Accenture Technology Vision 2011 - The Technology Waves That Are Reshaping the Business Landscape

The Vision helps Accenture and our clients understand the opportunities—and challenges—that lie ahead.

For the Accenture Technology Vision 2011, our research team developed some 400 hypotheses based on input from scientists, architects and engineers—from inside and outside of Accenture. Fifty of these were ultimately found to be defensible, and were consolidated into eight trends:

• Data takes its rightful place as a platform.
• Analytics is driving a discontinuous evolution from business intelligence.
• Cloud computing will create more value higher up the stack.
• Architecture will shift from server-centric to service-centric.
• IT security will respond rapidly, progressively—and in proportion.
• Data privacy will adopt a risk-based approach.
• Social platforms will emerge as a new source of business intelligence.
• User experience is what matters.

• Download the complete Accenture Technology Vision 2011 [PDF, 2.5MB]
• Download the Executive Summary [PDF, 1.7MB]

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