Gartner Identifies Top Trends In Data And Analytics For 2025

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Data is at the heart of most organizations , fueling everyday business functions. To help digital leaders better prepare their data and analytics (D⁘A) strategies , Gartner has identified the top D⁘A trends for 2025.⁘

⁘D⁘A is going from the domain of the few, to ubiquity. At the same time D⁘A leaders are under pressure not to do more with less, but to do a lot more with a lot more, and that can be even more challenging because the stakes are being raised,⁘ said Gareth Herschel, VP analyst at Gartner. ⁘There are certain trends that will help D⁘A leaders meet the pressures, expectations and demands they are facing.⁘⁘

Out of the nine trends Gartner identified, unsurprisingly, AI-related technologies ⁘made up more than half of the list, including the biggest AI trend of the time -- agents. Agentic AI has begun permeating every business sector, with organizations finding ways to implement the autonomous assistance that AI agents offer. ⁘

Gartner advised D⁘A leaders to use agents to access and share their organization's data across applications. The analyst also recommended that D⁘A leaders use AI agents to automate closed-loop business outcomes, where data-driven insights continuously inform and optimize decisions.

When generative AI first became mainstream, the focus for many D⁘A leaders and their organizations was developing and implementing large language models (LLMs).⁘

As there are so many different tools that D⁘A leaders can use, Gartner also recommended composite AI ,⁘ which is the process of leveraging multiple AI techniques to increase technological effectiveness. This approach means exploring technology beyond generative AI and LLMs to take a deeper look at related disciplines, such as machine learning and data science.

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