Emerging processes and technologies can directly impact service software qualities. For example, it includes:
- Replication technologies and the decline in the cost of storage component space, and has allowed substantial improvements in service continuity ability.
- Grid storage that provides resilience capabilities and improved performance over older storage processes and methods.
- Analyzing the roadmap the vertical industry is taking and then identifying key NFR trends. This also requires articulating and leveraging best practices, standards and reference frameworks. For example, do customers expect faster response times or average growth interms of number of transactions in the vertical industry.