{"id":703773,"date":"2023-07-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=703773"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:56:39","slug":"6-new-tech-trends-shaking-up-business-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/703773\/6-new-tech-trends-shaking-up-business-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"6 new tech trends shaking up business in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Financial services firm Deloitte believes that technology is only going to continue reshaping companies across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its latest Tech Trends 2023 report, the group explored the impact of emerging technologies and innovation in technology, cyber and trust, and core modernisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deloitte said work and life will fundamentally change over the next 18 to 24 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company provided the following trends they expect will emerge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Immersive Internet for the Enterprise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As technologists recognise that screens cannot keep shrinking, there has been a shift toward interfaces that users can engage in all-surrounding immersive virtual reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deloitte said that over the next few years, virtual reality would likely be no longer just a gaming device but a tool for enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies like Meta and Apple have all moved to bring virtual reality to the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opening up to AI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deloitte said that with Ai tools becoming increasingly standardised and commoditised, a handful of businesses may realise true competitive gains from creating better algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;AI-fueled enterprise from its competition will be how robustly it uses AI throughout its processes. Trust is the key element here, which has developed slower than machine learning technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The business world has to develop a new understanding of what it means to trust machines, especially when they are moving more towards becoming a means of decision-making, said Deloitte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simplifying multi-cloud<\/strong> <strong>management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The financial services company said that some businesses are beginning to turn to a layer of abstraction and automation that sits digitally in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metacloud developments would offer a single pane of control for organisations feeling overwhelmed with too many tools and business information spread across the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flexibility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hiring for the challenges of today is an outdated method, with employers now having to be forward-looking as technology evolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Future employees are likely to be curated and created through upskilling, especially in tech fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Decentralisation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Blockchain-powered ecosystems are becoming key not only to developing and monetising digital assets but also to creating digital trust,&#8221; says Deloitte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisations are set to engage more with decentralised systems and business models, playing trust not in a single-person organisation but distributing it across a community of users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mainframe modernisation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there is expected to be rapid digitisation and a slew of changes, legacy systems are not going to be replaced but brought up to speed, said Deloitte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Through tried-and-true approached to legacy system modernisation, businesses are leveraging mainframes &#8211; and their precious data &#8211; to drive digital transformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/703501\/disaster-for-businesses-in-south-africa-new-smoking-laws-putting-thousands-of-jobs-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disaster for businesses in South Africa \u2013 new smoking laws putting thousands of jobs at risk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial services company Deloitte has published new insights looking into what the future holds for tech, business and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":687601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[181,26],"class_list":["post-703773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-deloitte","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703773"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706185,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703773\/revisions\/706185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}