Technology trends of 2022: Anticipated Investments

Tech trends of 2022 are shaping up to be the year of the cloud. 

How do we know this? 

We asked tech leaders from around the world about their plans for the future—specifically the changes they anticipated to see in investments, new investments and what they expect their most significant challenge to be this upcoming year.  

In order to future-proof your organization, you need to know where to invest your organization’s time and resources. 

So, let’s start by looking at changes to investments organizations globally are planning to make over the year. 

Globally, organizations foresee current investment changes to the amount an organization is willing to dedicate. Tech leaders also anticipate increasing investments in all things cloud, but they expect organizations to decrease investments toward reducing technical debt.

• 62% of tech leaders expect investment in cybersecurity

• 61% of tech leaders expect investment in cloud

• 57% of tech leaders expect investment in cloud management & cost containment challenges

However, the new investments organizations are planning to make over the next year are almost unilateral. The top two investments organizations worldwide are planning to make are enhancing IT infrastructure and modernizing IT infrastructure. The same holds when broken down into industries but includes investment plans for transforming cybersecurity practices within Industrials/Manufacturing.

• 32% of tech leaders anticipate an investment in enhancing IT infrastructure 

• 30% of tech leaders expect investment in modernizing infrastructure 

• 29% of tech leaders anticipate an investment in transforming cybersecurity practices 

As far as challenges organizations anticipate over the next year, the following holds for each industry: 

• 42% of health/pharma and 36% of governments anticipate enhancing IT infrastructure as their biggest challenge over the next year

• 32% of FinServ and 34% of industrials/manufacturing anticipate transforming cybersecurity practices to be their biggest challenge over the next year. 

Broken down into roles, data analysts/scientists are the exceptions among tech leaders; they anticipate their biggest challenge over the next year to be reducing technical debt, while other roles expect modernizing infrastructure to be their biggest challenge. 

Want to learn more about 2022’s global tech investments, anticipated challenges and their solutions? Check out the rest of our report.