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PREDICTIONS 2017 // COVER STORY
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BY CHITRESH SEHGAL CSEHGAL@ACCENTINFOMEDIA.COM
he past few years have seen the global IT landscape make rapid progress, rapidly improving how enterprises are run through innovations and solidification of existing technologies. Convergence of technologies and rise of third platforms has redefined how IT is seen by businesses across sectors today. Improvements and enhancements in traditional IT infrastructures and datacenters have been substituted by cloud bases SaaS, PaaS, IaaS solutions. The face of information technology is changing fast with the proliferation of
internet across geographies and rise of mobility in enterprises. Domestically, the IT landscape has moved forward in leaps and bounds, fuelled by the Government backed digitization. Initiatives like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ are enabling the enterprise world to grow at a globally unparalleled speed, at the same time catalysing the consumer and end user. A surge in Start Ups across domains, proliferation of smartphones, rise of the cloud and the oncoming age of IoT are set to redefine how technology influences businesses.
With the rise of third platforms redefining traditional IT, CIOs and ITDMs have a plate full like never before. 2017 promises to be the year when many technologies and their significance to businesses and end users finally come to the fore. Enterprise level ICT adoption and implementation has been growing like never before and information technology is not a single topic of discussion in the boardroom anymore. With the immense promise that the incoming year holds and a bullish Indian IT Landscape, we take a look at what the Industry believes is in store for the enterprise IT world in 2017. DECEMBER 2016 ENTERPRISE IT WORLD
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