Gartner's Top 10 Tech Trends for 2018
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Gartner's Top 10 Tech Trends for 2018
In a world in which technology "things" keep getting smarter, you should know about the biggest tech trends that will impact the enterprise in 2018. -
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Creating systems that learn, adapt and potentially act autonomously will be a major battleground for tech vendors. 59% of organizations are still gathering information to build an AI strategy, but the rest have already made progress in piloting or adopting AI solutions. -
Intelligent Apps and Analytics
Intelligent apps have the potential to transform the nature of work and the structure of the workplace. These apps include virtual customer assistants, worker performance assessments, sales/marketing analytics and security tools. -
Intelligent Things
This refers to the programming of advanced behaviors and capabilities in physical things: autonomous cars, robots, drones and other machines that interact naturally with their surroundings and with people, such as IoT-connected systems. -
Digital Twins
Digital twins consolidate massive amounts of information on individual assets and groups of assets to create a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. For example, future digital twins of humans could include rich biometric and medical data. -
Cloud to the Edge
Drawn from the concepts of mesh networking and distributed processing, cloud to the edge pushes information processing and content collection and delivery to the devices that generate data. It allows for disconnected or distributed process execution of aspects of the cloud service. -
Conversational Platforms
Thanks to virtual personal assistants (VPAs), "talking" to a machine has never been easier. By 2019, Gartner predicts that one-fifth of user interactions with smartphones will take place through VPAs. -
Immersive Experience
Who needs to travel to Disney World when you can just "visit" the Magic Kingdom via a computer-generated 3D environment? The virtual reality and augmented reality market will grow to $2.16 billion this year. -
Blockchain
As businesses seek to increase cash flow, lower transaction costs, reduce settlement times and make other financial-based improvements, they will turn to blockchain as a significant component of their overall digital transformation strategy. -
Event-Driven Model
By combining AI, the IoT, cloud computing and other innovations, the enterprise will be better positioned to "see" events such as purchase orders or customer experiences. In fact, by 2020, 80% of digital business solutions will require event-sourced, real-time situational awareness. -
Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust Assessment (CARTA)
More cyber-security teams are adopting CARTA, an adaptive approach that involves real-time risk and trust-based decision making to better protect digital business flows in an ever-changing world of advanced, targeted attacks.
Artificial intelligence (AI), "smart" apps, analytics and the further decentralization of technology architectures will be the biggest IT trends for the next year, according to recent research from Gartner. The accompanying report, "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018," points out that we live in a very intelligent world. In fact, ongoing innovation that essentially amounts to making machines smarter accounts for the majority of trends on this list. As a result, companies should position themselves to better visualize events such as customer experiences and more effectively anticipate business-impacting changes. "Digital business blurs the physical and virtual worlds in a way that transforms business designs, industries, markets and organizations," according to the report. "The continuing digital business evolution exploits emerging and strategic technologies to integrate the physical and digital worlds, and create entirely new business models. The future will be defined by smart devices delivering increasingly insightful digital services everywhere. We call this mesh of interconnected people, devices, content and services the 'intelligent digital mesh.' It's enabled by digital business platforms delivering a rich intelligent set of services to support digital business. As a … technology innovation leader seeking to exploit the intelligent digital mesh, you must respond to the disruptive technology trends driving this future."