Forrester Research just published The Top 10 Technology Trends To Watch: 2018 To 2020.
Ten trends, which Forrester breaks into three phases of dawning, awareness, and acceptance, are setting the pace of technology-driven business change.
In the dawning phase, a few innovators experiment with new technology-enabled business models and exploit emerging technologies. In the awareness phase, change agents leverage the accelerating returns of evolving technology to steal customers, improve the bottom line, and inflict massive impacts on industries. In the acceptance phase, surviving enterprises finally make the tough changes necessary to fight disruptors.
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Top 10 Technology Trends
Here is my summery of Forrester’s ten trends to watch over the next three years:
Computing goes to the edge
The internet of things (IoT) shifts computing toward the edge. Firms in the vanguard of this trend will use edge computing to build distributed applications that close the gap between data, insight, and action, and will engage customers more quickly and squeeze new efficiencies out of their processes. Exploiting computing power on the edge will give them an actual edge. It is another phase in the continuous pendulum swing between centralized computing and distributed computing.
By 2020, Forrester predicts, “a few leaders emerge from the pilot phase with integrated solutions that help them intelligently serve customers.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2017/10/23/top-10-technology-trends-to-watch-forrester-research/
