3 new strategies on applications to shape the future of your company

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About 70 % of business transactions that exist in the world today are still processed in old and obsolete languages ​​such as COBOL programming, which has more than 50 years. IT organizations typically spend more than 60% of their budgets only in the maintenance of these existing systems, leaving little time for innovation.

Therefore companies are at a point where technology innovation is crucial to reduce costs and to update their business models to the times when the business environment is increasingly connected.

Proof of this is predicted to more than 50 billion «things» will be connected to the Internet in 2020 and the number of partners and suppliers with which a company must interact will constantly growing. Microsoft alone already has more than 640,000 members in their business ecosystem.

In contrast to the monolithic applications, future applications will need to be more agile. Companies beginning its reinvention in the short term will benefit from applications that adapt to the pace of business, managing the increasing complexity and opening doors to a connected business environment.

The company Accenture, which will be present at the Second Latin American Congress on Technology and Digital Business Chile 2015, proposed in his 2014 report «The Future of Applications» creating three new strategies (liquid, intelligent and connected) to guide the implementation of new technologies and to take his company to become the industry leader.

Liquid Applications: To compete with agility and speed, companies can no longer afford a complex, lengthy and costly coding applications or implementations term and long- mass systems. What organizations need is a new way of building software (fast, flexible and liquid) with reusable components that enable the rapid assembly of applications to support dynamic business needs.

This approach requires modular architectures, integration techniques of the future generation and mentality that cloud and mobile comes first.

Smart Applications: Companies need to incorporate intelligence software in all its processes and its applications to manage the increasing speed, complexity and volume of information and maximize the value of internal and external of this business (including information from the world physical). Intelligence software is possible thanks to the influx of data, its processing power and advances in the science of data, such as natural language processing, thinking machines or cognitive computing. Thanks to these advances, applications can automate routine tasks, improve business processes through integrated analysis and even govern themselves.

Connected applications: To increase revenue and defend your position in the market, companies need to create new competitive boundaries using different softwares. But doing this openness is required connectivity applications in multiple dimensions, as ecosystems with business partners and customers as well as the rapid growth of the «Internet of Things», which is essential in the delivery of new services. The load can be run from anywhere, not only from phones, tablets and PCs, but also in manufacturing, pipelines, industrial equipment, cars, clothing and more, to make products in product-service hybrid.

These three new applications strategies also depend on bringing the company to a new operating model for developing software. In many companies the technology is “in a box». It is considered that it is contained within IT as a specific function, rather than a competition that every business leader must embrace.

A new, more collaborative approach is essential. The information technology should help shape business strategies and businesses should help information technology to define how the software being used to enter new markets, to reach new customers and drive competitive differentiation.

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