What will be the top IT trends in the coming year? Deloitte Consulting LLP offers its take on what’s to come in the company’s annual Tech Trends report for 2012. Deloitte lists the top 10 disruptive and emerging technology trends that will play a crucial role for enterprises over the next 12 to 18 months. The report, which will be released in late January 2012, found five imminent technology forces that are driving business innovation: mobility, social networking, analytics, cloud services and cyber. “As we head into 2012, many CIOs are evaluating the various aspects of IT, looking ahead to the new technologies that can help them drive business growth in the years ahead,” says Mark White, principal and chief technology officer at Deloitte and co-author of the report. “Mobility, social, analytics, cloud and cyber are technology forces each impacting business today. The intersection of these represents an opportunity for new business technology value and innovation.” Here are the 10 predicted IT trends identified for 2012, along with some insights from Deloitte:
Geo-spatial Visualization
Geo-spatial visualization takes advantage of an explosion of geographical, location-aware data. Sources feeding this growth include new semi-structured data from mobile devices and the geo-tagging of existing enterprise structured data.
Digital Identities
As individuals take a more active role in managing their own digital identities, organizations look to create single digital identities that retain the appropriate context across the range of credentials.
Data Goes to Work
Organizations are finding ways to find value in and insight from both structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. This is expected to complement but not replace long-standing information management programs and investments in data warehouses, business intelligence suites, reporting platforms and relational database experience.
Measured Innovation
Measured innovation offers an approach to managing both IT and business by providing a pragmatic way to identify, evaluate and launch potential innovations, focusing on aligning opportunities to areas that can fuel disruption and create measurable, attributable value.
Outside-in Architecture
The need to share is colliding with the need to know and shifting architectures away from a siloed, enterprise-out design pattern into an outside-in approach to delivering business through rapidly evolving ecosystems.
Social Business
The rise of social media has paved the way for social business in the enterprise. This is leading organizations to apply social technologies on social networks to fundamentally reshape how business gets done.
Hyper-hybrid Cloud
Cloud-based and cloud-aware integration offerings are expected to continue to evolve, and many organizations face a hybrid reality with a mix of on-premise solutions and multiple cloud offerings.
Enterprise Mobility Unleashed
Mobility is helping many organizations rethink their business models. With the explosion of mobile use cases, organizations should make sure solutions are enterprise class—secure, reliable, maintainable and integrated to critical back-office systems and data.
Gamification
Serious gaming simulations and game mechanics such as leaderboards, achievements and skill-based learning are becoming embedded in day-to-day business processes.
User Empowerment
User engagement remains a key doctrine for enterprise IT, with consumerization setting expectations for solutions built from the user-down, not the system-up.
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