The natural convergence of business and I.T.
Deloitte’s annual Technology Trends report examines the ever-evolving landscape of technology put to business use. Topics are chosen based on their potential business impact over the next eighteen months, with input from clients, analysts, alliances and their own network of academic leaders. The full report is available at:
www.deloitte.com/us/2011techtrends
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n the 2011 report, Deloitte discuss (Re) Emerging Enablers and Disruptive Deployments. (Re) Emerging Enablers are trends that many CIOs have spent time, thought and resources on in the past – perhaps multiple times. It includes; Visualisation, ‘Almost-Enterprise’ Applications, Cyber Intelligence, CIOs as Revolutionaries and The End of the ‘Death of ERP’.
Disruptive Deployments are trends that present significant new opportunities – offering new business models or transformative ways to operate. These technologies, when deployed, could disrupt the cost, capabilities, or even the core operating model of IT and the business. It includes; Real Analytics, Social Computing, User Engagement, Applied Mobility and Capability Clouds.
(Re)Emerging Enablers
According to a recent Gartner survey, increasing the use of information and analytics is one of the top three business priorities. Data volumes continue to explode, as unstructured content proliferates via collaboration, productivity and social channels. But much potential insight is buried within static reports that are accessible only by a small fraction of the organisation. Visualisation refers to the innovative use of images and interactive technology to explore large, high-density datasets. Through multi-touch interfaces, mobile device views and social network communities, organisations are enabling users to see, explore and share relationships and insights in a new way.
This discipline deserves a fresh look in 2011 partly due to the evolution of the underlying tools. Visualisation requires foundational Enterprise Information Management and Information Automation disciplines – as well as means to integrate data silos within and beyond the
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organisation. The business impact of Visualisation is that employees, customers and partners can expect access and transparency to information that can be explored, manipulated and acted upon.
As a result of cloud revolution, Software- and Platform-as-a-Service (SaaS, PaaS) capabilities are being eagerly embraced by many business leaders for reasons including predictable results, easy and rapid availability and a demystification of IT. Put simply, the resulting almost-enterprise applications can offer transparency in the value and cost of services, in terms understandable by the business, without the overhead too often perceived with central IT departments.
SaaS, also referred to as ‘on-demand software’, is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally, typically in the Internet cloud, and are accessed by users using a web browser over the Internet. It has become a common delivery model for most business applications, including accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Resource Management (HRM).
PaaS on the other hand refers to a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service. Its offerings facilitate the deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software and hosting capabilities. This is the case as it provides all of the facilities required to support the complete life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely from the Internet.
Protecting vital information assets demands a full-spectrum cyber approach. C-suites and boardrooms took notice of highly visible incidents,
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