The Download highlights significant developments in technology, including the AI hype correction of 2025, as expectations clash with reality after ChatGPT’s impact. Quantum navigation offers promising solutions to GPS jamming concerns. Other topics include government tech initiatives, AI’s transformative role, and China’s youth embracing AI fortune-telling amid societal anxiety.
Gartner anticipates that by 2029, over 50% of enterprises will adopt digital sovereign strategies, up from under 10%. The shift to sovereign clouds is driven by security concerns, as 80% of organizations reported breaches, mostly in public clouds. Companies are increasingly privatizing cloud resources to enhance control and compliance.
The role of enterprise storage administrators has transformed significantly over recent years. Embracing AI, automation, and cyber resilience, they now manage efficient infrastructures and data protection autonomously. This evolution enables them to focus on strategic tasks, contributing to cost-effective, sustainable, and responsive storage solutions crucial for modern enterprises.
OpenText World 2025 focused on AI’s potential in enterprises, highlighting trust and security’s importance. Despite security being underrepresented, OpenText introduced innovations like SAST Aviator and an AI Data Platform. The company aims for intelligent automation, but success depends on AI model maturity and data quality, confronting integration challenges and legacy systems.
The Forrester Wave™ analysis highlights AI’s crucial role in reshaping Enterprise Service Management (ESM) platforms. AI has transitioned from an enhancement to a core capability, enabling smarter and proactive service. Key factors for IT leaders include readiness for AI, quality knowledge sources, and governance to maximize business value and ensure competitive advantage.
Service-level management (SLM) is evolving from traditional performance metrics to a focus on user experience, business impact, and proactive assurance. Experience-level agreements (XLAs) prioritize outcomes that matter to users. Organizations must realign SLM with business goals and leverage advanced technologies to enhance service quality and ensure continuous improvement for competitive advantage.
The emergence of the “pod shop” model in hedge funds, pioneered by Millennium Partners, fosters semi-autonomous teams of specialists focused on independent strategies while sharing infrastructure. This approach, now adopted across the finance industry, enhances scalability but raises concerns over market fragility and systemic risks due to consolidation among financial players.
The AI in Finance Leaders Forum highlighted the importance of personal AI use to enhance workplace effectiveness. Gary Arora emphasized that familiarity with AI helps workers understand its capabilities, ultimately improving ROI. Organizations should focus on quantifying pain points for better AI deployment while acknowledging that not every AI effort guarantees ROI.
Cognite showcases successful AI deployments at its Impact event, highlighting projects with NOVA Chemicals, TotalEnergies, Aker BP, and Cosmo Energy. The company’s Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) facilitates data management and AI integration, emphasizing the importance of foundational data practices in industrial settings while enabling predictive maintenance and streamlined operations for its clients.
Forrester’s 2025 Enterprise Architecture Award recognized Takeda Pharmaceuticals for its Business Architecture Framework, which enhances operational efficiency and patient outcomes through generative AI integration. Finalists Manulife and Verizon showcased excellence in architecture-led innovation and governance. The award highlights enterprise architecture’s role as a strategic enabler of transformation across industries.
The rise of citizen development, enabled by tools like Kiro, allows business users to create applications using plain language, streamlining processes and reducing dependency on IT. This shift, driven by a projected IT skills crisis, empowers professionals to leverage their expertise for rapid application development and automation, enhancing efficiency significantly.
The speed of typing code is not the main bottleneck in software development; it’s the entire interconnected system. AI coding assistants can enhance development efficiency, but they also shift bottlenecks elsewhere. To measure true impact, organizations should adopt metrics that reflect overall productivity rather than just individual coding speed, focusing on the entire software delivery process.
Enterprise software spending is rapidly increasing, expected to rise from 13% to 21% of IT budgets by 2025. Factors driving costs include reliance on SaaS platforms, vendor price hikes, and the proliferation of software types. CIOs are managing expenses by addressing software sprawl and consolidating tools to enhance data consistency and efficiency.
In fact, the past two weeks brought news about continued investments in technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and generative AI that can be used to provide these experiences and improve sales training. We surveyed nearly 200 enablement leaders, and 63% of those surveyed
