Top technology trends predictions that will dominate 2018

Growing use of artificial intelligence, machine learning with data analytics, and business intelligence: Business applications continue to churn out large volumes of data, and users are trying to mine that data to determine patterns and predict user behaviour. In e-commerce, users want to know customers' buying patterns, which will help market products better. Website designers want to understand how visitors move through their sites in order to improve conversion rates. And companies want to analyse their sales data to correlate marketing dollars spent with sales dollars generated. Business intelligence and data analytics activities are becoming easier to perform, and that's driving their adoption in mainstream businesses that are seeking to make better, faster decisions. Rise of AI-powered chatbots in customer service and support: Over the past few years, chatbots -- the automated, human-like chat responders -- have been more of an experiment, with limited adoption.