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High-performance businesses use the Vision to understand the opportunities—and challenges—that lie ahead.
This year’s Vision builds on last year’s vision of an elastic world in which business capabilities—infrastructure, people and even thought—can be expanded or contracted at will. As the “Everything Elastic” world starts to emerge more clearly, our scientists and thinkers have identified seven technology trends that will define how this new world is developing.
Computing Forecast: Into the Clouds
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Cloud computing allows any part of the technology stack to be sourced from the Internet, ultimately offering a more flexible model that aligns better with business objectives. CIOs will need to balance the tradeoff between agility and a potential loss of visibility.
The New WebWatch the video
The Web is undergoing its most significant overhaul since the emergence of browsers, and will emerge as an increasingly attractive enterprise platform. Does your business speak Web fluently?
Devices as DoorwaysWatch the video
With more and more data residing on the Web, users will increasingly access and manipulate this data using the devices that most suit their needs. Corporate IT will move away from hardware support to providing the secure transport layer for workers to access the information they need—using their own devices.
Fluid CollaborationWatch the video
Global—and thus virtual—collaboration will increasingly become the way business is done. Expect a wave of innovation to provide the technologies to enable collaboration across time zones and geographies.
The Conversation EconomyWatch the video
The rise of social networks is creating new ways of connecting with customers. Accenture has identified three major discontinuities that will affect business-consumer communication.
Fourth-generation System Development
Technological and economic forces are prompting fresh approaches to systems development—as always, competitive advantage will go to those with the ability to spot technology hot spots and the skills to exploit them.
Data + Decisions = Differentation
As analytics become a commodity, the real differentiators are the quality of the data—and the ability to use it to make productive decisions.
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