In 2020, most of us will have a 4-D TV as thin as a sheet of paper.  5-D TVs will have just come out …….but will still be a little too expensive. Gillette will have brought out a razor with 7 blades for an “extra, extra close shave” and my tooth brush will also be able to clean my ears at the same time. So besides the obvious, I wonder what else will have changed in the next ten years.

10 years ago, companies slowly came to realise they need to manage their application portfolio. Today companies have come to a definite conclusion; they were right 10 years ago! The problem is; it is expensive.  Migrating a company to a new operating system still feels like cleaning out behind the fridge; we do it only every few years, we never know what we are going to find, it generally takes longer than we think and it makes us realise we should be doing this more often. Where does the future lie?

In 10 years time this should all have changed. Application information will not be collected by the migration team. It will already be there, collected by people on the ground, in the day to day running of the business. Why? Because they need it! This information will be used by HR, Finance, managers, deployment, security, support etc… And companies will be run better and cheaper as a result. The fact it would help OS migration would be a minor added bonus to the already huge benefits.

For companies who adopt this approach, managing their application portfolio may still take some time and effort; however the information gathered will be more relevant, accessible and beneficial to the company’s overall well being. I imagine the whole experience will be generally less stressful. It better…I don’t want anything to affect my future marriage to Cheryl Tweedy!