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TOP IT Trends for 2023
Undoubtedly, COVID-19 was biggest push for many companies to accelerate with their digitization. In 2022 already many business processes are largely handled digitally and corporate data increasingly form the basis of business success. In order to continue to ensure their business success, in 2023 companies will increasingly deal with sustainability, their multi-cloud strategy and cyber-protection.
The market research company Gartner assumes that spending on on-premises and cloud services will be accelerated by 2025, with the cloud taking on the higher share vs traditional IT. After covid19, the two main reason of this dramatic shift are issues related to the supply chain and climate related issues.
Multi & Hybrid Cloud:
With more and more services migrating from on-premises to the cloud, the multi-cloud in particular is now gaining in importance. There are many reasons that speak in favor of a multi-cloud strategy when selecting cloud tools: If services from several cloud service providers are used, costs can be saved, the risk of application failures are reduced and certain types of GDPR requirements are respected. Furthermore, many companies attach importance to choosing the most suitable platforms for specific processes, ensuring scalability and not being exclusively dependent on one provider. It also provides the necessary overview of a wide range of management functions and data services. Since multi-cloud environments represent a larger attack surface for various threats, the development of a suitable IT security strategy is also much more complex. To ensure that potential security gaps do not arise in the first place, a comprehensive top-down security strategy should be implemented.
Sustainable Cloud
More and more companies are emphasizing on the reduction of their environmental impact. By demanding relevant and reliable evidence from their cloud suppliers, IT buyers are paying making more and more sustainable choices. Various studies indicate that cloud-based solutions can lead to significant CO2 savings. All leading hyperscalers (providers of cloud platforms such as Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure, Google/GCP) are constantly working on energy-efficient data centers and on the most efficient resource allocation possible in order to reduce their energy consumption. IT that lives up to its responsibilities can make a significant contribution to a net-zero world. Sustainable IT focuses on the growing energy consumption of the entire IT value chain in an environmentally-oriented approach.
Lack of IT staff
The digital transformation is a constant challenge for the worldwide companies. The IT personnel market is tense due to a lack of specialist staff, which can impact companies’ efforts towards digitization. Companies cannot remain successful in the global market without specialists with in-depth IT & cloud knowledge. And the fact that the future is hybrid & multi-cloud, companies are concerned about the lack of qualified staff. The necessary skills cannot be acquired overnight. An increasing demand for software developers, service desks and administrators for information technology as well as experts for data security and business intelligence will be recorded in 2023.
Robotic Process Automation
Considering the general shortage of skilled workers and economic and geopolitical uncertainties, technologies are favored that are easy to use and produce a measurable gain in efficiency. Less administration, more productivity – this is the motto for the use of automation technologies in day-to-day activities. RPA software robots can imitate the actions of humans on the computer and thus carry out rule-based and repetitive tasks flawlessly and without a break. Thanks to the latest improvements in data entry and symbol recognition, many manual tasks can be done by robots. According to Gartner, the global robotic process automation market was estimated at USD 2.09 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 33.3 billion by 2023 due to the growing trend of cloud-based solutions and the increasing adoption of robot-based solutions across various end-user industries.