ICT Investment Consciousness in Crisis

Dr.Thanachart NumnondaBusiness Development DirectorSoftware Practice Sun Microsystems (Thailand)

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ICT Investment Consciousness in Crisis

A CRISIS

INNOVATION

Top 10 IT Trends 2009

• Virtualization

• Cloud Computing

• Beyond Blade Servers

• Green IT

• Web-Oriented Architecture

• Enterprise Mashups

• Social software and Social Networking

• Unified Communication

• Business Intelligence

• Specialize Systems

Enterprise 2.0

World is changing !!

Types of Web 2.0• Social Networks• RSS• Wikis• Blogs• Podcasts• Citizen Journalism

Chances are you've used Web 2.0• Gmail• Wikipedia• Facebook• Twitter• Google Map• Slideshare• OKNation Blogs• Youtube

Web 2.0 : Business Changes• Empowering employees

> Let them blog - internally & externally> Let them collaborate with wikis

• Encouraging external collaboration with wikis• Long Tail phenomenon• Product vs. Service (MS Office vs. Google Docs; Web-

based calendars, etc.)• Publishing

Trends : Business• Web 2.0 will put some Web 1.0 companies out of

business• Web as a platform?

• Appearance of next Google?• Decreased relevance of venture capitalists?• Boundary between customers and companies blurs

The Dot Com Vs. Web 2.0 Era• 3 Major Differences• Open models and

participatory – not “reactive”

• Scale is beyond giga, tera, peta

• New challenges/ constraints> More capabilities> Greater resource constraints> How do we manage the balance?

Investment for the Trends• Preparing for Enterprise 2.0• Web as a platform• Scalability is a key !!

> Virtualization> Green IT

• Network Infrastructure> ADSL, 3G, etc..

• Security & Identity• Think more on OpenSource

> Front end ; Office Suites> Back end ; Web Based Application, SOA

Web 2.0 in your Enterprise• Web 2.0 Applications

> Web Base Calendar> Web Base E-Mail> Wiki> Blog> Facebook> Twitter

• Invest more for Web Oriented Architecture• Train people to prepare for it

OpenSource : ESB [SOA] (Forrester Wave)

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