5With ‘fall’ (or autumn) just around the corner, 2018 surveys are fast becoming a redundant analysis vehicle (if we afford them any validity in the first place, obviously). So in forward thinking mode then, ‘technology marketplace’ company Spiceworks has announced its 2019 State of Future Workplace Tech report examining the emerging technology trends organizations are adopting across North America and Europe.

The report shows (or, perhaps more accurately, ‘suggests’) that adoption rates of emerging technologies including blockchain, AI and Internet of Things (IoT) in large enterprises are up to 10 times higher than in small businesses.

The big take-away here is a suggestion that, in the real world, large enterprises need to be putting these technologies through their paces almost with a ‘thoughtful & benevolent eye’ on the fact that Small to Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) will be able to take them up later as well.

It is thought that by 2020, 86 percent of companies with more than 5,000 employees plan to adopt IoT solutions, 65 percent plan to deploy edge computing technology, 64 percent expect to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 56 percent expect to utilize blockchain-enabled technology.