The Big Data technology and services market represents a fast-growing multibillion-dollar worldwide opportunity. In fact, a recent IDC forecast shows that the Big Data technology and services market will grow at a 26.4% compound annual growth rate to $41.5 billion through 2018, or about six times the growth rate of the overall information technology market. Additionally, by 2020 IDC believes that line of business buyers will help drive analytics beyond its historical sweet spot of relational (performance management) to the double-digit growth rates of real-time intelligence and exploration/discovery of the unstructured worlds.
Big Data & Analytics
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/4Pillars/bigdata
Cloud
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/4Pillars/cloud
The cloud has changed the fundamental nature of computing and how business gets done and it will continue to do so through 2020. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2020 clouds will stop being referred to as “public” and “private” and ultimately they will stop being called clouds altogether. It is simply the new way business is done and IT is provisioned. IDC research also shows that the global cloud infrastructure is super-scaling and becoming the launch pad for infrastructure innovation and as a result, hardware vendors’ innovations are shifting to “cloud first”.
Mobility
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/4Pillars/mobility
The explosion of mobile applications and the tremendous rate of smartphone adoption is revolutionizing the mobile industry. The multifaceted mobile ecosystem continues to evolve — reshaping and redefining the roles and relationships of a wide range of industry stakeholders. Smartphone adoption will continue to increase and IDC predicts that three display surfaces will become common on high end smartphones by 2020 driving new levels of interaction and utility.
Social Business
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/4Pillars/socialbusiness
The rapid advancements of enabling technologies such as mobile and cloud are changing how people communicate, make decisions and work. These technologies help us make business decisions from anywhere we are connected creating opportunities for real-time, continuous collaboration and enable tasks to be done in a more social manner. The quest for increased productivity will continue to drive change for companies deploying enterprise social networks and software-based collaboration.