AICPA List of Top Ten Technologies
Source: The following is reproduced from the AICPA Web site:
“Technology is an integral part of our business and personal lives, affecting virtually everything we do and experience in some form or fashion. CPAs are trusted business advisers, technologically competent and are intricately involved in the flow of information within business. In that light, the AICPA created the top 10 technologies process in the late 1980s. The AICPA brought together many of the most technologically astute members of the CPA profession to create a list ranked according to priority of technologies that members needed to be aware of in order to be effective with customers and clients. What originally started as a small group project in a lab setting has grown into an initiative that is open to participation by the entire Information Technology Member Section.
Each year the AICPA conducts an extensive online survey of members of the IT Section in industry, public accounting, academia, government, and others. Thirty technologies, which were compiled by the Top Techs Task Force, are ranked and discussed. The 2005 list saw the greatest number of participants in the AICPA Top 10 Technologies history.
Today, almost 20 years later, the AICPA top 10 technologies program continues to serve as a tool to educate members in business and industry, public accounting, government, and education."
Learn more about the AICPA 2005 Top 10 Technologies.
Here is a list of the top ten:
1. Information Security
2. Electronic Document Management (paperless or less-paper office)
3. Data Integration
4. Spam Technology
5. Disaster Recovery
6. Collaboration and Messaging Applications
7. Wireless Technologies
8. Authentication Technologies (new)
9. Storage Technologies (new)
10. Learning and Training Competency (end users)
Emerging Technologies:
1. Radio Frequency Identification
2. Search
3. Fuel Cells
4. Digital Home
5. Digital Display
To learn more, go to http://www.aicpa.org/infotech/technologies/toptechs.htm.