Ten Trends You Need to Know
Gartner has identified ten trends with the most potential to transform industries in the next 5 years. The trends will be introduced here, but must be examined more thoroughly through a business lens in the coming months. The top trends fall into three categories. Gartner calls them “Intelligent,” “Digital,” and “Mesh.” They mean evolving tech intelligence, cool technology advances, and game-changing ideas. Are you ready? The future is already here.
Intelligent

- Autonomous things can interact with their environment more naturally than ever to ease the burden of tedious, specific tasks. Coming soon to your company car or office coffee machine.
- Augmented analytics means that businesses can spare the hefty price tag of expert data scientists and still generate the key insights into their products and customers.
- AI-driven development allows developers to generate applications (even if they have no coding knowledge) by using premade AI tools. Gartner estimates that 40% of new application development projects will have AI co-developers by 2022.
Digital
- Bringing power to the edge: empowered edge technology will allow connection and processing to occur closer to endpoint devices. This will reduce traffic and latency by reducing the need for IoT devices to connect to a centralized cloud.
- Immersive technologies will allow the user to be connected to the digital world by devices all around them. From cars, to watches, to sensors, the days of connecting to the computer are gone, as very soon we will be living within it.
- Quantum computing, although still in the emerging state, will have the capacity to solve problems that are too complex for traditional systems to deal with. Now is the time to learn about it.
Mesh
- Blockchain is an online public record with a variety of applications. Everything is transparent and traceable, and it makes tasks like accounting, which are culpable to human error or fraud, all but foolproof. Australia has committed to using Blockchain operations for their stock exchange, and Moscow is adopting the technology for municipal elections.
- Smart spaces are environments in which people and technology interact to create a harmonious experience for the user. Smart homes and digital workplaces will continue to multiply in the next 5 years.
- Digital ethics and privacy have become focal points for users. Customers are more knowledgeable about their privacy rights, and are demanding that every interaction be grounded in ethical digital practices.
- Digital twins are complicated virtual models of real life physical things, such as cars or power plants. They use IoT sensors in real-time to feed back into the model. Digital twins for organizations (DTO’s) will digitize the company’s business model and practices, and DTO’s will be able to respond to problems automatically.
This article was published in the
September 2019
edition of The TMC Advisor
- ISSN 2369-663X Volume:6 Issue:2
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