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Intelligent apps and analytics. Since every app will have some level of AI, intelligent apps will be used to augment humans. Look for companies to use machine learning to automate things like data prep and sharing insight. Packaged apps will move toward more intelligence. Indeed, SAP and Oracle have touted built-in intelligence as has Workday and Salesforce among others.
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Intelligent things–or IoT. Autonomous vehicles in controlled settings such as farming and mining will be increasingly adopted. Robotics, drones and IoT will connect consumers, systems and industries.
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Digital twins will be used in IoT and will enhance decision-making. Digital twins will proliferate well beyond industrial settings popularized by GE.
Cloud computing at the edge. Endpoints will become more distributed and more intelligent to eliminate latency.
Conversational platforms. Conversational interfaces will show up everywhere in corporate systems as well as every level of software.
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Immersive experiences, AR and VR. These experiences will appear in more enterprises for productivity, visualization, design and training.
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Blockchain has potential in multiple applications in government, healthcare, manufacturing, media distribution, supply chain and identity verification. In other words, drop the financial services and Bitcoin fascination since blockchain will have more implications.
Executive’s guide to implementing blockchain technology
Digital business events. Companies will move toward event-driven business models. IoT, cloud, blockchain, in-memory data and AI will be enablers.
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Adaptive risk and trust. Security will be a common theme as infrastructure will have to adapt on the fly and manage risk. Automating security will be a big theme, says Oracle CTO Larry Ellison.
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