42 tech to impact future of IT: Accenture

Bangalore, Aug 22: As many as 42 technologies will have an impact on the future of Information Technology across the globe with 17 of them having a major impact.

Talking on ''Future of Information Technology: the Power of the Individual'' Mr Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Officer of IT major Accenture told newsmen here that some of the technologies that would have immediate impact included Service Oriented Architecture, Mega Venor Package software, legacy software, mobility and collaboration.

While 20 technoilogies such as IP network convergence, semantic data integration, multicore processors, bio-informatics and social technologies would have significant impact, five such as home robotics, multi player games, computer visualisation and virtual and augmented reality would have negligible impact.

According to him for major identifiable R and D areas in the sector included Analytics and Business intelligence, intelligent device integration, human computer interaction and system integration.

Commenting on a recent study conducted by accenture on 22 companies spread over 22 countries, he said the key conclusions were that IT was not contributing as much as it could to earnings growth of a company, conservating IT investment was like slow water skiing, Corporate systems a long way from meeting consumer based expectations-need for more agility, integration and standards. ''We don't have an innovation problem, we have an adoption problem'' he added.

The study indicated, he said, that most integration was internally focused and not standard. According to him 55 per cent of over 500 CIOs covered in the study indicated that there was need to spend more on customer interfaces, while 57 per cent that they need to use SOA to improve integration.

He said the next generation enterprise would be that which combined corporate computing such as SOA with consumer technologies, notably Web2.0+.

He said Web2.0 would strongly and positively imact an enterprise while Blogs, which were increasingly becoming popular would improve stakeholder relations while icnreasing the amount of enterprise knowledge that was captured and stored.

On Wikis, he said that Wikis would increase the number of people who could collaborate effectively to produce high quality deliverables. Social network services such as Myspace would formalise networking and vastly increse participants 'social reach'.

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