10 Technologies That Will Power the Enterprise in 2018 - Futurum

It seems like only yesterday we were talking about things like mobility and unified communications as tools that could power the enterprise. But this coming year, Gartner's annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends predicts newer technologies like artificial intelligence will find an increasing number of real use cases in the business landscape that will make them less of a cool trend and more of a must-have for many businesses. Indeed, it's never really the technology that makes the disruption--it's the people who find new and different ways to use it. And while it's hard to predict how or when those disruptions will erupt in the marketplace, we can definitely take a stab at understanding the technology that will likely back them. For me, it boils down to artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain.