12 strategic technology trends for 2022 according to Gartner
Analyst firm Gartner presents technology trends in the business each year, based on the priorities of different organizations and the resulting technology requirements that trickle down to CIOs and IT leaders. This year, Gartner also published a list of twelve digital technologies that analysts believe will act as multipliers of digital business and innovation over the next three to five years. Discover the trends that are likely to impact your business in the near term.
WHAT IS GARTNER?
"Gartner is a leader in research and consulting in the information technology sector. It provides the detailed technology insight needed to make the right decisions. Their research, analysis and interpretation of the IT business in the context of individual company-specific challenges influences the direction of IT in many ways. That's why the analysis, studies and predictions from Gartner analysts carry a lot of weight in the digital business."
Top technologies for 2022
Among other things, Gartner annually identifies key technology trends for business. In 2022 company ranked 12 strategic technologies that it believes will significantly impact the growth, digitisation and efficiency of organisations. In context, David Groombridge, VP Analyst at Gartner says: "CEOs know they need to accelerate digital business adoption and are looking for more direct digital ways to connect with their customers. But given future economic risks, they want to be efficient and protect margins and cash flow." These considerations were one of the deciding factors in selecting the following 12 technology trends that you should by no means ignore in 2022.
TREND 1: DATA FABRIC
According to IBM, the data structure or data fabric An architectural approach to simplify data access in an organization to facilitate self-service data consumption. With a data architecture, enterprises increase the value of their data by providing the right data at the right time, no matter where it is located. A data structure can use analytics to learn and proactively recommend where data should be used and changed. This can reduce data management effort by up to 70 %.
TREND 2: Cybersecurity Mesh
Cybersecurity Mesh or Cybersecurity Network is a flexible, composable architecture that integrates widely distributed and diverse security services. It represents a holistic approach to system security, where each device is independently secured by its own perimeter (such as firewalls and network protection tools, etc.). The adoption of this approach to IT security has gained popularity with the development of teleworking and cloud-based solutions that deploy devices and computers to different locations.
TREND 3: PRIVACY-ENCHANCING COMPUTATION
Privacy-Enchancing Computation - PEC (loosely translated as privacy enhancing computation) - is a way for different parties to extract value from information without revealing themselves or other data sets. They collaborate on an individual level using usable data without sharing sensitive information between participants. "PEC" ensures the processing of personal data in untrusted environments, which is increasingly important due to evolving privacy and data protection laws as well as growing consumer concerns.
TREND 4: Cloud-Native Platforms
Native cloud platforms are designed to be resilient and take advantage of the elasticity, order and flexibility of the cloud. They are highly agile and enable enterprises and companies to respond to rapid digital change, streamline costs and create profitable operations. According to the official definition Cloud Native Computing Foundation This approach enables organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private and hybrid clouds. Examples of this approach include containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs.
TREND 5: COMPOSABLE APPLICATIONS
Composable Applications are a concept in which the functional part of an application can be separated from the whole application to create a better application with more functionality. Thus, "Composable Applications" are built from modular components, making it easier to use and reuse code, thereby speeding time to market for new software solutions and unlocking business value.
TREND 6: DECISION INTELLIGENCE
Decision intelligence is a practical approach to improve organizational decision making. It models each decision as a set of processes, using intelligence and analytics to inform, instruct and refine decisions. Decision intelligence can support and improve human decision-making, or automate it using augmented analytics, simulation and AI.
TREND 7: HYPERAUTOMATION (Hyperautomation)
According to Automation Anywhere is hyperautomation An infrastructure of advanced technologies that are used to scale the automation capabilities of an organisation. It further automates already automated processes, taking business operations beyond individual inputs. It is an extension of legacy business process automation beyond individual processes. By combining AI tools with RPA, hyperautomation enables automation of virtually any repetitive task performed by business users. Hyperautomation enables scalability, remote control, and business model disruption.
TREND 8: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING (AI Engineering)
AI Engineering is an emerging discipline focused on developing tools, systems and processes that enable the application of AI in real-world contexts - automating updates to data, models and applications to streamline the delivery of AI. One of the goals of this type of engineering is to ensure that the business value of AI is sustained.
TREND 9: DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISES
Distributed businesses there are companies that have adopted a hybrid approach to work, they have both internal and remote teams, these teams are not located in the same place and the offices are scattered in different cities. Distributed businesses reflect a business model based on digital elements and remote working. They better serve the needs of remote employees and consumers, driving demand for virtual services and hybrid workplaces. Increasingly, there are views that this type of enterprise is the ideal way of doing business in a post-pandemic society.
TREND 10: TOTAL EXPERIENCE
Total experience - total experience (TX) is a strategy that creates superior shared experiences by connecting the disciplines of user experience (UX), customer experience (CX), multi-experience (MX), and employee experience (EX). It's more than just improving the experience of one component - it's improving the experience at the intersection of multiple components to achieve a transformational business outcome. Thus, this approach brings together employee experience, customer experience, user experience, and multiple experiences across multiple touchpoints to accelerate growth. It leads to greater customer and employee confidence, increases customer satisfaction and loyalty.
TREND 11: AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
Autonomous systems are self-managed physical or software systems, with self-managing characteristics, that adapt to unpredictable changes and learn from their environment - dynamically adjusting their own algorithms in real time to optimize their behavior in complex ecosystems. Autonomous systems create an agile set of technological capabilities that are able to support new requirements and situations, optimize performance, and defend against attacks without human intervention.
TREND 12: GENERATIVE AI
Generative AI is a technology for creating new content using existing text, audio files or images. Using generative AI, computers detect an underlying pattern related to the input and create similar content. Generative AI learns about artifacts from the data and creates innovative new creations that are similar to the original but do not replicate it. This type of AI has the potential to generate new forms of creative content and accelerate R&D cycles in areas ranging from medicine to product creation.
It's clear that the technologies mentioned above will play a big role in the post-covide era in digital business - accelerating digital capabilities and increasing growth by solving common business challenges for CIOs and technology executives. Modern technology has become an indispensable part of successful businesses due to the impact of the pandemic and the changes associated with it, whether it's cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automation, SOUTH AFRICA or BI.
The digital trends that Gartner has identified as strategic in 2022 push the boundaries of their use even further and are proof that the evolution in this direction, which was triggered by the pandemic, is fast and unstoppable. That is why inEarly and effective implementation of these strategic trends can differentiate your organization from the competition and strengthen the achievement of business goals. Some of these innovations are enabling technical capabilities necessary to compete in the digital world, while others provide business-oriented capabilities to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Each of the twelve technologies delivers one of three key outcomes, according to Gartner:
- Digital Trust: Technology is creating a more resilient and efficient IT base by providing integration and more secure data processing in cloud and non-cloud environments to ensure cost-effective scaling of the IT base.
- Creating change: By unleashing creative new technology solutions, you can expand and accelerate your organisation's digital transformation. These technology trends allow you to respond to the increasing pace of change by building applications to automate business activities, optimize artificial intelligence (AI), and enable smarter decisions faster.
- Accelerating growth: By leveraging strategic technology trends, you unlock IT force multipliers that multiply business and market share. Together, these trends allow you to maximize value creation and improve digital capabilities.
Today we are still talking about trends, but given the speed of digital technology development and innovation, it is likely that many of these 12 trends will become an essential part of a successful digital transformation in the near future. Implementing them, or planning for them, requires your company to take a holistic approach to IT modernisation a digital transformation. Company Aspecta has in this respect relevant experience and can ensure that the adoption of innovation in your business runs smoothly, consistently and with the desired outcome. Feel free to reach out to us and with our help, adopt the technology trends that will accelerate business and entrepreneurship in the years to come.
