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INTRODUCTION TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES › The mass adoption of IoT platforms: Many

IN COMPUTING companies are already leveraging IoT
Industries Influenced by Technologies technology and many others are ramping
up their efforts.
⁕ Real Estate ⁕ Telecom
› The industrial IoT is the biggest business
⁕ Financial ⁕ Automotive
opportunity.
⁕ Education ⁕ Healthcare
› Major security challenges in IoT solutions
⁕ Consumer Business ⁕ Media
⁕ Manufacturing ⁕ Energy × Cyber Security
⁕ Government › Up to 5,000 average number of security
alerts
Current Situation Insights › SMBs as the main focus of attacks
➢ Increased investments in technologies becoming a launch pad for bigger
implementations campaigns
➢ New business models › The most popular attacks are target
➢ Work on the operational efficiency attacks against person, advanced
➢ Technology management malware the world hasn’t seen before,
➢ Value of data ransomware.
➢ Customer centricity › Cloud as an option to strengthen security
➢ Combination of technologies and cross- efficiency
industries partnerships for new customer’s › New technologies as a new way to
benefits embrace cyber technology (e.g. Machine
➢ Rebuilding the workforce and creating the Learning as security help)
digital workplace › Security outsourcing as a better option for
➢ Regulatory rethinking SMBs
➢ Security and privacy becomes a #1 priority
× Big Data / Data Science
Tech Trends Today › Strong connection with other emerging
× Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (e.g. AI and ML)
› Intensive development of AI in the past › Data warehouse optimization remains the
few years top use case for big data.
› Huge interest of companies in technology › Prevailing trend among enterprises is to
and its marsh to the commercial use move to cloud-based analytics in the
› Main focus on its implementation to keep nearest time.
the business processes up to date › Data privacy and security concerns
› Deep learning improvement × Mobile Apps Development
› AI already merged with lots of other › Demand for App Dev at all times is high
emerging technologies (automotive, IoT (Mobile-first)
etc.) › Excessive development time
× Internet of Things (IoT) › Backlogs remain stubbornly high
› Top-of-mind technology over the last few › Slow returns from Agile and DevOps
years investments
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› Customer centricity is on the rise.
› Low-code is becoming mainstream
× Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual Reality
(VR)
› AR goes on with active implementation in
our everyday life (e.g. AR applications for
retail).
› Increasing software development for
common usage
› Continuous investments, development
and further R&D activities of big plyers
(Samsung, Microsoft, Google, Amazon,
etc).
› Ongoing adoption of commercial and
enterprise solutions using AR devices
× RPA: Robot Process Automation
› The market is still nascent.
› Capturing inputs from diverse formats is
still a problem.
› Integration with other emerging
technologies to solve such problems as
processing unstructured data
› Frequent changes in business rules and
operating procedures
› Industry standards are still being
developed.
› RPA initiatives are being adopted in
pockets.
› Narrow scope of services where RPA may
be implemented
× Blockchain
› Blockchain technology is still in its infancy.
(Blockchains are slow, user unfriendly,
unscalable, and expensive)
› Enterprise Blockchains focus on private or
consortium-based blockchain
implementations
› Raising capital
› Increased government and regulatory
involvement
× Autonomous Driving (Automotive)
› The technology is still under
development.
› Companies go on testing self-driving
vehicles building the enough number of
vehicles.
› Safety of others is still a challenge.
› The issue with cars driven by humans
› The problem with signs recognition
› Ownership system issues
× Business Intelligence
› Executive Management, Operations, and
Sales are the three primary roles driving
Business Intelligence (BI) adoption.
› Dashboards, reporting, end-user self-
service, advanced visualization and data
warehousing are the highest priority
investment areas for companies.
› Small organizations with up to 100
employees have the highest rate of BI
penetration or adoption.
› Sales, Marketing and Executive
Management have the highest level of
interest in dashboards and advanced
visualization.
× Cloud Computing
› Increased popularity among small and
large businesses.
› Multi-cloud is the preferred strategy
among enterprises.
› More enterprises are prioritizing public
cloud.
› Serverless is the top-growing extended
cloud service.
› Significant wasted cloud spend makes
optimizing costs the top initiative.
› Azure continues to grow quickly and
reduce the AWS lead, especially among
enterprises.
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× Service Desk × Augmented analytics becomes a new wave of

› Today’s Service Desk is about “doing data processing based on data science and
more with less”. machine learning platforms.
› Employee experience consideration to
improve employees productivity AI-Driven Development
› Proactive approach as a core This trend covers embedding of artificial
› The more automated processes – the intelligence into different applications and
better creation of AI-powered tools for such directions:
o AI-powered tools targeting professional
Technology Trends Transformation in 2019 developer community (AI Platforms and
and Beyond Services)
o AI-powered tools created to assist
Intelligence Digital Mesh professional developers and automate
▪ Autonomous ▪ Digital Twins ▪ Blockchain tasks related to the development of AI-
Things ▪ Empowered ▪ Smart Spaces enhanced solutions
▪ Augmented Edge o AI-powered tools targeting business
Analytics ▪ Immersive
domain expertise (application
▪ AI-Driven Experience
Development
development stack)
Privacy and Ethics
Digital Twins
Quantum Computing Digital twins became a new format of the well-
known computer design representations of real
Autonomous Things world elements, but now it brings a new sense of
Today all autonomous solutions are closely digitalization:
related to AI to be able to interact more naturally o Reflect the models focused on specific
with the environment. Autonomous things are business outcomes support
represented as: o Show the real world in real time for
o Robotics monitoring and control
o Vehicles 59% of organizations are o Allows to check the application of Big Data
o Drones still preparing to build their Analytics and AI
o Appliances AI strategies. o Create the environment for “What-if”
o Agents scenarios.

Augmented Analytics Empowered Edge

× Today, Bid Data definition transformed into
the Enormous Data, and now we are talking
about receiving data flows from anywhere –
connected sensors that measure nearly
everything.
× Data scientists face not only the problem of
data collection and storage, but have to solve
the challenge of its analysis.
Edge computing allows to process the data in
real-time without loosing the time on sending it
to process the data in the cloud. The empowered
edge will be of use in such areas as:
o Enterprises, where the remote data
monitoring is vital for faults monitoring.
Industries, where edge data processing
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allows gather comprehensive information Digital Ethics and Privacy

on processes for further improvements. Due to constant technology development,
o Automated devices for real-time data governments started creating new regulations
processing and transmitting it to other related to data protection. The main regulation
devices. themes became digital ethics, namely:
o Security
Immersive Experience o Cybercrime
Current experience based on artificial intelligence, o Privacy
augmented, mixed and virtual reality will result in o Social
a new era of customer relationship management: o Interaction
o EmoBots – chatbots and intelligent o Governance
assistants able to recognize and react to o Free will
human emotions. o Society and economy
o New level of realism (AR/VR, IoT and
mobile combination) Quantum Computing
o Hyper-personalization (AI, predictive It is expected that in 5 years quantum computing
analytics, IoT etc.) will become a mainstream and ease such
o Instant gratification processes as:
o Weather and climate modeling
Blockchain o Personalized medicine predictions
Even still being immature, blockchain is expected o Space exploration
to embrace all industries, and even more: o Fundamental sciences boost
o The mature ecosystem and national o Machine learning
cryptocurrencies will appear. o Encryption
o Working business models will be created. o Real-time language translation
o Blockchain already started integration with
IoT and it will be strengthened further.
o New Blockchain regulations will be
implemented.
o All decentralized services will be secured.

Smart Spaces
Smart spaces are the physical or digital
environments or ecosystems where humans can
interact with technology-enabled systems. Smart
spaces provide developers with such vital features:
o Openness
o Connectedness
o Coordination
o Intelligence
o Scope
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BIG DATA › Just think of all the conversations we have on

social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.
It is completely transforming the way we do
› Even many of our phone conversations are
business and is impacting most other parts of our
now digitally recorded.
lives.
Image / Video Data
Basic Idea
› Just think about all the pictures we take on
› Everything we do is increasingly leaving a
our smart phones or digital cameras. We
digital trace (or data), which we (and others)
upload and share hundreds of thousands of
can use and analyze.
them on social media sites every second.
› Big Data therefore refers to our ability to
› The increasing amounts of CCTV cameras
make use of the ever-increasing volumes of
take video images and we upload hundreds
data.
of hours of video images to YouTube and
How Much Data? other sites every minute.
› From the dawn of civilization until 2003, Sensor Data
humankind generated five exabytes of data.
› We are increasingly surrounded by sensors
Now we produce five exabytes every two
that collect and share data.
days…and the pace is accelerating. (Eric
› Take your smart phone, it contains a global
Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google)
positioning sensor to track exactly where you
› Facebook has 2.5 PB of user data + 15
are every second of the day, it includes an
TB/day (2009)
accelerometer to track the speed and
› eBay has 6.5 PB of user data + 50 TB/day
direction at which you are travelling.
(2009)
IoT Data
Activity Data
› We now have smart TVs that are able to
› Simple activities like listening to music or
collect and process data, we have smart
reading a book are now generating data.
watches, smart fridges, and smart alarms.
Digital music players and eBooks collect
› The Internet of Things, or Internet of
data on our activities.
Everything connects these devices so that e.g.,
› Your smart phone collects data on how you
the traffic sensors on the road send data to
use it and your web browser collects
your alarm clock which will wake you up
information on what you are searching for.
earlier than planned because the blocked
› Your credit card company collects data on
road means you have to leave earlier to make
where you shop and your shop collects data
your 9am meeting.
on what you buy.

Conversation Data
› Our conversations are now digitally
recorded!
› It all started with emails but nowadays most
of our conversations leave a digital trail.
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The 4 V’s of Big Data
Volume
× Vast amounts of data generated every
second.
× Not just Terabytes but Zettabytes or
Brontobytes.
× New big data tools use distributed systems so
that we can store and analyze data across
databases that are dotted around anywhere in
the world.
Velocity
× Speed at which new data is generated and the
speed at which data moves around.
× Just think of social media messages going
viral in seconds.
× Technology allows us now to analyze the
data while it is being generated (sometimes
referred to as in memory analytics), without
ever putting it into databases.
Variety
× Different types of data we can use.
× In the past we only focused on structured
data that neatly fitted into tables or relational
databases, such as financial data.
× 80% of the world’s data is unstructured (text,
images, video, voice, etc.)
× With big data technology we can now analyze
and bring together data of different types
such as messages, social media conversations,
photos, sensor data, video or voice
recordings.
Veracity
× Messiness or trustworthiness of the data.
× With many forms of big data quality and
accuracy are less controllable (just think of
Twitter posts with hash tags, abbreviations,
typos and colloquial speech as well as the
reliability and accuracy of content) but
technology now allows us to work with this
type of data.
Big Data Applications
• Example 1: Better Understand and Target
Customer
➢ To better understand and target
customers, companies expand their
traditional data sets with social media
data, browser, text analytics or sensor
data to get a more complete picture of
their customers.
➢ The big objective, in many cases, is to
create predictive models. Using big data,
Telecom companies can now better
predict customer churn; retailers can
predict what products will sell, and car
insurance companies understand how
well their customers actually drive
• Example 2: Understand and Optimize Business
Processes
➢ Retailers are able to optimize their stock
based on predictive models generated
from social media data, web search trends
and weather forecasts.
➢ Another example is supply chain or
delivery route optimization using data
from geographic positioning and radio
frequency identification sensors.
• Example 3: Improving or Optimizing Cities and
Countries
➢ It allows cities to optimize traffic flows
based on real time traffic information as
well as social media and weather data.
➢ A number of cities are currently using big
data analytics with the aim of turning
themselves into Smart Cities, where
transport infrastructure and utility
processes are all joined up. Where a bus
would wait for a delayed train and where
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traffic signals predict traffic volumes and

operate to minimize jams.
• Endless Applications
➢ Currently we are only seeing the
beginnings of a transformation into a big
data economy.
➢ Any business that doesn’t seriously
consider the implications of Big Data runs
the risk of being left behind.