Explore our analysis of technology trends for 2019 and beyond: AI, IoT, Security, Big Data / Data Science, Mobile Apps Development, AR/VR, RPA (Robot Process Automation), Blockchain, Automotive Solutions, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Service Desk, Autonomous Things, Augmented Analytics, AI-Driven Development, Digital Twins, Empowered Edge, Immersive Experience, Smart Spaces, Quantum Computing, and more.
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Includes a video by Gartner.
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November 5, 2018
For 2019 and Beyond
Technology
Trends Analysis
November 20, 2018
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Market
Overview
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Market Overview
Executives are expecting that
digital will bring:
• Unique customer experience
• Actionable insights
• Innovations
Only
16%
of executives believe their talent pool has
the capabilities to deliver their digital
strategy
72% of outsourcing is provided in IT area
Half of respondents doubt their management has
a clear understanding of AI
50% of survey respondents expect to have
invested in AR/VR by 2020
40% of executives expect to start investing in
blockchain by 2020
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Industries influenced by technologies
Real Estate Consumer business
Financial Manufacturing
Automotive Energy
Healthcare Government
Education Telecom Media
Source: Deloitte
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Current
situation insights
• Increased investments in technologies implementations
• New business models
• Work on the operational efficiency
• Technology management
• Value of data
• Customer centricity
• Combination of technologies and cross-industries
partnerships for new customer’s benefits
• Rebuilding the workforce and creating the digital workplace
• Regulatory rethinking
• Security and privacy become a #1 priority
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Source: Deloitte
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Digital
Trends
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Tech Trends Today
• AI
• IoT
• Security
• Big Data
• Mobile Apps
Development
• AR/VR
• RPA: Robot Process
Automation
• Blockchain
• Automotive
• Business Intelligence
• Cloud Computing
• Service Desk
Source: Deloitte
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Intensive development of AI in the past few years
• Huge interest of companies in technology
and its marsh to the commercial use
• Main focus on its implementation
to keep the business processes up to date
• Deep learning improvement
• AI already merged with lots of other emerging technologies
(automotive, IoT etc.)
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Source: Quora.com
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Internet of Things (IoT)
• Top-of-mind technology over the last few years
• The mass adoption of IoT platforms: Many companies are
already leveraging IoT technology and many others are
ramping up their efforts.
• The industrial IoT is the biggest business opportunity.
• Major security challenges in IoT solutions
Source: Forbes
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Cyber Security
• Up to 5,000 average number of security alerts
• SMBs as the main focus of attacks becoming a launch pad
for bigger campaigns
• The most popular attacks are target attacks against person,
advanced malware the world hasn’t seen before,
ransomware.
• Cloud as an option to strengthen security efficiency
• New technologies as a new way to embrace cyber
technology (e.g. Machine Learning as security help)
• Security outsourcing as a better option for SMBs
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Source: Cisco
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Big Data / Data Science
• Strong connection with other emerging technologies
(e.g. AI and ML)
• Data warehouse optimization remains the top use case
for big data.
• Prevailing trend among enterprises is to move to
cloud-based analytics in the nearest time.
• Data privacy and security concerns
Source: Forbes
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Mobile Apps Development
• Demand for App Dev at all times is high (Mobile-first)
• Excessive development time
• Backlogs remain stubbornly high
• Slow returns from Agile and DevOps investments
• Customer centricity is on the rise.
• Low-code is becoming mainstream.
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Source: Outsystems: The state of application development
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Augmented Reality (AR) /
Virtual Reality (VR)
• AR goes on with active implementation in our everyday life
(e.g. AR applications for retail).
• Increasing software development for common usage
• Continuous investments, development
and further R&D activities of big plyers
(Samsung, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc).
• Ongoing adoption of commercial
and enterprise solutions using AR devices
Source: Adage.com
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RPA: Robot Process
Automation
• The market is still nascent.
• Capturing inputs from diverse formats is still a problem.
• Integration with other emerging technologies
to solve such problems as processing unstructured data
• Frequent changes in business rules
and operating procedures
• Industry standards are still being developed.
• RPA initiatives are being adopted in pockets.
• Narrow scope of services where
RPA may be implemented
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Source: Mindfields
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Blockchain
• Blockchain technology is still in its infancy.
(Blockchains are slow, user unfriendly, unscalable,
and expensive)
• Enterprise Blockchains focus on private or
consortium-based blockchain implementations
• Raising capital
• Increased government and regulatory involvement
Source: Infoq.com
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Autonomous Driving
• The technology is still under development.
• Companies go on testing self-driving vehicles
building the enough number of vehicles.
• Safety of others is still a challenge.
• The issue with cars driven by humans
• The problem with signs recognition
• Ownership system issues
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Source: Poketnow.com
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Business Intelligence
• Executive Management, Operations, and Sales are the
three primary roles driving Business Intelligence (BI)
adoption.
• Dashboards, reporting, end-user self-service, advanced
visualization and data warehousing are the highest priority
investment areas for companies.
• Small organizations with up to 100 employees have the
highest rate of BI penetration or adoption.
• Sales, Marketing and Executive Management have the
highest level of interest in dashboards and advanced
visualization.
Source: Forbes
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Cloud Computing
• Increased popularity among small and large businesses.
• Multi-cloud is the preferred strategy among enterprises.
• More enterprises are prioritizing public cloud.
• Serverless is the top-growing extended cloud service.
• Significant wasted cloud spend makes optimizing costs the
top initiative.
• Azure continues to grow quickly and reduce the AWS lead,
especially among enterprises.
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Source: Rightscale.com
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Service Desk
• Today’s Service Desk is about
“doing more with less”.
• Employee experience consideration
to improve employees productivity
• Proactive approach as a core
• The more automated processes – the better
Source: one.comodo.com
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Technology Trends Transformation
In 2019 and Beyond
Source: Gartner
• Autonomous Things
• Augmented Analytics
• AI-Driven Development
Intelligence
• Digital Twins
• Empowered Edge
• Immersive Experience
Digital
• Blockchain
• Smart Spaces
Mesh
Privacy and Ethics
Quantum Computing
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Gartner About Technology
Trends Transformation [VIDEO]
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Autonomous Things
Today all autonomous solutions are closely
related to AI to be able to interact more
naturally with the environment. Autonomous
things are represented as:
• Robotics
• Vehicles
• Drones
• Appliances
• Agents
59%
of organizations
are still preparing to
build their AI strategies.
Source: Deloitte
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Augmented Analytics
Today, Bid Data definition transformed into the
Enormous Data, and now we are talking about
receiving data flows from anywhere –
connected sensors that measure nearly
everything.
Data scientists face not only the problem of data
collection and storage, but have to solve the challenge of
its analysis.
Augmented analytics becomes a new wave of data
processing based on data science and machine learning
platforms.
>40%
of data science tasks
will be automated by
2020.
Source: Gartner
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AI-Driven Development
This trend covers embedding of artificial
intelligence into different applications and
creation of AI-powered tools for such
directions:
• AI-powered tools targeting professional
developer community (AI Platforms and
Services)
• AI-powered tools created to assist professional
developers and automate tasks related to the
development of AI-enhanced solutions
• AI-powered tools targeting business domain expertise
(application development stack).
Product development
area in AI investment research took 5th place
among others taking 23% of voices.
Source: Deloitte
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Digital Twins
Digital twins became a new format of the well-
known computer design representations of real
world elements, but now it brings a new sense
of digitalization:
• Reflect the models focused on specific
business outcomes support
• Show the real world in real time for monitoring and
control
• Allows to check the application of Big Data
Analytics and AI
• Create the environment for “What-if” scenarios.
26,3 billion
of new IoT devices and connections
are expected by 2020.
Source: Gartner
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Empowered Edge
Edge computing allows to process the data in
real-time without loosing the time on sending it
to process the data in the cloud. The empowered
edge will be of use in such areas as:
• Enterprises, where the remote data monitoring is vital
for faults monitoring.
• Industries, where edge data processing allows gather
comprehensive information on processes for further
improvements.
• Automated devices for real-time data processing and
transmitting it to other devices.
The global edge computing market is expected to reach
$3.24 billion by 2025
Source: Grand View Research
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Immersive Experience
Current experience based on artificial
intelligence, augmented, mixed and virtual reality
will result in a new era of customer relationship
management:
• EmoBots – chatbots and intelligent assistants able to
recognize and react to human emotions.
• New level of realism
(AR/VR, IoT and mobile combination)
• Hyper-personalization
(AI, predictive analytics, IoT etc.)
• Instant gratification
By 2022, 70%
of enterprises will be experimenting
with immersive technologies.
Source: Gartner
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Blockchain
Even still being immature, blockchain is expected
to embrace all industries, and even more:
• The mature ecosystem and national
cryptocurrencies will appear.
• Working business models will be created.
• Blockchain already started integration with IoT and it
will be strengthened further.
• New Blockchain regulations will be implemented.
• All decentralized services will be secured.
Blockchain will create $3.1T in
business value by 2030.
Source: Gartner
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Smart Spaces
Smart spaces are the physical or digital
environments or ecosystems where humans can
interact with technology-enabled systems. Smart
spaces provide developers with such vital
features:
• Openness
• Connectedness
• Coordination
• Intelligence
• Scope
Source: Gartner
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Digital Ethics and Privacy
Due to constant technology development, governments
started creating new regulations related to data protection.
The main theme of such regulations became digital ethics,
namely:
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Source: Gartner
• Security
• Cybercrime
• Privacy
• Social
• Interaction
• Governance
• Free will
• Society and economy
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Quantum Computing
It is expected that in 5 years quantum computing will
become a mainstream and ease such processes as:
• Weather and climate modeling
• Personalized medicine predictions
• Space exploration
• Fundamental sciences boost
• Machine learning
• Encryption
• Real-time language translation
Source: Gartner
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Recommendations
• Create new business value
and models basing on technologies synergy
• Pay attention to automation
• Prepare to sustained data growth
• Focus on customer experience
• Digitalize the employees’ workplaces
• Stay compliant
• Protect the data and privacy
• Improve capacities in AI, Data Science,
AR/VR/MR, IoT and Blockchain technologies
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Source: Deloitte
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