Predictions Report

Predictions 2016: Business Technology Accelerates In Asia Pacific

CIOs Investing In Customer-Facing Technologies Face Six Major Changes

November 4th, 2015
Frederic Giron, VP, Senior Research Director
Frederic Giron VP, Senior Research Director
Ashutosh Sharma, VP, Research Director
Ashutosh Sharma VP, Research Director
Charlie Dai, VP, Principal Analyst
Charlie Dai VP, Principal Analyst
Naveen Chhabra, Principal Analyst
Naveen Chhabra Principal Analyst
Frank Liu, null
Frank Liu
Somak Roy, null
Somak Roy
With contributors:
Pascal Matzke , Zhi-Ying Barry , Michael Barnes , Bill Nagel

Summary

CIOs in Asia Pacific (AP) are still investing less in business technology (BT) as a percentage of total tech spending than their counterparts in the US, but BT spending is growing much faster than IT spending. To make sure these investments pay off, smart CIOs will commit to human-centered design in 2016. This brief explains how CIOs will achieve this and predicts five other major changes in domains ranging from new platform plays and software-as-a-service (SaaS) startups to public cloud services and containerized enterprise cloud offerings.

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