The IT architecture of the future is defined as agile and flexible, as capable and adaptable and relentlessly innovative. It must shift with changing market and customer expectations and it needs to upgrade and evolve on demand. Gartner has predicted that 2017 will see artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent apps, the digital twin, the mesh app, the service architecture and the digital technology platforms all go one step further, each element handing the organisation the key to functionality and IT infrastructure agility.

Then, on top of all this delicious development and design, comes the demands of big data, an ever-petulant child demanding more infrastructure, tools, analysis and capability. The enterprise must find a new way of working within this maelstrom of tech and trend, a way that capitalises on capability without losing out to evolution. So, no pressure then…