The technology consulting firm Gartner, highlighted the main technological trends that organizations need to explore in 2019. Analysts presented their findings during the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo , which takes place in Florida, USA.
Gartner defines a strategic technological trend as that of a substantial disruptive potential that is beginning to move from an emerging state to broader impact and use, or that trends with a high degree of volatility are reaching rapidly inflection points in the next five years.
The 10 main strategic technology trends for 2019 are:
- Autonomous things
Autonomous things such as robots , drones and autonomous vehicles , use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate functions previously performed by humans. Their automation goes beyond the automation provided by rigid programming models and they explore the AI to provide advanced behaviors that interact more naturally with the environment and with people.
- Increased analysis
The increased analysis concentrates on a specific area of increased intelligence, uses the machine learning to transform how analytic content is developed, consumed and shared. Enhanced analysis automates the process of data preparation, insight generation and insight visualization, eliminating the need for professional data scientists in many situations.
- Artificial Iintelligence Oriented Development
The market is rapidly changing from an approach where professional data scientists need to application developers to create the majority of AI-enhanced solutions for a model in which the professional developer can operate alone with the use of predefined templates as a service.
- Twins
A digital twin refers to the digital representation of a real world entity or system. By 2020, Gartner estimates there will be more than 20 billion connected sensors and digital terminals and twins will exist for potentially billions of things.
- Potential Edge
The border refers to the endpoint devices used by people or embedded in the world around us. Edge computing describes a computational topology in which information processing and content collection and delivery are placed closer to those endpoints.
In the short term, the edge is being driven by IoT (Internet of Things), and the need to keep processing close to the end, not on a centralized cloud server. However, instead of creating a new architecture, cloud computing and edge computing will evolve as complementary models, with cloud services to be managed as a centralized service and run not only on centralized servers, but on on-site distributed servers and on the edge devices themselves.
- Immersive Experience
Conversation platforms are changing the way people interact with the digital world. Virtual reality (RV), augmented reality (RA) and mixed reality (MR) are changing the way people perceive the digital world. This combined change in perception and interaction models leads to immersive user experience in the future, according to Gartner.
- Blockchain
Blockchain , a distributed book type, promises to reshape industries by enabling trust, providing transparency, and reducing friction between business ecosystems, potentially reducing costs, reducing transaction settlement times, and improving cash flow.
- Smart Spaces
An intelligent space is a physical or digital environment in which human beings and systems with technology 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 for a target set of people and industry scenarios.
- Ethics and digital privacy
Ethics and digital privacy is a growing concern for individuals, organizations and governments. People are increasingly concerned about how their personal information is being used by organizations in the public and private sectors, and the reaction will only increase for organizations that are not proactively addressing these concerns.
- Quantum computing
Quantum computing (QC) is a type of non-classical computation that operates in the quantum state of subatomic particles (for example, electrons and ions) that represent information as elements denoted as quantum bits (qubits). The parallel execution and exponential scalability of quantum computers means that they excel with very complex problems for a traditional approach or where traditional algorithms would take a long time to find a solution.
David Cearley , vice president and fellow at Gartner, said that trends in each of these themes are a key ingredient in driving an ongoing process of innovation as part of a long-term strategy.
