IDC Releases Ten Trends in Taiwan's IT Market

International Data Information (IDC) announced the forecast of the top ten market trends in Taiwan's IT market a few days ago. It pointed out that under the gradual recovery of business climate in 2010, corporate physique has been significantly adjusted and improved, and companies are able to face the 2011 market more profitably. change. Looking ahead to 2011, IDC believes that the Taiwanese communications market will be affected by the following ten trends:

1. Taiwan’s IT expenditures will grow by 6.1% in 2011. How to import and apply innovative technologies will be the key to corporate competition IDC predicts that overall IT spending in Taiwan will reach US$6.76 billion in 2011, of which hardware expenditure will reach 0.45 billion. The U.S. dollar spent 8.66 billion U.S. dollars for software and 1.345 billion U.S. dollars for information services. In response to the company's growth needs and technological changes, IDC expects that Taiwanese companies will continue to increase information spending in 2011, and introduce more innovative technologies to build enterprise competitiveness in order to respond to rapidly changing markets.

2. Cloud computing is still an important driving force for corporate investment. The deployment of enterprise private clouds will drive automation management and system integration services. With the cloud computing service platform becoming a global emerging application model, the enterprise information architecture will continue to accelerate its structural changes. . IDC predicts that cloud computing (including public and private clouds) will continue to be an important driver of corporate investment in 2011, and that domestic companies will be able to automate the deployment of workload management due to the deployment of private clouds. Allocating, monitoring, measuring, and security will involve more relevant inputs, enabling companies to formulate more specific cloud development strategies.

IDC believes that for companies that have not had heterogeneous architecture integration and management experience in the past, they will seek third parties while considering self-service provisioning portals for specific workloads or user groups. Thirdparties) gives support to strategy formulation and system integration services. Companies will be more active in the use of cloud computing architectures to standardize, automate, and simplify information operations. Related solutions such as automation, orchestration, self-service provisioning, and performance monitoring and analysis will be the company's recent priorities.

3. Community application services will stimulate the acceleration of IT software and hardware products. With the rise of social media, corporate IT will inevitably be affected. The malicious programs, employee productivity, or data security issues raised by social networking sites have become a non-negligible link for enterprises to formulate IT policies. However, more and more companies have begun to embrace social networking sites, in addition to using social media to strengthen the message communication between consumers or partners, and also to analyze and analyze customer information through the customer relationship management (CRM) system. IT solutions and business applications also began to develop new business models in conjunction with community-related technologies.

The rise of social application services not only drives changes in business application models, but also stimulates a new wave of growth in mobile devices. It is expected that more and more companies will use mobile devices to update the community's development trends and collaborate with community websites to develop new applications. IDC expects 2011 to include smart phones, tablet media, and laptops.... Mobile devices such as mobile phones will have new trends due to users’ increasing demand for service applications for the Internet community.

4. Fiber to the government will become the driving force for the growth of telecom value-added services Taiwan's telecom service providers have actively promoted emerging value-added services while the traditional voice market is gradually becoming saturated. However, bandwidth has always been the key to the further growth of value-added services. Driven by the government and related industries, fiber to the government will gradually start this year.

The evolution of the telecommunications broadband market has driven the telecom service market into more yuan services. IDC predicts that in Taiwan's telecommunications service market and operators in 2011, they can gradually expand their capabilities that were previously limited by bandwidth and unable to display their strengths, and the scope and type of operations will also increase to include more:

High-definition audio-visual entertainment service (HDTV): High-definition television, movie and music program services Video-on-demand (VOD) content is more abundant, providing consumers with more choices for home living applications, consumer information platform : Information, finance, home monitoring, care and other software applications Market: Application-based software services based on cloud architecture Market convenience is also a hotspot: Customers are encouraged to switch to Wi-Fi when they go online.

5. The penetration rate of smart phones will rapidly increase the development of follow-on product technologies and applications. More and more users will use smart phones to handle more daily life and business affairs. The demand of users for mobile phones will also come from traditional calls. Expanded to real-time information search and delivery. It is expected that the smart phone will be more focused on the application of computing functions in 2011 and will be more oriented towards the development of the workforce.

In addition to the existing high-end products, low-end smart phones will also be quickly poured into the market this year. And with the rapid introduction of low-cost models, 10,000 yuan mobile phones will no longer be the mainstream of the smart phone market, consumers are expected to have more product choices on various price bands. Smart phones will continue to shine in the Taiwan market this year. IDC expects the overall penetration rate of smart phones to increase rapidly. The overall market share in 2011 is expected to exceed 30%.

6. Next-generation multimedia mobile devices - new business opportunities and new battlefield comrades As the demand for social networking and mobile Internet has increased, MediaTablet has become a rookie of the market. MediaTablet brings cloud computing concepts closer to consumers. Through a seamless network environment, users can easily use mobile terminal products. IDC believes that more and more applications and links will emerge through the concept of cloud computing. How to provide applications that consumers care about and create more convenient and more efficient usage patterns will be the mainstay of future product continuation.

The emergence of MediaTablet has also accelerated the competition in different industries, which in turn has led to the transformation of the industrial ecology. Including PCs, mobile phones, e-books, consumer electronics, and even television manufacturers have all invested in this market. This not only makes MediaTablet more diversified in product and application platforms, but also greatly increases the complexity of vendor competition. IDC believes that MediaTablet will not only bring new business opportunities to the Taiwan market in 2011, but it will also become a new battleground for competing industries.

7. Cloud technology, mobile applications, and MPS services will drive the printing market to the new era. Cloud technology and mobile applications will officially enter the printing market. The future includes remote printing. Instant printing services will become more popular. IDC expects that the printing market in 2011 will hopefully get rid of the shackles of traditional single-point and fixed-point printing so that users can use e-mail, mobile phones, and tablet computers at any time to achieve instant printing. For consumers, printing services will become convenient services that are readily available.

In addition, as most of the hardware functions have matured, manufacturers have more actively promoted the concept of C/P (Cost/Performance) and the MPS (Managed Print Service) service model has emerged. It is expected that more and more manufacturers will enter the MPS service in 2011, which will also be an important key to the continued growth of the market in the future.

8. The introduction of rapid, universal, and self-service business analysis will become the key to corporate competition. Global uncertainties have prompted domestic companies to strengthen predictive analytics. Companies are relying on systems to assist in risk control, customer segmentation, and product cross-selling. Inventory control. IDC predicts that business analytics solutions will become the focus of corporate IT investments in 2011.

The new generation of business analytics solutions will focus on different purposes:

Massive, real-time data analysis - Huge amount of customer and operational data, with a new generation of higher-speed database technology or architecture, to achieve real-time business analysis.

Pervasive - Integrate with existing back-end systems such as sales, inventory, access, finance, and personnel, perform operational performance analysis, and find that specific aspects are inefficient and improve.

Self-service - more integrated with the application system, coupled with more graphical business analysis tools, business unit users can work on their own, reducing the time and cost of the work.

9. The new regulations and policies will encourage companies to invest in security solutions to significantly improve information security. This is one of the most popular topics in the Taiwan IT industry. In addition to the rise of cloud services and the security considerations caused by the proliferation of mobile devices, the forthcoming implementation of the “Personal Data Protection Law” has also prompted companies to actively invest in security solutions. It is imperative for the government to regulate information security through laws and regulations in the future. Because the activities of current security companies, such as marketing, pre-sales, risk assessment, and testing, are extremely intensive, IDC expects that 2011 will be domestic A year of business closure and harvest of business related solutions. With the change of architecture and the development of technology, the security solution favored by the enterprise will have the following functions:

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions that can centrally manage storage devices, endpoint devices, and networks Identity and access management Log management, data discovery, and reporting Smart policy development Building a dynamic defense architecture Data encryption, database Security, user terminal device security, and other related solution security and workload management process integration 10. ERP upgrades and replacements will continue to proliferate. After experiencing market changes, Taiwanese companies have increasingly felt the need for IT investment. IDC predicts that the trend of companies replacing or upgrading old ERP in 2011 will continue.

In addition, in order to comply with the requirements of the International Financial Reporting Standards (International Financial Reporting Standard) derived from the dual-track financial reporting system will also force companies may need to substantially change the ERP or import support module. This can also be achieved through IT consulting services or through the company's own modification of the data flow to reduce software import requirements.

IDC expects that the 2011 ERP market will continue to be upgraded and replaced last year. The ERP market will be more active than the CRM or SCM market.