During the past decade, leading cloud services organizations
have been experimenting with new ways to deliver IT services.
Their efforts have resulted in a singularity event that changed
the trajectory of the IT landscape. Enterprise IT leaders ignore
this development at their own risk.
SMART MACHINES
IT leaders need to aggressively examine and act on the promise, threat and
effects of smart machines on work patterns (man-machine collaboration),
staffing shifts and enterprise business opportunities.
3D PRINTING
3D printing transforms organizations, industries and markets.
CIOs, CTOs and IT leaders must learn about and apply the
key 3D printing trends that are driving changes to their
organization.
PERSONAL CLOUD
As the personal cloud rises in importance, IT organizations will find
current approaches to dealing with users will fail. IT leaders must be
flexible and respond with new techniques, tools and policies, or risk
irrelevance with their user base.
SOFTWARE-DEFINED ANYTHING
Server virtualization is a mature technology but, as an IT initiative,
it can still be disruptive to IT users and providers. Virtualization
provides a foundation for software-defined anything, cloud
computing and cost-effective, greener data center projects.
Adoption of software-defined networking will spark a new race among traditional and new data center
networking vendors with a reorganization of the supply side, creating competition and opportunities for all
vendors.
MOBILE DEVICE DIVERSITY AND MANAGEMENT
Our consumer-driven, BYOD culture pressures IT leaders to give
enterprise end users a wider range of device choices. Gartner's
managed diversity model is a structured compromise that offers
end-user device choice while protecting enterprise assets and
supporting end-user productivity.
With the rise of wearable devices, pioneered by Google and Samsung, more OEMs, original design
manufacturers and electronics manufacturing service companies are exploring the market to develop
products for the Internet of Things in the long term. By 2016, this market is expected to top $10 billion.
MOBILE APPS AND APPLICATIONS
Use Mobile Apps to Provide Customer Value, and Revenue Will Follow IT and
business leaders supporting e-commerce should incorporate the five attributes of
successful mobile apps, which improve the customer experience. Providing a
valuable customer experience will increase mobile commerce app adoption, drive
usage, and increase both loyalty and revenue.
Apps, an emerging software construct that ties value to
purposefulness, will have dramatic impacts for enterprise IT
application leaders on design strategies, software life cycle
management and funding arrangements.
INTERNET OF EVERYTHING
The Internet of Things will be big, but just how big
depends on exactly what is included. This research
helps business and IT leaders understand this emergent
technology and applications, and describes how IT
leaders can help identify significant new opportunities.
The Internet of Things will include 26 billion units
installed by 2020. IoT product and service suppliers will
generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion,
mostly in services, in 2020. It will result in $1.9 trillion in
global economic value-add through sales into diverse
end markets.
HYBRID CLOUD & IT AS A SERVICE BROKER
2014 Strategic Road Map for Business Process Innovation in Hybrid IT No cloud service stands alone, but
mastery over hybrid IT eludes all but a few enterprises. This road map prepares line-of-business managers
and IT leaders to capitalize on the contributions that cloud makes to business process innovation.
CLOUD/CLIENT ARCHITECTURE
Client-Cloud Applications: The Rebirth of Client/Server Architecture
Enterprises are faced with the increasing power of mobile devices, the advantages of
cloud computing as a delivery model for applications, and the need for better and
more-differentiated user experiences. The client-cloud application model sits at the
intersection of these trends.
Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2013
Application development organizations continue to face rapid
changes. Cloud and mobile will change the type of applications
developed, while the need for business agility will change how they
are developed.