IDC Predictions 2010 and the Product Configuration Landscape

International Data Corporation (IDC) does a consistently excellent job summarizing their IT predictions and then regularly critiquing them throughout the year.

In the following five minute video you can get an overview of what IDC sees as the 10 predictions impacting the market this year.  If you are interested in downloading them, IDC has created a microsite dedicated to this topic.

Product Configuration Take-Aways:

• The proliferation of mobile devices is going to make untethered sales and product configuration a critical requirement for more companies than ever before.

• AJAX and optimized XML on private networks are going to be the foundation of distributed order management systems that can manage varying levels of product order complexity.  Think scalability of production process, from assemble-to-order through engineer-to-order.

• The pervasiveness of cloud computing and virtualization is going to be a catalyst for product configuration strategies being used for standard products too.

Bottom line: IDC’s continual updates to predictions are worth paying attention to through your RSS Reader to capture the latest from their site and YouTube channels.

Courtesy – Louis Columbus