KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): Technology research and consulting firm Gartner Inc has identified 12 top strategic technology trends that organisations need to explore in 2022.

In a statement on Oct 18, Gartner said the trends are generative artificial intelligence (AI), data fabric, distributed enterprise, cloud-native platforms (CNPs), autonomic systems, decision intelligence (DI), composable applications, hyper-automation, privacy-enhancing computation (PEC), cybersecurity mesh, AI engineering and total experience (TX).

Gartner research vice-president David Groombridge said with chief executive officers and boards striving to find growth through direct digital connections with customers, chief investment officers’ (CIOs) priorities must reflect the same business imperatives, which run through each of Gartner’s top strategic tech trends for 2022.

“CIOs must find the IT force multipliers to enable growth and innovation, and create scalable, resilient technical foundations whose scalability will free cash for digital investments.

“These imperatives form the three themes of this year’s trends — engineering trust, sculpting change and accelerating growth,” he said.