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  1. Mobile technology accelerates business processes

  
  Mobile technology - including devices, software, networks and product distribution channels - is evolving at breakneck pace. The potential of mobile applications to transform business processes hinges not only on the speed and convenience of mobility itself, but also on the unique capabilities of the devices to sense, respond to, deliver and capture information in real time. Enterprise application suppliers, however, will struggle to adapt their product development cycles to the pace of the mobile world.
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  2. Business process flexibility evolves via embedded modeling tools

  
  Enterprise application configuration and process management has historically been the domain of technical specialists within IT, prioritising and queuing the change requests coming from business stakeholders. The end result has been a low level of business flexibility, where processes often adapt to the limitations of the software or customisation layers are built onto the applications. Package configuration tooling that is flexible, graphical and model-based - no coding required - is evolving and will become a way to differentiate between packaged application suppliers. Building out these capabilities may prove challenging, given the high degree of flexibility, variability and adaptability built into BPM services, so packaged application suppliers may need to acquire some of the remaining pure-play BPM suppliers instead.
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  3. Application user experiences advance to the next level

  
  Packaged application software was initially designed to optimize the capture of transactional data, using bland, character-based user interfaces (UIs) with rows of input fields and field descriptions. The addition of colours, drop-down lists, icons and other features has done little to advance application usability beyond the data capture orientation of the most frequent users. Today, applications have reached a turning point. Suppliers now design newer user experiences; their products have rich graphical features that deliver business intelligence and interactive displays that enable decision-orientated activities and real-time customer interactions. The focus is moving from data capture to business outcomes, extending the application reach to a more diverse array of user roles.
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  4. Extensibility improves via platform-as-a-service

  
  While most packaged applications offer some proprietary tools to customize or extend, the cost of doing so and the downstream impact on upgrades have caused many companies to seek alternatives. This often leads to decisions to buy and customize or build from scratch to meet business requirements outside of the relatively commoditised core packaged applications. Looking ahead, expect to see PaaS, a set of rapid application development tools for extending apps to the cloud, disrupt the notion of "build versus buy" in applications. Instead of build versus buy, the application platform will enable "buy plus build". Standard functionality plus PaaS extensibility means that ERP and other complex applications can be more effectively aligned with business requirements.
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  5. Elastic computing platforms scale transactions and analytics

  
  Forrester defines an elastic application platform (EAP) as an application platform that automates the elasticity of transactions, services and data, delivering high availability and performance using elastic resources. EAPs will deliver faster performance and be more cost-effective to use. Yet the benefits from a business process perspective will likely gravitate towards the insight and predictive analysis that come from processing massive amounts information instantaneously. This will not only help large companies efficiently manage high volumes of transaction and internal data, but will also help many companies draw insight from the vast data resources that exist in public and industry domains.
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  6. Collaboration comes to applications in context via social tools

  
  Rampant adoption of social-based communications in the consumer world has left application suppliers scrambling to harness this technology within, or alongside, business applications. In the near term - the next one or two years - social collaboration will sit alongside enterprise applications, as only a few enterprise application suppliers will harness it successfully in the context of enabling business processes. Effective use of social collaboration in enterprise applications and business processes will take several years to mature, eventually becoming a relatively ubiquitous and standardized feature.
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  7. Organizations will drill down and put more focus on industry workloads

  
  As organizations turn to integrated systems and away from managing a myriad of hardware and software components, IT will integrate specific applications that are tuned to vertical business processes and workflows.
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  8. Patterns will emerge to accelerate time to value

  
  One of the goals this year will be to open up organizations to independent software vendors (ISVs) and third-party software providers that can help create greater efficiencies and improve time to value based on repeatable technology usage and integration patterns. Essentially, these "patterns of expertise" will enable organizations across industries to convert technology expertise into reusable best practices that can be automated and built into systems. One of the goals is to enable an organization, with the push of a button, to easily pull up a workload-specific pattern, dramatically reducing the time and effort associated with installing, configuring, tuning, and managing software on an ongoing basis.
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  9. Strategic Big Data

  
  Big Data is moving from a focus on individual projects to an influence on enterprises’ strategic information architecture. Dealing with data volume, variety, velocity and complexity is forcing changes to many traditional approaches. This realization is leading organizations to abandon the concept of a single enterprise data warehouse containing all information needed for decisions. Instead they are moving towards multiple systems, including content management, data warehouses, data marts and specialized file systems tied together with data services and metadata, which will become the "logical" enterprise data warehouse.
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  10. Enterprise App Stores

  
  Enterprises face a complex app store future as some vendors will limit their stores to specific devices and types of apps forcing the enterprise to deal with multiple stores, multiple payment processes and multiple sets of licensing terms. By 2014, Gartner believes that many organizations will deliver mobile applications to workers through private application stores. With enterprise app stores the role of IT shifts from that of a centralized planner to a market manager providing governance and brokerage services to users and potentially an ecosystem to support apptrepreneurs.

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