Within the rapidly changing business and technology environment, Belatrix brought together its experts to look into the future and see what we can expect to see in the world of technology in the coming year. 2016 was the year when emerging technologies from augmented reality to machine learning came to the fore, but in 2017 we expect both adoption and investment in these new technologies to hit a different level. - How a plethora of new technologies will emerge to provide new business opportunities in different industries - The continued importance of Agile development and continuous delivery - Why mobile and mobile testing will be top of mind in 2017 - Case studies of how organizations are responding to this new world

1. What’s in store for software
development in 2017?

2. 1. Mobile testing reaches new levels of importance.
2. A plethora of new technologies provide new business
opportunities.
3. The rapid maturing of machine intelligence and artificial
intelligence.
4. Businesses continue in their Agile and continuous delivery
journeys.
4 PREDICTIONS

3. Mobile testing reaches new
levels of importance1

4. Source: World Quality Report 2016-2017
Biggest challenge is not having the right
testing process

5. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
• Agile QA practices become critical
• Use mobile testing best practices, in particular to
tackle device and OS fragmentation

6. A plethora of new technologies emerge
to provide new business opportunities2

7. Augmented Reality

8. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
• Look to bring together devices, apps, data and combine these
within an individual’s specific context
• Use personas and customer journey maps to identify areas
• Evaluate tech expenditure

9. Machine Learning and artificial
intelligence3

10. are investigating
40% 18%
Have started

11. Machine learning at Belatrix
• Neural networks to predict the risk of personnel attrition
• Helping clients make sense of thousands of IoT devices that are
collecting data every few seconds

12. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
• Identify those tasks which rely heavily on data and can then be
automated
• When starting, look for a niche or specific problem you can
solve with machine learning

13. Businesses continue in their Agile and
continuous delivery journeys4

14. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
• The mere pursuit of continuous delivery will make your
organization better
• Start small and put together a team with your best people.
• Set a long range goal and begin working in increments that are
sustainable for your company

15. QUESTIONS
#PredictionsBSF
Q&A

16. Contact us! Charles Green
cgreen@belatrixsf.com