10 technological trends for 2019

Gartner forecasts strategic technology trends for 2019; advances that companies must adopt to innovate, identify opportunities, counteract threats and create competitive advantages.

The information technology consultancy advises industry leaders to explore artificial intelligence (AI) in work environments and in products and services offered to clients; perceive where the AI can automate or increase human activities.

Urges to develop and implement a combination of virtual reality, augmented and mixed platforms to create immersive user experiences. Begin to develop quantum computing, in addition to accentuate the effort in cybersecurity and ethical practices.

The strategic technology trends 2019 of Gartner

1. Autonomous things

Autonomous things use artificial intelligence to automate the functions performed by humans, such as autonomous vehicles, robots, drones or gadgets with AI. These objects interact more naturally with their environment and with people.

2. Augmented analytics

Increased analytics uses Machine Learning to transform the way in which analytical content is developed, consumed and shared to drive business intelligence.

Its Goals is to increase the profile and quality of data, harmonization, modeling, manipulation, metadata development and cataloging, as well as reducing the need for specialized skills to generate and manage advanced analytical models.

3. AI-driven development

Survey the evolution of tools, technologies and best practices to integrate AI capabilities in diverse applications.

For Gartner specialists, the market is changing and data scientists must partner with application developers to create easy-to-use AI applications.

  

4. Digital twins

A digital twin is a digital representation of a real object or system. Data from multiple digital twins can be added for a composite view through a series of real-world entities, such as a power plant or smart city.

Asset digital twins could significantly improve business decision making; they could help to better understand the state of objects or systems, respond to changes in their environment, improve the operations they perform and add characteristics.

  

5. Empowered Edge

This trend refers to the exponential enrichment of devices, cloud services and communication systems with capacities driven by artificial intelligence.

6. Immersive experience

Improve the experience and interaction of humans with the digital world, through virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Also, boost productivity with mixed platforms that promote remote interaction.

7. Blockchain

The objective of this technology is to reduce frictions in transactions between companies, users and technologies. As well as reduce costs, transaction times and improve cash flows.

  

8. Smart spaces

Create environments that integrate technologies and trends that support specific work in the industry or improve the user experience. For example, the development of smart cities, digital workspaces or connected factories.

9. Digital ethics and privacy

Due to the large number of security failures of some devices with AI, for e.g, sports trackers, which due to design errors revealed the location of many US military, it is necessary to regulate and study future developments to generate safe products and services. of common good.

10. Quantum computing

This technology should be explored with greater emphasis since it has the potential to theoretically perform millions of calculations at the same time. For example, while a classical computer reads all books in a library in a linear fashion, a quantum computer reads all books simultaneously.