Hottest IT Outsourcing Trends in 2015

With 2015 just around the corner, enterprises all around the world will be seeking new opportunities to leverage advancements in Information Technology (IT) to drive organizational growth, enhance productivity, improve synergies, generate insights, increase efficiencies and connect with customers. Below are five of the hottest trends in the sector, which will require robust IT solutions and services in the coming year:

Mobile applications: With the advent of BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device) and enterprise mobile management practices, organizations will continue to seek enterprise mobility solutions that address security and flexibility issues. Multiplatform development, use of HTML, the new interest in wearable devices, and a shift in ways to engage customers further will be some other trends in the mobile application development space in the coming year.  

Cloud applications: The cloud continues to drive the benefits of cost and overhead reduction, quicker time-to-market and enhanced scalability and flexibility. The process of building, testing and deploying applications for the public cloud has been gathering steam, especially due to the convergence of IaaS and PaaS on this platform.

This has broadened the utilitarian value of the cloud beyond disaster recovery or scaling up capacity for a test scenario. Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services is expected to exceed USD 107 billion by 2017, according to IDC. Besides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the focus is also shifting to mobile and big data application development on the cloud.

Big data applications: According to an article in Forbes, 87% of enterprises hold the belief that big data analytics will redefine the competitive landscape of their industries within the next three years.Big data applications enable enterprises to leverage data and analytics for business growth, proving the value of IT for business, taking education business decisions, reducing the potential for risk, delivering cost efficiencies and more. Trends in big data in 2015 will include linking Systems of Record (SOR) systems data into large data repositories, data collection organization, capturing real-time data, and video, audio and image analytics.

Web application design: In web design, design platforms that are code-free, parallax scrolling, responsive design fine-tuned for wearable devices and smart appliances, and flat design are some of the trends that will continue to be adopted by developers through 2015. Together with the established programming languages such as C, C++, Objective-C, HTML5, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, Javascript, Ruby, CSS and SQL, among several others, new programming languages such as Go, Hack, and Swift may also find greater use.

Internet of Things (IoT): According to Forrester Research, the focus in Internet of Things will shift from the hardware to the software in 2015. The importance of cloud services in delivering the capability to connect all the sensors, upload information and generate analytics for insights will also increase. With IoT driving business improvement and the digital transformation of companies, application development in this domain for connected devices will engage enterprise IT in the coming year, including in small and medium business markets.

By capitalizing on these IT trends and outsourcing related application design, development, deployment, testing, integration and migration to an experienced IT-BPO service provider, such as Invensis Technologies, organizations can ensure that their focus remains on mission-critical work and they retain their competitive edge in a dynamic market.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arvind Rongala is Manager, Business Development and Marketing, Invensis Technologies, an IT-BPO service provider that has been satisfying clients around the world since 2000. With a footprint that spans offices in the US and India, the company has an employee base of more than 1,200 professionals and delivers positive results to clients in diverse service categories, including: IT Outsourcing Services, Finance and Accounting (F&A) Outsourcing Services, Back Office BPO (Data Entry and Data Processing Services), Call Center Outsourcing Services, Healthcare BPO Services, eCommerce Support Services, Corporate Training, and Digital Marketing.