Roadmap 2007: Emerging Technologies and Trends

There was a time when new IT projects were difficult to push through for

approval. Top management required a lot of convincing before they would approve

anything to do with IT. That time is now passé. It's not that IT projects don't

require convincing anymore. New projects will always require convincing and ROI

justification no matter which stream they're for. What's changed now is that the

value of IT as a business enabler is well understood. With that basic hurdle out

of the way, the next step is to choose the right technology for your business.

This is easier said than done, given that there are so many new technologies and

trends, and all of them promise to be the best thing that happened to mankind

after brown bread. How do you therefore decide what to choose? Even before that,

how do you find out what are all the choices? Given that IT infrastructure is

becoming increasingly complex, any new addition requires a lot of careful

planning.

Keeping all these considerations in mind, we bring you this guide to emerging

technologies and trends that are relevant to businesses. As there are so many of

them, we've broken them up according to various IT streams to make it easier for

you to understand them. So in the pages to follow, you'll find emerging

technologies, trends, their benefits, deployment scenarios, and much more across

15 IT streams.

Adeesh Sharma, Anadi Misra, Anindya Roy, Apurva Kothari, Rinku Tyagi, Sanjay

Majumder, Sujay V Sarma, Swapnil Arora and Vinod Unny