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Emerging Technologies

Emerging technologies such as machine learning, serverless, voice-enabled solutions, and process automation have all grown increasingly popular in recent years. Whether a technology is brand new or has been gaining traction over time, it’s natural to question how these emerging trends can drive value for your customer base or create new possibilities for your business operations. Maintaining up-to-date relevance over our 45-year history, we provide practical guidance for applying the latest technology within the context of your business. Our outlook is pragmatic—just because a technology is new and trendy, doesn’t mean it is right for your business. We’ll work with you to uncover and explore new emerging tech use cases through proof-of-concept or pilot programs. Then, if and when the time comes to implement, you’ll be ready. Our collaborative approach marries new tech with the strengths and drivers of your ecosystem—to go beyond strategic thinking to make innovation a reality, whether that means building new ways to engage customers or creating solutions that disrupt your market.

Areas of Expertise

Our areas of expertise continually evolve depending on the use case and latest applicable processes and tools. Recent initiatives and feasibility explorations include:
  • Serverless
  • Business Process Automation
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Extended Reality (XR)
  • Augmented Reality (AR)
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Voice-Enabled Technology
  • Conversational Architecture (e.g. Alexa)

Use Case Exploration

Our experts help clients explore the value of emerging technology through innovation sessions and comparative hackathons. We also educate business and technical stakeholders through focused hands-on technology demonstrations and provide guidance in each stage of the solution development.
Form ideas for business improvement

We offer emerging technology workshops and competitive hackathons where stakeholders can build upon their own internal expertise through a focused, hands-on experience.

Learn and experiment quickly

We help you to learn about new technology and experiment in quick iterations, guiding you to apply the latest tech concepts to specific, relevant use cases.

Enrich knowledge across teams

We help you to understand the magnitude of effort associated with emerging tech initiatives and clarify which concepts are most valuable to your organization.

Technology Readiness Assessment & Proof-of-Concept

You’ve identified a preferred technology and want to build a convincing case to prove your business is ready to use it. Now what?
Technology Overview and Use Cases Evaluation

Receive guidance to gain an understanding of key concepts for a technology, identify how it impacts your business, and evaluate possible use cases relevant for a proof-of-concept.

Current State Analysis and Roadmap

Conduct an analysis of your current environment to identify strengths, gaps, and desirable components for integrating future solutions related to the selected emerging technology.

Single Use Case Proof-of-Concept (PoC)

Develop a functioning software solution, using agile methodologies and SPR’s technical subject matter experts, along with cloud architecture and UI/UX design and development. Determine next steps to derive value, based on findings from new working software.

Featured expert

Finding the right use case is a key challenge to adopting new technology.

“Businesses need to explore and understand the tangible benefits of adopting new technology in comparison to continuing to rely on existing, less costly solutions or processes that may already be in place. SPR works with innovation-minded business leaders to find the right situations to build new value by appropriately exploring an emerging technology like serverless or machine learning.”

Kevin McMahon
Executive Director, Emerging Technologies

First Steps to Starting Something New

First Steps to Starting Something New

We help jumpstart your exploration with technology readiness assessments, such as our AWS Serverless Immersion Day and other offerings. Learn through a free AWS Immersion Day session using classroom and lab settings. Apply the concepts you've learned with a controlled, low-risk pilot project that helps you test it out first. Operationalize the technology full-scale, using insights you have gained along the way.

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