Top 5 IT Trends in 2017

From a market perspective, some of the IT trends that we would look forward to in 2017 are -

Cognitive Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Machine Learning: Systems and machines are moving beyond simple Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Solutions are looking at how cognitive intelligence can be harnessed by machines to create an exponential impact on services and human interactions. Rise in digital adoption, increase in computing power amongst other trends are expected to fuel growth in this trend.

Singular Bots: Bots have traditionally performed clerical and repetitive tasks. However, the usage of Bots Powered by machine learning, natural language processing and other technologies including cognitive computing is providing the ability to learn and become smarter with each task performed. Going forward we expect to see, large scale inclusion and prevalence of Bots across services and other customer delivery domains.

Data Economy: Data is referred to as the new currency. Data is driving almost all aspects of business today. Right from board Rooms discussion/decisions to Labs and field exploration. The dependency and expectation from data is on all-time high. Organizations are exploring and realizing, unexpected results and benefits associated with various usages of analytic data and accordingly spending various dollars on the same. We expect this trend to get bigger in 2017 and many organizations to have defined strategy on harnessing the power of data.

Flexi-gent Security: Flexi-gent (Flexible + Intelligent) security is the new way to situation and architecture independent security frameworks and architectures. Security threats are increasing day by day, throwing never known and unimaginable threats. Organizations need to adopt a flexible, self-learning and enabling security architectures to overcome such challenges. We expect to see lot of organization talk about and invest time and money to adopt the same.

In addition to above trends, we expect AR/VR and Block chain technologies to see wider adoption in 2017. The demand for the latter is largely fuelled by increasing cyber security concerns amongst Financial Services customers.