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 ThingThis 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 2014Six 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 EdgeWearable 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 circulationData 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 businessCIOs 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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