Research

Before migrating applications, I&O leaders must break down the barriers by modernizing infrastructure and applications into cloudlike configurations.

I&O leaders must extend focus beyond traditional data centers and embrace agile infrastructure elements to support modernization and enable new capabilities.

IT leaders must adopt an anywhere operations business operating model to reach customers, enable employees and deliver business services anywhere.

To drive business growth, I&O leaders must operationalize tech deployed reactively during the initial pandemic response into permanent, strategic solutions.

Gartner’s 2021 technology trends for government offer public-sector leaders the potential to accelerate digital innovation. Government CIOs can use this research to assess the impact of these trends on their postpandemic digital strategies to improve operational performance and program outcomes.

Gartner 2021 predictions for infrastructure operations and cloud management highlight the need for organizations to evolve and monitor their practices and technologies.

Cloud-native applications introduce visibility gaps, creating monitoring and management challenges. I&O leaders who are not equipped to leverage ML and AI technologies to understand relationships and performance of distributed systems put their digital business transformation initiatives at risk.

Future application experiences will be built from composable business capabilities that can quickly enable new business scenarios. Application leaders can leverage this roadmap to create a dynamic future of applications.

Explore Gartner’s annual application predictions to prepare for changes in how we work, deliver and modernize an ever-widening range of business and IT initiatives.