Top Technology Trends for 2025: What You Need to Know

Artificial intelligence continues to expand into every realm of business, but that’s 2024’s tech launch. While it will continue, other technological trends are on the horizon, providing an exciting world of opportunities for businesses ready to embrace them.

From quantum technologies to using deep-fake defence, 2025 promises to offer exciting opportunities for companies to advance their offerings, improve their security, and become far more efficient than ever before.

Utilising data from Gartner, we’ve created a list of the top technology trends for 2025, areas where companies on the cutting edge of advancement and seeking to stand out from the competition must consider moving into the next year.

#1: Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Agentic AI refers to software that utilises AI methodology to complete tasks as entities. These systems can effectively manage tasks and achieve goals in the background, supporting business operational needs.

By 2028, about 15% of all day-to-day work decision-making will be completed through agentic AI. To achieve this, businesses can utilise SaaS platforms, robotics, and IoT devices to improve operational efficiencies. Agentic AI takes AI assistants one step further.

#2: Disinformation Security

Disinformation security is an emerging category of tech that can discern trust. This area of technology can provide methodical systems to ensure that information is authentic, build integrity, and prevent impersonation.

This type of technology enables organisations to capture authentic, verified information to prevent the spreading of false or harmful information. It couples AI with machine learning technology to seek out disinformation with nefarious objectives, often targeting enterprises to bring down security systems. Disinformation can create havoc on companies, especially if they base decisions on inaccurate information.

Gartner believes that, by 2028, about 50% of companies will be putting products and services in place to mitigate risks related to disinformation. This technology is in its early stages now, with only about 5% of organisations recognising its value.

#3: Ambient Intelligence

For small- and mid-size businesses that need to “do more with less” the use of ambient technology could be an excellent investment. It’s the focus of using sensors in hidden processes to provide enhanced information to help with more efficient responses. Because sensor technology is more affordable than ever, ambient intelligence takes IoT to the next level creating hands-on solutions.

Ambient invisible intelligence allows companies to track important components of their business, such as retail stock or logistics management for perishable goods. It does this by utilizing low-cost, but real-time tracking sensors at various components of the workflow.

There are a wide range of applications, such as sensors built into food packaging to track food safety or in consumer goods to trigger a notification to stock up before you run out. To achieve this, the technology uses very low-power wireless sensors, such as Bluetooth and low-cost, low energy electronics chips.  

Retailers can use these sensors in-house to track stock needs or real-time temperatures in grocery coolers. The sensors communicate with a home robot or database to update valuable information.

Additional Technological Advancements to Monitor for in 2025 and Beyond

Aside from these three areas, there are numerous additional technological trends that organisations must consider moving into in the next few years. Some of the most exciting and interesting include the following:

• Continued smart city development: Interconnected networks of sensors, devices, and data, efficiency improvements, and environmental impact reduction strategies will be more IT-based than ever.
• Energy-efficient computing: This is a hot-topic area for technology since AI, simulation, and optimization tend to be big role players in carbon footprints for mid-size and larger businesses. These strategies focus on energy improvements to tech.
• Expert modelling: Organisations will be empowered to create advantages for their business growth and development by utilising this specialised AI training methodology.
• AI avatars: AI avatars, already readily found in some applications, aid in simulating human interactions across channels. This provides insight into more authentic applications and could improve data collection and use.
• Deepfake defence: As AI grows, so will the nefarious uses of it, and new technology will help to protect busineses against increasing threats. That includes the use of deepfake defence, a type of counter AI-backed attack protocol.
• Hybrid computing: These are systems that combine storage, computation, and network mechanisms to enable technologies such as AI to operate effectively and beyond their current limitations.
• AI governance platforms: Platforms like these will support the evolving AI trust, risk, and security management efforts of organisations when it comes to operational solutions and performance, ethical concerns, and legal matters.

Capturing 2025 Technological Trends for Your Organisation

There’s little doubt that 2025 offers a wide range of new opportunities that could even make AI seem less impressive. Yet, not all tech trends are applicable to your business, and others may be critical to your survival.

Tap into the resources at ICT Solutions. Our 365/24 resources include infrastructure design, sourcing, installation and support can help your business prepare for, implement, and benefit from the latest trends. Contact us now to learn what we can do for you.