
Gartner's top 10 trends will drive the future of the intelligent digital mesh.
Enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must prepare for the impacts of these disruptive trends on people, businesses and IT departments, and determine how they can provide competitive advantage.
Of the Top 10 Strategic Trends, the following applies to us.
Trend No. 1: Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Machine Learning
Trend No. 2: Intelligent Apps - Virtual Customer Apps (VCAs)

Trend No. 6: Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers (multi-party purchases or sharing - a far-off use-case)
Trend No. 7: Conversational Systems
Trend No. 8: Mesh App and Service Architecture
Trend No. 9: Digital Technology Platforms - all of the above rolling into "Customer Experience Platform" (we are in this category)

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