Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Top 10 Strategic Technologies


Hat tip to BDPA New York chapter for sharing the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 recently released by Gartner Group. Any of these topics would be excellent for program meetings held by any of our 48 BDPA chapters.

  1. Green IT - This one is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a sense that corporations should embrace social responsibility.

  2. Unified Communications (UC) - UC functionality is drawing from five core markets: voicemail, PBXs, e-mail and calendaring, IM, and conferencing and collaboration. The key trends are communications becoming IP-based, analog systems switching to digital, and growing integration among voice, network, storage, sensors and video technologies.

  3. Business Process Management - BPM is more of a business discipline than a technology, but is necessary to make sure the technology of service-oriented architectures (SOA) deliver business value, Cearley said. It's also important for dealing with laws like Sarbanes-Oxley that require business to define processes.

  4. Metadata Management - Metadata is the foundation for information infrastructure and is found throughout your IT systems: in service registries and repositories, Web semantics, configuration management databases (CMDB), business service registries and in application development.

  5. Virtualization 2.0 - "Virtualization 2.0" goes beyond consolidation. It simplifies the installation and movement of applications, makes it easy to move work from one machine to another, and allows changes to be made without impacting other IT systems, which tend to be rigid and interlinked.

  6. Mashups & Composite Applications - Mashups, a Web technology that combines content from multiple sources, has gone from being a virtual unknown among IT executives to being an important piece of enterprise IT systems.

  7. Web Platform & WOA - Web-oriented architecture, a version of SOA geared toward Web applications, is part of a trend in which the number of IT functions being delivered as a service is greatly expanding. Beyond the well-known software-as-a-service.

  8. Computing Fabrics - Today's blade server design places memory and processors into a fixed combination inside a blade, and until recently neither memory or processors from one blade could be combined with that of other blades.

  9. Real World Web - Increasingly ubiquitous network access with reasonably useful bandwidth is enabling the beginnings of what analysts are calling the "real world Web".

  10. Social Software - Social software like podcasts, videocasts, blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, and social networking tools, often referred to as Web 2.0, is changing the way people communicate both in social and business settings.

Well, BETF-Blog Readers ... what do you think about these 10 strategic technologies?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Do you agree with this Top Ten list?

Unknown said...

Any movement in your world on these 10 strategic technologies?