Trends Identified
Digital Transformation Becomes a Must
Whereas digital transformation may once have been just a buzzword in some (lagging) boardrooms in 2017, 2018 will force many companies to realize DX is no joke. It’s an imperative in today’s business market. Disruption will continue to be an increasingly common occurrence in the next few years, and companies unable or unprepared for those changes will quickly fall to the bottom of the pack.
2016
Top 10 trends for digital transformation in 2018
Forbes
Digital Trust
Pervasive new technologies raise potent new digital risk issues. Without trust, businesses cannot share and use the data that underpins their operations. That’s why the most advanced security systems today go well beyond establishing perimeter security and incorporate a powerful commitment to the highest ethical standards for data.
2016
Accenture Technology Vision 2016
Accenture
Digital Twin – Virtualized Insights
Digital twins are virtual models of physical things, products, buildings and systems and their data and information flows. Digital twins create a holistic view of products, buildings and processes and allow virtual simulations and modifications. The real power of a digital twin is the close to real-time linkage between physical and digital worlds. The building elements are: sensors, data, integration layer, analytics and the digital twin, the virtual model, itself. Digital twins promise to improve situational awareness, enable better responses to changes, particularly for asset optimization and preventive maintenance. They can help extending the lifetime of assets and optimizing the performance. Digital twins are increasingly and successfully used for product prototyping, reducing the development times and costs. The market is immature and we are still observing rather simple digital twins like virtual models of buildings, oil platforms and prototypes. The demand is increasing fast and digital twin templates, platforms and services will proliferate. Digital twins won’t stop at assets or things but will be expanded to operations, systems, people, business processes and metadata structures over time. These digital representations will be connected more tightly to their real-world counterparts and infused with more sophisticated artificial intelligence. Obstacles are the heterogeneous and disconnected sources of data and the complexity of the projects. Digital twins will start around asset monitoring, optimization and rapid prototyping. Midterm, operation of factories and companies will follow, long term, we will see generating insights around product and services use and business modelling.
2018
Trend Report 2018 - Emerging Technology Trends
SAP
Digital Twins
A digital twin is a digital representation that mirrors a real-life object, process or system. Digital twins can also be linked to create twins of larger systems, such as a power plant or city. The idea of a digital twin is not new. It goes back to computer-aided design representations of things or online profiles of customers, but today’s digital twins are different in four ways: The robustness of the models, with a focus on how they support specific business outcomes The link to the real world, potentially in real time for monitoring and control The application of advanced big data analytics and AI to drive new business opportunities The ability to interact with them and evaluate “what if” scenarios The focus today is on digital twins in the IoT, which could improve enterprise decision making by providing information on maintenance and reliability, insight into how a product could perform more effectively, data about new products and increased efficiency. Digital twins of an organization are emerging to create models of organizational process to enable real time monitoring and drive improved process efficiencies.
2018
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019
Gartner
Digital Twins
A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world entity or system (see Figure 5). The implementation of a digital twin is an encapsulated software object or model that mirrors a unique physical object (see Note 1). Data from multiple digital twins can be aggregated for a composite view across a number of real-world entities. The notion of a digital representation of real-world entities or systems is not new. You can argue that this was a central notion in the IT industry with the creation of computer-aided design representations of physical assets or profiles of individual customers. The difference in the latest iteration of digital twins is: The robustness of the models
Digital twins' link to the real world, potentially in real time
The application of advanced big data analytics and AI
The ability to interact with them and evaluate "what if" scenarios
2017
Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018
Gartner
Digital wallets will empty faster
Anthropologists know there are three things most of us now carry with us wherever we go: our keys, our wallets and our cellphones. Digital wallets could fold the last two into a single item – and perhaps eradicate cash altogether. Could it change how we spend too?
2011
Seven technologies to disrupt the next decade
NewScientist
Digital–physical blur: Extending intelligence to the edge
The physical world is coming online as objects, devices, and machines acquire more digital intelligence. What’s emerging is more than just an “Internet of Things”; it’s a new layer of connected intelligence that augments the actions of individuals, automates processes, and incorporates digitally empowered machines into our lives, increasing our insight into and control over the tangible world. There are benefits for consumers and businesses. Consumers become better informed and better equipped to influence the ways they experience everything around them. And businesses get real-time connections to the physical world that allow machines as well as employees to act and react faster—and more intelligently.
2014
Accenture Technology Vision 2014
Accenture
Digitalized ecosystems
Emerging technologies in general will require support from new technical foundations and more dynamic ecosystems. These ecosystems will need new business strategies and a move to platform-based business models. “The shift from compartmentalized technical infrastructure to ecosystem-enabling platforms is laying the foundation for entirely new business models that are forming the bridge between humans and technology,” says Walker. For example, blockchain could be a game changer for data security leaders, as it has the potential to increase resilience, reliability, transparency, and trust in centralized systems. Also under this trend are digital twins, a virtual representation of a real object. This is beginning to gain adoption in maintenance, and Gartner estimates hundreds of millions of things will have digital twins within five years.
2018
5 Trends Emerge in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018
Gartner
Digitalized ecosystems
Emerging technologies in general will require support from new technical foundations and more dynamic ecosystems. These ecosystems will need new business strategies and a move to platform-based business models. “The shift from compartmentalized technical infrastructure to ecosystem-enabling platforms is laying the foundation for entirely new business models that are forming the bridge between humans and technology,” says Walker. For example, blockchain could be a game changer for data security leaders, as it has the potential to increase resilience, reliability, transparency, and trust in centralized systems. Also under this trend are digital twins, a virtual representation of a real object. This is beginning to gain adoption in maintenance, and Gartner estimates hundreds of millions of things will have digital twins within five years.
2018
5 Trends Emerge in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018
Gartner
Digitization
The proliferation of new mobile technologies, the rise of the Internet of Things, reliance on sensor and wearable technologies, and increased reliance on digital interaction has shifted the world from an analog to a digital one.
2017
Beyond the Noise- The Megatrends of Tomorrow’s World
Deloitte