2011 Predictions : Gartner & IDC

Gartner 2011 Predictions:

By 2015, Tools and automation will eliminate 25 percent of labor hours associated with IT services:

As the IT services industry matures, it will increasingly mirror other industries, such as manufacturing (Industrialization of IT), in transforming from a craftsmanship to a more industrialized model. Cloud computing (IT as a Service Model)will hasten the use of tools and automation in IT services as the new paradigm brings with it self-service, automated provisioning and metering, etc., to deliver industrialized services with the potential to transform the industry from a custom environment to one characterized by automated delivery of IT services.

Within next 4 years, 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices:

The trend toward supporting corporate applications on employee-owned notebooks and smart-phones is already under way in many organizations and will become commonplace within four years. The main driver for adoption of mobile devices will be employees — i.e. individuals who prefer to use private consumer smart-phones or notebooks for business, rather than using old-style limited enterprise devices.

In next 5 years, Information-smart businesses will be increase IT spending per head by 60 percent:

Those IT-enabled organizations that successfully navigated the recent recession and return to growth will benefit from many internal and external dynamics. Consolidation, optimization, and cost transparency programs have made decentralized IT investments more visible, increasing "recognized" IT spending. This, combined with staff reduction and freezes, will reward the leading companies within each industry segment with an IT productivity windfall that culminates in at least a 60 percent increase in the metric for "IT spending per organization employee" when compared against the metrics of peer organizations and internal trending metrics.

IDC Predictions for 2011:

IT industry revolving more and more around the build-out and adoption of this next dominant platform, characterized by –

Mobility, Cloud-based Application and Service Delivery, and value-generating overlays of social business and pervasive analytics.

What really distinguishes the year ahead is that these disruptive technologies are finally being integrated with each other–

Cloud with Mobile, Mobile with Social Networking, Social networking with Real-time Analytics.

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