Experts present trends and opportunities for the ICT sector

Lectures were part of the 4th edition of the ABES Software Conference
 
Cloud computing, Internet of Things and the third wave of the Internet were the topics covered in the third panel of the ABES Software Conference 2014, held on August 13, at the Renaissance Hotel, in São Paulo. Lauro de Lauro, CEO of Dualtec, addressed the topic “Is your product ready for the cloud?”. With solid experience in Cloud Computing, Lauro analyzed that infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings are rapidly evolving with strong players and new orchestration platforms being launched, but the maturity of the applications is still the main problem for the full use of the cloud resources. “SaaS is not just knowing how the application behaves, but mainly understanding the business requirements. Migrating your product to SaaS is more complex for you and makes everything simpler for your customer.”
 
In a very didactic presentation and with several guidelines for entrepreneurs, the executive explained in detail the eight challenges that a company has in front of it to prepare its product for the cloud. And he predicted: "In the next few years, most software products will become a service."
 
The panel also had the participation of João Neves dos Santos, member and founder of the Brazilian IoT Forum, who spoke about the definitions and world movements focused on the Internet of Things. He emphasized the new infrastructure necessary for the conventional Internet to connect with objects, ensuring communication between the real and virtual world, and presented cases, opportunities and challenges for the area of software and services. “In the European Community, for more than a decade, the IoT has been included in the research strategy and there are several ongoing projects that bring together researchers from different countries”, he informed. In Brazil, the speaker mentioned smart cities projects underway in cities of São Paulo: Aparecida do Norte, Águas de São Pedro and São José dos Campos. “IoT cannot be treated only as a technology, as it involves a set of converging technologies and a multi and interdisciplinary research work”, pondered Neves.
 
Gerson Schmitt, CEO of Clicbusiness Software, spoke on the theme “The third wave of the internet”. Schmitt, who also chairs the ABES Deliberative Council, described the so-called first wave, in which the Internet appeared as a new communication infrastructure, followed by the second wave, in which it became a channel for offering products, services and access. of information, and the current moment, the third wave, in which the Internet user is in charge of personalized services.
 
According to him, the maturity of the experience and the growth in the number of people connected enabled the emergence of new technologies for social and business networks and the evolution of applications for mobile devices. “This has started a new movement that places users as the driving force of a new model of internet usage: mass personalization dominated by the force of demand. The third wave is not technological. This is a phase in which more experienced and selective users will define what will survive in the business world”, he observed.
 
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