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TRENDS FOR 2023

Gartner identifies the top 10

strategic technology trends for 2023

“ o enhance their organisation’s THE TOP STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FOR 2023 ARE:
financial position during times of
Teconomic turbulence, CIOs and Sustainability
IT executives must look beyond cost Sustainability traverses all of the strategic technology trends for 2023. In a recent Gartner
savings to new forms of operational survey, CEOs reported that environmental and social changes are now a top priority
excellence while continuing to accelerate for investors, after profit and revenue. This means that executives must invest more in
digital transformation,” said Frances innovative solutions that are designed to address ESG demand to meet sustainability
Karamouzis, distinguished VP analyst goals. To do this, organisations need a new sustainable technology framework
at Gartner. “The Gartner strategic that increases the energy and material efficiency of IT services, enables enterprise
technology trends for 2023 are built sustainability through technologies like traceability, analytics, renewable energy and AI,
around three themes — optimise, scale and deploys IT solutions to help customers achieve their own sustainability goals.
and pioneer — where technologies can
help organisations optimise resilience, Pioneer
operations or trust, scale vertical Metaverse
solutions and product delivery, and Gartner defines a metaverse as a collective virtual 3D shared space, created by the
pioneer with new forms of engagement, convergence of virtually enhanced physical and digital reality. A metaverse is persistent,
accelerated responses or opportunity.” providing enhanced immersive experiences. Gartner expects that a complete metaverse
“However, in 2023, delivering will be device-independent and won’t be owned by a single vendor. It will have a virtual
technology will not be enough. These economy of itself, enabled by digital currencies and non-fundible tokens (NFTs). By 2027,
themes are impacted by environmental, Gartner predicts that over 40% of large organisations worldwide will use a combination
social and governance (ESG) expectations of Web3, AR cloud and digital twins in metaverse-based projects aimed at increasing
and regulations, which translate into the revenue.
shared responsibility to apply sustainable
technologies. Every technology Super apps
investment will need to be set off against A super app combines the features of an app, a platform and an ecosystem in one
its impact on the environment, keeping application. It not only has its own set of functionalities, but it also provides a platform
future generations in mind. ‘Sustainable for third parties on which to develop and publish their own mini-apps. By 2027, Gartner
by default’ as an objective requires predicts that more than 50% of the global population will be daily active users of multiple
sustainable technology,” said David super apps.
Groombridge, distinguished VP analyst at “Although most examples of super apps are mobile apps, the concept can also be
Gartner. applied to desktop client applications, such as Microsoft Teams and Slack, with the key

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