The future of Enterprise IT
Team members
- Giorgos Roussakis
- Reyner Karnali
- Christian Wittenberg
- Adi Kentsch
Research Questions
Defining Enterprise IT
- What is Enterprise IT?
- What are legacy systems?
- Any common global standard for Enterprise IT?
- How do you categorize and/or classify Enterprise IT?
- How long does it take for firms to implement these solutions (e.g. ERP system)?
Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence with Enterprise IT?
- How does the emergence of virtualization impact Enterprise IT?
- What are the Impacts of Internet in the future development of Enterprise IT?
- What are interesting technologies for improving the way Enterprise IT is applied
- Why is the Hardware keeps on improving rapidly, while software not? What is fundamentally different?
Financial and Economic
- What is the GDP market for enterprise IT?
- What is the average cost that firms pay for implementing Enterprise IT (in this case, ERP)?
Market & Environment
- Who are the Primary Target Markets?
- Who are dominating the Enterprise IT industry?
- How does Enterprise IT affect the organization?
- What are relevant trends that influence the future of enterprise IT?
- How will Outsourcing of Enterprise IT will develop in time?
Problems
- What are the problems of current Enterprise IT?
- Does user experience matter in Enterprise software? What are the caveats?
- How catastrophic will the future development of programming language will be for Enterprise IT (Impact of it)?
Solutions
- What are known solutions to solve Legacy problems in Enterprise IT?
- How can consolidation of solutions be beneficial?
- What is the most viable future of Enterprise 2.0 ?
Driving Forces
Technological forces
- Programming Languages
- Cloud Computing and the Enterprise
- The innovative Open alternative
- The shift towards Semantics in Business Intelligence
- Content Delivery in Location Aware Applications from converged 3G/Wireless Internet
- Increasing Human-Computer Interaction
Social forces
Economical forces
Systems Diagram
In the presented diagram, the colors and shapes have the following meaning:
Colors
- Green:
- Blue:
Shapes
- Big Circle
- Small Circle
- Oval
- Square
- Rectangular