One of the biggest challenges for test engineers and managers is staying current on technology trends. NI has a broad knowledge of technology trends and interacts with companies across many sectors, which gives it a unique view on the test and measurement market.
This also enables NI to become a strategic partner with many key customers in identifying trends and industry best practices.
For the 2014 Outlook, feedback was solicited from the NI customer base of more than 35,000 companies worldwide. Together with NI's research and development activities, this has generated both quantitative and qualitative data to identify the trends.
For 2014, NI highlights five major trends across five categories: business strategy, architecture, computing, software, and I/O, as follows:
Business Strategy: Organisational Proficiency
Test managers improve their organisational proficiency through smarter hiring, better onboarding, and more investment in training.
Architecture: Managed Test Systems
New technologies help facilitate better test system management, which lowers test costs and maximizes uptime.
Computing: Cloud Computing for Test
Cloud computing applied to automated test alleviates scalability and performance concerns.
Software: Scalable Test Software Architectures
Software-based platforms help maximize longevity and scalability across a product’s life cycle.
I/O: Redefining the Notion of Sensors
Test managers need agile test solutions to address the significant growth of integrated sensors.
The NI Automated Test Outlook can be downloaded here. You will need to create an account with National Instruments in order to do so.