<p>Last year, much was made of developments in mobile, social and cloud content management, as wellas the "usual suspects" of digital asset, Web content and collaboration management. But as 2012quickly fades into memory, it's time to turn our attention to parsing out what IT professionals canexpect this year in the way of changes across the information management technology universe.</p><p>At the risk of being called out at the end of 2013, I've taken a fresh look into my crystal balland discerned a few predictions to share with you. In particular, I see some developments in storefor the likes of SharePoint,big data and business Intelligence. Just don't hold it against me if it turns out that my crystalball acts more like a Magic 8 Ball and this speculation is answered by some of that device's lesswelcome phrases: "outlook not so good reply hazy, try again better not tell you now verydoubtful."</p><p>With an eye toward the future, then, and some assistance from colleagues in the informationmanagement industry, I submit these four predictions for your consideration:Prediction No. 1: Use of SharePoint clouds up</p><p>This isn't to say that the enterprisecollaboration platform market leader will suddenly drop off the face of the earth. But manyorganizations that have struggled with SharePointimplementation, governance and management will realize that using it in the cloud can maketheir lives much easier -- and from there, they might realize that there are other cloud-basedcontent management technologies that could save them even more angst and agita.</p><p><a href="http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Content-and-information-management-technology-predictions-for-2013">Keep reading...</a></p>