Information technology in the format that we know today is dead. What was once just a mission to “keep the lights on” evolved into the need to engage and retain customers. And, increasingly, for a company to take advantage of new information technology, need to invest in software.
With the now positioned software in the business center, organizations are digitally turning towards adopting practices agile and new technologies that deliver innovations to the market quickly and safely. In this way, they can cause their customers are always around, wishing new products and solutions.
But what are the main challenges for these organizations begin this digital transformation process in 2016?
1. For flexible and scale development, invest in containers
The year 2016 will see at least a dream of decades become reality – the creation of a development flow based on components connected to agile practices and continuous development, enabling organizations to become a faster pace than ever.
The focus will be on smaller services that can be deployed independently, delivering new features continuously. The days of waiting for the entire application review are finished.
Micro services and containers (technology that allows you to run processes and tests in isolation, with more security and stability) will provide greater power of flexibility and range in development process. Both technologies will transform the way developers build, deploy and update applications and accelerate the need for agile practices to stay ahead of market changes and customer requirements.
2. “Agile Security” the field
Security can no longer be an afterthought. Have to be prepared in all aspects of application design, development and implementation.
The acceleration of software development cycles means that security has to be the basis of any design or development process.
For 2016, all roads lead to the emerging idea of ”agile security”. Bring security earlier in the process, with the DevOps methodology and agile practices, adds the vital third pillar to the software development scale and speed.
3. Analytics throughout the dictate of customer value
Over the years, evolved Analytics business intelligence for transactional and big data. From now on, real-time analytics that elevate the customer experience in that link predictions prescriptive actions become customary.
In 2016 we will enter an era in which the demographic factor will enable organizations customize services, set prices, sales and products in real time to the individual. With Analytics, we will take best customer experience, as we put the security that protects consumers as a backdrop. New techniques of analysis will use behavior patterns and learning the machines to separate actual customers of fraudsters and provide transactions and experiences with fewer seams.
4. Internet of Things: the realm of interesting possibilities to the world of real applications
Although the internet of things, an element of digital transformation, is a high-potential technology, we can say that she still crawls. Analytics and security hold the key to open the door that will add more value to consumers.
The particularities inherent to the world of internet of things create more vulnerabilities and attack points than ever before and increase the chances of conflict. Conceptually, the Internet of things is that new wave elegant that everyone wants to surf, but below the surface there is a land filled with complexities that need to be accessed and understood.
As far as the internet of things comes to mainstream, “identity of things” will be critical. Likewise the identity of a person to be authenticated, “identity” to a device and any data stream that reaches it must also be confirmed and set as reliable.
Tools such as identity and management access (IAM) for internet of things and interaction tables are necessary to ensure that we are engaged with the “right things” and they do not conflict, canceling or doubling themselves in the environment.
While sensors Internet of things and smart devices proliferate and interact with us in critical areas such as health and automotive industries, they will help to simplify – and maybe save -. our lives and improve customer experiences
5 . Blockchain finds its foundation
The surprise 2016 will be the revival of blockchain technology and its refinement to the point that really find its place outside the ledger of Bitcoin.
Blockchain was a keyword for many startups two years ago and is ready for renewal, when we look at the growth of the internet of things and need to involve secure between devices.
A technology like blockchain, which depends a computer network and have the privacy as a central element will be an important facilitator of the internet of things and the digital transformation of any organization as it further simplifies the operations to be more agility and customer responsiveness.
The blockchain technology will have to overcome his “guilt by association” to the problems related to Bitcoin, but clearly there is the capacity to become the “flavor of the month” for sensors and the Internet of things in general.
(*) Otto Berkes is Chief Technology Officer of CA Technologies
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