Outlines Vision for Future of Enterprise IT over Next Decade

Baltimore, MD, November 17, 2010 -- ZapThink today announces the availability of
its “Vision for Enterprise IT in 2020” poster. This poster visually represents the
interrelationships among the various trends expect to impact Information Technol
ogy in large organizations between now and 2020, known as the ZapThink 2020 Visi
on.
”ZapThink 2020 represents the latest in a series of successful posters we have cre
ated over the past 10 years of our own existence,” said Ronald Schmelzer, Managing
Partner at ZapThink, LLC. “ZapThink is well-known as an industry thought leader a
nd visionary, and this poster will help craft a vision for our customers, reader
s, as well as ourselves as we continue down an inevitable evolutionary path for
enterprise IT.”
The ZapThink 2020 poster features five “Supertrends” that highlight the complex web
of changes expected to impact enterprise IT in the coming years:
The Global Cubicle – Any group of people anywhere in the world can interact on a p
ersonal level as though they were in the same cubicle.
Democratization of Technology – Anybody in the organization can purchase, configur
e, and use any technology appropriate for their job.
Deep Interoperability – Disparate pieces of technology work together dynamically.
Standard interfaces are necessary but not sufficient.
Complex Systems Engineering – Designing systems to exhibit emergent properties lik
e business agility.
Location Independence -- The physical location of technology is hidden from view
and irrelevant to the user.
It also highlights three major “themes” that will pervade most aspects of Enterprise
IT over the next decade: Mobile computing, Cloud Computing, and Service-Oriente
d Architecture (SOA).
Gold sponsors of the poster include Ideate and Metasonic (formerly jCom1), and S
ilver sponsors include EnterpriseDataJournal and Nexaweb.
“This is a great vehicle for us as we share ZapThink’s vision for Enterprise IT,” said
Dave Duggal, Founder and Managing Director of Consilience International, who pr
ovides the Ideate framework. “Businesses understand that growing infrastructure co
mplexity works against their enterprise agility. As the ZapThink poster suggests
, it’s time for to consider new approaches. To that end, we are helping organizati
ons rationalize the governance of composite applications. Our Web architecture s
treamlines middleware requirements while improving interaction dynamics and over
all enterprise flexibility. Ideate’s lightweight run time environment centralizes
the orchestration and execution of distributed resources. Every system response
is made-to-order based on context and guided by rules to ensure business relevan
ce and transactional integrity.”
The poster is available in electronic form as a free download on the ZapThink we
bsite at http://www.zapthink.com/2020. It is also available in print form, distr
ibuted at various events, conferences, and training sessions that ZapThink parti
cipates in, and can be purchased in 10-packs for just $29.95 plus shipping.
About ZapThink, LLC
Founded in October 2000, ZapThink, LLC (http://www.zapthink.com) is a strategic
advisory, information, and education firm focused on the future of Enterprise IT
. As a recognized authority on emerging Enterprise IT practices, including Servi
ce-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture, ZapThink provides it
s audience of IT practitioners, consultants, and technology vendors with practic
al advice, guidance, education, and mentorship solutions that assist companies i
n leveraging advanced IT to meet their business needs. We provide this audience
a clear vision of emergent, agile IT meeting the needs of the agile business..
Contact:
Ronald Schmelzer
ZapThink, LLC
108 Woodlawn Rd
Baltimore, MD 21210
+1 (781) 207 0203
rschmelzer@zapthink.com
http://www.zapthink.com