How enterprises can win with AI, cloud and security in 2026
Unisys Top IT Insights for 2026: Navigating the Future of Technology and Business
AI implementations that deliver ROI use small, task-specific data sets. Recovery speed matters more than breach prevention. Data sovereignty requirements are driving new cloud architectures. These are the patterns our clients are seeing right now.
Based on interviews with industry experts and Unisys technology leaders, this report identifies ten insights for enterprise technology in 2026.
What's changing:
- AI moves from experimentation to packaged deployment, with three high-ROI use cases emerging as repeatable solutions.
- Workforce roles evolve instead of disappearing, though AI agents eliminate routine coding tasks.
- Post-quantum cryptography planning is now mandatory as "harvest-now, decrypt-later" threats accelerate.
- Cybersecurity becomes an AI arms race, with both attackers and defenders wielding automated tools.
- Cloud migration changes as organizations optimize workload placement across private, sovereign and public zones.
Read the report to see where technology leaders will invest and which risks demand immediate attention.