10 technology trends to watch in 2014

In today’s world,IT leaders become much more strategic, providing the rationale for the changes very rapidly. With this background in mind, we have identifies the following ten technology trends for the 2014 through 2016 by centering different researches

1. Digital convergence erodes boundaries

Physical and digital worlds are converging. As anoutcome consumers anticipate uniform service whether they are in the physical world in the digital world. The convergence of the business and personal use of technology is also powering this trend.

2. Digital experience delivery makes (or breaks) firms

Forrester marks the point that “A great digital experience is no longer a nice-to-have; it’s a make-or-break point for your business as we more fully enter the digital age.” The report points to aincreasing number of firms that have chosen a mobile-first approach.

3. APIs become digital glue

It has been drawn a comparison between service-oriented architecture (SOA) and application platform interfaces (APIs).  Alike the former, the latter offers “open access to useful functionality through network-based services using technologies that are readily accessible from a broad range of programming environments.”

4. The business takes ownership of process and intelligence

Forrester highlights that IT is dropping its control over business intelligence platforms, tools, and applications often due to IT’s incompetence to control at the increased pace of the business. Additionally, mobility progressively becomes anintentionaldomineering of the entire business greater levels of process and data innovation should arise.

5. Firms shed yesterday’s data limitations

Cheaper, more agile, cooperative, and adaptive methods for analytics and data sharing are key. It has been noted from the research that it is important to design “predictive apps able to sense their environment and respond in real-time, anticipate user action, and meet users in their moment of need.”

6. Sensors and devices draw ecosystems together

The Internet-of-Things will move from puff to certainty with the ubiquity of connectivity and explosion of devices, and wearable computing will go from niche to wider use.  This will turn the traditional “spray-and-pray promotional campaigns” into marketing to ecosystems that materializes as a result of these changes.

7. “Trust” and “identity” get a rethink

The report suggests that trust has been irreparably harmed as “it’s impossible to identify ‘trusted’ interfaces, many data breeches comes from trustworthy insiders, and the concept of ‘trust’ doesn’t even apply to data packets.

8. Infrastructure takes on engagement

The researchrecords that leading companies are varying silo unified communications and associations, mobile device management, and desktop computing to more proficientlysupply and substitute employee engagement and innovation.

9. Firms learn from the cloud and mobile

Many firms and companies have cloud strategies and mobile strategies, but the report makes the point that the profits of the cloud will be inadequate by the speed with which customary applications are re-written to take benefit of cloud.

10. IT becomes an agile service broker

It has been noted from the research that “Today’s leading IT organizations are moving from aligned IT to empowered business technology practices.”