Cloud technology and its adoption have been transformative for the enterprise, by re-defining what’s possible and speeding the pace of innovation. Companies are no longer experimenting with new emerging technologies – artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, digital assistants, containers, serverless, and the Internet of Things (IoT) – but are now applying them in meaningful ways across their operations. These technologies enable companies to drive new business, create new value, and build more sophisticated applications than ever before.
Looking forward, Oracle explores what the enterprise IT world will look like in 2025 as the adoption of cloud rises.
Prediction: Second-generation cloud providers will offer 100% data-center replacement.
No matter how your cloud journey begins, all routes lead to the same destination – running your entire company in the cloud. The cloud provides the foundational infrastructure needed to support all types of workloads through its core capabilities within flexibility, reliability, and performance.
Prediction: 80% of all enterprise (and mission-critical) workloads will move to the cloud.
Companies cannot afford to suffer any downtime for their mission-critical applications and are leaving their enterprise data center behind. The considerations from moving all and critical workloads to the cloud come from its flexibility, reliability, and performance capabilities. These core capabilities provide the foundation for all types of workloads – AI, traditional, mission-critical, performance-intensive, and high-performance computing (HPC).
Prediction: All applications will incorporate AI-further distancing themselves from legacy applications.
What’s driving this shift is the rise of the second-generation cloud and its bridge to new innovations. AI provides us with the ability to gather, contextualize, understand and act upon huge and continuously growing quantities of data. Its deep learning capabilities have enabled a new breed of adaptive applications and continue to empower human productivity and innovation.
Soon, all applications will incorporate AI, for example, which will distance themselves from legacy applications.
Prediction: AI (and emerging technologies) will double our productivity.
Furthermore, AI, in alignment with emerging technologies, is expected to double productivity by 2025 compared to today’s operations. AI changes the productivity equation for many jobs by automating activities and adapting current jobs to solve more complex time-consuming problems. This enables companies to shift their resources away from maintenance and focus on creating higher-value jobs and new engagement models that encourage business growth.
Prediction: 85% of customer interactions will be automated.
Automated engagement is becoming a customer expectation across nearly all markets, with 85% of all interactions predicted to be automated by 2025. These experiences include natural interactions, easy engagement, predictive recommendations, and friction-free journeys led by AI and its ability to understand context across all communication scenarios.
Prediction: The developer community will expand 10x and productivity will increase by 400%.
AI and automation are enhancing the developer community through the elimination of manual tasks and time-consuming problems. These next-generation environments will allow developers to drive more value through capabilities like “no-code” development that allow non-professionals to build their own solutions, as well as virtual worlds and simulations that span the entire development lifecycle and can be accessed using gestures and conversations.
Prediction: More than 50% of data will be managed autonomously.
The capabilities of autonomy enable IT to bring applications online faster, cheaper, and more reliably without investing in additional skills or people. With Oracle Autonomous Database, we provide the self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing capabilities that enable companies to shift resources to focus on new innovations.
Prediction: 70% of IT functions will be completely automated.
As automation capabilities improve, so will reliability, availability, scalability, and application SLAs. Cloud services have evolved to include lifecycle and advanced run-time automation of maintenance activities such as patching, updates, and upgrades – enabling developers to work more innovatively and businesses to run more effectively.
Prediction: 90% of enterprises will use a single identity platform that bridges premises and the cloud.
Nonetheless, these cloud environments are only feasible if granted the necessary security to protect their mission-critical data against internal and external threats. Some of the major challenges companies face include having multiple identity provisioning platforms across on premises and cloud, as well as analyzing security event telemetry at scale. Enterprises must leverage IAM (identity and access management) technologies that cross hybrid cloud for a unified platform that stretches into all applications and services.
Prediction: The number of security events will increase 100x, and automation will become the most reliable way of preventing, detecting, and mitigating threats.
Organizations will also need to employ cloud-based AI to defend against malicious threats using nonlinear (usually AI-based) techniques to hide amongst legitimate human-based traffic. The underlying strategy provides administrate security technologies that span the entire enterprise IT estate from core-to-edge.
Oracle Cloud
As emerging technologies continue to drive the enterprise towards a fully cloud-based future, companies are no longer asking themselves why they should move to cloud, but rather how they can get there. With Oracle, that path is as simple as an upgrade. Oracle provides a simple upgrade path for customers so businesses can leverage their existing investments and skills towards new capabilities and experiences.
Together, these 2025 predictions demonstrate the need for a complete enterprise cloud approach in the years to come, and provide a future-facing view of how businesses will need to plan their move to a cloud-native IT environment.
Stay tuned for upcoming posts that explore these predictions further.
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