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Baseline Magazine just published their annual IT Trends for 2009 survey. I always enjoy looking at lists like this. Who doesn’t? However, I don’t think there are any real surprises there. Software as a Service (SaaS) came in at number 1, Security, Risk and Compliance came in at number 4, as well as mentions of going green, Web 2.0 and social networking.

What really struck me looking at this list is how much IT has to worry about and how diverse the topics are. Sure Web 2.0 and social networking are related, but add to that virtualization, security, risk and compliance, enterprise mobility and document management, it’s easy to see why we continuously have more projects than we have resources to address each of those projects.

So as Notes developers, how do you cope? How do you prioritize your key initiatives? Do you use quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods? Or is it far more informal than that? Or is it a non-issue for you? Are these decisions made at the C-Level, and never really involve you?

So many trends, so little time.

Here’s the list:

1. Software as a Service
2. Virtualization
3. Energy-Efficient Data Centers
4. Security, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
5. Enterprise Mobility
6. Social Networking
7. Web 2.0
8. Document Management and e_Discovery
9. Project and Portfolio Management
10. Web and Video Collaboration