability to expose, associate, analyze, and present volumes of structured and unstructured content is one of the untapped sources of competitive advantage.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte
User Engagement
Right information, right user, right time, right context, right outcomes For years, organizations grudgingly accepted the “limitations” of IT as immutable truths: Users spend far too much time logging in and out of well-intentioned applications designed around the constraints of information flows instead of real work flows. These individual applications didn’t talk to one another, requiring manual bridges between systems, content, and context – leaving users to their own devices for much of the insight needed to run the business. Dots remained unconnected, critical proprietary information went unmanaged and unshared, and decisions – from shop fl oor tasks to board-room endeavors – were poorly supported by the enabling IT.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte
Cloud Revolution
Cloud services – from technology evolution to business revolution By helping organizations radically lower their cost of entry, speed time-to-solution, and put into place new models for elastic scale and pricing, cloud represents a compelling new chapter for how enterprises can better use IT. Though the technology itself is evolutionary in nature, its business applications are nothing short of revolutionary.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte
Services Thinking
SOA what? Service orientation extends to the business Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) grew as a technical answer to an age-old question: How do companies gain agility and flexibility – especially in a world increasingly dependent on complex, interconnected IT systems? Unfortunately, the potential of SOA has been constrained by its very definition. By confining SOA to the realm of IT, opportunities have been largely limited to Service Oriented (Software) Architecture. In 2010, look for SOA to move powerfully outside of IT into business strategy, organization design, and governance models. It’s what some call Service Oriented (Business) Architecture – and it’s a new way to manage the relationship between business and IT. This holistic approach is the essence of Services Thinking.
2010
Depth perception A dozen technology trends shaping business and IT in 2010
Deloitte
Increasing focus on resource efficiancy and climate change
In a global marketplace, "green" may well become the new global language. Worldwide, the pace of legislation and policy initiatives focused on green issues is clearly picking up Between July 2008 and February 2009, for example, 250 climate-change regulations were enacted globally as governments, both emerging and developed, hastened the implementation of policies to support clean technologies (cleantech). Mandatory standards on efficient energy consumption, biofuels, vehicle emissions and eco-labeling are going into effect in greater numbers than in previous years.
2010
Business Redefined - A look at the global trends that are changing the world of business
EY
The transformed financial landscape
2010
Business Redefined - A look at the global trends that are changing the world of business
EY
Increased role of government in the private sector
2010
Business Redefined - A look at the global trends that are changing the world of business
EY
The next evolution of technology
2010
Business Redefined - A look at the global trends that are changing the world of business
EY
Fostering a global workforce in dynamic times
2010
Business Redefined - A look at the global trends that are changing the world of business
EY