3 Blockbuster Blockchain Trends in 2021

2021 is the year enterprise (permissioned) blockchain begins its long climb out of the ‘trough of disillusionment’. (See Gartner Hype Cycle for Blockchain Technologies, 2020). The climb will be slower than the recent stellar rise in Bitcoin’s price, but it will move forward nonetheless, surely and steadily.

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How Data, Analytics & AI Shaped 2020, and Will Impact 2021

Artificial intelligence and automation were key tools in the IT enterprises’ pandemic war effort in 2020. Here’s how they will continue to change the game in every organization in 2021. Image: charles taylor – stock.adobe.com The IT enterprise may have started the year stalled on its efforts to deploy at scale production machine learning and artificial intelligence projects, but that didn’t last long.

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Top 10 Smarter With Gartner Articles in 2020

From COVID-19 to top technologies to trends across the business, Smarter With Gartner covers all the topics that executives in every organization need to know about. This year, the Smarter With Gartner team equipped executives with insights to operate in an environment of constant disruption and change.

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Predictions for AI in 2021

We look past the hype to provide some real-world predictions for artificial intelligence in the enterprise next year. Image: ART STOCK CREATIVE – stock.adobe.com Artificial intelligence has expanded its grip on our lives throughout the past year.

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Sustaining Digital Commerce Growth in 2021

2020 has seen double-digit digital commerce growth. Stay-at-home orders have accelerated online shopping across sectors. In fact, Gartner’s Consumer Pandemic Attitudes and Behaviors Survey found nearly half of consumers have increased their frequency of online shopping in 2020.

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These eight charts show how COVID-19 has changed B2B sales forever

With the massive shift to digital resulting from COVID-19, video and live chat have emerged as the predominant channels for interacting and closing sales with B2B customers, while in-person meetings and related sales activities have dropped precipitously.
More than three quarters of buyers and sellers say they now prefer digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions—a sentiment that has steadily intensified even after lockdowns have ended.

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Unlocking value: Four lessons in cloud sourcing and consumption

The very flexibility that cloud provides means that enterprises must continuously make dynamic consumption decisions about which services and specifications are needed when and for how long.
The flexibility to consume cloud as needed and cost effectively places responsibility on enterprises to maintain a real-time view of their needs and continuously make deliberate decisions on how best to adjust consumption.

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