IT trends have always been affected by budgeting. There is probably no organization that presents a limitless budget for their operations. Hence budget is one of the influencers of IT changes. IT Experts are predicting that 2014 might bring more budget cuts with the New Year, but there are some IT trends that will not be slowed by budgetary constraints. Many organizations are now following the emerging trend of IT that looks for more opportunities to drive growth through employee collaboration, insight and mobility, and less though traditional process automation. In order to follow the latest trends, CIOs are increasingly making IT service-based on new IT skills and roles. Some of those latest trends are:
Focus on Information
One of the major changes to IT would be the focus shift on information management than the process. Project portfolios now include less investment in process automation and more in information management and collaboration. Information management and collaboration projects represent the largest category in the project budget.
Mobility
Mobile application development is growing rapidly. Experts predict that it will grow even more in coming years. Many organizations are spending money on developing new mobile applications and making existing applications ready for mobile. Organizations are also spending on mobile application development for their social media and marketing departments.
Cloud Computing
Many IT organizations are spending money in the public cloud. Cloud computing is growing faster than any other practice. With the remote access of servers, cloud computing is definitely finding more space in the budget sheet. The largest share of cloud spending goes to software-as-a-service, but spending on infrastructure-as-a-service is rising fast.
Mainstreaming IT services
In IT industry, there is an upsurge of interest in end-to-end IT services. This services model takes all of the technology (applications infrastructure, data, etc.) needed to deliver a specific business outcome and packages it together as a service. Most organizations offer at least some end-to-end IT services accounting for a good amount of the IT operating budget.
Fresh opportunities
Besides the technology changes and adaptations, IT organizations are also rapidly creating fresh opportunities and designations. Opportunities like service manager, information architect are now available in the IT sector. User experience designers, service architects are some of the fresh fields in the IT industry.