Global digital transition market set to skyrocket over the next ten years, according to a new forecast that foresees fivefold growth between 2025 and 2035. The report elevates AI and Cloud Computing as the two main forces behind this growth, transforming industries such as healthcare, finance and manufacturing.
Already a multi-trillion-dollar industry, experts anticipate market growth to an unprecedented CAGR as businesses around the world ramp up their utilization of digital technologies.
This expansion is underpinned by immediate requirements for operational efficiency, better customer experiences, and competitive differentiation in a world that is increasingly digital-first.
AI: Enabler for Transformation
AI becomes the dominant intelligence layer of digital transformation. More than automation: In predictive analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, AI is empowering companies to extract actionable insights from mountains of data, personalize customer interactions at unprecedented scale, and streamline intricate supply chains.
AI’s impact is going to become even more pronounced Those AI-powered chatbots and support services getting smarter and more effective? Same applies to your email spam filtering and drug-discovery algorithms, to name but a few of the many, many applications of AI that are proliferating throughout both the business and consumer spaces.
The prediction highlights heightened investment in explainable AI (XAI) and ethical AI frameworks to inspire confidence and guarantee responsible deployment.
Cloud Services: The Key to Being Agile
The cloud is clearly the platform of choice and remains as the underpinning architectural construct for digital transformation. The trend toward on-premise solutions transitioning to hybrid and multi-cloud environments (versus co-location) is anticipated to increase rapidly. This shift offers the scale, flexibility, and budget friendliness organizations need to adopt new applications and enable the explosion of remote work we’ve seen in recent weeks.
The forecast indicates an increased stigma on edge computing to hybrid cloud strategies, with local processing power serving local data sources, necessary of many IoT and real-time applications. Serverless computing and PaaS also see more adoption as the cloud model that offloads the developers from needing to deal with infrastructure and allows them to focus on building code.
Beyond AI and Cloud: Key Trends not to Miss
AI and Cloud The Way Forward The trends does not only take into account AI or Cloud. Securing the IoT will continue to be a major theme, with expanded budget going towards advanced threat detection and resilience.
The internet of things (IoT) will grow further and produce even more data for AI systems to chew on. Moreover, as OT and IT merge in sectors such as manufacturing, new rounds of digitalization initiatives will be promoted by 5G connectivity.
Speaking to OUTLOOK: A decade of disruption and innovation
We will see waves of intense digital disruption and persistent innovation between 2025 and 2035. Firms that can wisely invest in AI and the cloud–and that can concentrate on sound data governance practices, while developing a team with the right skills–will be the ones to win in the end.
And the market of digital transformation is not just a question of technology adoption, it’s a disruption to the business models, the way we work, the way businesses are organized, and more importantly the way the corporate strategy is going to be implemented.
