After spending more than eleven years in the Information Technology, it is amazing to see how technologies evolve and trends are created and destroyed. I did a workshop on Thursday March 17,2011 with my colleague,
Mr. Giora Hadar, on
social media at FAA's IT\ISS conference where I discussed the evolution of social media and how FAA is using it. While preparing for the presentation, I realized how US government information policy is influenced by technology trends. Anyway here are some trends as viewed on
Google Trends:
- Query: "cloud computing"
- Definition: "Cloud computing refers to the provision of computational resources on demand via a network." - Wikipedia
- Google Trends:
- Query: "Service oriented architecture"
- Definition: "Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration in computing." - Wikipedia
- Google Trends:
- Query: "social media"
- Definition: "Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue." - Wikipedia
- Google Trends:
- Query: "bpms"
- Definition: "Some define the BPM System or Suite (BPMS) as "the whole of BPM." Others will relate the important concept of information moving between enterprise software packages and immediately think of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)." - Wikipedia
- Google Trends:
- Query: "knowledge management"
- Definition: "Knowledge Management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences." - Wikipedia
- Google Trends:
- Query: "enterprise architecture"
- Definition: "An enterprise architecture (EA) is a rigorous description of the structure of an enterprise, which comprises enterprise components (business entities), the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships (e.g. the behavior) between them. EA describes the terminology, the composition of enterprise components, and their relationships with the external environment, and the guiding principles for the requirement (analysis), design, and evolution of an enterprise.[1][2][3]" - Wikipedia
- Google Trends:
As you can see, "cloud computing" and "social media" are the hottest IT trends while "service oriented architecture","knowledge management" and "enterprise architecture", are declining. BPMS is also on the rise. What this tells me that CIO will try to align their strategies to the latest trends. These trends correlate to the
Gartner Hype Cycle. I wonder if folks are doing any analytical strategic work using a tool like Google Trends.
After spending more than eleven years in the Information Technology, it is amazing to see how technologies evolve and trends are created and destroyed. I did a workshop on Thursday March 17,2011 with my colleague, Mr. Giora Hadar, on social media at FAA's IT\ISS conference where I discussed the evolution of social media and how FAA is using it. While preparing for the presentation, I realized how US government information policy is influenced by technology trends. Anyway here are some trends as viewed on Google Trends:
