"There is an explosion coming. It will happen without making a sound. It will devastate more companies and transform more industries than any physical explosion ever could. It is the coming explosion of information.

While much of this digital information will come from the entertainment industry in the form of digitized movies, music and video, the business environment is undergoing a parallel and equal explosion of content. Where is all this information coming from and what can companies do to get ready for the future of information?"

Ubiquitous/Embedded Technology

This is where the real money is made. How a company manages its "edge" will be a strong indicator of its future success. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), along with other sensor technologies, as well as embedded computer capabilities must all be managed effectively to understand and optimize the operational aspects of the enterprise.

Mobile Technologies

Those individuals who work away from the traditional IT architecture, what we call the "orphans of the information revolution," are increasingly using information to assist them in accomplishing their jobs. New models are driving mobility deeper into activities of the "field workers" who are utilizing information technology in progressively more aggressive ways.

Web Services

A major promise of Web services is to create dynamic applications that drive business flexibility closer to the user. This, and the transformation of "legacy applications" to an architecture that is flexible, fluid and resilient makes Web services a critical component in everyone's IT strategy.

Intelligent Agent Technology

As humans are increasingly unable to withstand the coming onslaught of information, companies will turn to higher and higher degrees of automation. Intelligent Agent Technology (Agentry) is the class of capabilities that enables this automation and forever changes the role humans play in the business world.

Predictive Technologies

The "cause and effect" world requires companies to change faster and faster --- often beyond the ability of the enterprise to function optimally. Through a group of capabilities known as "predictive technologies," companies will be able to obtain a forward view of probable future change requirements enabling leadership to anticipate earlier the changes coming, allowing for additional "front-end time" to accomplish required transformations.

Modeling & Active Simulation

As complexity increases, there's a severe impact on the ability for organizations to understand and act out the required decisions. Tools such as modeling and active simulation hold the promise of multiplying an organization's Hrair, or the ability of its people to concentrate on a maximum of seven things simultaneously. By expanding the number of things employees can think about and do at one time, these tools can help people provide new levels of insight as well as foresight.

Grid/Utility/Cluster Computing

Powering the capabilities above will fall to an entirely new IT infrastructure that economically taps into the exponentially increasing power of computing called for by Moore 's Law.

The Internet

The dot-com debacle of the 1990s put a pall over the Internet as a major element of change. But companies are quietly transforming the business landscape through the use of this pervasive technology that is truly transforming the world in which we live."