Analysts make 4 technology predictions for 2025 | TechTarget
From changes in cloud computing investments to the challenges and next step of artificial intelligence, CIO technology strategies will change in 2025.
Forrester Research Analyst Jeff Pollard said Forrester’s technology predictions for 2025 will show what businesses need to prepare for next year. Pollard spoke during the Forrester Technology and Innovation Conference in Austin, Texas. Analysts assessed a number of technology trends that identified four possible outcomes for next year, he said.
“Every forecast we make is something we expect to happen in the next 12 months,” Pollard said.
4 technology predictions for 2025
1. Problems with native AI
One of the top topics at the Forrester Conference focused on the rise of agency AI, or multiple AI agents working independently on business goals and workflow actions.
CIOs and other business leaders will be interested in building AI infrastructure into business operations, Forrester analyst Rowan Curran said. However, about 75% of businesses that try to develop their own AIs will fail, he said.
The idea of multi-agent architectures and multi-ecosystem architectures — where an AWS agent talks to a Microsoft agent and then talks to a Salesforce vendor, for example — “isn’t what we see as something that can happen in the short term,” said Curran, due to the current lack of testing and the ability to verify such plans across the business.
2. Increased private cloud investment
Business leaders will spend more on the private cloud to address management control issues, Forrester analyst Tracy Woo said. Four out of five cloud leaders will increase their investment in private cloud by 20%, he said.
Woo said many countries, especially the European Union, are introducing digital sovereignty measures, which protect the power of a country or state to control data. To meet those compliance requirements, business leaders will start turning to the private cloud and keeping their data on-premise.
“We’re going to start seeing an increase in the amount of construction work,” he said.
3. CISOs will move away from productive AI
Despite the excitement of AI tools emerging, CISOs will put the use of the technology at 10% by 2025, said Forrester analyst Allie Mellen.
They need important problems to be solved, and we’re not doing that with the AI that’s generating right now.
Allie MellenAnalyst, Forrester Research
Generative AI has yet to fulfill vendors’ promises that it can automate security tasks, Mellen said. He said it takes more time for security teams to use productive AI than not, noting that it takes about 40 hours of training for security teams to start using AI tools. which produce. In addition, when CISOs face financial constraints, it will be difficult for them to invest in technology without clear examples of the success of security technology.
Generative AI doesn’t solve critical security problems, Mellen said.
“They need important problems to be solved, and we’re not doing that with the AI that’s generating right now,” he said.
4. Technology risk increases
About 60% of organizations will identify technology risk as their most important strategic business risk, Forrester analyst Christopher Gilchrist said.
Technology is changing the nature of how businesses create value and improve business processes, becoming a strategic risk factor for organizations, he said. Technology will be part of the equation for any future business, and if the internal risks it creates are not addressed, they will affect the organization’s ability to overcome other risks, which outside, Gilchrist said.
He said: “Not since the financial crisis have we seen the focus, and growth, of one thing more dangerous than this technological risk.”
Makenzie Holland is a senior columnist covering big technology and government regulation. Before joining TechTarget Editorial, he was a general reporter for TechTarget Editorial Wilmington StarNews and crime and education reporter at Wabash Plain Dealer.
