19 For 19: Technology Predictions For 2019 And Beyond

With 2018 out the door, it's important to take a look at where we've been over these past twelve months before we embrace the possibilities of what's ahead this year. It has been a fast-moving year in enterprise technology. Modern data management has been a primary objective for most enterprise companies in 2018, evidenced by the dramatic increase in cloud adoption, strategic mergers and acquisitions and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies. Continuing on from my predictions for 2018, let's take out the crystal ball and imagine what could be happening technology-wise in 2019: Such mixed-use architectures will be essential in driving machine learning operationalization. By adoping centralized cross-functional AI departments, organizations will be able to produce, share and reuse AI models and solutions to realize rapid return on investmentt (ROI).