{"id":60965,"date":"2017-10-11T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=60965"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:21:21","slug":"top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2018-gartner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/10\/11\/top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2018-gartner\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 [Gartner]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/doc\/3811368?ref=SiteSearch&amp;sthkw=%22Top%2010%20Strategic%20Technology%20Trends%20for%202018%22&amp;fnl=search&amp;srcId=1-3478922254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 from Gartner Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The intelligent digital mesh is a foundation for future digital business and its ecosystems. To create competitive advantage, enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must evaluate these top trends to identify opportunities that their organizations can exploit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Findings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence (AI) delivers value to every industry, enabling new business models. It does so by supporting key initiatives such as customer engagement, digital production, smart cities, self-driving cars, risk management, computer vision and speech recognition.<\/li>\n<li>As people, places, processes and &#8220;things&#8221; become increasingly digitalized, they will be represented by digital twins. This will provide fertile ground for new event-driven business processes and digitally enabled business models and ecosystems.<\/li>\n<li>The way we interact with technology will undergo a radical transformation over the next five to 10 years. Conversational platforms, augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality will provide more natural and immersive interactions with the digital world.<\/li>\n<li>A digital business is event-centric, which means it must be continuously sensing and adapting. The same applies to the security and risk infrastructure that supports it, which must focus on deceiving potential intruders and predicting security events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Analysis<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 1: AI Foundation<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s AI Is Narrow AI<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 2: Intelligent Apps and Analytics<br \/>\nAugmented Analytics Will Enable Users to Spend More Time Acting on Insights<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 3: Intelligent Things<br \/>\nSwarms of Intelligent Things Will Work Together<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 4: Digital Twins<br \/>\nDigital Twins Will Be Linked to Other Digital Entities<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 5: Cloud to the Edge<br \/>\nEdge Computing Brings Distributed Computing Into the Cloud Style<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 6: Conversational Platforms<br \/>\nIntegration With Third-Party Services Will Further Increase Usefulness<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 7: Immersive Experience<br \/>\nVR and AR Can Help Increase Productivity<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 8: Blockchain<br \/>\nBlockchain Offers Significant Potential Long-Term Benefits Despite Its Challenges<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 9: Event-Driven Model<br \/>\nEvents Will Become More Important in the Intelligent Digital Mesh<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Trend No. 10: Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust<br \/>\nBarriers Must Come Down Between Security and Application Teams<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gartner Recommended Reading<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><br \/>\nAlso see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/Articles\/2017\/10\/05\/AI-Merging-of-Digital-and-Physical-Worlds-Among-Top-10-Tech-Trends-for-2018.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI, Merging of Digital and Physical Worlds Among Top 10 Tech Trends for 2018<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 from campustechnology.com by Joshua Bolkan<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nGartner has released its list of top 10 strategic technology trends for 2018 with a focus for the coming year on technologies related to artificial intelligence and machine learning and those that blend the physical and digital worlds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 \u2014 from Gartner Research Summary The intelligent digital mesh is a foundation for future digital business and its ecosystems. To create competitive advantage, enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must evaluate these top trends to identify opportunities that their organizations can exploit. Key Findings Artificial intelligence (AI) delivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,435,356,819,817,387,174,86,209,433,45,112,210,37,35,391,419,418,180,482,55,64,511,565,309,204,217,480,20,460,195,206,312,367,253,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-blockchain","category-bots","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-communications","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-emerging-technologies","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-internet","category-it-in-he","category-machine-to-machine-communications","category-mixed-reality","category-platforms","category-programming","category-research","category-society","category-strategy","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-trends","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60967,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60965\/revisions\/60967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}