I’m not a big fan of predictions and soothsaying, but I still read those that are well thought.

 

Tony Byrne has developed his Predictions for 2007 which include:

 

  • Google de-googles its appliance
  • AJAX UI backlash
  • Web managers embracing the delete key
  • Falling seat prices
  • Rediscovery of workflow
  • Portal platforms will diversify

I agree with most of Tony’s predictions, but I think there are bigger ones at play. I know I said I don’t do these predictions but since my company is called ‘Prescient’ I feel compelled to become a hypocrite.

 

The year 2007 will see:

 

  • Microsoft crank-up the marketing of Sharepoint leading to more and more customers buying without seriously examining alternative solutions
  • Standalone portal products will continue to be considerably out-done by CMS solutions
  • More vendors delivering a complete all-in-one solution that includes robust content management, search and portal functionality
  • Continued market consolidation with many more CMS vendors being bought, merged or disappearing
  • Dramatic growth in open source implementation and increased profile and functionality for bigger name solutions such as Zope, Alfresco, OpenCMS, and Plone
  • More and more organizations will convert PDF and MS-Word forms to online submission forms with a mixture of in-house and outsourced solutions
  • The search engine market will experience less growth than previous years as more organizations realize their current engine suffices and instead focus on content tagging, categorizing, process and policies
  • Discussion and focus on Knowledge Management (KM) will continue to decline as more organizations instead narrow their attention to specific tools such as Web 2.0 applications
  • More organizations will implement blogs and wikis, but they will still be part of a minority group; social bookmarking and podcasting will still remain little more than a fad on the intranet

Agree? Disagree? What other predictions will come true? Post your comment or question below.

 

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