The document discusses various IT solutions and trends including outsourcing, the history of IT, shortages in software engineering, mergers and acquisitions in the IT development industry, package solutions, system downsizing, open systems, cloud computing movements, big data streams, service science and engineering, business process reengineering efforts, enterprise resource planning packages, and using cloud solutions for internal projects, business process systems, new productions, marketing events and operations, and information support. It also mentions quality studies of development and operations and being able to find needed parts.