Top 5 enterprise technologies of the decade

Production IoT, video conferencing and cloud computing are just some of the biggest advances of the decade. Tom Merritt lists the five top technologies for companies of the 2010s.

Top 5 enterprise technologies of the decade
Production IoT, video conferencing and cloud computing are just some of the biggest advances of the decade. Tom Merritt lists the five top technologies for companies of the 2010s.

The decade is coming to an end and the company has come a long way since 2010. Do you remember seeing Amazon as a place to buy books? Let’s see the end of the year drawing as an opportunity to try and identify the top five enterprise technology of the decade.

SEE: Top 10 IT trends of the past 20 years (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

  1. Group chat collaboration: The product popularized by Slack was once mocked as “only IRC with some frills”, but has now taken over the workplace. It has not completely killed e-mail and can cause a number of communication problems, but imagine that your business is running without Slack or Teams or HipChat.
  2. Production Internet of Things (IoT): Like so many other things, everyone talked about IoT at home, while sensors quietly revolutionized the workplace. Factory floors, shipping and logistics all benefited from the increased use of sensors; agriculture in particular is changing rapidly with IoT. The advance of blockchain and 5G will accelerate this sector and change even more in the next decade.
  3. Video conferencing: Many of you still gather around the old multi-pointed audio star in meeting rooms, but more and more of my external meetings take place with video, whether it’s Skype, Zoom or something else. Companies even develop AI so that it looks like you’re watching the camera, even if it isn’t.
  4. Project management platforms: Some of you may not place this in your top five, but your project manager and probably your product manager will. Basecamp, ClickUp, Trello and more have made it easier to see who does what and when.
  5. The cloud: Oh boy, the cloud. I could have done all five on examples from the cloud. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Office 365, Salesforce and the list goes on. The ongoing debate of prem, off-prem or hybrid shows has not yet exhausted the potential of the cloud. It dominated this decade in business and launched companies such as Amazon to become the world’s largest.

That’s just my five – maybe you have another five. Because man, MDM, containerization, the return of JavaScript, virtualization . that and more deserved and received attention. It is always subjective where the line must be drawn. But what it does indicate is that this has been a decade for enterprise technology. Here’s a great next decade!

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