Being ready for the technology changes for the future

There are fads and then there are innovations that completely change the way we do things. We have to keep an eye across the horizon and generate the awareness of what will change this industry in the future. Visualize our frenzied customers looking at Business Intelligence reports on large thin transparent LCD panels with lots of dashboards and scorecards, slicing and dicing the data at the speed of thought. Their UI is not a keyboard, it is voice and touch. They patch in a colleague on the field who shows up on a small window using 3G mobile technology and can not only discuss but also see some of the dashboards on his iPad. A price-point decision is hanging. Back at the office details about the Enterprise Planning systems, market trends, price points on raw material, and competition pricing information is bubbling up on the panel as the discussion continues. A lot of what-if-analysis is done quickly and finally an educated decision. A decision is quickly taken, a competitive strategy executed, a customer made happy, a deal struck. What will be our contribution in this visual? The future technology will not only be based on disruptive changes in hardware, cloud, virtualization, cheap-scalable architectures, green etc. but also intensely mobile, networked in multiple ways, collaborative, mash-up applications created from a variety of inter-related business applications. All for one cause – Stay ahead in the game. Keep that in mind, our job is to keep our customer Ahead in the game.