Year 2009...Looking Back...Looking Forward

As 2009 unfolds, it’s clear that enterprises with a forward-thinking approach and a solid grasp of technology trends will have a distinct competitive advantage. In an economic downturn companies that invest, develop and capitalize on technologies that decrease cost while increasing efficiency and effectiveness will have an opportunity to increase significant market and mind share with new and existing customers.

Even though the media is overwhelming us with consistent bad news and a doom and gloom outlook for 2009, I am fairly optimistic about the innovative spirit that makes us the leading economy in the world. There is a reason that investors all over the world flocked to the US Dollar at the height of economic downturn a few months back.

The technologies that companies will be looking to employ in 2009 range from Software as a Service (SaaS), virtualization, Web 2.0, document management, social networking to video collaboration. Other areas such as Portfolio Management, Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Mobility, and Risk & Compliance will continue to stay on the radar for the next few years.

I also believe that companies that commit to applications developed using content management, collaboration, portal, SOA and BPM frameworks will not only find new opportunities/markets but also cost savings that are important for the short term.

To quote Edward Cornish “ The future of every organization, nation, and individual is filled with uncertainties, and our task in dealing with the future is to recognize the fundamental uncertainty in human activities but not allow that uncertainty to make us act without due consideration to the possibilities and probabilities.”

As we move into a year that may offer both sobering downturns and heartening recoveries, let us take this advice to heart and act with due consideration and thoughtful optimism.

Looking back 2008 has been a good year for Xpediant – our customers are happy, we have deployed mission critical systems on time and under budget, kept our annual revenue consistent from 2007 and had most of our customers renew or extend our contracts into 2009.

From all of us at Xpediant, Thank You for your patronage, we Wish You A Very Happy New Year, be safe.

Sincerely,
Qusai Mahesri