These technologies will be taken into account in business decisions over the coming years. Keep reading to understand how they can affect your company's strategic decisions.
Gartner's top 10 technology trends for 2024
Gartner, a leading business consulting firm, mapped 10 technology trends for 2024 that relate to one or more fundamental themes: protecting and preserving past and future investments, developing well-timed solutions, and adding value to the changing environments of internal and external customers. They are:
AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM)
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
Sustainable technology
Platform engineering
AI-augmented development
Industry cloud platforms
Intelligent applications
Democratized generative AI
Augmented connected workforce
Machine customers
The items in this mapping are also organized into three major themes that help define the objectives and possible paths for applying each strategy.
Delivering technology value to industry
“By 2026, generative AI will significantly alter 70% of the design and development effort for new web applications and mobile apps”. - Gartner
Within the first theme, “protect your investment”, are strategies to ensure the sustained impact of companies' technology investments.
The strategy covering the topics AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Industry cloud platforms, Sustainable technology and Democratized generative AI proposes deliberate, realistic actions as well as one that looks to the future.
From this, experiments without a clear direction are discouraged, focusing instead on putting effort into solid results for daily use, calculating return on investment (ROI) while considering the necessary protective measures, and taking a forward-looking view of customizing innovations with reuse and intellectual property protection in mind for a solid position in the future.
The rise of developers
“By 2027, 80% of chief information officers will have performance metrics tied to the sustainability of the IT organization”. - Gartner
The second theme, which covers the items Platform engineering, AI-augmented development, Industry cloud platforms, Intelligent applications, Sustainable technology and Democratized generative AI, refers to the creative powers of application and solution developers.
Accordingly, companies should seek to develop technologies suited to their sector, their specific organizational needs and the specialized workers of the coming years.
They should also work side by side with company stakeholders to determine portfolio lifecycle management and software delivery, developing solutions that are more accessible to non-specialists.
New technologies and scalability in the coming years
Finally, the third theme, made up of the items Machine customers, Augmented connected workforce, Intelligent applications, Sustainable technology and Democratized generative AI, drives companies to accelerate how they improve experiences for stakeholders, in order to expand their options for boosting revenue.
It also encourages making continuous adjustments to meet the demands of internal and external customers, creating a virtuous cycle of value delivery and determination that includes algorithm-based approaches.
This business model will facilitate the development of solutions with easily evolving digital tools, whether or not related to generative AI, qualifying the workforce for scalable opportunities.
Gartner's annual survey of the top strategic technology trends helps prioritize investments, optimize the rise of developers and add more value to the business. Insights like these are extremely valuable for businesses that plan to become more competitive and scalable in industry over the coming years.
And at Enacom, we are aligned with new technology trends to develop robust, high-performance solutions to solve industry's complex problems. Reach out to our experts and be part of industry's digital transformation!