Like every year, the world is ready to welcome the new software technologies yet another time. The Top software technologies for 2011 are not only expected to add edge to your business process but also influence lives to a great deal. As some business and software experts are predicting, this is going to be a year for small and mid-sized businesses. It will be for them to survive and flourish this year. The Top technology trends for 2011 will also be considered by small and big organizations for strategic planning of their business. Here is a compiled list of new technologies to watch out for this year.
Top Software Technologies for 2011:
Cloud Computing: This is going to be a year for ‘Cloud’. Atleast that’s what Gartner says. Cloud Software Technology, which not only cuts down on cost but also is also connectable via various hardware devices. According to the industry experts, it is going to be the year of varied range of cloud computing services. It will the year of vendors providing ‘packaged private cloud implementations’ that will implement their software technologies into the consumer’s enterprise. There will also be service providers who will provide management services for cloud service implementation. According to Gartner, by 2012 there will be enterprises managing and outsourcing Cloud Computing Services.
Mobile Apps: Since, the beginning of it, we knew mobile applications are here to stay. With so many mobile handsets launched everyday and Smartphones capturing the market, mobile application stores are looking forward to do some good business this year. Mobile phones are becoming more of computers and mobile internet connection is really coming up with amazing bandwidth. From Apple to Android, this is the year for mobile application developers.
Social Networking and Communication: 2011 will be the year for businesses and enterprises to accommodate social networking websites to social collaboration and feedback tools to integrate in their applications. We know websites like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Wikis, Blogs, Youtube and Flicker have gained much popularity with business organizations and this will be the year for them to use these sites to leverage their business.
Video: 2011 will be dominated by videos. According to Gartner, the coming years will see a considerable rise of videos as the popular form of content on business and enterprise websites. This will be a great year for offshore software companies providing media streaming services.
Business Intelligence: This is the year for enterprises to brush up and modify their business intelligence infrastructure. With Internet and web accessed even from the mobile phones, probably this is the time; business processes will shift to ‘Gen-Next Analytics’. This will include running simulations to predict the future outcome.
Social Analytics: To quote Gartner, “Social analytics describes the process of measuring, analyzing and interpreting the results of interactions and associations among people, topics and ideas. These interactions may occur on social software applications used in the workplace, in internally or externally facing communities or on the social web”. Well, so this is going to be the year of Social analysis techniques like social-network analysis, social filtering, and social-media analytics. This will also lead to a considerable increase in use of Social Analytic Tools to examine social structure.
Context-Aware Computing: The world is moving towards a context/consumer aware computing system, which will find a strong foothold in the year 2011. A system that will cater to unique needs of end users and provide services accordingly.
Storage Class Memory: 2011 will see the rise of storage class memory in various mobile, entertainment, and consumer devices. This will be a Flash memory, which will work even when the power is down or the system is rebooted. This memory will also be used in IT systems and for servers.
