Gartner Gartner has highlighted the top strategic technology trends that organizations should explore in 2019. defines a strategic technology trend as a strategy that has broad impact and use or is rapidly growing with a high degree of volatility that reaches tipping points within the next five years.
The top 10 tech trends for 2019 are:
#1 Autonomous things
Autonomous objects, such as robots, aircraft, and autonomous vehicles, use artificial intelligence to automate functions previously performed by humans. Their automation goes beyond the automation provided by rigid programming models and leverages artificial intelligence to provide advanced behaviors that interact more naturally with their environment and with humans.
#2 Augmented analytics
Advanced analytics focuses on a specific area of intelligence, using machine learning to transform the way analytics content is developed, consumed, and shared. Enhanced analytics capabilities will quickly become a core feature of data preparation, data management, modern analytics, business process management, process mining, and data science platforms.
Automated knowledge will be integrated into business applications, for example, those of HR, finance, sales, marketing, customer service, procurement and asset management, to optimize the decisions and actions of all employees within them.
#3 Artificial intelligence-driven development
The market is rapidly shifting from an approach in which data scientists must collaborate with application developers to create more AI-based solutions to a model in which the professional developer can operate on their own using pre-defined models provided as a service. This provides the developer with an ecosystem of AI algorithms and models, as well as development tools tailored to integrate AI capabilities and models.
By 2022, at least 40% of new app development projects will have artificial intelligence as co-creators.
#4 Digital twins
We are referring to the digital representation of a real entity or system. By 2020, Gartner estimates that there will be over 20 sensors, endpoints , and digital twins in millions of things. Organizations will implement digital twins from the start. They will evolve over time, improving their ability to collect and visualize the right data, apply the right analytics, and effectively respond to business objectives.
#5 Empowered edge
Empowered edge refers to endpoint devices that are used by people or are embedded in the world around us. Edge computing describes a computing topology in which information processing, content collection, and delivery are placed closer to the endpoint devices. It attempts to conserve traffic by reducing latency.
However, rather than creating a new architecture, cloud computing and edge computing will evolve as complementary models while cloud services will be a central service that runs not only on central servers but also on distributed servers.
#6 Immersive experience
Communication platforms are changing the way people interact with the digital world. Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality are changing the way people perceive the digital world. This combined shift in perception and interaction models is leading to the Immersive experience.
#7 Blockchain
Blockchain, a public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions ever executed, promises to reshape industries by enabling trust, providing transparency, and reducing friction in business ecosystems, potentially reducing costs, reducing transaction settlement times, and improving cash flow. Today, trust is placed in banks, clearinghouses, governments, and many other institutions as a central authority to maintain security in databases. Blockchain provides an alternative way to trust and removes the need for central authorities to arbitrate transactions.
#8 Smart spaces
A smart space is a physical or digital environment in which people and technology-enabled systems interact in increasingly open, connected, coordinated, and intelligent ecosystems. Multiple elements, including people, processes, services, and things, come together in a smart space to create a more immersive, interactive, and automated experience.
#9 Digital ethics and privacy
Digital ethics and privacy are a growing concern for individuals, organizations, and governments. People are increasingly concerned about how their personal information is used by organizations in both the public and private sectors, and the backlash will only grow stronger for organizations that do not proactively address these concerns.
#10 Quantum computing
Quantum computing operates on the quantum state of subatomic particles, for example electrons and ions, which represent information as elements called quantum bits (qubits). The parallel execution and exponential scaling of quantum computing means that problems can be solved much faster.
