The rate of technology change is getting faster. To survive in this fast-changing world, both the organizations and practitioners must understand both the current technology landscape as well as its ebbs and flows. Every year, as a part of annual planning, most organizations make these decisions.

Although it is a regular decision, which many organizations must make yearly, there is no widely accepted framework for evaluating emerging technologies.

We present “Emerging Technology Analysis Canvas” (ETAC), a framework to assess an individual emerging technologies.

Inspired by the Business Model Canvas, It represents different aspects of technology visually on a single page. This approach includes a set of questions that probe the technology arranged around a logical narrative. The visual representation is concise, compact, and comprehensible at a glance.

It provides

• a logical framework to assess the emerging technologies
• a framework to teach, to learn, and to discuss different aspects of the technology
• as a brainstorming tool when trying to understand emerging technologies.

You can find more details from ETAC specification.

Following are some meterial about ETAC.

• Short introduction article: How to judge New Techs like Blockchain, AI, and Serverless? a Methodology
• WSO2con talk: A Visual Canvas for Judging New Technologies, Slides,Video

Published outlooks based on ETAC.

• Blockchain Future Outlook
• Serverless Future Outlook
• How Serverless can shape Enterprise Integration? Paper, Slides, Video
• The Role of Blockchain in Future Integrations, Paper, Slides, Video
• How Will AI shape Integration? Paper, Slides, Video

We welcome and appreciate any feedback, changes, or contributions. Please send a pull request, create a github issue, or send a mail to srinath@wso2.com.

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