2. Mobile
Mobile usage increases over time.
Millions of mobile devices are sold
annually.
Amazon: over $1 billion spent via mobile
devices in the past 12 months
eBay: global mobile sales ~$4 billion in
2011, $2B in 2010, $600M in 2009
Best Buy: mobile Web users doubling
every year: 30M (10), 17M (09), 6M (08)
In Google, they develop for mobile first
3. Mobile (Cont.)
It has been very important to take smart phones and tablets into consideration while developing
applications.
4. Responsive Web Design
Designing a RWD website has become more
popular than developing a native web
applications.
Media Queries and others aspects support
responsive web design
5. Cloud
Businesses now move to cloud rather
than spending a lot of money on
applications and platforms.
A lot of cloud services company all over
the world came to board like Microsoft,
Google.
A lot of online services and applications.
6. Business Intelligence
BI plays an important role in every
enterprise as it improves decision making
BI involves analyzing historical data and
data warehousing and data mining
services
A lot of tools now support BI like SQL
server and MS SharePoint and other
third party software
7. Integration
Applications inside an enterprise talks with
each other.
In many cases applications talk to other
applications outside the boundary of the
company
Service oriented architecture is very
important