The top technology trends compiled by Gartner have the potential to affect individuals, businesses and IT organizations. They are the prime enablers behind new digital business opportunities. Their disruptive power stems from merging virtual and physical worlds, the growth of intelligence everywhere, and the emerging new realities of IT.
As discussed by David Cearley, Gartner VP & Gartner Fellow, the most fundamental theme behind the top strategic technology trends for 2015 is the shift to digital business.
The merging of the physical and the virtual world offers "Computing Everywhere." It's not just simply about a move to mobile computing, but it's a move beyond those mobile devices to an age where we look at "mobile" meaning "mobile people."
The world is our computer and we are walking around within that. We have those mobile devices, devices on desktops, devices on our wrists, devices on our heads, devices in our clothes, our cars are devices, there are screens all around us. That extends to the Internet of Things, so it's all of the industrial equipment and the sensors in the world that extend this idea of the world being the computer.
3D printing has also reached out into the real world to instantiate something from the virtual world and the real world. So that's the virtual and real worlds coming together.
Advanced, pervasive, and invisible analytics offers "Intelligence Everywhere."
Every application becomes an analytic application, whether it's traditional analytics or things where analytics is invisible behind a security product. It's just analyzing user behavior and user context to give you better security. All this analytics leads to context-rich systems so systems can respond based upon analytic patterns to different contexts of the user, and what's happening at a given time.
Smart machines breaks down into robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, and semi-autonomous vehicles, and also artificial intelligence software robots, if you will, the simplest of which you can see with personal digital assistants. But much more sophisticated systems, such as those you see with IBM's Watson, provide really rich, intelligent capabilities.
IT implications pertains to all applications becoming cloud-centric. It doesn't mean outside public cloud. It might be private cloud, but it's the attributes of cloud. The cloud becomes the control-point for client-based components.
We have software-defined infrastructure and applications. This becomes web-scale IT, which is the fundamental way we build IT systems in the future.
Behind the scenes all roads lead to security. If you can do one thing next year in security, it's to recognize perimeter defense is not an adequate defense and you start looking at security-aware applications and also application self-protection mechanisms so that the applications themselves can be more inherently secure.
To deal with these trends, you need skills across the IT department, however, a particular area to focus on is enterprise architecture. Your enterprise architecture group should be the group looking at these disruptive and strategic trends, where they're going in the future and how it drives future business outcomes and the world of digital business. Looking at disruptive technologies is a critical function for enterprise architecture.
*Source: http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/top-10-technology-trends
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