A Mashup of IT Predictions for 2010

Now that we’re really gearing up for 2010 and the dawn of a new decade, and since enterprise mashup dashboards and business intelligence are often cited as important IT initiatives for 2010, I thought it would be good to at least have a text mashup dashboard of the many IT predictions that are circulating, to enhance our own business intelligence.

Here are some IT predictions for 2010 that I’ve run across and found useful and insightful, in alphabetical order by author or organization:

• Nenshad Bardoliwanna: “The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management.“ This is a great read from author and former CTO at SAP.
• Burton Group issued three news releases about 2010 IT predictions: for executive planning (externalization, consumerization, and democratization of IT); data management (database management, business intelligence, data governance, metrics); and IT(externalization, consumerization, globalization; cloud computing; data center transformation; social computing; wireless everything).
• Computerworld: “7 Smartphone predictions for 2010,” by Matt Hamblen. Among them: AT&T loses its iPhone exclusive deal.
• Dr. Dobb’s: “Other Voices: 8 IT Predictions for 2010,” by Jake Sorofman “2009 is a year we shouldn’t soon forget. In fact, it’s a year we ought to remember — as the year that changed enterprise IT.”
• eWeek: “IT security predictions for 2010.” “Researchers from IBM and Sophos shared their thoughts on what the security threat landscape will look like for enterprises and consumers alike in 2010. Their predictions run the gamut from threats to social networking sites to an increase in attackers targeting hosted services.”
• Forrester Research: “Cloud computing belongs on your three-year roadmap.” We get two bonus years with this post.
• Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2010: Cloud computing and advanced analytics top the list
• IDC Top 10 Predictions: “As we have for the past three decades, IDC ends the year with our outlook for the coming year in the information technology (IT) and telecommunications market. During the next 60 days, IDC will publish literally dozens of IDC Top 10 Predictions documents for 2010.” Keep checking this site for updates.
• IDG News Service, (Computerworld, Infoworld, etc.), “10 tech predictions for 2010,” by Nancy Weil: “We see modest economic recovery, e-reader buzz, new faces in old places, lots of mobile news, and more.”
• Todd Lane: My five predictions are in this post.
• Jennifer Leggio, Social Business writer for ZDNet, includes many social media predictions from luminaries such as Charlene Li and Nenshad Bardoliwanna in this post, “2010 Predictions: Will social media reach ubiquity?”
• Social Media Today: “Five Social Media Predictions for 2010,” by Joel Postman “Enterprise Social Software Applications Will Become Commonplace.”
• Trend Micro 2010 Future Threat Report: Virtualization, Cloud-Computing and a Shifting Internet Infrastructure Will Widen the Scope of Cybercrime
• Websense Security Labs Predictions for 2010: Smartphones, Windows 7, Search Engines and Legitimate Ads are Targets of Next Year’s Attacks

Also, here are links to great surveys this year by IBM andInformationWeek about the impact of business intelligence during the economic downturn, the top priorities of CIOs, and IT innovation:

• New IBM Study Uncovers Business Strategies For Weathering Economic Storm
• New IBM Study Highlights Analytics As Top Priority For Today’s CIO
• InformationWeek 500: A Year Of Relentless Innovation

I hope that this will provide plenty of reading about what may happen in IT in 2010. While you’re at it, here are some great cloud-computing companies that will continue to shine in the year ahead:

• Enterprise mashup dashboards such as mashmatrix Dashboard provide rapid, personalized development of dashboards from any web-facing data source; get a complete view of a customer or patient on one screen without having to switch between screens and applications.
• SaaS business intelligence (BI) applications from Birst and eiVia provide quick reporting and predictive analytics for decision-making.
• Enterprise relationship management solutions such as BranchIt help your business leverage relationships that colleagues may have with prospective customer or partner contacts.
• Price optimization applications from companies such as Mimiran help you avoid leaving money on the table in pricing your products or services.
• Enterprise brand management solutions from Biz360 aggregate, measure, and analyze news media and consumer opinion from print and social-media sources to yield insights that enable sales, marketing, PR, and executives to better understand their customers, competitors, influencer communities, industry trends and issues, the press, and the investment community.
• Enterprise cloud databases such as TrackVia help you quickly design and deploy cloud-based applications to solve business problems.
• Integration products from Pervasive Software and Sesame Software provide data exchange and interoperability between legacy on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Cloud-based single sign-on systems from companies such as TriCipher provide a secure, single login for a user to access all authorized cloud-based applications.

Good luck in 2010, and may all the good predictions come true!

What are your IT predictions for 2010?  Are there any sources you would add to the above lists?