Gartner names Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018. AI and eventdriven made to the list of top technology trends for 2018

Summary

• Gartner Published a report in October 2017 on Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018.
• Event Driven was a new entry compared to Strategic trends for 2017
• Why Event Driven? - Digital businesses will continue to rely on the ability to sense and be ready to exploit new digital business moments through Events

Here is an excerpt from Gartner article on importance of event driven architecture.

With the advent of AI, the IoT, and other technologies, business events can be detected more quickly and analyzed in greater detail. Enterprises should embrace ‘event thinking’ as part of a digital business strategy. By 2020, event-sourced, real-time situational awareness will be a required characteristic for 80% of digital business solutions, and 80% of new business ecosystems will require support for event processing.