| |September 20209recognition and other intelligent input methods would provide av-enues to have complex but intel-ligent interactions and build new application around them. With these additional inputs combined with the cognitive com-puting, it would provide a greater customer experience in every-day activities. The way consumer space would be communicating with the application and access the data would see change and would in turn help the enterprise business to position themselves in a better customer centric ex-perience or in other words, CX. This would aid in the journey of digital transformation.Advanced Networking/5GThe primary focus of the industry has been on innovating the soft-ware and application or virtual space. Recently, in the infrastruc-ture space, hardware, new multi-rate switches, and next-generation Wi-Fi infrastructure has come up. Also, 5G - fifth generation cellu-lar network technology is around. These are likely to be used by en-terprises as these emerging tech-nologies provide AI and ML capa-bilities. This makes them run more efficiently and protect enterprises from any vulnerable cyber-attacks by providing full visibility onto device activity and by taking re-medial action based on behavior-al device and network analysis. New Wi-Fi infrastructure and 5G cellular technology will give new dimensions to industrial IoT, au-tonomous computing, biometric technology, and various other IoT based applications.IoTInternet of Things (IoT) continues to grow as various devices have sensors and can either process or emit the data on the network. IoT has started making its presence in the business process and into our lives where most of the devices are interconnected. From consumer devices for homes to public spaces, IoT is bringing an increasing num-ber of devices (things) and data it provides, would overlap each day, into complex relations. In coming years, Industrial IoT will also see growth in its usage across various industries and in use of making `smart' cities. Advanced routers with better security features and encryptions are being made avail-able in the market. With features like DNS, data encryption, firewall and anti-malware/anti-virus pro-tection inbuilt into routers, con-sumer networking space would become less vulnerable and al-low to maintain the data security and privacy.With cognitive computing and networking capabilities combined with IoT devices, it will start mak-ing its mark in industrial space. Edge ComputingCloud computing has been revo-lutionizing the mechanisms in which the data is being stored and accessed by the businesses. It has enabled them to store, process and access it from any part of the world and from any devices and not con-fined to offices. This provided new dimensions for creating business application or how business is con-ducted. This traditional cloud com-puting had challenges in meeting the network requirement, as more and more people/devices would connect to the internet, and will generate more data. Edge comput-ing addresses this latency issue by bringing the processing as close to the devices as possible. In cer-tain cases, it would exist on the device which would be part of the network, so the processing of data would be geographically close to the device as possible.Going back to my simplistic definition of digitalization ­ my recommendation to the fence sit-ters would be to not waste any time; and start assessing their cur-rent data unless none exist. In a world where `Me Too' in business has made billions, there is no harm in learning from pioneers. If the business is still doing well without looking at digitalization, you should be happy as you have something which customer loves; but this may not last long. On the other hand, with a great product and service in hand, embarking on digitalization will surely multiply the goodness of products and services. COGNITIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CAN ANALYZE GROWING DATA AND HANDLE THE COMPLEXITIES IN THE RELATIONSHIP BUILT ACROSS THIS DATA INTO INFORMATION AND THE DATA VOLUME THAT IS GETTING GENERATED
< Page 8 | Page 10 >