With the end of 2012, everybody is looking forward towards the technology development for this year. 2013 is going to be the year for new technical trends and some really amazing gizmos that will easily overshadow the previous ones. In other words, it would be a special year for the IT world. There would be an enhancement of technology on many fronts; from IT flexibility, efficiency and cost savings. Trends this year would have a good potential to get significant dominance over the software development community. The key points listed below will have a profound impact over the entire IT ecosystem. The technology trends which e-Zest will follow in 2013 are as follows:
Mobile would be a favored client
Mobile technology is constantly evolving and is also picking up quickly.The real part of this trend is to look whether mobile wallets or contactless payments would take off through NFC (near-field communication) chips in smartphones or other technologies. As the last few years were dominated by laptop and netbooks as the preferred client for accessing digital content, in 2013, we will have new champion clients - smartphones and tablets which require applications to be mobile friendly with responsive designs.
Cloud computing within our reach
Cloud computing this year would entail the unique collection of services, web destinations and connectivity that could become the home of computing and communication activities. It would emerge as a portable, always-available place. As it is always required to perform more with fewer resources, IT organizations would realize that they have a responsibility to help improve the provisioning and consumption of inherently distributed, heterogeneous and often complex cloud services for their internal users and external business partners.
Responsive web sites and applications
There will be a surge in the count of variety of screen resolutions; designers and developers would have to prepare themselves for UI that may work seamlessly on all of these resolutions. This would require pages and applications to be responsive. Henceforth, it can be achieved using pure HTML5 or JS frameworks, which ensures that the performance of the web application remains blazingly fast.
Enterprise-wide Agile adoption
The full potential of going agile this year can be realized by leveraging agile values, principles and practices throughout an organization. It requires broad technical, organizational, and process changes. Adoption of these values provides improved project visibility and offers great benefits like accelerated time-to-market, increased productivity and quality, reduced risk and project costs. Agile development is gaining momentum and would transform as general principle for development in 2013. It is a lightweight set of principles to guide project management. It is impacting the way we work and how we communicate. Most of the projects would be developed in an agile way this year.
Big Data will be vital in 2013
Big Data would move its focus from individual projects to an enterprises “strategic information” architecture. It would basically deal with data volume, variety, velocity and complexity forcing changes to many traditional approaches. Organizations would abandon this concept of a single enterprise data warehouse and could therefore move 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. Data managed at enterprise level grows in volume, accumulates at higher speed and now has variety of data formats. All this makes Big Data an ideal candidate to consider for data management in 2013.
Web measurement and optimizations
Improvement in advanced BI and collaboration tools and services, offered by vendors would be possible to deliver analytics at the point of action. Organizations can now simulate every action taken in the business. In 2013 we will see more use of simulation, prediction, optimization and other analytics offerings to take business decisions. Mobile devices will have access to the data, supporting business decision making.
