"Data Security and Automation top IT Projects for 2020, AI not a Priority"
In a new study, researchers surveyed 1045 IT professionals worldwide to name their top five IT projects for the year 2020. The research concluded that 74 percent of the respondents identified data security as their top IT priority for 2020. 54% of respondents want to focus on automating manual tasks. 43% of organizations ranked data privacy among their top five priorities; 52% of them are subject to privacy regulations. 33% of organizations intend to focus on digital transformation, integrating their existing solutions, and performing cloud migrations. 20% of organizations are planning on addressing the IT skills shortage either through education of existing IT personnel or talent acquisition in 2020. And interestingly, AI was not chosen by many organizations to be one of their main focuses in 2020. Only 14 percent of large organizations (10,000-50,000 employees) stated that they were going to focus on deploying AI-based solutions in 2020.