Johannesburg, 30 Aug 2011
After three days and over 60 sessions, the sheer amount of information and predictions coming out of the Garner Symposium ITxpo can be overwhelming.
Here are the most interesting snippets singled out by ITWeb journalists.
1. The business value of IT has never had a number before. Now it does. It's 21% - Mark Raskino, VP and Gartner fellow (from a CEO survey of the contribution IT makes to business)
2. Sixty-five percent of CEOs believe IT will make a greater contribution in their industries in the 2010s and 2020s than in any prior decade (despite the Internet, etc) - Mark Raskino
3. By 2015, more than 70% of CIOs will oversee connected performance of all digital technologies - including those that seem to be consumer ones - Mark Raskino
4. Ninety percent of South African CEOs will increase commitment to developing a skilled workforce over the next three years - Mark Raskino
5. By 2020, the nature and form of money will have changed worldwide - David Furlonger, VP and Gartner fellow
6. CEOs are more interested in CRM and ERP than cloud and mobile - Mark Raskino
7. By 2013, 33% of business intelligence functionality will be consumed via handheld devices - Andreas Bitterer, research VP
8. IT spending growth in SA is much higher than the rest of the world - Will Hahn, principal analyst in Gartner Technology and Service Provider Research
9. By 2016, the install-base of devices running new lightweight mobile operating systems will exceed the total install-base of PC-based systems - Peter Sondergaard, senior VP, research
10. Nearly a billion tablets will have shipped by 2016 - Peter Sondergaard
11. There are 350 $1 billion IT-budget corporations in the world - Peter Sondergaard
12. The human sensory system has an input bandwidth of the order of 10Mbps. Why should you ever settle for less than that with your communication? - Will Hahn, speaking about Internet capacity in SA
13. The number one smartphone platform in the world is now Android. By 2014, Gartner predicts smartphone OS by popularity: Android, Windows, Apple. By 2015, Android is expected to have almost 50% smartphone market share - Monica Basso, Gartner research VP
14. Today it's easy to get into the cloud... it's getting out that's difficult - Daryl Plummer, managing VP and Gartner fellow
15. Trends are like children. Sometimes they're expected, sometimes they're not. Either way you have to look after them - Daryl Plummer
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