Trends for 2013

• Fundamental technologies related to mobility, internet (cloud and social), and data processing (unstructured data)
• will serve business processes in nexus. Example: A data processing application can be delivered on internet for mobile devices.
• CIOs/CTOs will lose control of IT infrastructure as business users can adopt applications from cloud independently.
• Vendors with origins in mobile devices and social networking will drive the development, whereas enterprise application vendors will try catching up.

Hype 2013

1. HTML5 will impact the development of mobile applications.
2. In-Memory Database Management System is impacting the product development plans of enterprise applications vendors in the fields of ERP and BI/DWH.
3. Activity Streams and Complex-Event Processing will impact financial market applications, and social networking tools for real-time analysis.
4. Social Analytics and Natural-Language Question Answering tools are helping to develop intelligence from captive data in social networking portals.
5. Crowdsourcing has been used by many consumer-centric enterprises to gather product development ideas from customers.
6. Bring your own device (BYOD) is the most crucial trend keeping the CIO busy. All enterprise users can feel the development. Application Stores started with storing mobile apps for consumer applications. Now they are storing all kinds of personalized, consumer data. Also, various enterprise applications are making their mobile apps available on application stores for download.
7. Near field communication (NFC) Payment is unlikely to impact enterprise IT infrastructure.
8. Gamification applications (most popular is Foursquare campaign) are used to drive consumer participation in promotions. Last year, Group Buying applications (GroupOn, LivingSocial) were also part of hype cycle.
9. Internet of Things and Augmented Reality are long-term genre of applications. Going forward they will manifest in many specific applications.
10. Private Cloud Computing and Hybrid Cloud Computing are impacting enterprise IT infrastructure by centralizing applications and processing power (Servers). Mostly, private cloud applications are seen.

Recommendations

1. Big Data opportunity is related to managing unstructured data (E-mail, Images, and Social platforms) and data in emerging platforms (Mobile Devices, and Cloud Storage).  After defining the scope of data input, we need to identify the relevant technologies. Example: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Images, DSL (Dynamic Subscriber Language) for Social networking, Parallel Programming for long programs, Complex Events Processing for Activity Streams, etc.
2. Enterprises should leverage the impact of Cloud, Social Media, and Big Data to enable radical innovations in their business processes. At present the adoption of emerging technologies are mostly at a department level. While marketing team manages the social media, cloud apps are managed by the respective users directly. Big data initiatives should be part of the core IT infrastructure.
3. Enterprises should accommodate consumer interfacing technologies and applications into their IT landscape. Emerging technologies are first being experimented and perfected for consumers and later implemented in enterprise domain. Comparatively, enterprises are waiting to ensure reliability and scope of the commercial applications, before committing huge capital expenses for enterprise-wide roll-out.

 References

 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2124315

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