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Roundup Of Cloud Computing And Enterprise Software Predictions For 2015

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Whenever this time of the year arrives with its proliferation of predictions, William Gibson’s quote “the future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed” comes to mind.

The best predictions provide a glimpse into the future while also providing mile markers to measure the journey. Those are the most fascinating of all because they take a firm stand on where, how and why a given area is scaling and at what pace.

Instead of adding to the many cloud computing and enterprise software predictions being made for 2015, I’m providing a listing of those that are the most interesting and thought-provoking.

They are listed below:

  • 10 Hadoop Predictions For 2015 – Well-researched series of Hadoop predictions and market forecasts.  Key insights include the following: Over the next five years, the Hadoop-MapReduce market is expected to hit $2.2BV, attaining a compound annual growth rate (GAGR) of 58%, according to MarketAnalysis.com; IDC predicts that worldwide revenues for the Hadoop-MapReduce market will increase to $812.8M by 2016, up from $77M in 2011; IDC, which expects Hadoop to be in use in 45% of European organizations by the end of 2015; and SQL to become Hadoop's killer app for 2015.
  • Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence in 2015 – Tableau’s Vice President of Product Marketing Ellie Fields has written an interesting series of predictions for Business Intelligence in 2015.  Her perspective on conversations with data replacing static dashboards shows how quickly contextual intelligence is coming to every phase of analytics. You can find a PDF of all the trends here.
  • 2015 CRM Predictions To Fire Up Customer Success And Growth – Series of insights on how CRM will change in 2015, with an optimistic assessment of spending on predictive analytics and market intelligence.  The series of predictions include the Gartner forecast that by 2015, predictive and prescriptive analytics will deliver at least 50% of the business value of business analytics projects. 
  • 2015 Technology Predictions For CIOs – Series of nine predictions on the future of IT based on interviews with senior IT executives and CIOs that underscores how cross-platform development will become the norm, mobile security will become a high priority, and mobility will continue to re-order enterprise computing.
  • 2015 Tech Trend Predictions Round Up – Comprehensive roundup of predictions provided by the Mobile Enterprise editors has several interesting takeaways including the following: expect to see greater investment in IoT for the enterprise systems, technologies and solutions; enterprises will spend an estimated $16.3B on middleware software in 2015, an increase of 9.3% YOY, according to Ovum's 2015 Trends to Watch: Integration and Middleware report; and a projected 50% increase in cloud-based data security and authentication technologies.
  • 2015 Predictions: EMC Spins Off VMware, Azure Catches Up to AWS – Virtualization Review (VR) predicts that Microsoft Azure will become the enterprise’s preferred platform for deploying new workloads, migrating on-premises workloads and developing hybrid cloud solutions. By the end of 2015, VR predicts that Azure will seriously compete with AWS on scale, features and services, user experience and market share. VR also predicts that EMC will spin off VMware, and VMware will acquire ServiceNow.
  • Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2015 and Beyond – Series of predictions that span the time horizon of 2015 to 2020. Notable predictions made include the following: through 2015, the most highly valued initial public offerings (IPOs) will involve companies that combine digital markets with physical logistics to challenge pure physical legacy business ecosystems.2015 to 2020; and that by 2015, more than 90% of durable goods e-tailers will actively seek external partnerships to support the new "personalized" product business models.  Another interesting prediction is that by 2017, nearly 20% of durable goods e-tailers will use 3D printing (3DP) to create personalized product offerings.
  • Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 – Gartner’s prediction of the ten most strategic technology trends for 2015 are based on the three themes of the merging of the real and virtual worlds, the advent of intelligence everywhere, and the technology impact of the digital business shift.  One of the more interesting data points from this analysis is forecast for worldwide shipments of 3D printers are expected to grow 98 percent in 2015, followed by a doubling of unit shipments in 2016.
  • IDC Reveals Cloud Predictions for 2015 – IDC recently hosted the web conference IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2015 Predictions to deliver their predictions from the IDC FutureScape for Cloud report. Notable predictions from the webcast include that by 2017, IT buyers will actively channel 20% of their IT budgets through industry clouds to enable flexible collaboration, information sharing, and commerce. IDC is also predicting that by 2016, there will be an 11% shift of IT budget away from traditional in-house IT delivery, towards various versions of cloud as a new delivery model. By 2017, 35% of new applications will use cloud-enabled continuous delivery and DevOps lifecycles for faster rollout of new features and business innovation. You can find the replay here. The IDC FutureScape Executive Summary from the webinar is shown below:

  • IDC: Top 10 Technology Predictions For 2015 - Excellent analysis and summary by fellow Forbes contributor Gill Press on the top 10 technology predictions IDC is making for 2015. You can find the IDC document here and the webcast viewable here. Key take-aways from these predictions include the following:  Worldwide IT and telecommunications spending will grow 3.8% in 2015 to more than $3.8 trillion; and worldwide spending on big data-related software, hardware, and services will reach $125B in 2015.
  • My One Big Fat Cloud Computing Prediction for 2015 – Fellow Forbes contributor independent researcher, writer and analyst Joe McKendrick sees cloud-based analytics making the massive amounts of data enterprises have accumulated over decades more actionable. He predicts that 2015 will be the year where the inherent advantages of cloud computing architectures will make analytics more valuable, leading to greater innovation in the process.
  • What will happen with marketing technology in 2015? – Great series of insights from Scott Brinker, co-founder and CTO of Ion Interactive are worth reading if you follow marketing, marketing automation and want to excel in the role of a marketing technologist.  Scott is predicting Microsoft will make one or more major acquisitions in the marketing technology space in 2015, spending more than $1 billion in M&A to make a bid as a major marketing platform provider.  He also has several insights into the future of marketing technology in 2015 that are worth reading.

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