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Gartner Identifies Top 10 Data & Analytics Technology Trends For 2021
Gartner, Inc. identified the top 10 D&A technology trends for 2021 that can help organizations respond to change, uncertainty and the opportunities they bring in the next year.
“The speed at which the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted organizations has forced D&A leaders to have tools and processes in place to identify key technology trends and prioritize those with the biggest potential impact on their competitive advantage,”said Rita Sallam, distinguished research vice president at Gartner.
D&A leaders should use the following 10 trends as mission-critical investments that accelerate their capabilities to anticipate, shift and respond.
Trend 1: Smarter, Responsible, Scalable AI
The greater impact of AI and machine learning requires businesses to apply new techniques for smarter, less data-hungry, ethically responsible and more resilient AI solutions.
Trend 2: Composable Data and Analytics
With the center of data gravity moving to the cloud, composable data and analytics will become a more agile way to build analytics applications enabled by cloud marketplaces and low-code and no-code solutions.
Trend 3: Data Fabric is the Foundation
A data fabric utilizes continuous analytics of data assets to support the design, deployment and utilization of diverse data to reduce time for integration by 30%, deployment by 30% and maintenance by 70%.
Trend 4: From Big to Small and Wide Data
D&A leaders should choose analytical techniques that can use available data more effectively.
Trend 5:XOps
If D&A leaders operationalize at scale using XOps, they will enable the reproducibility, traceability, integrity and integrability of analytics and AI assets.
Trend 6: Engineering Decision Intelligence
As decisions become increasingly automated and augmented, engineering decisions give the opportunity for D&A leaders to make decisions more accurate, repeatable, transparent and traceable.
Trend 7: Data and Analytics as a Core Business Function
Instead of being a secondary activity, D&A is shifting to a core business function.
Trend 8: Graph Relates Everything
Gartner predicts that by 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, up from 10% in 2021, facilitating rapid decision making across the organization.
Trend 9: The Rise of the Augmented Consumer
Most business users are today using predefined dashboards and manual data exploration, which can lead to incorrect conclusions and flawed decisions and actions.Time spent in predefined dashboards will progressively be replaced with automated, conversational, mobile, and dynamically generated insights customized to a user’s needs and delivered to their point of consumption.
Trend 10: Data and Analytics at the Edge
Data, analytics and other technologies supporting them increasingly reside in edge computing environments, closer to assets in the physical world and outside IT’s purview.Gartner predicts that by 2023, over 50% of the primary responsibility of data and analytics leaders will comprise data created, managed, and analyzed in edge environments.
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