We just released our 2011 update to last year’s EA top trends report, The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013. In 2011, we have expanded our coverage by releasing two documents of 10 trends each:
- The Top 10 Business Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014. In this report, we identify 10 technology trends that you should first consider from a business viewpoint.
- The Top 10 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014. These trends are better viewed from a technology-first perspective due to their IT-centricity, even though a business take on them is also important.
In addition to adding more trends, we made some other improvements as well, including: 1) updating the quadrants of the watchlist and providing a description of each; 2) providing details on how we scored the technologies in our watchlist; and 3) identifying four overarching themes that are influencing all the trends: empowerment, the app Internet, everything-as-a-service, and big data. More on these later!
For this first blog post on trends, I’m going to post the business technology trends and watchlist.
The Trends:
The watchlist (sample technologies only, we recommend you create your own):
Next week I’ll post on the second report and provide the technology trends and watchlist, so stay tuned.