IT industry future forecast: IT department should learn relationship management

Gartner publishes a forecast for IT industry that says it budgets and professional responsibilities are about to move away from the IT department and into the hands of some other people in the enterprise, as a result of trends like it's consumer and cloud computing.

This also illustrates the need for it to continue to exist, the key to good relationship management and the coordination of a wide range of distributed activities, which is the essence of Gartner Executive vice president and partner Daryl Plummer.

"With the rapid expansion of corporate users ' control over their devices, it is the increasing power of business managers to control their budget in the IT sector, which will be a trend we can see in the next few years," Plummer said. "IT departments in the future must learn to work with people who have the right to financial and equipment delivery and secure data security, as well as the necessary coordination between the consumers who want to set up their own it use space." Plummer warns that IT departments in the enterprise must immediately begin to adapt to this form, or they will most likely be swept out.

In this way, Gartner has made the following predictions:

1. By 2015, low cost cloud services will account for 15% of the revenue of top outsourcing providers.

Just as low-cost flights disrupt the transport industry, the 1 trillion-dollar IT service market is also facing further attacks from the low-cost IT Services for industrial standardization (ILCS), which Gartner describes as "an emerging market force that will change the usual proportional relationship between the price and value of IT services." "Manufacturers must invest in this area and adopt a new cloud-based, industrial standardization service strategy."

2. by 2016, at least 50% of enterprise mail users will rely primarily on browsers, tablets or mobile clients rather than desktop clients to receive mail.

Because of the increasing choice of mail clients, the demand for mobile device management platforms will soar and vendors will have to support more collaborative services such as instant messaging, web conferencing, social networking and shared workspaces, Gartner predicts.

3. By 2015, mobile application development projects for smartphones and tablets will exceed the local PC development project by 4:1 percentage.

"In the next four years, new smartphones and tablets will be more than 90% of the total number of new devices, the growing ability to use platforms across various mobile phones will create new innovative positions, especially where mobility can be integrated with location, site, and social information to enhance usability. Gartner said.

4. By 2016, 40% of companies will be tested independently of the cloud before adopting it.

Third-party test vendors will not be the only way for businesses to assess the security of their cloud services. Gartner believes that the certification of security inspectors will be an alternative or complementary means of third-party testing. "This means that companies no longer require Third-party security vendors to conduct security tests based on corporate interests, but only if the cloud provider's certification proves that their application has passed a test by a trusted Third-party security vendor." ”

5. By the end of 2016, more than 50% of the world's 1000 largest companies would store their client-sensitive data in a public cloud.

According to Gartner, 20% of the world's 1000 largest companies have selectively kept their customer-sensitive data in a mixed cloud environment, driven by pressure to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.

6. By 2015, 35% of most corporate IT spending will be run by departments outside it.

Business managers and employees personally will require more control over IT spending related to their work. "CIOs will see their budgets reassigned to other business units." In other words, it projects will be redefined as business projects to allow the business product line managers to participate in control, "Gartner predicts.

7. By 2015, 20% of manufactured goods produced in Asia and consumed in the United States would be diverted to production in the Americas.

Many of the companies that serve the U.S. market will shift their supply resources from Asia to the Americas, including Latin America, Canada and the US, because of increased risk in politics, the environment, the economy and supply chains, Gartner said. "In addition to the existence of a unique production process or a unique product intellectual property situation, most products can occur this transfer." ”

8. By 2016, the financial costs of cyber-warfare will increase by 10% annually, as new vulnerabilities need to be constantly identified.

The growth of consumer and cloud computing will lead to a variety of new software vulnerabilities and methods of attack and be exploited by hackers with lucrative motives. "The combination of new vulnerabilities and more targeted attacks will lead to a rise in the bottom line of financial spending," Gartner cautioned. ”

9. By 2015, the price of 80% cloud services would include a global energy surcharge.

Operators of some cloud data centers have already included energy surcharges in their service prices, and Gartner predicts that more cloud service providers will do the same. Heads of business and IT departments should be prepared to include this cost in future cloud service contracts.

10. By 2015, more than 85% of the Fortune 500 enterprises had not been able to effectively use large data technologies to gain competitive advantage.

Gartner argues that most companies have not yet developed a clear strategy for coping with the technical and management challenges posed by large data. "The data collected and analyzed is not large enough to make direct, big data decisions that affect the productivity, profitability or efficiency of an enterprise." "As a result, most companies are not able to use existing data to gain competitive advantage."