2029 VISION Where technology is taking business
It would be useful to have a crystal ball to accurately predict how business technologies will pan-out over the next decade – fortunes would be made and disasters averted.
But what we do know is that there are business-changing technologies already well established that are strong predictors of where things are heading.
Professionals within the technology sector whom we spoke to for this story are in no doubt as to the magnitude of the technology transformation that lies ahead for businesses.
Vanessa Sorenson, enterprise director at Microsoft New Zealand likens it to an industrial revolution. We’re already in the middle of it and the adoption of new technologies is going to accelerate “like we have never seen before”, she says.
It’s all about better connection. Sorenson believes quantum computing, mobile apps and AI are poised to create a simplified world where everything and everyone is connected.
“Already businesses are no longer afraid to embrace cloud platforms, and quantum computing will take the data we
