2023 TMT Industry Preview Hub
The two-year pandemic period that caused global havoc was a boom time for the technology, media and telecom (TMT) industry. Following this, 2022 saw something of a crash landing. With tech valuations tumbling on the back of a faltering global economy, inflationary pressures, soaring interest rates and geopolitical turmoil, the TMT industry is facing a reality check. With this uncertainty continuing into the New Year, the unbridled optimism that characterized the previous "digital decade" is being replaced by an altogether more sober outlook.
What can we expect the TMT industry to deliver in the next 12 months? Our 2023 Preview reports, listed and linked below, offer a substantive deep dive into each of our coverage channels.
Reports
2023 Trends in Applied Infrastructure & DevOps
This report highlights some of the key research to be conducted by the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps Research Channel. It includes previews of key issues in several dynamic and evolving markets that will affect the operational and IT strategies of modern digital businesses.
A demonstration of this industry’s superpower of abstraction in delivering Kubernetes has been a boon for organizations steeped in cloud-native engineering. However, it introduces its own set of problems for enterprises: how to secure connections between services in distributed environments, enable cost visibility and control, and ensure compliance with company and sovereign policies — all while maintaining innovation. It’s these Day 2 challenges which are now being faced down.
2023 Trends in Cloud & Managed Services Transformation
The worlds of hardware, systems, software and services are converging. Cloud is no longer a separate category from IT: quite simply, it is IT. The consumption-based, as-a-service-driven cloud operating model is taking hold across the IT landscape, giving organizations choices in how they procure, deploy, integrate, manage and transform their digital infrastructure stacks. As the market settles on hybrid/multicloud/“cloud anywhere” for the organizing principle of IT strategy, cultural and organizational change will be required of both IT buyers and suppliers.
2023 Trends in Customer Experience & Commerce
The current macroeconomic environment burdens businesses as they brace for a rough 2023. However, experiences are the currency of the digital economy, resulting in continued investment to ensure businesses remain relevant in the eyes of their customers.
2023 Trends in Data, AI & Analytics
This report highlights some of the key topics we expect to be prominent in 2023 in the Data, AI and analytics sectors. It’s been a truism for some time that organizations want to derive more insight from their data and do so more quickly and easily than ever before. These are some of the trends that will help them to achieve this goal.
2023 Trends in Datacenter Services & Infrastructure
As a sector, leased datacenters have done well in the past during economic downturns. However, they have grown much more dependent on a handful of hyperscale customers, and changes to their demand could have a major impact on the industry. Still, enterprise IT transformation is continuing, and the need for connectivity and sustainable, efficient locations to store and process data is not going away.
The preeminent trend in the fintech industry is embedding and delivering financial products at the moment of need. We expect this trend to both broaden and deepen moving into 2023, ultimately expanding the overall size of the fintech market opportunity.
The global media industry sits at a crossroads as consumers increasingly turn to streaming services for entertainment, news and sports content. The shift to streaming has impacted pay TV operators, network owners, broadcasters and studios alike, although most have rolled out their own digital initiatives to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. 2023 will test the ability of media firms to adapt, especially as inflation and economic headwinds mount.
2023 Trends in Global Multichannel and Broadband Services and Technology
This report highlights some of the key research to be conducted in 2023 in the areas of broadband and mobile internet, pay TV networks and services, and consumer tech platforms and devices. It includes previews of key issues across markets and industry segments that will affect business dynamics, as well as consumer behavior and experience.
2023 Trends in Information Security
With the ongoing scourge of systematic attacks compounded not only by high-profile incidents, but also the specter of cyber as an aspect of war, it’s hardly surprising that 94% of respondents to a 2022 451 Research survey plan to increase security spending, with an average expected increase of 26%. In the spotlight for 2023 are: identity and access; data sovereignty; technologies and services for detection and response; cloud, SaaS, DevSecOps and API security — and a new role for cyber tech in insurance.
2023 Trends in the Internet of Things
Critical enterprise IoT enablers — including 5G connectivity, edge compute and IoT platforms — are evolving in unexpected ways, requiring vertical industries that depend on IoT for digital transformation to be cautious, creative and nimble in their IoT adoption plans.
2023 Trends in Workforce Productivity & Collaboration
The past three years have shined a spotlight on the workforce and on technologies underpinning how work gets done. Workforce productivity was already becoming a digital transformation priority before the pandemic, but the past few years have catapulted it to front of mind for business and technology leaders. This makes workforce productivity and collaboration a challenging space to interpret as net new thinking, technologies and best practices are rapidly emerging regarding how to build in more resilience and agility across workforce operations. This report outlines some of the key trends we anticipate becoming more prominent in 2023.
