Tech Roadmap: Enablers Of Industrial AI Applications (2025)

Executive Summary

This Tech Roadmap report clarifies the business value, pace of innovation and maturity of 18 critical technologies that empower the development and deployment of AI in industrial settings. Verdantix conducted a fact-based assessment of the maturity, innovation, future prospects and business value of each solution, and provides investment advice for buyers. Managers responsible for selecting technologies for their operations should use this report to identify technologies that enhance industrial AI applications. The technologies identified range from those in Research and Development, such as quantum computing, to Growth stage technologies, such as edge computing and predictive analytics. Technology buyers can use the Tech Roadmap methodology to identify new technologies for pilot projects and to assess vendor product roadmaps. Risk-averse firms should focus on the potential of technologies with proven business value that are in the Growth or Maturity phases of the technology life cycle. Innovators and early adopters should take note of Launch phase technologies.