Chennai: The tech world is getting much sophisticated and complex with more and more innovations taking place each passing day. The ever increasing tech appetite of the twenty first centaury man has lead to the birth of smart gadgets, social networks, cloud platforms and lot more. Life has become a breeze with mobile apps for all possible things that you can think of, however at a heavy cost of data privacy and credibility. Here are the top 10 technology predictions for 2014 as compiled by ITBusiness Edge.
Are your devices smarter than a 5th grader?
Industry giants are stepping into the next era where humans are being replaced by robotics. The acquisition of KIva systems, an automated robotics company by Amazon boosted the pace of manufacturing their own delivery drones. Google has also bought robotic companies like Meka and Redwood Robotics. The year of 2014 will witness the rush of robotics through the veins of all major enterprises.
Employee uniforms? Why not employee wearables ?
Wearable gadgets were greatly successful in taking its toll over the tech savvies. Google glass and other gadgets have been used widely in the area of industrial processing and high-tech mechanical engineering. Toshiba has already implemented such augmented reality apps that creates a safe and secure work environment. With Google glass available for public purchase, work atmosphere is thought to be turned around with its implementation.
Siri on steroids
The synchronization of apps and other functions have made lives easy. A scenario were your traffic app updates the alarm to ring a little earlier sensing a traffic conjunction can be a perfect example for the new cognitive computing applications. An upsurge in the field can be made sure with IBM Watson’s application interface available for the public. Smart apps that read your thought lines and execute the necessary actions required are not a hand stretch far.
An enterprise app for everything
The increase of malicious and fraudulent activities on the web has raised issues of security and data privacy. Use of smart gadgets and mobile devices has provided a great opportunity for those indulged in the malicious acts. A feasible solution to make secure the enterprise information is the introduction of an enterprise specific app. Custom enterprise app stores that provide facility to download secure and trustworthy enterprise apps will certainly be on the rising side.
The evolving interface
Incorporated with advanced sensors including biometrics, motion sensors, facial recognition and eyeball tracking the wearable devices have become a prototype of modern technology. The smart watches launched by Samsung and Sony are stuffed with innovations in its limited square box. Demand for more advanced and efficient user interfaces will certainly be heard across the tech world in the year.
Social networks that are IT policy friendly
The rising entrepreneurial demography has resulted in a parallel shift in the way they inter communicate. Technologically educated millennial have already embraced e-mails and other smart communication methods leaving behind the traditional paper memos. Enterprise social networks will certainly be the talk of the town in 2014 with services such as Sales force Chatter, Microsoft Yammer and SocialCast from VMWare already up for show.
Web-scale IT
With their great contributions towards the field of technology, firms like Facebook, Amazon and Walmart have provided heavy contributions to innovative database systems and cloud services. Multinational giants are lifting the standard of technology to new heights with the introduction of eco-friendly data centers, custom server hardwares and distributed computing methods.
"It's not the cloud per se that will save enterprise IT, but thinking and acting like the major cloud providers across all the key dimensions of IT that will,” says Cameron Haight, VP of Gartner Research. The declining margin have helped small and mid-sized firms to acquire the technologies which only the industry giants used to poses.
Gamification in the enterprise
Mobile apps and web app developers have added an element of entertainment to deliver a whole new experience. Waze, an app that provides real time traffic updates fetched by its user locations, and the app also recognition and rewards for proper usage. Spring shot, a startup that develops apps is now in the workshop of making one mobile gamification solution for the aviation industry. The trend of entertainment has been in the air for quite long with companies like Spotify, already incorporating gamification into their services.
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