Development Services: Market, Trends, Methodologies & Development Languages

The Global Tech Market, according to Forrester, will reach record spending levels in 2016 and is forecast to hit $2.9 trillion. This includes development services, enterprise software, software-as-a-service, hardware (desktops, laptops, servers), consulting services, mobile devices, application development, storage, networking, outsourcing and systems integration. The US development services and tech market continues to dominate spend, with India, Mexico, Sweden, China and Poland all having the fastest tech and development services market growth of 6% or more, with most European markets growing at a slower rate.

Adoption of Software-as-a-Service will continue to dominate the market across a number of industries, including CRM, human capital management, financial management, ePurchasing and analytics.

CIOs will continue to invest heavily in analytics solutions and technology consulting.

Top 5 Software Trends for 2016

So what areas of technology and development services are grabbing the headlines currently?

• Internet of Things; the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items, embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivitythat enables these objects to collect and exchange data.
• Wearable Technology; on the rise in both personal and business use. In the consumer space, one out of five American adults have a wearable device according to the recent PWC Wearable Future Report.
• Mobile Payments; fueled by the competition between Google Wallet and Apple Pay, the digital wallets market is set to hiot $620 bn in 2016 (nfc world)
• Virtual Reality; according to Digi-Capital, the Augmented and Virtual Reality sector will hit $150 billion by 2020. Most up-to-date virtual realities are displayed with a virtual reality headset (also called head-mounted display). VR will be heavily utilised in the marketing space, where companies will be able to provide immersive previews of unreleased products.
• Translation in real time; Ground breaking advances from Skype and Google have made real time translation a reality. Skype’s online translator can help you communicate in 7 languages for voice calls, and in more than 50 languages while instant messaging.

Top 5 Development Services Methodologies

• Agile; software development services are broken down into smaller bite sized projects, encouraging short release cycle and quarterly upgrades. Ideal for when development teams work closely together in the same location, with a rapid development culture.
• Scrum; Led by a Scrum Master, focused on problem solving within the entire development services team, development tasks are completed in short cycles, known as sprints. Daily meetings and progress reports, with obstacles overcome at the point of encounter.
• Pair Programming; two programmers working together, at a single station, working in a highly collaborative way, with one coding and the other observing.
• Waterfall; used by large, enterprise software houses, where requiremets are defined and results produced. A phased based approach, where one phase must be signed off before the next can start.
• Extreme; programming methodology that requires an approach which considers a project as a constant evolution, with tasks broken down by critical activity with no planning or requirements gathering.

Introducing the Development Services Languages& Frameworks

Selecting the right development services language is often critical to success and heavily dependent on the software requirement.

• Java continues to be the go to object-orientated programming language that allows programmers to “build once and run anywhere” allowing code to move from one platform to another without customization, which in todays world of mobile applications is critical.
• PHP is a server side scripting language designed for web development, and therefore widely used across the digital world. Facebook chose PHP as it’s base language. With support for over 20 databases and considered the simplest of languages, it’s a great starting point for any developer.
• ASP.NET is an open source server-side web application, utilized to produce dynamic web pages. Developed by Microsoft, it provides a simplified page development module, with superior debugging with compiled code.

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