Analysts

Analyst(s)

Sylvain Fabre

Peter Liu

Jouni Forsman

Summary

To remain competitive, private mobile network services must reflect a combination of technologies, industrial applications, and novel deployment and consumption models. CIOs can use this Hype Cycle to identify and prioritize key technologies and innovations for their PMN portfolio strategy.

Analyst(s)

Wam Voster

Katell Thielemann

Summary

Cyber-physical systems continue to multiply in all industries due to digital transformation efforts, with security efforts evolving in parallel. Security and risk management leaders, increasingly tasked with securing CPS, can use this Hype Cycle to prioritize strategic investments.

Analyst(s)

Thomas Bittman

Summary

Edge computing deployments are growing, technologies to support edge computing are gradually maturing, and edge AI is becoming more central to edge strategies. I&O leaders should use the technologies in this Hype Cycle to support both near-term implementations and still-emerging edge applications.

Analyst(s)

Nicole Foust

Summary

To ensure the continued provision of affordable and sustainable services, power and utilities companies must transform with digital technology. This Hype Cycle offers insights into power and utility technologies, enabling CIOs to align technology investments with business goals for optimal results.

Analyst(s)

Dennis Smith

Summary

Infrastructure platforms support enterprise requirements for flexibility and security while enabling digital business strategies. I&O leaders should leverage this Hype Cycle to prepare for the delivery of effective infrastructure platform capabilities.

Analyst(s)

Kristian Steenstrup

Jo-Ann Clynch

Summary

The challenge of managing OT, and in some companies, ET, arises as organizations become integrated digital businesses. This means CIOs and other technologies leaders need to understand the characteristics and maturity of the tools and methods at their disposal.

Analyst(s)

Peter Krensky

Summary

The data science and machine learning landscape is reacting to the massive hype this year has brought to generative AI. DSML and its adjacent fields are enjoying the spotlight and data and analytics leaders are more receptive to novel techniques and cognizant of accompanying challenges.

Analyst(s)

Nicole Foust

Summary

Utility organizations face continuous disruption. To gain resilience and agility, lower risk and better capitalize opportunities, organizations are enabling intelligent operations. This Hype Cycle gives utility CIOs insights to effectively align technology investments with strategic business goals.

Analyst(s)

Dennis Smith

Summary

Infrastructure platforms support the combining of agility and speed with the safety and soundness needed for enabling digital business strategies. I&O leaders should leverage this Hype Cycle to prepare for delivery of impactful infrastructure platform capabilities.

Analyst(s)

Danielle Casey

Annette Jump

Gabriele Rigon

Annette Zimmermann

Milly Xiang

Roberta Cozza

Erick Brethenoux

Jeffery Skowron

Svetlana Sicular

Summary

The conversational AI market is rapidly growing and evolving, driven by capability advancements in AI that are enabling smarter, more scalable and specialized solutions. Product leaders must consider the timing and impact of these technologies to effectively incorporate in to their product offerings.

Analyst(s)

Andrew Comes

Wei Jin

Summary

Composable, digital business is driving application architecture and integration to modernize and transform. Software engineering leaders can leverage the technologies and practices in this Hype Cycle to meet the increasing demand for innovation, agility and scalability.

Analyst(s)

Alfonso Velosa

Dale Kutnick

Benoit Lheureux

Roger Williams

Martin Reynolds

Summary

The Internet of Things merges physical and cyber worlds, and enables digital initiatives that transform how we live and work. Applications and software engineering leaders must test their plans against the level of maturity and adoption of IoT building blocks in this Hype Cycle.

Analyst(s)

Kristian Steenstrup

Ivar Berntz

Summary

The blurring of traditional IT and OT (and ET) boundaries provides opportunities for many industrial organizations to become integrated digital businesses. This has heightened the awareness of risk and benefits for CIOs. Use this research to help support your analysis of common OT-related concepts.

Analyst(s)

Danellie Young

Eric Goodness

Christine Tenneson

Summary

Hybrid infrastructure services remain highly focused around cloud and IT services, with growing complexity and change. SPVM leaders should use this Hype Cycle to assess the maturity of emerging IT services and solutions to plan their hybrid infrastructure services strategy

Analyst(s)

Eric Thoo

Massimo Pezzini

Summary

Composable, digital business is driving application architecture and integration to modernize and transform. Applications and software engineering leaders can leverage the technologies and practices in this Hype Cycle to meet the increasing demand for innovation, agility, and scalability.

Analyst(s)

Peter Middleton

Kay Sharpington

Chris Meering

Eric Goodness

Peter Havart-Simkin

Alfonso Velosa

Summary

This document provides a summary of Gartner’s research of the Internet of Things marketplace for technology and service providers

Analyst(s)

Alfonso Velosa

Eric Goodness

Summary

Product leaders building IoT-enabled business solutions face a rapidly evolving technology and market landscape. IoT product leaders must use a balanced differentiation and risk approach as they adopt emerging technologies to gain advantage and help enable their customer’s composable enterprise.

Analyst(s)

Jim Longwood

Summary

Multiple advances in technologies are driving rapid evolution of application services, delivering new offerings and quality improvements. Track the evolution of offerings covered here to make informed investment decisions including the impact of COVID-19 for an optimal services sourcing strategy.

Analyst(s)

Alfonso Velosa

Dale Kutnick

Benoit Lheureux

Roger Williams

Summary

As part of a digital business strategy, the Internet of Things blends the physical and digital worlds and is transforming the way we live and work. This Hype Cycle will help enterprises assess the level of maturity and hype associated with critical IoT building blocks.

Analyst(s)

Alan Priestley

Summary

This Hype Cycle charts the progress and potential of embedded software and system technologies. The information here should be used to select the best tools, software, hardware, messaging, security and communications systems as they become the core building blocks for the Internet of Things.

Analyst(s)

Ruggero Contu

Danielle Casey

Summary

VC investment in CPS security currently is highly focused on network monitoring software (which includes asset discovery), followed by IAM and edge device security. Product leaders must factor in requirements stretching across IT/OT/IoT into their product roadmaps or risk being left behind

Analyst(s)

Santosh Rao

Summary

Industrial IoT gateways are moving from simple devices that bridge OT and IT networks to intelligent edge-computing systems that can learn, react, and control edge environments. I&O leaders must choose IIoT gateways that are modular and meet specific safety, security and performance requirements.

Analyst(s)

Benoit Lheureux

Alfonso Velosa

Peter Havart-Simkin

Marc Halpern

Summary

Widespread IoT adoption is driving increased deployment of digital twins. Application leaders should understand how to source COTS digital twin templates and digital-twin-enabling technologies. They should recognize the trade-offs in effort, time-to-deployment and flexibility.

Analyst(s)

Ruggero Contu

Katell Thielemann

Summary

Convergence of IT, OT, IoT and physical assets is driving the emergence of cyber-physical systems security solutions that manage disparate security elements holistically. Product managers must evaluate the opportunities arising from requirements stretching the logical-physical security dimension.

Analyst(s)

Santhosh Rao

Summary

Edge computing solutions in industrial settings are poised for rapid growth and innovation, driven by the need for real-time insights and localized action. I&O leaders must tread cautiously as vendors begin to collaborate and provide solutions based on temporary and opportunistic alliances.

Analyst(s)

Santhosh Rao

Aapo Markkanen

Summary

Industrial IoT gateways are transitioning from simple devices that bridge OT and IT networks to intelligent edge computing systems that can learn, react and control edge networks. I&O leaders must choose IIoT gateways that are modular and meet specific safety, security and performance requirements.

Analyst(s)

Paul Miller

Pascal Matzke

Elitsa Kortenska

Jen Barton

Summary

You can use Digital Twin service providers to more quickly realize a return on investment, focus on business value rather than plumbing, and extract insights from both IT and operational technology (OT) data. But to realize these benefits, you’ll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors that vary by size, functionality, geography, and vertical market focus. Tech execs should use this report to understand the value they can expect from a digital twin service provider and to select one based on size and functionality.

Analyst(s)

Michele Pelino

Frank E. Gillett

Christopher Voce

Michelle Mai

Laura Easton

Summary

Firms are using Internet-connected sensors and actuators to improve business ops and transform products. But Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are diverse and immature — making it a struggle for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to help their business execs take advantage of their transformational potential. To help, Forrester identified and investigated the 19 most important IoT technologies. This TechRadar report defines the current state, business value, and long-term prospects for each.