2013 Predictions Team

Figure: The IT Industry's 3rd Platform for Growth and Innovation

Table: IDC Predictions 2013 — By the Numbers

1. Worldwide IT Spending Will Grow by 5.7%, Thanks Largely to Mobile Devices

2. Emerging Markets IT Spending Will Grow at Almost 9%, Twice the Rate of Developed Economies

3. Tablets and Smartphones Will Drive Almost 60% of All IT Market Growth in 2013

4. 2013 = A Year of Reckoning for Microsoft and RIM in the Mobile Platform War

Figure: Mobile App Developer Interest in Major Platforms

5. Cloud M&A Will Accelerate by 50%, with $25 Billion in SaaS Deals in the Next 20 Months

6. "Industry PaaS" Will Start Tenfold Growth as Horizontal PaaS Starts to Commoditize

7. The 3rd Platform Will Profoundly Transform Datacenter Technologies, and Who Is Buying Them

8. Spending on New Industry-Focused Solutions Will Near $100 Billion by 2016, Making LOB Executives Very Big "IT" Buyers

9. Social Will Continue to Be Injected into Almost Everything, Driving More M&A and Creating "Social Network Sprawl"

10. Big Data Investment, M&A Focus Will Shift Heavily to Discovery and Prediction

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