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Thursday, 13 December 2012

What's IDC's prediction for 2013?

IDC recently published their 2013 predictions, with Mobile, Social, Cloud and Big Data platforms expected to  drive 90% growth in the IT market between 2013 and 2020. I summarized the key 2013 trends are as follows:
  • IT spending will exceed $2.1 trillion, driven by the adoption of smart mobile devices
  • IT spending in the growth markets will represent 34% of worldwide spend, and 50% of all new growth in the IT marketplace
  • Package applications providers like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle will become major Software as a Service (SaaS) providers
  • There will be an explosion in Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings tailored for specific industry applications
  • Converged systems will transition from hype to market reality, as enterprise datacenter and cloud-provider use cases converge
  • Line of Business executives will drive the increasing adoption of industry solutions, with 60% of all new IT spend influenced by LOB executives
  • Enterprises will transition from Social Network experimentation to integration
  • Big Data investments investments will continue to grow, with a shift of focus to analytics and discovery tools, and analytic applications