2015 Predictions on IT from Experts and Industry Analysts
Analytics. Hybrid Cloud. Enterprise Mobile.
While technology's role in the IT organization is increasing, what does this mean for the role of the IT organization?
IT industry analysts and experts are making their annual predictions for the coming year and beyond.
There's an overall consensus on many of the key aspects of an IT organization, providing support for rapid delivery of innovative applications to support business demands. Mobile, the cloud (both public, private and hybrid), and better management of data better by getting actionable information ito the hands of decision maker faster - these are where experts see the IT organization going.
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1. Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics
Outlook by: David W. Cearley - VP & Gartner Fellow, Gartner
Expectations: Analytics will take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data inside and outside the enterprise are analyzed. "Every app now needs to be an analytic app. Organizations need to manage how best to filter the huge amounts of data coming from the IoT, social media and wearable devices, and then deliver exactly the right information to the right person, at the right time. Analytics will become deeply, but invisibly embedded everywhere."
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2. DevOps Will be the Primary Tool of IT Management
Outlook by:
Mike Rosen - Adjunct Research Advisor, IDC
Serge Findling - Vice President Research, IDC
Joseph C. Pucciarelli - Group Vice President & IT Executive Advisor, IDC
Expectations: By 2015, 60% of CIOs will use DevOps as their primary tool to address the speed and sprawl of mobile, cloud, and open source applications"
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3. A Key Transformation Year
Outlook by: Eveline Oehrlich - Forrester Research
Expectations: "As I have been in I&O since the beginning of my professional career (which means forever), I see 2015 as a year to transform our I&O profession and organizations. The opportunities are spanning from partnering with your Application Development & Design team in a new way of operations -- we call this Modern Service Delivery (you might have seen this as DevOps); explore new ways to enable your workforce and how to change your approach to the technology supply chain and ecosystem."
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4. IT Security is Top Concern
Outlook by: Teena Hammond - Journalist, TechRepublic
Expectations: "IT security ranked as the top emerging technology to IT departments by both CXOs and non-CXOs."
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5. IT Spending on an Upswing
Outlook by: Stacy Collett - Staff writer, ZDNet
Expectations: "IT is expected to again kick up spending on security tools, customer-facing technologies and information exchange/collaboration technologies that comprise the so-called SMAC stack — social and mobile tools, analytic systems and cloud computing. Meanwhile, it's likely that hardware spending will continue to drop and services budgets will continue to rise."
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6. Expect Enterprise mobility trends
Outlook by: Richard Absalom - Senior Analyst, Ovum
Expectations: "More enterprises will frame enterprise mobility management (EMM) in a workspace strategy. This means framing EMM as part of a wider "workspace" strategy, incorporating management of all endpoints and applications, with the crucial aim of giving employees access to the tools and data they need wherever they happen to be and with whichever device they happen to have in front of them. Enterprise multi-screening behavior is increasing, and embracing a workspace strategy is the best way to capitalize on it."
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