In a commentary, Senior Associate Director of the SMU Office of Postgraduate Professional Programmes, S.N. Venkat wrote that with increased mobile adoption and integration by enterprises, as well as the growing importance of cloud, big data and predictive analytics, experts foresee companies in Singapore initiating and implementing IT projects. This would, in turn, create new demand for IT professionals educated and trained in these areas. He noted that in an industry where good talent has always been hard to find, new policy measures relating to foreign workers will increase demand for locally resident IT talent, pushing up salary levels.