Technology that will be trending in 2021

No one predicted that Covid-19 would change the world. In the last six months, digital transformation has become increasingly massive, taking place at a much larger scale with artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics being the two most dominating technologies. Will these two technologies still dominate in 2021? Or will a newer technology emerge?

Technology Trends 2021
The following is a prediction of the digital transformation trend in 2021 that SHIFT Indonesia extracts from Forbes:

1. 5G
In recent years, we have often heard about the benefits of 5G, including the availability of reliable internet connectivity and bandwidth. Humans are increasingly dependent on cellphones and other smart devices, this condition is understood by telecommunication providers. Today, businesses need to stay connected, and the adoption of 5G is an important solution in this regard. Based on this condition, the value of 5G will be more mainstream in 2021.

Even though the initial emergence of the pandemic disrupted the construction of 5G networks, these efforts continued. China, for example, has reached its 5G deployment target for 2020. Meanwhile, many smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi will soon release 5G phones with various price options, making 5G even more affordable and desirable next year.

2. Hybrid Cloud

A hybrid cloud strategy helps organizations strike a balance to meet their cloud infrastructure needs. In the last year or so we can see how big cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google and IBM are investing heavily in hybrid systems. Not to forget, OEM companies such as Cisco are also increasing investment in building local data connectivity tools with the cloud. Hybrid cloud will also be a strategy for many organizations to address the challenges of exponential data growth.

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3. Cyber ​​Security

With the pandemic, cybersecurity is becoming more relevant and needed. There have been many reports that there has been an increase in cyberattacks around the world during the pandemic and have had a major impact. Meanwhile, the government's policy of doing work from home requires fewer employees to work on site so it is very important for companies to strengthen networks and improve cybersecurity strategies, and expand them to home networks and mobile devices to work from home.

4. AI

The corona pandemic has triggered the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Data, AI, and machine learning are the tools that many companies have used this year and are sure to continue next year, especially to solve problems at a larger scale. Many say AI is the trend of the future, not without reason because increasingly affordable computing power and evolving software and frameworks encourage companies to take advantage of AI.

Applying Industry 4.0 and AI

As a form of support for business people (HR) in the country to be ready to face the era of industry 4.0, SSCX International as the best operational excellence consulting company in Indonesia, will hold an online public training "Industry 4.0: How to Navigate Digitization of the Industry" for two days. on 26-27 October 2020. Through this training, business people are expected to be able to understand well about the fourth industrial revolution or better known as industry 4.0 and what needs to be prepared to deal with it, including understanding the digitization framework, digitalization, and digital transformation.

This training will also discuss what Artificial Intelligence (artificial intelligence) is along with examples of its application in a system. For information, Artificial Intelligence is one form of application of industry 4.0 to improve process efficiency and industrial productivity. If we look at simple terminology, AI replaces the function of humans or machines in processing information. By generating machine language, all analytical data can be processed, so that decision making can be faster and anticipate market needs or demands.