The future of Enterprise IT

Team members

• Giorgos Roussakis
  
• Reyner Karnali
  
• Christian Wittenberg
  
• Adi Kentsch

Research questions

Defining Enterprise IT

1. What is Enterprise IT?
2. What are legacy systems?
3. Any common global standard for Enterprise IT?
4. How do you categorize and/or classify Enterprise IT?
5. How long does it take for firms to implement these solutions (e.g. ERP system)?
   

Technologies

1. Artificial Intelligence with Enterprise IT?
2. How does the emergence of virtualization impact Enterprise IT?
3. What are the Impacts of Internet in the future development of Enterprise IT?
4. What are interesting technologies for improving the way Enterprise IT is applied
5. Why is the Hardware keeps on improving rapidly, while software not? What is fundamentally different?

Financial and Economic

1. What is the GDP market for enterprise IT?
2. What is the average cost that firms pay for implementing Enterprise IT (in this case, ERP)?

Market & Environment

1. Who are the Primary Target Markets?
2. Who are dominating the Enterprise IT industry?
3. How does Enterprise IT affect the organization?
4. What are relevant trends that influence the future of enterprise IT?
5. How will Outsourcing of Enterprise IT will develop in time?

Problems

1. What are the problems of current Enterprise IT?
2. Does user experience matter in Enterprise software? What are the caveats?
3. How catastrophic will the future development of programming language will be for Enterprise IT (Impact of it)?

Solutions

1. What are known solutions to solve Legacy problems in Enterprise IT?
2. How can consolidation of solutions be beneficial?
3. What is the most viable future of Enterprise 2.0 ?

Driving Forces

1. Content Delivery in Location Aware Applications from converged 3G/Wireless Internet
   
2. Programming Languages
   
3. Sustainable Development & Global Economy
   
4. Dynamic Mobile Workspace
   
5. The Rise of BRIC Economies
   
6. Increasing Human-Computer Interaction
   
7. The shift towards Semantics in Business Intelligence
   
8. The increasing use of Social Software
   
9. The innovative Open alternative
10. Cloud Computing and the Enterprise
11. The Economic Climate
12. R&D and Innovation programs

Systems Diagram

Scenarios

1. Reservoir Dogs
   
2. 007 - James Bond