Businesses innovate faster using IT innovations. Faster innovation cycles are enabled by innovations in software, hardware and business science. Without business IT innovation our world would not be what it is today. Working in the IT industry means you need continuously keep up your knowledge up to date. This report will help you and give you a head start for 2017! This report covers important business IT innovations for 2017. All open. All FOSS!

1. FREE AND OPEN
BUSINESS IT INNOVATION
An overview of tangible IT trends for 2017
© December 2016 Business Management Support Foundation
Version 1.0
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2. INTRODUCTION
Without business IT innovation our world would not be what it is
today. Working in the IT industry means you need continuously
keep up your knowledge up to date.
This report is all about IT Innovation. This report is created to
extend your knowledge on what is hot for 2017 in the area of new
emerging IT innovations.
This report will give you a head start for 2017!

3. BUSINESS IT INNOVATION IN 2017
IT
Trends
2017
Strategic Needs
People, Skills,
Culture
Business Processes
Free and Open
Source
Software
Innovation
Healthcare
Data
Security, Privacy
and Safety
Machine learning Beyond the Cloud
Creating
Applications
Blockchains
Business IT
Management
Speed Easy-Of-Use
Business domain and innovation capabilities
New
Core innovative IT domains for 2017

4. A DEFINITION…
Our definition used for disruptive innovation:
 An innovation that creates a new market and value network
that disrupt an already existing market and replaces an
existing product.
Be aware:
Some people like the sexy
term disruptive innovation.
In reality real disruptive
innovations in a mature
business IT landscape will
always take a few years to
have a real disrupting
impact.

5. HEALTHCARE SOFTWARE AND HEALTH
ANALYTICS
For 2017 the following emerging trends are seen:
 FOSS will be become the standard for EMR(Electronic Medical
Records) & hospital systems.
 More devices will be seen that allow FOSS software on their
platform especially for he consumer DIY healthcare market.
 The golden margins of companies supporting and maintaining
legacy healthcare systems will be under pressure. With FOSS
there is no absolute vendor lock-in anymore. Everyone with
the required technical knowledge can support the systems
and fix problems.

6. HEALTHCARE SOFTWARE AND HEALTH
ANALYTICS APPLICATIONS
The FOSS package to watch in 2017 are:
 Bahmi. Bahmni (http://www.bahmni.org/) is an easy-to-use
EMR & hospital system.
 OpenEMR. OpenEMR (http://www.open-emr.org/) has already
a large base of companies supporting this ERP hospital
software. In 2017 a lot of work will go into modernization and
creating a new UI that meets today's usability standards.
 Nightscout. The Nightscout (http://www.nightscout.info/)
project allows remote monitoring of a T1D’s glucose level
using existing monitoring devices.
 OpenEyes™ an electronic medical record for eye care
(http://www.openeyes.org.uk/guide_to_openeyes )

7. DATA
The innovations on data storage that will
impact us in 2017 are offered by the
complex software solutions that are build
as layers upon modern hardware storage
devices.
Data and information is still a key for enabling innovation. But
without proper storing and retrieving data is useless and more data
will then not make your business more competitive.
The innovations on data storage that will impact us in 2017 are
offered by the complex software solutions that are build as layers
upon modern hardware storage devices.

8. DATA APPLICATIONS FOR 2017
Solutions on the data storage field that you should no longer ignore in
2017 are:
 OpenZFS. By the large number of participants of this OSS
community ZFS quality and features increased. The features of
ZFS include protection against data corruption, support for high
storage capacities, efficient data compression, snapshots,
continuous integrity checking, encryption and automatic repair to
name a few. See http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
 IPFS. InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is IPFS is a distributed file
system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the
same system of files. A project you cannot ignore! See
https://ipfs.io/
 TSB (Time Series Databases). TSDB’s are databases optimized for
time series data. Software with complex logic or business rules
and high transaction volume for time series data are not ideal for
storing data in a NOSQL or traditional relational database
management systems (RDBMS). There are a number of good
OSS TSBs available like e.g. : Graphite. Graphite collects, stores,
and displays time-series data in real time. See
https://graphiteapp.org/ But Elastic (https://www.elastic.co/ ) is
also for 2017 still a solution you should be aware of if you are
dealing with data on very large scale.

9. SECURITY, PRIVACY AND SAFETY REVISITED
There is no magic bullet for security protection. Also not in 2017.
Security risks will always be present no matter how much money
you put on the table. This is due to the fact that cybersecurity is a
complex business problem since it involves:
 Internet.
 Humans and human behaviour and
 Complex software and hardware
In 2017 more and more companies will notice that security by
obscurity is no longer the way forward.

10. SECURITY, PRIVACY AND SAFETY APPLICATIONS
Some Security FOSS trends worth reviewing are:
 Bosun. A FOSS monitoring and alerting system created and
supported by Stack Exchange (see http://bosun.org/)
 Suricata. A Open Source IDS / IPS / NSM engine. With the
growing use of Suricata or other high quality FOSS IDS/IPS
systems the market for commercial vendors of black box
solutions will decline further in 2017. See https://suricata-
ids.org/.
 OWASP projects: The software applications released under
the OWASP brand have grown significantly in quality and are
now usable for more and more companies. Projects to watch
are:
 OWASP DependencyCheck
(https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Dependency_
Check )
 OWASP Offensive Web Testing Framework
(https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_OWTF )

11. MACHINE LEARNING
There is no need to use the proprietary IBM Cloud Watson API’s,
Microsoft Azure ML APIs or AWS when you want to make use of in 2017.
AI (Artificial
intelligence)
NLP (Natural
language
processing)
ML
(Machine
learning)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are two buzzwords
you will be hearing still a lot in 2017. But make sure you know what is
what!

12. MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS
The following FOSS AI/ML/NLP applications will gain momentum and
drive innovation for ML in 2017:
 Apache Spark ML. Spark MLlib is a distributed machine
learning framework on top of Spark Core. See
https://spark.apache.org/mllib/
 TensorFlow. TensorFlow is an Open Source Software Library
for Machine Intelligence. See https://www.tensorflow.org/
 Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK). This deep learning
framework developed by Microsoft Research was released as
OSS in 2016. This CNTK toolkit empowers large and small
companies to start working on ML by offering quality APIs for
many programming languages. See
https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK

13. BEYOND THE CLOUD
Cloud computing will still enable a lot of business IT innovations in
2017.
You should make all your infrastructure assets and configuration
software defined in 2017. Many great OSS tools are available to
support you with this like:
 Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/) or
 Chef Habitat (https://www.habitat.sh/ )

14. BEYOND THE CLOUD DIY APPLICATIONS
If you are looking for innovation on your own premises the following
FOSS cloud applications are the ones to look at in 2017.
 OSv. OSv is an open source operating system designed for
the cloud.See http://osv.io/ for more information. OSv is
released in september 2016, is still in beta, but since it used a
lot of code of FreeBSD the base will be stable.
 Apache CloudStack. Apache CloudStack is open source
software designed to deploy and manage large networks of
virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
See https://cloudstack.apache.org/.
 CoreOS. CoreOS Container Linux is a container operating
system, designed to be managed and run at massive scale.
See https://coreos.com/
 Atomic. Project Atomic is an umbrella for many projects
related to redesigning the operating system around principles
of "immutable infrastructure", using the LDK (Linux, Docker,
Kubernetes) stack. See http://www.projectatomic.io

15. CREATING APPLICATIONS
As long as computers exist people are trying to find ways to create
applications easier and faster.
Within the area of creating applications easier and better you can
easily find hundreds of new and promising tools and frameworks
every week. Only really new solutions or tools that solve a real
problem survive.
Within this innovation publication for 2017 we highlight what we
think are new and promising tools to use for your business in 2017.

16. CREATING APPLICATIONS
FOSS tools for 2017 to use or look at:
 Serverless Application frameworks. Serverless frameworks will
be the next-big thing in the IT landscape. Multiple real FOSS
Serverless solutions are available when you want the
advantages of the Serverless architecture concepts, but do
not want the vendor lock-in of a Cloud. Promising in this
category is Iron (see https://www.iron.io/ ).
 React. React was new and sexy. React will in 2017 still be
innovative framework to use if you are building complex web
based UI applications. See https://facebook.github.io/react/
 VueJS (http://vuejs.org ). VueJS is clean, mean and ready
for 2017.
 Rust. Rust is a new programming language which unlike GO
(https://golang.org/ ) brings more than just a better C or
C++. Mozilla is using Rust to improve the Firefox browser.
See: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/

17. BLOCKCHAINS
Not only the cool guys can take advantage of what is still considered
as the next big things for coming years.
In 2017 it is the highest time for you to get started with business
pilots to test use cases based on blockchain technology.

18. BLOCKCHAINS
Great FOSS blockchain projects for 2017 to use are:
 Ethereum (https://www.ethereum.org/ ). Check the new
economy emerging at OpenBazaar (https://openbazaar.org/
) and ask yourself the question:
 Why are you still not present there?
 Hyperledger project. The Hyperledger project is an open
source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry
blockchain technologies. See https://www.hyperledger.org/
 Intel Sawtooth Lake project. See: http://intelledger.github.io/
 Dragonchain blockchain platform. If you want to move early
to get your new ideas running before it is 2018 jump on this
project now. See https://dragonchain.github.io/

19. BUSINESS IT MANAGEMENT
If you have a role as business IT manager the good news is that
agile is already over the hype and dying once again.
More and more companies jumping on a new sexy agile approach
like scrum, lean or devops will notice that the hard complex
problems are still hard to solve.
With the following range of good old management approaches you
should be ready to make your business IT innovation projects
successful:
 Solution based thinking.
 Group problem solving and Soft Systems Methodology.
 Agile approaches based on social technique principles. So
devops but human centric and fully process oriented.

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21. IT’S ALL ABOUT COLLABORATION!
Author info
About Maikel Mardjan:
• Msc Business Studies, University of Groningen
• Master Business Management (MBM), TSM Business School
• Msc Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology
TOGAF and CISSP certified and more than 20 years experience in the field of:
consultancy, IT, Open Source, Internet, business research and innovation.

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