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Technology Watch

TechWatch Topics

We live in a highly technological market, both what concerns our services (TV Technology) and the tools we use to market and sell these services (IT Technology).

Facing the thechnological change taking place at ever increasing speed, it is vital for a company to detect the new trends and tendencies :

• Detect opportunities and threats linked to changes in technology
• Incite different collaborators of the company to focus on strategic technological issues (e.g. development platforms).
• Test and evaluate emerging technologies (e.g. Intranet)
• Use information to conceive new products (e.g. CD-ROM TV Keyfacts)
• Need to capture the " good ideas " before the others and react before the competitors; R&D for new potential products and services (e.g. TopVision)

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Information Technology Trends :

Leading Indicators

The shelf space occupied in US university bookstores seems to me a good leading indicator for emerging technologies.
In 1994 one third of the "computer surface" was filled with books about the INTERNET.
In 1995 the Internet covered two thirds of the "computer surface", within this surface one half of the books are on the topic of the WEB.
In 1996 the Internet covers 3/4th of the "computer surface", within this surface one third of the books are on the topic WEB and one third on the topic JAVA.

Topics of TechWatch

Crystal ball : Trends in IT technology

Have a look at the major trends until the year 1999.

WEB

Fashion or Revolution?

Click here to download PowerPoint Presentation1 and Presentation2

INTRANET

The HAVAS INTERMEDIATION Web
Information Distribution
Distributed Interactive Computing

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

EDIFRA project
EDIPUB (EDI Publicité, French TV and radio advertising)

Emerging technologies

Document computing

OO databases

O2 one of the leaders in Object Oriented Database Management Tools

TV Technology Trends :

Digital TV

Market fragmentation
Industrialisation of processes (production, programming, broadcasting)

New multimedia analysis and management tools

TopVision (visual audience analysis and programming tool)