Invisible Applications Thriving Process You We Design Applying Infostructure Unleashed on Data on the Fly Experience Collaborate for Digital Technovision TechnoVision 2020 Simplify Invisible Applications Thriving Process You We Design Applying Infostructure Unleashed on Data on the Fly Experience Collaborate for Digital Technovision Contents Foreword 03 Thriving on Data 31 Design for Digital 59 Leveraging data and algorithms as an asset to Overarching design principles to be followed Introduction 04 increase the "Corporate IQ". and checked throughout the journey of becoming a Technology Business. Simplify 06 Process on the Fly 38 Applying TechnoVision 68 Building, managing, and running processes Being Architects of Positive Futures 10 that match the dynamics of the digital outside world. A Few More Things 79 Overview of TechnoVision 13 You Experience 45 TechnoVision 2020 Team 84 Invisible Infostructure 17 Creating seamless user experiences for decisive, magical moments. About Capgemini 86 Evolving the IT Infrastructure into the simple, pluggable utility it was always supposed to be. We Collaborate 52 Applications Unleashed 24 Tapping into the power of the connected and collaborative "everything". Liberating the legacy application landscape and unleashing the next generation of powerful, agile, cloud-based apps. 2 Invisible Applications Thriving Process You We Design Applying Infostructure Unleashed on Data on the Fly Experience Collaborate for Digital Technovision Special Foreword “Future Thinking, Change Making” applying innovation from problem statement to business • We equip our architects and practitioners with tools to outcome. A key asset here is our Applied Innovation exploit the technology insight in a structured way that maps I am proud to present to you the 2020 edition of TechnoVision, Exchanges (AIEs), which is a global innovation platform that is domains to enterprise systems, to support our clients in a playful and engaging, but we believe deep and important, leveraged by our clients for Change Making. developing their change strategies and roadmaps. guide to technology business transformation. The theme • We share our insight publicly through TechnoVision of this edition is ‘Simplify’; a recognition that a key goal of For Technology we have ‘TechnoVision’; our holistic approach articles, covering both Future Thinking and Change technology is to make the lives of consumers, colleagues and to technology, to enable organizations anticipate the new Making perspectives. citizens easier in a world where we can be easily inundated trends, assess their potential, validate their enterprise- by data. Those enterprises that achieve this goal will be the readiness and exploit them. To do this we leverage our As the outline illustrates, this publication is one of many things business winners, but to do this requires mastery of complex expertise to develop assets to cover Future Thinking and we do to ensure we can have deep dialogue with our clients and fast changing technologies to make the right technology Change Making perspectives; to unravel technology and form confident plans that can be choices. ‘Right’ here means that as the use of advanced • With our Invent consulting colleagues, we monitor and executed to achieve business goals. technologies becomes pervasive - for example through the assess the future of technology and its impact on trends We look forward in 2020 to bringing you more of our democratization of AI - it must be with an understanding of in business and society, for example the emergence TechnoVision Future Thinking insight to you, but in the the underlying implications and complications. of enterprise ecosystems that exploit decentralized meantime, we hope you enjoy and put in to action the insight technologies that enables automation of ‘trust’. When considering what I wanted to say in this foreword, I in this ‘Change Making’ edition. realized that as proud as we are of this publication, we should • From our global technology capability, we have a Chief sometimes remind our readers of the wider context to which Technology and Innovation Officer (CTIO) network that it fits. So, if I may, I would like to take this as the opportunity tracks future trends and evolutions across ten technology to do so. domains, the scope of which we monitor regularly to ensure it is relevant for our clients. Patrick Nicolet Our Technology and Innovation agenda is embodied by the • We ‘do our homework’ by assessing technologies across mantra of ‘Future Thinking, Change Making’, the goal of which Group Executive Board Member and these domains and capturing this in a comprehensive is to enable our clients to consider what the future holds, and Group CTO technology database, from which we generate insight confidently translating it to change that fuels their business through radars and reports. When appropriate we growth and success. check assessments by doing ‘hands-on’ validation to test For Innovation we term our approach ‘Applied Innovation’; technology and vendor claims. a comprehensive discipline and platform for curating and 3 Invisible Applications Thriving Process You We Design Applying Infostructure Unleashed on Data on the Fly Experience Collaborate for Digital Technovision Introduction It may not have the magic of When we started working on the new, 12th edition of Simplicity is needed to handle the surge of data and events, TechnoVision – building on a dense network of expert coming from an exploding number of internal and external a new millennium, but 2020 colleagues, industry partners and client contacts – we were sources. Simplicity is needed to deal with the broadest variety once again fascinated by the pace at which technology is of technology solutions and delivery paths we have ever triggers the imagination when evolving. The fleetingness of technology trends is such that seen. Simplicity is needed to deal with the eminently complex, it comes to the impact of what was a disruptive, digital driver just a few years ago, could highly interconnected and volatile business models of original now already be the new legacy. economic, political and sociocultural landscapes. technology on private lives, For that matter, words such as “disruptive” and “digital” just And above all, it is simplicity that consumers want. As they get businesses and society. don't seem to shine the way they used to. The business and used to tweets ruling the world, they expect simple messages, societal landscapes are so swarmed by black swans, that instant action, zero friction and a continuous stream of unpredictability and extreme volatility are a given, not exciting and rewarding signature moments. something remarkable. Also, digital technology is now intimately entwined with business change, to the extent that “Digital Transformation” has become a pleonasm. As a consequence, we propose to call a business that has achieved symbiosis with technology, simply, a Technology Business. With business so perfectly infused with technology, the quest for simplicity becomes paramount. With business so perfectly infused with technology, the quest for simplicity becomes paramount." 4 Invisible Applications Thriving Process You We Design Applying Infostructure Unleashed on Data on the Fly Experience Collaborate for Digital Technovision Introduction Technology has the power to deliver simplicity, now more than Each driver also features a Capgemini ‘Expert in Residence’ Ron Tolido ever. It has created voice assistants that seem to know how who has significantly contributed to the topic and can be Chief Innovation Officer, Capgemini Insights & Data we feel, “psychic” shopping baskets that anticipate exactly contacted through Capgemini’s Expert Connect network. what we want, and unmanned processes that run and self- After all, for us technology remains a people’s business. optimize day and night. It brought us smartphones that unlock As a compelling illustration of Technology Business symbiosis, when their owners look at them, autonomous vehicles that we are proud to feature the editorial “Being Architects of drive more safely than humans, and business transactions Positive Futures”, an important story that makes a strong plea that register themselves. It even produces press releases, for more purposeful businesses, delivering positive outcomes marketing campaigns and passable works of art. to society and the environment - enabled by technology. But simplicity requires good judgement. If one were to deny Gunnar Menzel We couldn't have found a better heart for this special edition complexity and go for oversimplification, shallowness would CTIO Capgemini Europe of TechnoVision, for such a special time. ensue, making us oblivious to underlying facts, causes, reasons and technology realities. The choices to be made in matters of trust, ethics, responsibility, manageability and control are taxing, but indispensable. Finally, simplicity can only come after having dealt with all complexities - a tough call for the Technology Business architects. with TechnoVision 2020 introduces a fresh, playful set of 37 Technology Business trends, grouped into seven containers Pierre Hessler and placed within a proven framework. The framework is designed to inspire and encourage dialogue, whilst directly Capgemini fellow mapping to different categories of enterprise systems. It is geared around real-life stories of how businesses infuse themselves with technology for better outcomes. It touches – in simple words, of course - the highs and lows of simplicity. 5 Invisible