Mobility of computing with professionals more than ever before, availability of innovative products for supporting that cause shall be the IT order in this decade. Most of the innovations, products and applications shall be centered around this for this decade and if possible more than that (but I believe something more shall take center stage in the later half of the decade, would be too early to predict that given that consumers haven't got hold of the latest technovations that predicted for them yet). Its not troo hard to understand that technovations mean technological innovations.
Through cloud computing the industry shall deliver over the air service that requisite individuals or corporates or SMEs can grab and take advantage of. Mobile applications that are standalone or that which make use of the cloud or a combination of both shall be available more in number as we progress through this decade. Tablets which can act as mini computers strong enough to wield cloud & mobile applications that are for office/individual use shall be available in different forms based on different needs. Thus the availability of a public/private infrastructure thats more or less tailor made and to an extent customizable shall provide more decisive power to the consumer in what he wants to suffice his needs of business.
Locally maintained data centers shall be out of fashion while on demand or hosted data centers shall regain market space. Unlike in the past wherein few providers got together in providing data centers and applications, the order of the future would be lot many providers shall come together on a need basis and accordingly serve the needy. There shall be lot many umbrella providers as well who take pre customized sets from existing set of providers and market them to needy business houses or individuals. Thus the layer of implementation and consultancy shall grow. Though this might look like the customer is distanced from the product company, in reality it won't be. Because customers shall be getting to be more aware of which production house provides what product that could be an advantage to the company's business /individuals requirements. Product companies can still maintain their relationship with the customer.
Product companies can now have more inputs from more sectors unlike customer and customer groups, customer implementation groups would also play a major role in cloud implementation. The range of solutions shall vary based on these inputs. Incidentally there will be limited products that are of one size fits all thing. Instead there would be a variety of size offerings from product company's that could be altered or used as it is by implementation partners.
Another significant thing to note would be whoever gets to know the business info earlier shall be in a position to build a product on that. The earlier design cycles for product development maintained by huge corporate houses shall be altered by this. Companies have to get the product as early as possible when the requirements are found out. Digging out for requirements shall be passe and that customers shall be more knowledgeable in asking for requirements and if companies don't oblige then there would be others to do that. Hence sooner the better.
The cloud shall remain heterogeneous with different applications talking to several different platforms owned by different vendors. Stability and reliability of open source communities shall be tested to the fullest and that there would lot more freelancers in that category whose services corporates, SMEs and individuals shall take advantage of. There is a necessity for Implementation communities to share their knowledge more in this decade which shall eventually happen even if they didn't want to through lot many freelancers. In this decade lot many IT SMEs shall see their light through personal or VC fundings. VC fudnings shall become more diverse and precise in nature during this decade with respect to IT investments.
signing off for now...
cheerz,
Sadagopan.
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