Here are my top 10 predictions for 2010! Like all predictions I expect pnly about half of them may pan out. We imagine things to change at a rate faster than it actually happens, as usual!
10. Business Intelligence tools become more User driven
9. SaaS makes more inroads from the outside in - Non core applications like HR, Warehousing and Distribution, etc. Sales Force Automation was the premier non-core application and so that was one of the first areas to go Software As A Service!
8. Mobile Platforms spawning totally new and innovative applications - More and more new and innovative applications on iPhone,. Blackberry and Android all at the same time dominate.
7. Huge consolidations in the Software Appplications space - only two or three major guys left - like Oracle, IBM
6. Huge growth at the SME Software space - like Lawson software consolidating many companies that do enterprise applications on Microsoft Platforms.
5. Huge growth in hosted database services like Azure. Oracle will also come up with a hosted Oracle database service offering.
4. Huge growth in "Mobile Devices" area. Like Apple is selling as many iPodtouches as they do iPhones, Motorola will start making Android Devices that do not have voice but is a data device that will work at home and at work using wireless connectivity. Blackberry will similarly start making a Blackberry device that will not have a voice connection.
3. Huge return of Insourcing of Application Development. Many companies will pull in large aspects of offshored and outsourced software development back in house. Most project management will be inhouse again.
2. Netbooks will be totally replaced by handheld devices since they will be able to do anything a netbook does and you can talk on the phone also!
........ and drum roll please.........
1. Surprising growth of iPhone, Android and Blackberry applications into areas that people never thought of possible - Centralization of an application and providing these clients will be the key development in 2010!
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