2011 All About Convergence of Business & IT

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As we come to the end of year 2011, we are presenting some of the glimpses that have made this year exiting and profiting for the IT sector. We have identified some of the most important trends that have mattered the most for year 2011.

Firstly, Re-Emerging IT Deployments are trends where a number of CIOs and IT managers have spent time, thought, and resources on in the past – perhaps multiple times. This year these familiar topics of data center, cloud computing and virtualization deserve another look due to specific factors in the technology or business environment.

Secondly, Disruptive IT Deployments are trends that present significant new opportunities, offering new business designs or transformative ways to operate in the market and be different. The technologies themselves are not necessarily disruptive, but when deployed as discussed, they could disrupt the cost, capabilities, or even the core operating model of IT and the business.

As part of this initiative the list that we present plays significantly to the existing convergence of social and mobile computing domain – a convergence that is fundamentally changing how information is accessed and used in business operations and decision-making today.

Mobile or smartphone applications have changed the way we look at computing and perform regular tasks. Development of Mobile apps captures the spirit of this change which has happened in the year 2011.

These finished business capabilities within the cloud or the virtualized environment, for both structured and unstructured information analytics, are changing the role of the CIO and IT managers and the shape and size of IT applications to be deployed at the enterprise level.

All of these trends define the IT scenario of the year 2011. Each has demonstrated significant momentum and potential to have an impact – and each is important enough to support immediate consideration to be taken by the CIO community on an urgent basis. Today’s CIO are talking about using the convergence for the benefit and the advantage of an organisation.

 Visualization Galore

The year 2011 was all about, seeing, discovering and exploring deeper insights within large, complex data sets Enterprises moved into 2011 with information at the forefront of their agendas.
According to a recent survey by global research firm Gartner, increasing the use of information and analytics is one of the top three business priorities for the CIO community today. In today’s scenario, data volumes continue to grow exponentially, as unstructured content moves behind the walls via collaboration, productivity and various social mediums.

At a time like this, enterprise community is making headway on enterprise information management and broad analytics solutions, much potential insight is buried within static reports that are accessible only by a small fraction of the organization.

Visualization 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, organizations are enabling users to see, explore and share relationships and insights in new ways. This is where year 2011 was different and has made its mark.

Year 2011 was all about, spatial and temporal context and adding that physical location and sequencing to the analysis over time, allowing patterns to be uncovered based on the source, flow and evolution of information.

Another difference in 2011 is the rich potential represented by unstructured data, whereby enterprise can move into huge number of internal emails, instant messages and documents, as well as trillions of Facebook objects (100 billion page views per day), Twitter tweets (90 million per day4), text messages, blogs and other content of potential concern to the enterprise.

All in all, year 2011 was all about rich media, social networking and creating that visual impact. Companies that have made it big or have become bigger include some of the global biggies like HP, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Samsung, LG, Nokia etc. moving forward, the year 2012, surely holds big promise for being one of the most exciting years when it comes to creating that big competitive and differentiating factor more visible.