We tell you the 10 technology trends that will be key in reshaping the future of the industry and will lead the way until 2030.
Over the past few years, leading companies in different business sectors have invested in technology to improve the experience of their customers and employees, and thus create a competitive advantage. But technology is evolving, and with it, the business investment must evolve.
To help companies guide their technology investments in an environment of great uncertainty, we have identified the 10 trends that will be key in reshaping the future of the industry and will lead the way to 2030. Let’s take a look at the leading technology consultancies’ predictions for innovation and investment over the next few years:
1. Quantum Computing
According to McKinsey Technology Council, the potential value of quantum computing over the next 13 years would be more than $1 billion (€838 million). This type of next-generation computing reduces product and service development time by reducing hardware costs, accelerating machine learning, and enabling the more efficient search of unstructured data sets.
2. Hyperautomation
Intelligent process automation or Hyper-automation is the discipline that combines different technologies with optimization, prediction, and automation capabilities based on AI, whose objective is to facilitate the digitization of business processes from end to end, seeking efficiency and increasing the skills of people in each area of the company.
This technological combination allows companies to streamline routine tasks and improve operational efficiency, accelerating time to market. De hemo predicts that 50% of current work activities could be automated by 2025.
3. Connectivity of the future – 5G
Technological progress seems to indicate that by 2030, 80% of the world’s population will have 5G coverage. This means faster connectivity, faster downloads, and virtually zero latency. This will drive changes in the business landscape, such as full digitization of the production process, decentralized energy supply, or remote patient monitoring, among others.
4. Distributed Cloud Architecture
This IT infrastructure that brings together cloud and edge computing enables enterprises to reduce latency in connecting devices across a larger number of locations and accelerate decision-making based on advanced analytics. Today, around 70% of enterprises employ hybrid or ‘multi-cloud’ technologies, tools, and management processes that help increase the speed and agility of operations, reduce complexity, save costs and strengthen cybersecurity defenses.
5. Trust Architecture
This type of ‘trust’ architecture consists of a set of technologies, frameworks, and approaches designed for a world of increasing cyber-attacks. The increasing trend of such attacks necessitates architectures capable of verifying the trustworthiness of devices as data flows through networks, APIs, and applications.
Such technologies lower the costs of security compliance, reduce the capital and operational expenses associated with cybersecurity, and enable more cost-effective transactions. These include technologies such as blockchain or the zero-trust security approach based on the principle that nothing can be trusted to prevent data breaches.
6. Cleantech
We are increasingly moving towards a greener and more sustainable world. Society, governments, and companies are making a great effort to achieve this and it is expected that by 2050 more than 75% of the world’s energy will be renewable. That is why one of the trends will be Cleantech or clean technologies, systems that respond to the need to protect and preserve the environment. These are for example smart energy distribution systems in the grid, energy storage, carbon-neutral energy generation, or diffusion energy.
7. Process Mining
Process mining is a discipline of process analysis that seeks to discover, monitor, and improve processes by extracting knowledge from business systems.
This new trend is gaining momentum because it can identify bottlenecks, rework, deviations, and sources of waste in processes, and uncover opportunities to optimize performance and maximize business results.
8. Applied AI
La adopción de la inteligencia artificial continúa creciendo y se prevé que el mercado global de la IA
The adoption of artificial intelligence continues to grow and the global AI market is expected to reach a value of $267 billion by 2027. This trend employs AI algorithms to train machines to recognize patterns, interpret them and act accordingly; helping computers make sense of real-world data.
Integrating these AI-based solutions into the operational framework of enterprises requires identifying in advance processes that need to be modified, to enable the adoption of new technologies and above all the establishment of standards for creating, testing, and deploying new AI models.
9. The programming of the future – Low Code
Low-Code development platforms are increasingly used and this trend will continue in the future, as they are more cost-effective and allow rapid changes to applications without the need to start from scratch.
The implementation of these platforms allows companies to accelerate and simplify the creation and update of applications in a way that is aligned with IT and business departments in terms of time and objectives. They use very little code, and based on modules that have already been created, they make it possible to improve, change and update an application. The high code reusability of this type of platform makes it possible to reduce maintenance and training costs for development professionals.
10. Internet of Behaviours (IoB)
From the creators of the Internet of Things (IoT) comes the Internet of Behaviours (IoB). This growing trend in business strategies is based on collecting data from customer interactions with IoT devices to gain valuable insights into their behaviors, interests, and preferences. In this way, companies can generate fully personalized experiences that improve user satisfaction or adapt their products and services to meet the needs detected.
Do you have any doubts about one of the main technological trends for the coming years?
At numens we can help you understand them from a business or technical perspective.
