The enterprise technologies to watch in 2016 — from zdnet.com by Dion Hinchcliffe
While enterprise technology has always been somewhat a breed apart from consumer tech, this year we see that consumer tech will definitively set the agenda for businesses like never before in this year’s list of tech to watch.
Excerpts:
This year’s round-up of enterprise technologies to watch in 2016 is more crowded than ever. This is partly due to the fact that there’s just more new tech this year, and partly because the consumer-focused side of the technology industry is creating ever more disruptive advances that enterprises are simply required to face more quickly to maintain their relevancy in the market.
There are several new additions to the list this year that — despite rampant overuse of the term these days — hold the potential to be genuinely disruptive in the short term. These include blockchain, digital/customer experience management, and real-time stream processing, or fast data.
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The enterprise technologies to watch in 2016:
- Microservices architectures
- Digital learning, MOOCs, global solutions networks
- Public cloud
- Digital, customer experience management (DX, CEM)
- Team collaboration
- Hybrid cloud
- Social business (internal and external)
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Collaborative economy
- Blockchain
- Big data and data science
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Virtual and augmented reality
- …and several more