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The tech scene is expanding rapidly across the world. In fact, in the last year alone, within the UK, a new tech unicorn was created every eleven days - more than doubling the number of UK unicorns from 2017. From AI and automation, to DevOps and data engineering, innovations are continuing to reshape and improve our everyday and working lives, critical at this time of socio economic instability. Here are thoughts from tech leaders, globally, exploring what 2023 has in store.

Did you know that Artificial Intelligence began as an experimental program? However, as the global spending on Artificial Intelligence stood at over $118 billion in 2022 and continues to grow, it's become apparent that this is one experiment that's here to stay and will completely transform the way business operations are undertaken.

As we settle into the time of year when we reflect on what we're thankful for, we tend to focus on important basics such as health, family and friends. But on a professional level, IT operations (ITOps) practitioners are thankful to avoid disastrous outages that can cause confusion, frustration, lost revenue and damaged reputations. The very last thing ITOps, network operations center (NOC) or site reliability engineering (SRE) teams want while eating their turkey and enjoying time with family is to get paged about an outage. These can be extremely costly - $12,913 per minute, in fact, and up to $1.5 million per hour for larger organizations.

With digital transformations continuing apace and the popularity of cloud-native and microservice-based applications and architectures growing, Gartner sees investments in such technologies and services increasing, predicting that "cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95% of new digital initiatives by 2025 - up from less than 40% in 2021."

Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud services will rise to 21% in 2023. Most organizations today support fully remote operations and use SaaS services from the cloud. But is your Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) tool suitable for monitoring mission-critical services like Microsoft 365? Don't get us wrong - SCOM is a comprehensive monitoring tool for servers, infrastructure, and apps such as Exchange and SQL. However, the recently released Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Microsoft 365 lacks clout.

With advances in the field of IT, the amount of data needed to manage IT Operations has grown. In particular with more complex environments, such as the SaaS world, the amounts of data and raw data needed to manage operations have grown exponentially. Managing data manually has become a waste of professionals' skill sets, which could be better used in analyzing and applying the conclusions drawn from the raw data, and not dealing with basic issues that may arise.

In a perfect world, technology stays on and runs flawlessly. But we all know this isn't the case. Like any organization, xMatters sometimes experiences unplanned incidents. What we can control is how we respond to them. To resolve incidents quickly, it's important to coordinate an organized response.

Business process management software is a type of application that helps organizations manage and automate their business processes as they strive toward operational excellence. There are many different types of BPM software on the market, each with its own set of features and capabilities. In this guide, we will break down five potential options to consider.