Six big trends to watch in 2011 I’ve long been a fan of Geoffrey Moore’s classic business books about the evolutionary path taken by emerging technologies and the companies that champion them. Especially now that several of the key emerging technologies I follow are at such different stages of their evolutions. These contrasting cross-currents are going to make 2011 a fascinating and turbulent year, one in which SaaS enters the tornado and mobile enters the bowling alley at the very same time as cloud trips over the chasm. I’ve decided to highlight six trends in enterprise computing for the coming year, but here’s a seventh prediction: middle-of-the-road analysts and pundits will find it even harder than ever to make any sense of everything that’s going on right now. 1. Mainstream means mobile For many years, mobile has been a peripheral afterthought when developing enterprise applications. 2. It should be no surprise to find me predicting that so-called ‘private cloud’ will disappoint. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Creating Sandbox Test Accounts This section describes how to create new Sandbox test accounts. Note: To simplify the creation of multiple accounts, you can do one of the following: Duplicate (or "clone") an existing test account.Upload Sandbox accounts in bulk via the Bulk Account Upload tool. Creating a new Sandbox test account To create a new test account in the Sandbox: Log in to the Developer site at then click the Dashboard tab and navgate to Sandbox > Accounts.Click the Create Account button and populate the following fields: Click Create Account after completing the account details. The new test account is listed with your other test accounts on the Accounts page. Accepting credit cards in test transactions To use a credit card as a payment method in your test transactions, you must configure a test Business account as a Website Payments Pro account: Duplicating an existing test account To duplicate an existing test account:
Top Ten Predictions for 2011 This post is built from our annual IDC group effort to lay out ten predictions. The actual document should be up on IDC.com in a couple of weeks, for those of you who have a subscription anyway, so if you want to learn more about any of the predictions I’d point you there, it has a lot more detail than this post. The team this year (besides me) includes: Erin Traudt,Mary Wardley, Scott Guinn, Robert Mahowald, Amy Konary, Melissa Webster, Sanjeev Pal, Darren Bibby, Christine Dover, and Steve White. So on to the predictions; 2010 was the year of moderate business recovery as the world moved slowly out of economic recession. The software trends we identified last year have matured, thus creating a far reaching wave of change throughout the enterprise. It also laid the foundation for a redefined software industry. In 2011 several core trends will continue to drive change for businesses and for the software industry in general. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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What are the jobs of the future? I just did an interview on the industries that will grow and shrink this decade – I’ll provide a link to the story when it comes out if the magazine puts it online, or if not write it up as a blog post later. It made me remember an interview I did a couple of years for an article on the jobs of the future. They just took a brief quote from my interview: Futurist Ross Dawson of the Future Exploration Network says that when social networks burst onto the scene, roles as community managers or social network managers became a necessity.Such roles are still new, he says, but companies and celebrities alike are advertising for professionals to help them manage their consumer and fan online chat. Here is the list of jobs of the future that I told the journalist about: Social network manager Virtual assistant Personal database manager Reputation manager Carbon emission consultant Computer scavenging Brain implant surgeon Emotional robot interface designer Information filterer Motion capture actors