Technological Trends

There are some latest trends in the technologies which have an impact on the organisation’s long term plans, programs, initiatives and decision mking. These are recognized as follows:

Enterprise Social Networking

Social networks will spread in the workplace, taking collaboration to a new level. As the lines between professional and personal communications become increasingly blurred, IT leaders will need to incorporate enterprise social networking into their overall unified communications and collaboration strategy. Enterprise-grade versions of Facebook, Twitter and Wikis in the workplace will begin to be as common as e-mail and will change the way business is conducted. As a result, the decision-making process will be accelerated, customers will receive immediate answers and workers will be more empowered. 

More Wireless Apps, Especially Machine to Machine

As organizations continue to embrace wireless, businesses will be empowered by the wireless technology that offers higher and higher speeds. Using wireless, companies can develop innovative new applications that get them closer to their customers, employees and partners. Machines will be better able to communicate with each other and make “smart” decisions – such as redistributing energy resources

Mobile Applications. There are already many thousands of applications for platforms such as the Apple iPhone, in spite of the limited market and need for unique coding. It may take a newer version that is designed to flexibly operate on both full PC and miniature systems, but if the operating system interface and processor architecture were identical, that enabling factor would create a huge turn upwards in mobile application availability.

“This list should be used as a starting point and companies should adjust their list based on their industry, unique business needs and technology adoption mode.. the decision may be to test/pilot or more aggressively adopt/deploy the technology.”

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