The document discusses seven trends impacting businesses in 2014, including the role of big data in decision-making and social behavior analysis. It highlights the evolution of social business towards creating authentic customer relationships and the blending of personal and cloud storage solutions. Additionally, it addresses the dominance of software in business processes and the standardization of mobile technology across devices.

1. 1. Big Data works
7 TRENDS
that affect your 2014 business around
COLLABORATION
2. R.I.P. Social Business
3. Liquid cloud
4. Will IT blend?
5. appOS & cloudOS
6. Software domination
7. Mobile is so 2013
Delivering business value through contextual collaboration

2. 1.
IT WORKS
BIG DATA
Example: the rock band ‘Metallica’ organizes
concerts on locations based on most torrent
and iTunes downloads.
We now get to the point where the big data hype is turning
into relevant ways to use data science in daily work
processes to make better decisions and to analyze social
behavior.

3. 2.
R.I.P.
SOCIAL
BUSINESS
Social business is moving into its next
era - engagement and experience –
based on R.E.A.L*
A company that develops R.E.A.L. relationships
aims to more consistently win the hearts, minds and
wallets of its market.
“R.E.A.L.”: Reciprocal, Empathetic, Authentic, and Long-lasting. Relationships based on these intrinsic values, and supported
by systems of engagement that provide efficient and consistent communication and collaboration. (by Deloitte)

4. 3.
Clouds slowly blend into every personal and
business process as water.
1. The personal cloud is everywhere for storage, video
and communication and…
2. The public cloud blends private cloud for business
applications more and more and…
Liquid
CLOUD
3. The integration of data with and between clouds
as-a-service.

5. 4.
Big Data
Cloud
Mobile
Internet of
Things
Devices
Will IT
BLEND
Social
IT needs to really needs to change service
delivery to be able to blend business
processes, technology en people.

6. 5.
cloudOS is what Microsoft calls
its software defined datacenter
proposition.
AppOS, & CloudOS
xOS
appOS is a way to organize app
development around core
business processes.

7. 6.
Total domination by
SOFTWARE
Communication and information are
everything for todays business and we
will wear them, tomorrow.
Software based
networks, storage and
datacenters dominate the IT
landscape.
We finally build hardware to
support the software and make
it wearable.

8. 7.
MOBILE
is so 2013
You will also wave at your devices and
TV’s with gestures!!
Mobile is the standard, there is no difference between
mobile, tablet and PC usage and your IT department gets
punished by the end users if not supporting.

9. T E C H N O LO G Y T H AT I M P R O V E S B U S I N E S S
Edwin Kanis | Imtech ICT | 2014
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