{"id":359158,"date":"2025-09-10T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=359158"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:57:35","slug":"gartner-unveils-top-emerging-technologies-to-support-autonomous-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/gartner-unveils-top-emerging-technologies-to-support-autonomous-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner Unveils Top Emerging Technologies to Support Autonomous Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Analysts Explore the Latest Emerging Technology Trends at Gartner IT Symposium\/Xpo, September 8-10 on the Gold Coast<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company, has unveiled the 2025 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Many of the top technology innovations to watch this year support the new autonomous business era, including machine customers,\u00a0AI agents<\/a>, decision intelligence and programmable money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gartner Hype Cycles<\/a>\u00a0provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. Gartner Hype Cycle methodology gives a view of how a technology or application will evolve over time, providing a sound source of insight to manage its deployment within the context of specific business goals.<\/p>\n

Speaking at\u00a0Gartner IT Symposium\/Xpo<\/a>\u00a0on the Gold Coast today,\u00a0Marty Resnick<\/a>, VP Analyst at Gartner, said, \u201cAfter years of digital transformation, organizations now face new disruption as AI and automation reshape competition, customers, products, operations and leadership. In this new autonomous business era, CIOs must assess how emerging technologies can create competitive differentiation, unlock greater efficiencies and capture new growth opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is unique among\u00a0Gartner Hype Cycles<\/a>\u00a0because it distills key insights from more than 2,000 technologies and applied frameworks that Gartner profiles each year into a succinct set of \u201cmust-know\u201d emerging technologies. These technologies have potential to deliver transformational benefits within the next two to 10 years (see Figure 1).<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

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Figure 1: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2025<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: Gartner (September 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Machine Customers\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMachine customers<\/a>\u00a0are nonhuman economic actors that purchase goods or services on behalf of people or organizations. Gartner estimates three billion B2B internet-connected machines can act as customers today, growing to eight billion by 2030. Examples include virtual personal assistants, smart appliances, connected cars and Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled factory equipment.\u201cMachine customers will play an important role in industries like manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, unlocking new revenue and efficiency opportunities,\u201d said Resnick. \u201cTo capitalize, organizations must reimagine their business models or risk being left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI Agents<\/strong>
\nAI agents can perceive, make decisions, take actions and achieve goals in their digital or physical environments to help organizations meet their objectives. By using tools like LLMs, organizations are creating and deploying AI agents to handle complex tasks. These agents could transform many industries by automating work in areas like consumer services, industry, data analysis, content creation and logistics.<\/p>\n

Trust in AI agents remains limited due to concerns about their ability to accurately predict and execute tasks. Without human oversight, AI agents could make important decisions quickly before anyone notices. Gartner recommends organizations factor AI agents into strategic planning by understanding their capabilities and applications, especially as they become more independent and easier to use.<\/p>\n

Decision Intelligence<\/strong>
\nDecision intelligence is a practical discipline that advances decision making by understanding and engineering how decisions are made, as well as how outcomes are evaluated, managed and improved via feedback. By digitizing and modeling decisions as assets, it bridges the insight-to-action gap to continuously improve decision quality, actions and outcomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgentic AI and\u00a0generative AI<\/a>\u00a0hype, regulatory pressures on decision automation and recent global uncertainty have revealed weaknesses in traditional business processes and decision making,\u201d said\u00a0Christian Stephan<\/a>, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner. \u201cIn response, organizations now demand decision processes that deliver speed and quality, but are also consistent, compliant, cost-effective and capable of handling complexity and change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Programmable Money<\/strong>
\nProgrammable money is any form of digital money that can be programmed using software that determines its operation based on algorithmic criteria. It can rely on blockchain-enabled tokenization and smart contracts to increase the participation of economic actors and program value exchanges. Organizations will be required to engage with programmable money to connect with machine customers as new types of customers, as well as business peers and employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgrammable money is transformative for financial services providers, enabling new forms of currency and digital asset markets,\u201d said Stephan. \u201cIt drives innovation in value creation, financing, and asset exchange, including machine-to-machine trading, reshaping supply and financial value chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Analysts Explore the Latest Emerging Technology Trends at Gartner IT Symposium\/Xpo, September 8-10 on the Gold Coast Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company, has unveiled the 2025 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Many of the top technology innovations to watch this year support the new autonomous business era, including machine customers,\u00a0AI agents, decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":351518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37553],"class_list":{"0":"post-359158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}