From Digitally Disruptedto Digital Disrupter

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Accenture Technology Vision 2014

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Since 2007, Accenture

has released an annual

Technology Vision. This report

pinpoints the emerging IT developments

that will have the greatest impact on companies,

government agencies, and other organizations in the years ahead.

About the

Technology

Vision

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Every Business is

a Digital Business:

The Evolution

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In 2013, we presented the idea

that Every Business is a Digital

Business – whether they knew it

or not.

This theme is still relevant,

however there is one important

evolution from last year: Large

companies are moving from being

digitally disrupted to becoming

digital disrupters.

Big is the Next Big Thing

This year’s Vision identifies six technology trends

that are enabling large enterprises to move from

disrupted to market disrupters, in pushing the

boundaries of innovation and taking advantage of

digital technologies for competitive advantage.

Backed by their deep resources, enormous scale,

and process discipline, these new digerati are

about to rewrite much of the digital playbook.

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Accenture Technology Vision 2014

Six Technology Trends Shaping the future of IT

Digital-

Physical

Blur

Architecting

Resilience

From Workforce

to Crowdsource

Data Supply

Chain

Harnessing

Hyperscale

Business of

Applications

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Digital-Physical

Blur:Extending intelligence

at the Edge

Wearable devices, smart objects

and machines are providing us

with real-time intelligence that is

changing how we live and how

business operate.

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From Workforce

to Crowdsource:Rise of the borderless

enterprise Using advanced digital tools and platforms,

organizations can now tap into pools of people

across the world, giving them access to an

immense, agile workforce…one not just better

suited to solving problems, but also one that

may do so for free.

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Data Supply

Chain: Putting information

into circulation

Data needs to be something

that is transported through a

supply chain, is shared,

used and repurposed – just

like other products.

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Harnessing

Hyperscale: Hardware is back

(and it never really

went away)Eclipsed by over a decade of

innovation in software, the hardware

world is now a hotbed of innovation

with demand soaring for

unprecedented levels of performance

in storage, processors and

specialized servers.

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Business of

Applications:

Software as a core

competency in the

digital world

Take data from being siloed and

unmanaged to an integrated resource,

managed end-to-end through a data

supply chain...while taking analytics

from an art to an industrialized, fully

embedded capability.

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Architecting

Resilience:

“Built to survive

failure” - the mantra of

the nonstop business

CIOs who truly understand the

concept of resiliency are transitioning

their organizations to an always-on

state, phasing in resilience initiatives

as business risk and process

economics dictate.

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Get the report:

accenture.com/technologyvision

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