CollaborativeTech

• [New] Cloud-native technology will continue to power digital transformation: by the end of 2021 60% of companies will leverage containers on public cloud platforms.
• [New] As we look to 2021, data privacy will be paramount to competitive differentiation as organizations accelerate in the tools and technologies that will transform their businesses and drive revenue.
• [New] China's biggest ride-hailing platform, used by 550 million people around the world, aims to put 1 million units into use by 2025.
• [New] A wide range of businesses have developed a set of transferable skills and tools that could help the federal government to meet its goal of vaccinating 80% of the United States population.
• [New] With organizations using SolarWinds' Orion network management platform still assessing the potential damage to their systems, one U.S. expert estimates it could cost organizations around the world as much as $100 billion to investigate and fix.
• [New] The rapid growth of the Muslim population in Russia contributes to a sharp increase in demand for Islamic banking tools expected in the coming years.
• [New] New Zealand's Marsden Point was planning to undergo a scheduled turnaround at its No.1 crude distillation unit and continuous catalytic reforming platformer in 2021 that had been originally planned for 2020, the duration of which could not be confirmed.
• [New] The threat to human life has prompted platforms to take a more robust approach to removing misleading content in the last year.
• [New] Starting in 2021, powered by Healthify's platform, CareSource members in Ohio will be able to access a significantly wider range of services that specifically address SDoH.
• [New] The demand for completed titles is likely to remain strong through the first half of the year, as surging COVID-19 levels in the U.S. and many other major drama-production markets could mean even more delays in the delivery of new series.
• [New] The new demand over the coming years will propel Bitcoin to become the next world reserve currency.
• [New] Platforms for livestream gigs include Youtube, Facebook, and even Twitch, which is more commonly used for live streaming video games, although we could see more emerge in 2021.
• [New] President Biden has laid out an ambitious aid plan for Puerto Rico in his government platform that, if implemented, could have a positive impact on the 2021 economy and over the next three years.
• [New] Over 2022, we will see a greater focus on securing remote workers using modern tools, particularly as companies begin to move farther away from centralized command and control.
• [New] A quarter of organizations will improve business agility by integrating edge data with applications built on cloud platforms by 2024.
• 40% of the expected synergies form the merger - projected at more than 5 billion euros, will come from convergence of platforms and powertrains and from optimizing R&D investments.
• The rise of open source software in the 21st century has disrupted the business models of some proprietary software providers, and open content projects like Wikipedia have threatened the business models of companies like Britannica.
• Over 70% of streamed video sessions in the next five years will occur on smartphones, thanks to the emergence of social videos on platforms like TikTok.
• Salesforce will collaborate with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, part of the COVAS alliance to help distribute two billion COVID-19 vaccines to 190 countries by the end of 2021.
• The world of dev tools, infrastructure and open source software moved faster in 2020, and in 2021 we will only see it accelerate.
• Through a variety of mechanisms, the Bitcoin sidechain enables the world's leading cryptocurrency to be leveraged in novel decentralized applications, something we expect to see a lot more of in the year ahead.
• 2021 will be the year of regulation for the tech giants - they are a mature industry now, not shiny young start-ups.

Last updated: 17 January 2021