Less Talk And More Action For New Zealand ICT

MEDIA RELEASE

The Economic Rollercoaster Will Continue To Be Felt In 2012 Prompting Less Talk And More Action For New Zealand ICT

After several years of talking about the benefits of ICT innovations and industry transformation, 2012 will be the year that organisations take action on transformational change.

International Data Corporation (IDC) announces today that the prospect of another year of economic turmoil provides the foundation for its 2012 IDC New Zealand Top 10 ICT Predictions. The following present the top 10 key ICT predictions from IDC for 2012. IDC believes these trends will have the biggest commercial impact on the New Zealand ICT market in the year ahead.

1. The UFB Debate Will Finally Move On From Construction to Uptake: The attention will shift from building the Ultra-fast Broadband (UFB) network to demand stimulation.
2. Structural Separation Will See Telecom Aggressively Compete and Strategically Partner: Telecom to aggressively compete in 2012 as it is freed from much of its regulatory restrictions and scrutiny (through structural separation) and will seek to leverage its customer scale advantage.

3. Mobile Data Growth Will Drive Competition and Cooperation: Telco's will look to mine the few pockets of growth remaining within the industry, as the squeeze on legacy revenue streams continue.

4. CIOs Will Face the Double Edged Sword of Smart Device Growth: CIOs face increasingly complex issues around the opportunities and threats surrounding the explosion in smartphones, including multiple platforms, security, BYOD and apps stores. “Choose your own Device” is likely to have the edge over “Bring your own Device”.

5. The Rapid Ascent of Mobility and BYOD Will Generate an Upsurge of Security Threats: The increasingly ubiquitous nature of mobile devices integrated into the business will continue to create security headaches for IT departments and CIOs and pushes it up the investment agenda.

6. Cloud Will Move From a Cost management to Innovation Driver Role: The role of cloud to help manage costs will move towards one that will encompass cloud as a means to driving innovation within an organisation.

7. Business Analytics Will Ride a New Wave, Sending "Big Data" Further in Motion: Big Data analytics will become critical in verticals that are challenged by the huge amounts of data sets and the widespread use of collaborative technologies.

8. Client Virtualisation Will Move Into the Limelight in CIO Priorities in 2012 as a result of BYOD and Consumerisation: Demand for client virtualisation will move a step closer towards becoming universal, as the diversity and proliferation of devices is fuelled by the consumerisation of IT.
9. The Government Will Reduce and Reallocate IT Budgets: IDC expects the New Zealand government to redirect some planned investments, including ICT towards this mammoth task of rebuilding Canterbury, as well as a focus on developing common capability, networks and infrastructure, and the sharing of business systems. The industry will be invited and challenged to innovate ICT in partnership with the Government.

10. 2012 Will be the Year Enterprises Automate their Environments en Masse: Long-term structural constraints will create an incentive for IT organisations to invest in automation to keep up with the increasing scale and complexity of operational IT environments.

"2012 is set to be another roller-coaster year for the New Zealand economy and as a result newly emerging technologies that target productivity improvements will be top of mind," says Louise Francis, Senior Market Analyst, IDC New Zealand. "This trend is reflected in the heavy representation of mobility and infrastructure themes in this year's predictions."

“Technologies such as cloud computing, Big Data technologies and mobility are seen by many CIO's as a means to achieve economic objectives such as cost savings and productivity. However, IDC believes that more consideration should be given to their role as a foundation for innovation” Francis adds.

On IDC’s website, www.idc.com this media release relates to document: IDC #8037907T, IDC New Zealand's Top 10 ICT Predictions, 2012 (Forthcoming).

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