As pointed out by Gartner analysts, businesses must plan for top strategic technology trends amidst the pandemic.
Strategic technology trends are grouped under three heads, including location independence, resilient delivery and people centricity.
Internet of Behaviors (IoB)
Gartner predicts that by 2023, individual activities of as much as 40% of the total world population is going to be tracked digitally for influencing our behaviour.
IoB combines the existing technologies focusing on individuals directly like location tracking or facial recognition and connects the resulting data to associated behavioural events like device usage or cash purchase. For example, in this pandemic situation, organisations might use IoB to ensure employees wear masks or use thermal imaging to identify feverish employees.
Cybersecurity Mesh
This technology trend allows people access digital asset security, regardless of the place the asset or the person is located at.
Cybersecurity Mesh is actually an architectural approach to flexible, reliable and scalable cybersecurity control.
This allows the security perimeter to be defined around a thing or a person, enabling a responsive and modular security approach.
Intelligent Composable Business
Intelligent Composable Businesses are chiefly about bringing better things together like better data access and better decision making, necessary for flexible applications.
For example, machines can ensure better decision making through a rich fabric of data and insights. It paves the way for new business models, digital business moments, new products and autonomous operations.
AI Engineering
According to Gartner research, only 53% of projects from AI prototypes move till production.
AI Engineering is chiefly about bringing engineering discipline to artificial intelligence for the end user organisations.
The bigger organisations have been delivering for quite some time but it is time for the end user organisations to move out from the experimental stage and be part of a robust delivery model.
Hyperautomation
This approach is used by organisations to automate and identify the approved IT and business processes.
Though this trend has been in vogue since the last few years, this pandemic has increased its demand substantially.
Privacy-Enhancing Computation
It is predicted that by 2025, almost 50% of the bigger organisations will opt for Privacy Enhancing Computation.
This protects the data while it is in use, maintaining privacy and secrecy in the not so trustworthy environments.
Total Experience
Gartner introduced multiexperience last year as a strategic technology trend and this year, it has taken a step further with Total Experience.
This strategy connects multiexperience with employees, customers as well as user experience disciplines.
Distributed Cloud
Distributed Cloud refers to public cloud services distribution in different places while the governance, evolution and distribution of services are handled by the cloud provider. It allows the customers have the cloud computing resources near the physical location where business activities are actually taking place.
Anywhere Operations
This refers to an IT operating model designed for supporting customers and managing business services deployment.
By 2023 end, it is expected that around 40% of organisations will apply Anywhere Operations to deliver optimised as well as blended physical and virtual employee and customer experiences.
The strategic technology trends chiefly highlight the trends that will drive in significant opportunity this decade.