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A strategic technology may be an existing technology that has matured and/or has become suitable for a wider range of uses, says Gartner. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major financial investment, or the risk of being late for adoption.
It may also be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantage for early adopters or that with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years. The technologies can impact an organisation's long-term plans, programs and initiatives. Here are the top trends for 2014.
Business Intelligence and Analytics
A competitive business environment and economic conditions are also forcing enterprises in India to focus on using fact based decision-making tools to rationalise costs and time for businesses. Enterprises in India will continue to use BI so as to be transformative in their approach.
Mobility Solutions
Mobility in enterprise has created a huge opportunity for IT leaders to reduce costs, increase productivity and enable smooth business transactions. Swift growth in the prevalence of mobile devices, a decline in their price, and falling data plan costs have the potential to completely transform some business models.
Cloud Computing
Although still in its infancy in India and other emerging markets, cloud adoption is increasing. Led by infrastructure-as-a-service engagements in the data centre, disaster recovery and storage areas, there is a broad range of providers that target large organisations as well as SMBs. This fast growing adoption by a diverse range of organisations has catalysed providers to invest in high quality data centres and innovative cloud infrastructures
Social Media and Computing
Social media in India has seen exponential growth in the recent past with enterprises using it for customer support and customers using it to offer opinions. A growing number of enterprises used social media to connect with their customers and for marketing campaigns in 2013; social media is playing a pivotal role in Indian politics with the government and political parties increasingly using it to connect with citizens. Much of this growth can be attributed to increasing Internet penetration
Machine to Machine (M2M)
The M2M market in India is in a nascent stage but growing rapidly. Indian enterprises driven by demands to improve agility and productivity are evaluating the use of M2M-enabled solutions. Among the early adopters are verticals like utilities, automotive, financial services and transport, with others like healthcare and manufacturing following closely. The success of these projects is expected to result in broad-based deployments of M2M as an integral component of workflow automation.
Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD)
In India, server-based computing, which is also referred as "hosted shared desktop" or "terminal services" is seeing more adoption. More than 80 percent of desktop virtualisation implementations are based on HVD.
Personal Cloud
Adoption of cloud computing in India is currently limited to the private cloud. Organisations are focused on protecting their applications located in enterprise app stores, as well as the content on employees' personal devices used at work. Tablets are becoming the first-choice user device and this form factor's explosion is creating device ubiquity. Users are creating their own personal digital ecosystems with their own sets of apps, games and media. Content is starting to shift to the cloud but, in the future, the cloud will become the primary storage for personal content, and local versions of the content will exist only as staged or cached elements.
The Internet of Things (IoT)
In its early phase of development, enterprises are experimenting with the IoT across a range of sectors, applications, business models and technologies in an attempt to unlock its value. The IoT delivers tangible value to enterprises through the ability to better utilise remote assets and creates business cases in three key areas--operational technology (OT), digital supply chain and customer interaction.
Collaboration Technologies
Collaboration technologies consist broadly of real-time electronic meetings, content delivery, desktop and application sharing, text chat, group document mark-up with electronic whiteboarding, security and remote control. More advanced features include integrated voice over IP, file sharing, videoconferencing, content archiving, media streaming, feedback and polling.
3D Printing
In India, interest levels in 3D printing are slowly picking up and this is reflected in the increased presence of providers in the 3D printing space. Because of the country's large population base, as also high volumes and low cost requirements, 3D printing is expected to take off rapidly and revolutionise industries as diverse as aerospace, consumer goods, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and the military. 3D printing has the potential to radically transform design, manufacturing and the supply chain model in India.
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