Event driven architecture gartner

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Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018 Published: 3 October 2017 ID: G00327329

Analyst(s): David W. Cearley, Brian Burke, Samantha Searle, Mike J. Walker

The intelligent digital mesh is a foundation for future digital business and its ecosystems. To create competitive advantage, enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must evaluate these top trends to identify opportunities that their organizations can exploit.

Key Findings ■ Artificial intelligence (AI) delivers value to every industry, enabling new business models. It does

so by supporting key initiatives such as customer engagement, digital production, smart cities, self-driving cars, risk management, computer vision and speech recognition.

■ As people, places, processes and "things" become increasingly digitalized, they will be represented by digital twins. This will provide fertile ground for new event-driven business processes and digitally enabled business models and ecosystems.

■ The way we interact with technology will undergo a radical transformation over the next five to 10 years. Conversational platforms, augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality will provide more natural and immersive interactions with the digital world.

■ A digital business is event-centric, which means it must be continuously sensing and adapting. The same applies to the security and risk infrastructure that supports it, which must focus on deceiving potential intruders and predicting security events.

Recommendations Enterprise architecture (EA) and technology innovation leaders using EA to master emerging and strategic trends must:

■ Devise new business scenarios using AI as the enabler for new business designs. Do so by engaging, educating and ideating with senior business leaders about their strategically relevant priorities.

■ Create a more natural and immersive user experience by deploying, where effective, conversational platforms and virtual, augmented and mixed reality.

■ Support Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives by developing and prioritizing targeted, high-value business cases to build digital twins and exploit cloud and edge computing synergistically.

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■ Adopt a strategic approach for security and risk that continuously adapts based on risk and trust. Do so by communicating requirements to developers, achieving a DevSecOps environment.

Table of Contents

Analysis..................................................................................................................................................3

Trend No. 1: AI Foundation...............................................................................................................4

Today's AI Is Narrow AI...............................................................................................................5

Trend No. 2: Intelligent Apps and Analytics....................................................................................... 6

Augmented Analytics Will Enable Users to Spend More Time Acting on Insights.........................8

Trend No. 3: Intelligent Things...........................................................................................................9

Swarms of Intelligent Things Will Work Together....................................................................... 11

Trend No. 4: Digital Twins............................................................................................................... 12

Digital Twins Will Be Linked to Other Digital Entities...................................................................14

Trend No. 5: Cloud to the Edge...................................................................................................... 15

Edge Computing Brings Distributed Computing Into the Cloud Style........................................ 16

Trend No. 6: Conversational Platforms............................................................................................17

Integration With Third-Party Services Will Further Increase Usefulness...................................... 18

Trend No. 7: Immersive Experience.................................................................................................20

VR and AR Can Help Increase Productivity............................................................................... 21

Trend No. 8: Blockchain................................................................................................................. 23

Blockchain Offers Significant Potential Long-Term Benefits Despite Its Challenges....................24

Trend No. 9: Event-Driven Model.................................................................................................... 26

Events Will Become More Important in the Intelligent Digital Mesh............................................ 26

Trend No. 10: Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust......................................................................... 27

Barriers Must Come Down Between Security and Application Teams....................................... 28

Gartner Recommended Reading.......................................................................................................... 30

List of Figures

Figure 1. Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018...........................................................................4

Figure 2. Narrow AI's Place in the Long History of AI.............................................................................. 5

Figure 3. Augmented Analytics for Citizen and Professional Data Scientists............................................ 8

Figure 4. Intelligent Things Span Many Sectors.....................................................................................10

Figure 5. Digital Twins Are Digital Representations of Real-World Objects............................................. 13

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Figure 6. Digital-Twin Models Will Expand to More Than Just Things.................................................... 15

Figure 7. Cloud and Edge Computing Are Complementary Concepts...................................................17

Figure 8. Conversational Platforms Include New User Experience Design Elements..............................19

Figure 9. The Future of the User Experience......................................................................................... 22

Figure 10. Key Elements of Blockchain.................................................................................................24

Figure 11. Event-Driven and Request-Driven Application Design Models Are Complementary.............. 27