Five key technologies for CIOs over the next 5 years

One of the key technologies: large Data








in the last five years, business intelligence has been widely deployed, and its value for business operations and decisions has been recognized by corporate policymakers. However, under the existing system platform, most of the enterprise's business intelligence platform seems to have encountered bottlenecks business intelligence does help companies understand the status quo well, but it is weak in insight into the future of the business.




The important reason for this bottleneck is that the data which is used in the traditional business intelligence system is mainly the operation data produced in the enterprise's
, which is mostly standardized and structured. In fact, these figures account for less than 15% of the small amount of data that companies can get!





Typically, enterprise data can be grouped into three types: structured, semi-structured, and unstructured, with 85% of the data being unstructured data that is widely present in social networks, IoT, and E-commerce. The generation of these unstructured data is often accompanied by the emergence and application of new channels and technologies such as social networks, mobile computing and sensors.




The more comprehensive the data that the
enterprise uses for analysis, the closer the analysis results to the real. As a result, large data analysis is being put on the agenda by more and more CIOs, who want to use large data-related technologies and systems to gain new insights from these new data and integrate them with the details of the known business.





has produced more data in the past three years than in the previous 40,000 years, and the advent of the big data age is beyond doubt. We are about to face a change, the new big data will become the urgent task of enterprise development, and conventional technology has been difficult to deal with PB (1024TB) level of large-scale data. The challenge of this change is that a successful enterprise must be confronted in the course of its future development. Only those enterprises that can use these new data forms can build sustainable and important competitive advantages.





IBM's "CIO important revelation for the global CIO survey" also points out that 83% of CIOs have long term plans covering business intelligence and analytics, and CIOs are starting to focus more on data than apps.





Over the next five years, big data will gradually become part of more and more CIO work. On the one hand, the popularity of business intelligence, so that enterprises have a full understanding of the importance of data; On the other hand, the rise of social media, E-commerce, Internet of Things and other new applications, breaking the original value chain of the wall, the original value chain of all aspects of the data analysis, can not meet the They need to use big data strategies to break data boundaries and get a panoramic view of a more comprehensive operating and operating environment.





since big data is about corporate intelligence, the ability to harness big data naturally becomes the core competency of an enterprise that will help companies find the best models to support business decisions and make sure that the business decisions are the closest to the best.





Perhaps the biggest difference between a leader and other companies is the introduction of new data types, which are unlikely to lead the industry without the introduction of new analytical techniques and new data types.





Key Technology II: Mobile





's survey data from Itvalue show that 73% of corporate CIOs will be bullish on mobile apps (including mobile internet and online services) in the future. This ratio is much higher than the second and third-ranked cloud computing/saas solution (55%), consumer it and enterprise IT Integration (55%). This shows that the enterprise is entering the mobile era, the intelligent terminal will gradually replace the PC as a personal application and information collection terminals, corporate change began.





Consumer electronics products are also rapidly becoming a business tool. More and more corporate executives are using smartphones or tablets, and they need more support from the IT department. At the same time, with the popularity of Iphone/ipad and Androidphone/tablet, more and more employees in enterprises will work with their smart mobile terminals and want to access the company's network. A recent poll by Zogby Analysys shows that the prime reason for American consumers to use Apple's ipad is that they can work on the road. A study from Gartner suggests that 43% of corporate employees are currently using wireless networks, and the figure is expected to rise to 58% by 2014.





CIOs have also recognized the need to use mobile platforms as a new channel to expand their businesses. "Mobile Office does improve the efficiency of the business. "Liang Securities Co., Ltd. CTO said. The trend of mobility represents that the intelligent terminal will gradually replace PC as the Personal Computing Center, and the application terminal of IT system will gradually transition from PC to intelligent terminal.





Although corporate CIOs have a firm belief in mobility, this does not mean that enterprise-class mobile deployments and applications will be smooth sailing. Fuzhou General Hospital began to carry out mobile applications in 2002, the first is the doctor rounds, and then gradually expanded to mobile care, material bar code management, is developing the whole process of drug management and fixed Asset management applications. "Mobile applications are very meaningful for optimizing processes, improving efficiency and quality, but they are not easy to do," he said. "Fuzhou General Hospital Computer application and Management Section Director, Senior engineer Chen Jinxiong said."





's survey from Itvalue shows that 50% of CIOs ' main puzzles in enterprise-level mobile terminals and service deployments lie in two aspects of cost and management. The CIO involved in the survey, 25% of the people think that "mobile terminals are increasing, expensive, cost pressure", and another 25% of the confusion lies in "multiple terminal management access and management issues."





in the process of implementing mobility, the enterprise will face additional pressure, which also touches the enterprise to the cloud infrastructure investment, the CIO must be prepared for this. In fact, it has two roles to play: ensuring that the deployment of these mobile terminals does not lead to security issues; The second is to fully release the innovative energy that mobile terminals deploy to the business. The former embodies the CIO's traditional role as a "business empowering person", while the latter fully embodies the new role of CIO as a "creative empowering person".





Key Technology Three: cloud computing





"Cloud computing" is no longer a new word. In the early 2011 Gartner forecast 2011 years of 10 major technology trends, cloud computing technology ranked three. In August 2011 Itvalue A sample survey of CIOs from nearly hundreds of China's best companies, predicting technology trends over the next 10 years, with 55% of CIOs bullish on cloud/saas solutions.





Although cloud computing has been widely criticized as the collective concept of "it vendors" of old bottled new wines, cloud computing is a real development. With the help of national policies and investment, China's cloud computing industry parks and data centers have sprung up, and the Special Fund for Cloud computing, set up by the NDRC, has invested about 800 million yuan in 2011 to support demonstration projects in large cloud computing models such as Beijing and Shanghai. Chongqing Municipal government is also building "cloud Chongqing", in all aspects of the city to apply cloud services, the development of "shore cloud" and "offshore cloud" services, Chongqing planning for the International data exchange hub and base.





in early 2011, the U.S. federal government also issued the federal cloud computing strategy, announcing the 2012 80 billion dollars in the federal IT budget 25% in the cloud computing field, used to transfer government IT applications to the way cloud.





in fact, in the past year, only 3% of CIOs in the world have used their IT systems primarily in the cloud. In China, companies that put IT systems in the clouds are getting more and more. And with the advent of it consumption and customer-centric era, as well as the integrity of cloud computing standards and the complete ecological environment of cloud computing, future cloud computing will be ubiquitous, and more enterprises will put IT systems into the cloud.





Key Technology four: electronic commerce





with the advent of E-commerce era, the next 5 years, E-commerce has become a key technology enterprises and CIOs can not be ignored, it not only to help enterprises in all walks of life change channels, but also spawned a number of innovative business models.





2011, Traditional enterprises to enter the pace of e-commerce significantly accelerated, and even real estate such commodities have begun to online sales, E-commerce has become a new round of competition in the traditional enterprises of the huge battlefield. There is a CIO proposing, "the future of traditional enterprises in E-commerce, the future of E-commerce in the traditional enterprise" view. But compared with the positive attitude of the 2010, 2011 involved in electric business enterprises began to wait and see learning State, Li-Ning Company's E-commerce department general manager left, the United States and Granville power to stop the electrical business and other events, as well as other enterprises in the electronic commerce channel after the big impact on the traditional channels have occurred, Have made Chinese enterprises adopt a more cautious and pragmatic attitude towards the development of electronic commerce in the 2011.





From the development of E-commerce and business model itself, the 2011 E-commerce has entered the stage of systematic operation, whether it is a vertical or traditional enterprise e-commerce, all need more specialized personnel to operate, to solve the special technology brought about by the new business model and logistics supply chain management problems. In particular, Taobao Mall in the "double 11" promotional activities in the day sales amounted to 3.36 billion yuan, at the same time also led to the sale of Taobao over 5 billion yuan, but also caused a lack of supply of Taobao logistics system, some businesses even use such as FedEx and other high cost courier to emergency, these phenomena are worthy of electric operators to think.





in the next 5 years, the development trend of E-commerce continues, the CIO needs to be in this wave and change the trend of repositioning their value. "Can it director be the director of E-commerce?" "It has also become a topic of intense discussion among CIOs in the Itvalue community in the 2011, a transformation puzzle faced by many CIOs in the era of E-commerce," he said. There are CIOs who say it and E-commerce, "one from Venus, one from Mars," and CIOs who combine the management of both. Some people think that the development of the CIO in the field of electrical business, for example, in the spring and autumn airlines, eventually by the CIO to develop E-commerce, and when the business of e-commerce to a certain scale, it was delivered to the specialized electrical business sector and e-commerce talent to operate. Spring Aviation IT director Zhengliangang that the CIO to do E-commerce, to see the market development stage of the enterprise, individual ability and interest.





with the increasing popularity of electronic commerce, the mysterious aura of E-commerce will gradually fade, but also to the nature of business. Some CIOs believe that e-commerce for CIOs, is always a transformational opportunity for some high standards, high data industry CIOs more favorable, such as content, software, games, music and so on. And the development trend of E-commerce will enable the CIO to make up for the most lack of interpersonal relationships, that is, the relationship with the end user, which is the key to the CIO's transformation to understand the needs and experience of users.





key Technology five: Green mode

Statistics show that 12% of U.S. electricity generated in the United States was used in data centers in 2005. Looking at British statistics, 50% of the electricity used in British households is related to it products, 50% of which even more than half of the computer is not running.

What is the total amount of electricity consumed by enterprise IT data centers worldwide? The combined statistics are about 20%, and that's just the equipment that CIOs are directly controlling. If the CIO's responsibilities are viewed more broadly, green it and green models are increasingly becoming one of the responsibilities of the CIO.

The green model that CIOs can implement is becoming more and more meta, with no paper, remote video conferencing, green Datacenter, virtualization, and so on. 2007 Gartner developed three green IT standards: first, to achieve sustainable development goals and corporate social responsibility; the second is to reduce energy consumption and continuous optimization technology; The third is to adopt and promote green policy, especially the Government has more and more green policy.

In many excellent enterprises, green it has been widely used, Green has been deep into the actual operation of the enterprise. Vancity, Canada's largest credit bank, is a model enterprise for green it. They have not used paper to send faxes, the large home computer network to send information to each other, and reduced by 20% of paper data printing. In addition Vancity also realizes the virtualization of the server, realizes reduces the electricity consumption of 94%. Because the virtualization of the server reduces the power consumption of vancity by 570,000-kilowatt, it can save more than 36 million dollars per year. and Vancity's data center uses green technology to save data center energy consumption by 10%. Vancity also introduced some green ideas, such as electronic waste, which will be processed every month. Every year there are a lot of retired technical equipment, they will be retired some equipment recycling, and then repair. There are a lot of small garbage bins in the Vancity, where employees are easy to reach, encouraging employees to recycle better.

The Hong Kong Railway Corporation has also reduced the number of printers in the whole group from 1100 to 770 over the past 3 years, saving up to 250,000-kilowatt kwh per year. Moreover, the Hong Kong Railway Corporation has taken steps to start reducing the use of computers at night. The more important point is that the staff's awareness of environmental protection has been greatly improved.

The environment is deteriorating today, protecting our planet's sustainable development has become a mission for everyone. There is more responsibility as a CIO. Green should not only run through the Green Data center, green building and other hardware facilities, but also the management of the system and the operation of the system to achieve the green concept, can realize the green hardware, software integration Lifecycle management, intelligent analysis to improve the efficiency of equipment utilization.