Each year, Gartner identifies technology trends that are critical to businesses. This year The list includes 12 strategic trends, which aims to enable CEOs to achieve growth, digitization and efficiency – as well as CIOs and IT leaders as strategic partners in the company to position. “CEOs know they need to accelerate digital business adoption and are looking for more direct digital ways to connect with their customers,” said David Groombridge, VP Analyst at Gartner. “However, with a view to future economic risks, they also want to be efficient and protect margins and cash flow.”
These are the top 12 strategic tech trends for 2022 — and why they matter
According to Groombridge, CEOs want three things: growth, digitization and efficiency. From COVID-19 to political unrest to climate change, companies are constantly faced with unexpected events. “But the promise that digital business is a way to thrive and outperform the competition during these disruptions remains clear.” In the end, the trends should lead to these results in particular:
- Reliable digital connections for employees and devices everywhere
- Solutions to quickly scale digital creativity anywhere
- Innovative features to accelerate business growth for today and tomorrow
Trend 1: Data Fabric
Data Fabric provides flexible, resilient integration of data sources across platforms and business users, so data is available wherever it’s needed, regardless of where it’s stored. Data Fabric can use analytics to learn and actively recommend where data should be used and manipulated. This can reduce data management overhead by up to 70%.
Trend 2: Cybersecurity Mesh
Cybersecurity Mesh is a flexible, composable architecture, which integrates widely distributed and disparate security services. Cybersecurity Mesh enables industry-leading, standalone security solutions to work together to improve overall security while bringing control points closer to the assets they are designed to protect. It can quickly and reliably verify identity, context, and policy compliance across cloud and non-cloud environments.
Trend 3: Privacy-Enhancing-Computation
Privacy-enhancing computation secures the process of processing personal data in untrustworthy environments – which is becoming increasingly important due to evolving data protection and privacy laws and increasing consumer concerns. Privacy-enhancing computation uses a variety of privacy protection techniques to extract value from data while meeting compliance requirements.
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