Pervasive Computing: Trends to Track and Things to Do

by Stephen J. Andriole

This Executive Report begins with an examination of the IT context in which we find ourselves: a general decline in capital IT spending; a post-dot-com crash era whose technical and financial aftermath refuses to die; and no consensus as to what the next "killer app" will be or when it will be deployed. Following this, I identify and describe technology trends that, when taken together, define the macro trend -- pervasive computing -- which will enable all sorts of activities that today are discrete, disconnected transactions. Pervasive computing will make transactions continuous and seamless. I will also describe this macro trend through the multiple trends lens of software, services, and communications -- the major drivers of computing and communications applications, architectures, and infrastructure. This report presents the trends most likely to impact our transaction processing (TP) and, just as important, outlines an action plan, which you can implement to prepare yourself for the inevitable connectivity that will change the way we all do business.

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Pervasive Computing: Trends to Track and Things to Do March 2002

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