IT Trends for 2016:
Technology is evolving and business are adapting to change. COMPANIES NEED TO FOCUS ON APPLICATION AND ANALYTICS
1. Technology skills are changing
Since the focus on Application and Analytics IT departments are changing the staff from infrastructure management to more areas of cloud enablement, analytics, DevOps, IoT, mobile and business solutions. Infrastructure is being more contracted to service provides to adapt to these changes. IT will need to adapt to culture and business changes as part of this transition.
2. Software development methodology
Software development methodologies require engineers work together throughout the application cycle. Companies with a high IT performance and development methodology are benefiting by exceeding their profitability, market share and productivity goals. In addition, quality of the software is improved.
3. Data Warehouses Transition into Data Lakes
Companies need to invest into Data Lakes and being able to run powerful Analytics on any data source. This provides visibility into the company. Big data analytics involves the processing of large amounts of heterogeneous data derived from multiple sources and across multiple knowledge domains. Data lakes enable this by bringing together data sources in their original state which can then be analyzed by applications that are brought to the data.
4. IT managing and supporting Analytics Platforms
The business is requiring more visibility and analytics platforms such as PaaSage provide the insight to business leaders. IT is being required to support the investments in analytics platforms, security, data privacy, Data Lakes, integration, and the service level requirements of the business.
5. Converged infrastructure
Converged infrastructure offers a more evolved platform for deriving greater cost efficiencies and time savings by allowing IT resources to be managed more cohesively.
6. In-memory Databases Gain Traction
Companies are slowly transitioning to in-memory databases. The move will gather momentum in the Sports & Entertainment industry as faster reporting and analysis deliver a clear competitive advantage in today’s real-time business environment. PaaSage Software as a Service (SaaS) powered by SAP HANA will help simplify IT and enhance value of the business.
7. Transitioning to the Next Gen Cloud
The cloud is improving IT operations, business goals, performance, business revenue and boosting employee efficiency.
8. IT Infrastructure will aggressively change
As IT begins to focus more on application delivery, analytics, Data Lakes and the Internet of Things, infrastructure companies will see a decline in revenues. Especially if companies migrate to Next Gen Cloud platforms such as Hana Cloud Platform.
9. IT Plays Leadership Role.
IT will play a more proactive and leadership role and the transformation driven by social, mobile, analytics and cloud will place IT in the spotlight.
10. Turning Legacy Data into Dollars
Data and Analytics are helping companies and C-Level Executives make better Business Decisions that drive top line revenue growth and or bottom line expense efficiencies across one or multiple business lines: Using PaaSage analytics to connect to legacy data provides the visibility into the organization.
