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10 Trends And Technologies That Will Shape The IT Market

Looking into its crystal ball, IT research firm Gartner has laid out the top ten technology trends in 2020 that will drive disruption and create the largest opportunities in the market over the next five to ten years.

“These trends have a profound impact on the people and the spaces they inhabit,” said Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner during a recent event. “Rather than building a technology stack and then exploring the potential applications, organizations must consider the business and human context first.”

By 2022, 70 percent of enterprises will be experimenting with immersive technologies for consumer and enterprise use, and 25 percent will have them deployed in production, according to Gartner. Additionally, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65 percent of application development activity by 2024.

Hyper automation, the distributed cloud, practical blockchain and human augmentation are just a few of the biggest These technology trends next year that have potential to power both transformation and optimization initiatives. Gartner said technology innovators must adopt a mindset and new practices that accept and embrace perpetual change.

Here are the ten trends for 2020 that Gartner predicts will shake up the market for years to come.