CEOs want three things: Growth, digitalization and efficiency.
From COVID-19 to political unrest to climate change, organizations are constantly buffeted by unexpected events. But the promise of digital business as a way to thrive and outperform the competition during these disruptions remains clear.
As an IT leader, the responsibility for supporting the technical end of digital business rests squarely on your shoulders. You have an opportunity to embrace force-multiplying innovations to accelerate growth and strategically drive your organization forward.
These innovations will deliver:
• Trusted digital connections for your people and devices everywhere
• Solutions to rapidly scale digital creativity anywhere
• Innovative capabilities to accelerate business growth beyond today
These trends build on and reinforce one another. Taken together, our top strategic technology trends for 2022 will help you to meet your CEO’s priorities to scale, adapt and grow.
1. Data Fabric
The value of data has never been more clear. But often, data remains siloed within applications, which means it’s not being used as effectively
as possible.
Data fabric integrates data across platforms and users, making data available everywhere it’s needed.
Within inbuilt analytics reading metadata, data fabric is able to learn what data is being used. Its real value exists in its ability to make
recommendations for more, different and better data, reducing data management by up to 70%.
How It’s Used Today:
The Finnish city of Turku found its innovation held back by gaps in its data. By integrating fragmented data assets, it was able to reuse data, reduce time to market by two-thirds, and create a monetizable data fabric.
How to Get Started:
Identify priority areas to introduce data fabric solutions by using metadata analytics to determine current data
utilization patterns for ongoing business operations. Prioritize areas with significant drift between between actual and modeled data.
2. Cybersecurity Mesh
Digital business assets are distributed across cloud and data centers. Traditional, fragmented security approaches focused on enterprise
perimeters leave organizations open to breaches. A cybersecurity mesh architecture provides a composable approach
to security based on identity to create a scalable and interoperable service. The common integrated structure secures all assets, regardless
of location, to enable a security approach that extends across the foundation of IT services.
How It’s Used Today:
An organization in the technology space was struggling to create value from its threat intelligence program. Using a cybersecurity mesh approach, they integrated multiple data feeds from distinct security products to better identify and respond more quickly to incidents.
How to Get Started:
Prioritize composability and interoperability when selecting security solutions. Build a common base
framework to compose and integrate security solutions.
