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By Laurent Bride, COO & CTO,
Talend
What's next with governance, cloud, AI and data
The
enterprise has evolved greatly over the last decade. With new privacy
regulations, the great migration to the cloud, the development and
implementation of AI and machine learning, and evolving roles with digital
transformation, we've faced quite a technology revolution. As we prepare for
2020 and the decade ahead, here are a few trends I believe will continue to
push our technology evolution.
Data privacy:
- 2020 will bring an even
stronger need to trace everything you do with your data as GDPR and the newly
implemented CCPA are carried out. There are a number of new data privacy
regulations popping up around the US and 2020 shows no signs of slowing down.
This will make it more important than ever for companies to have a clear way to
account for every bit of data they house, down to how it was obtained, to
protect everyone who touched it.
Cloud:
- There will be a trend toward
using best of breed technologies for enterprise cloud deployments. Rather than
consolidation, organizations will look to best of breed cloud technologies to
provide the services that they need for their enterprise deployments. The
agility provided through the flow and exchange of data across companies will
become more critical as organizations are looking to optimize their operations
and maximize ROI. We will see a trend of the top cloud providers joining forces
to house their applications in each other's environments.
- Open source technologies will
spur multi-cloud adoption. Open source technologies enable a common environment
across different cloud environments because they are cloud agnostic, and easy
to run. The ability to accommodate an array of applications and host them in
any cloud or open source containers will help spur multi-cloud adoption. Public
cloud providers; like Azure ARC, Google Anthos and Amazon Outposts; will
leverage multi-cloud deployments powered by their stacks. While the use case is
still rare today, the movement will pick up in 2020, as more enterprises
realize the capabilities of open source technologies in cloud environments.
AI:
- With the rise of automation
to carry out day to day business functions, leveraging AI to augment human
capabilities will continue to be a delicate balance. Whether being used to
automate repetitive tasks (data prep, etc.) or connecting pipelines through
contextual information from you and your peers, AI will begin to infiltrate all
areas of business functions.
Evolving digital roles:
- Chief Information Broker will
be a rising title in the technology industry. When working on a consumption
project the end goal is to harness data to its full potential. Starting with
how it can be monetized on the open data market all the way to navigating all
available third-party data to bring value back to the organization in the form
of a sharing economy. In 2020, CIOs must position themselves as "Chief
Information Brokers" and bring senior management and specialist departments on
board so they're fully aware of the technology renaissance that is the sharing
economy that is impacting the industry.
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About the Author
When he joined Talend, Laurent brought 17 years of software experience,
including management and executive roles in customer support and product
development. Most recently, Laurent was CTO at Axway where he was
responsible for R&D, Innovation and Product Management. He has also
spent more than nine years in the Silicon Valley, working for Business
Objects and then SAP. Laurent holds an engineering degree in mathematics
and computer science from EISTI.