Information Technology: Where is next gen business?

Disclaimer

• Not a prophet

• An aggregator, still a student, learning along with you

• Generic trends only

– Not industry specific

• Sources

– Gartner

– Forrestor

– Frost and Sullivan

– Wikipedia

– IEEE Reports

– My discussions with CIO’s

– My assumed understanding

• Overlay map – This presentation

– Compass – Your research and decision

– Destination – Your goal

– Journey mode – Your business plan

– Most Importantly your price – Your revenue model and RoI

Why does ‘IT’ matter• Predicting the future is hard and risky

– Predicting the future in computer industry is even harder and riskier due to dramatic changes in technology and limitless challenges to innovation.

• Disruptive Technology – Current examples– Cloud– Mobile– Security– Data– Internet of Things

• Financial Push – Ongoing and Always– Capex to Opex– Licensing Impact– Shared Risk– Shared Resources

Trends and How to adopt

Mega Trends – Assess Information –Analyze New Opportunities

Where to play

• Products– Domain

• Process• Regulatory• Automation

– Technical• Change in computing – New Technology Introduction• Move from Capex to Opex• Automation

– Mix

• Services• Productized Services

– Platforms– Configurable with minimum customization

• Consulting• Assess/Verify/Validate

Known Mega Trends

Wikipedia describes as….• Cloud computing is internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are

networked to allow the centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources. Clouds can be classified as public, private or hybrid.

• Mobile computing is human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware, and mobile software. Communication issues include ad hoc and infrastructure networks as well as communication properties, protocols, data formats and concrete technologies. Hardware includes mobile devices or device components. Mobile software deals with the characteristics and requirements of mobile applications.

• Social technology is defined as applying the use of social science theories and methods implementing related technologies for specific purposes especially social ones: to ease social procedures via social software and social hardware, which might include the use of computers and information technology for governmental procedures, etc.

• Big data is an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional data processing applications.

– The challenges include analysis, capture, curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, and privacy violations. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data, allowing correlations to be found to "spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on."

Trends seen

• Cloud Computing

– Convergence of cloud and mobile - ability to deliver to any device

– Scalable, self service computing

– Synchronizing content and application state across multiple devices

• Pervasive computing/computing everywhere

– Mobiles – Applications and more

– Wearable Devices - Shoes, tattoos and accessories -athletic shoes and fitness tracking, communications devices for the ear, automatic insulin delivery for diabetics

– BYOD

Trends seen…continued• Social – Do I really need to Talk?

• Communication

• Media Sharing

• Collaborative projects – Wikipedia

• Marketing

• Brand building

• Learning

• E-commerce

• Location based social interchange – Foursquare

• Personal connect

• Networking

• Entertainment

• And the list goes on

Trends seen…continued• Internet of Things

– Result of digitizing everything – sensors and more

– SOLOMO

– Assets and Machines – Ex - Industrial Equipment

– Services – Ex – Pay as use knowledge; People – Ex – Movers

– Places and Systems – Ex – Parking Spots, Cloud Services

– Do remember it has to be “Internet of Useful Things”

• Smart Machines– Context rich systems

– Context aware security

– Identity technologies

– Analytics/Algorithms - systems that understand their environment, learn for themselves, and act autonomously

– Might be the most disruptive in the history of IT

• Games and enterprise applications alike will use multiple screens and exploit wearables and other devices to deliver an enhanced experience

Trends seen…continued• 3D printing

– Industrial

– Biomedical

– Consumer

– Product development, rapid prototyping, architecture/construction, industrial design, defence, dental/medical, antique restoration etc

• Analytics

– Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible

– Data from Embedded Systems

– Structured and Unstructured data – Social, IoT, Media, Wearable devices

– Value is in the insights not in the data size

Trends seen…continued

• Programming but now the agile way– Applications– Basic Infrastructure elements – configure cloud for example– Rich APIs– Dynamic models - Rules, models and code that can dynamically

assemble and configure all of the elements needed from the network through the application are needed

• Self Protection– Risk based security– Digital world needs

• Security-aware application design, • Dynamic and static application security testing,• Runtime application self-protection • Context-aware and adaptive access controls

– Transfer of information between legitimate enterprise-controlled applications and consumer applications – How to track, stop and pot controls

Events and the associated opportunities

Events that might create opportunities - snapshot

• Urbanization – Mega cities, Mega regions, Mega corridors – Networked, Smart, Branded< Sustainable

– Ex – Lavasa

– Opportunity – Energy/Infrastructure, Automation/Building Control, IP technology, Digital Networks etc

• E-Mobility – Electric 2 and 4 Wheelers

– Integrators/Embedded/Firmware/Energy Management/Charging Stations/Telematics

• Satellites – Approx 900 satellites to be launched by 2020

– Improvements over GPS/GLONASS - Automobile Navigation and Intelligent Traffic Control System Applications, Mobile and Data Services areas, Photographic satellites,

• Robotics

– As pets, as companions, as household helpers, as waiters, as nannies, in space, for medical procedures, material handling, packaging, transportation, military

• Virtual Shopping - 3D Simulated Environment for Interaction and Experience Impacting Personal Mobility

– Virtual Shopping, Virtual Surgeries/Medical Training, Virtual Business Conferences, Virtual Classes/Labs/Field trips

What possibly more can be there……

Can we be Nostradamus? 3 - 5 – 7 years beyond

• Intelligent computing mesh– Pervasive and massive identity recognition

• Cashless and contactless financial transactions

• Ability to cross borders without stopping for inspection

• Walking into a coffee shop in a foreign country and having the barista offer up your favourite coffee because your preferences appeared on her counter screen as you approached the shop

• Security challenges - The combination of powerful voice and facial recognition, massive identity databases, and powerful tracking will likely result in a new norm that potentially translates into a significant loss of privacy

Can we be Nostradamus? 3 - 5 – 7 years beyond…continued

• Nanotechnology - Imagine your life being saved by a custom-designed medical machine made from particles 50,000 times as small as a single strand of your hair – Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science etc

• Life Sciences –

– Improve human and animal health;

– Address threats to the environment;

– Improve crop production;

– Contain emerging and existing diseases;

– Improve currently used manufacturing technologies.

– Sectors include • Pharmaceuticals,

• Biotechnology, chemicals,

• Medical devices, medical products and technology, and healthcare services,

• Systems Modeling (modeling and simulation of a set of biological parts is the domain of systems biology),

• Medical Robotics

Can we be Nostradamus? 3 - 5 – 7 years beyond…continued

• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

– Radiology;

– Cost control in construction, the restaurant trade, and similar skilled service industries;

– Safety of autonomous vehicles

• Online Education –

– Massively Open, Online and High Quality driven by the internet, mobile and wearable devices

Can we be Nostradamus? 3 - 5 – 7 years beyond

• Sustainability – Energy, Water, Materials/Resources, Carbon monitoring –

– Smart cities;

– Electronic cars;

– LEDs

– Consumer energy storage – batteries;

• Open Intellectual Property Movement

Can we be Nostradamus? 3 - 5 – 7 years beyond…continued

• Quantum Computing - Practical quantum computers will be able to solve a class of problems much more efficiently and quickly than classical computer systems.

• Processor and Memory Architectures – Non-volatile Universal memory; Multicore

• Photonics – The energy to move data is more than the energy to actually compute

– A critical application of photonics will be to build highly energy-efficient router components

Information, Absorption and Digestion

Information Overload and Questions

• Take time, understand, disseminate

• Research, Read and Experiment

• Ask people who know or are involved to guide

• Adapt to an industry – HAVE USE CASES

• Map Use Cases to MARKET POTENTIAL

• Failure is the first success of the idea/solution

• Will help, where possible