The Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 David Cearley VP & Gartner Fellow

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The Top 10
Strategic Technology
Trends for 2016
David Cearley
VP & Gartner Fellow

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Tracking Disruptive Trends
Time
Growth
Emerging Growth Mainstream
Disruption
Clarified and
StartingDisruption
Uncertain
Disruption
Happening or
Happened
Strategic
Technology
Trends

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Device Mesh Information of Everything
Adaptive Security Architecture
NEW IT REALITY
Mesh App & Service Architecture
IoT Architecture & PlatformsAdvanced Systems Architecture
DIGITAL MESH SMART MACHINES
Continuous & Ambient UX
3D Printing Materials
Advanced Machine Learning
Autonomous Agents & Things

6. Device Mesh
The Device Mesh Is Dynamic and Pervasive
A Shifting Set
of Endpoints
On the Desk
With the Person
In the Environment
At Work
In the Car
With the
Customer
Away From
Home
At the Game
At Home
Consumer Retail
At the Bar/
Restaurant

7. Wearables Face Key Challenges Including …
Standards Battles Battery Life
Privacy & Security
Evolution
Usability
Device Mesh

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Augmented and Virtual Reality for Immersive Experience
Device Mesh

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Solving Complex Challenges With Augmented Reality
Metaio … Acquired By Apple in 2015
Device Mesh

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Virtual Reality Providers
Gaming
Music and Sports
Journalism
EducationCinema
Healthcare
Real Estate
Retail
Legal
Hospitality
Surgical TrainingMental Health
Device Mesh

11. Cut
App Design Focus Shifts to the Mesh
Multiple
Devices
Responsive
Devices
Sensored
Spaces
Wireless
Ubiquity
Personal
Cloud
Expanded
I/O ChannelsCloud
Services
Ensemble
Flows
Contextual Apps
& Services
Personalized for Each
Task and Behavior
Across the Dynamic
Device Mesh
Continuous & Ambient User Experience

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Moving Toward a Post-App Era
Separate apps on separate devices
Intelligent assistants provide basic control and automation
New "app platforms" and services emerge
Fluid, contextual, conversational
Wearables drive context and interactions
App integration with notifications providing contextual links
App and collaboration across devices
2014 2020
Continuous and Ambient User Experience

13. Architecture & Platforms Expand to Embrace Digital Mesh
IoT Architecture & Platforms
Mobile
Partners
IT Apps
Endpoints
IoT Solution
IoT Platform
Cloud
OT Apps
(ERP, CRM,…) (MES, BMS,…)
Customers
Communications
APIs/Integration/MOM
Business
Outcomes
Holistic
Things
Agents
Gateways
Orchestration
Data
Analytics
APIs/Integration/MOM
Aggregated Device
Management

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App and Service Architecture for the Digital Mesh
 Cloud Computing is the foundation
 Elastic, Shared, Self-Service, Services
 Modern architectures and infrastructures enable agility
 Microservices , miniservices and DevOps
 Containers provide a new level of virtualization
 Software Defined Application Services provide the backend
 Accessed via APIs; virtualized, enriched via gateways
 Apps provide a fit-for-purpose mesh user experience
 Continuous, ambient, conversational experience
Mesh App & Service Architecture
Service
Control
Gateway
Mobile App
Browser App
IoT Device
Service
Service
Service
Service

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Enable Applications to Protect Themselves
Application
Source Code
Security-Aware
Application Design
Application
Development
Test Diagnostic
Runtime Application
Self-Protection
Production Diagnostic
Production Protection
Application
Testing
Application
Production
Adaptive Security Architecture
DevSecOps

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Glass
Advanced Materials Create High-Value Innovation Opportunities
Print Speed & Printing With Multiple Materials Expand Adoption
Carbon Fiber
High Temp Ceramics
Pharmaceuticals
Graphene
Fiberglass
Calcium Phosphate
Kevlar
Conductive Ink
Bioinks
Advanced Nickel Alloys
Electronics
Advanced 3D Printing Materials & Assemblies

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3D Printing Advanced Materials
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The Information Architecture Challenge
Information of Everything
10 TB
Generated
25 GB
Stored
What Should You Transmit?
 What do you store?
 Where do you store it?
 How is it replicated?
 What do you delete?
 What do you summarize?
 What is open to others?
 What do you do with it?

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A Tale of Retailing Data — Use and Sell
Gain Free Strategic
Advice from
CPG Partners
Place Billions of
POS, Inventory,
Promotion Data in a
Cloud Data Store
CPG Partners Now
Pay for Access
Dollar General Now
Has a Self-Funding
Enterprise Data
Warehouse
Information of Everything

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Conceiving New Ways to Use Personal Data
Average 4-6
Months
4M Data
Points
Prediction
Algorithm
Developed
Smart
Fertility App
60 Days (2-
3x Faster)
Information of Everything

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 Source information from across the business ecosystem
 Consider all types of information
 Identify the information needed for actions and algorithms
that matter to the business and its customers
 Open access via APIs and manage information risk
 Leverage advanced analytics, ontologies, graphs and new
information models (e.g., BlockChain & distributed ledgers)
 Prepare to feed your learning machine
Turning Information Into Actions With Algorithms:
Information of Everything

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Machine Learning Takes Data Science to the Next Level
Deal With
Complexity
Make
Predictions
Actively
Adapt
Passively
Learn
Act
Autonomously
Appear to
Understand
Reflect a Well-
Scoped Purpose
Machine
Learning
Generates
Novelty
Advanced Machine Learning, Advanced Systems

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A Spectrum of Autonomous Smart Machines
Physical
Virtual
ObviousUnobtrusive
Robots
Drones
Driverless Vehicles
Intelligent Sensors
Smart Appliances
Smart Tools (stethoscope)
Translation & Speech to Text
Smart Security & Operations
Smart Enterprise Apps
Virtual Customer Assistants
Virtual Personal Assistants
Smart Advisors
Autonomous Agents & Things

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Endpoint
Protection
Continuously Analyze User and Entity Behavior
1. Review; Rules/Score
2. Continuous Profiling
3. Continually Analyze
and Authenticate
Transaction Context
Device, Location, Behavior
Transactions, Attributes
External Identity
and Threat Intelligence
DLP DAPSIEM
Enterprise
Big Data
Enterprise Server
App
User Profile
Peer Group Profile
Device Etc. ProfileIdentity
Data
Orchestration, Alert Mgt. & Incident Response
Adaptive Security Architecture

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Autonomous Agents & Things
Autonomous Vehicles
Today Tomorrow
Specialized and Controlled
Environments
Semiautonomy
Bridges the Gap
General-Purpose and Public
Environments

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Collaborative Smart Machines Emerge
Autonomous Agents and Things

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The Smart, Autonomous and Invisible Mesh Experience
Siri Cortana Google
Now
Image © Microsoft Image © GoogleImage © Apple
… Just the Beginning!
Digital Mesh + Smart Machines
Personal Assistants & Chatbots
as Conversational Intermediaries
Facebook

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Operationalize Your Approach to Technology Trends
Diagnostic Deliverables
Explore
Disruptive
Trend Ideation
Evaluate
Opportunity
and Risk
Create Business
Transformation
Roadmaps
Enabling Deliverables
Actionable Deliverables
Rationalize
Business
Outcomes

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Device Mesh Information of Everything
Adaptive Security Architecture
NEW IT REALITY
Mesh App & Service Architecture
IoT Architecture & PlatformsAdvanced Systems Architecture
DIGITAL MESH SMART MACHINES
Ambient User Experience
3D Printing Materials
Advanced Machine Learning
Autonomous Agents & Things

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