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- Gartner: companies gear up SOA for upcoming economic recovery
- In a recent interview, Gartner's Paolo Malinverno, reflecting on the consultancy's recent Application Development and Integration Summit, said interest in SOA is riding high, despite the recent economic slump. He also added that many companies are aligning their SOA strategies to be ready to go with new systems and business...
- Tags: Recovery, Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Outsourcing? Avoid long-term deals
- Gartner says the good news for companies that plan to outsource is that the cost of doing business will decrease. But that's the bad news, too - outsourcing partners may go out of business. Organizations should monitor the health of outsourcing partners and avoid long-term contracts, according to research...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Supplier, Prices, Managed Hosting, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Emerging Technologies, outsourcing, India, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2009-06-17
- Gartner Webcast: Data Loss Prevention, Compliance Trends
- The regulatory environment is changing. Find out what companies need to consider to best protect themselves from data leaks. Watch this Gartner webcast today to learn more about data loss prevention at the endpoint.
- Tags: Webcast, Data Loss, Trend Micro Inc., Compliance, Gartner Inc.
- White papers 2009-06-17
- Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant
- Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic QuadrantSAP Business All-in-OneI take serious exception to your comments about SAP Business All-in-One. While you?re obviously entitled to your opinion, these comments are misleading and factually inaccurate. On what do you base your comment about where Business All-in-One was a few years ago?...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP Business All-in-One, SAP Business, SAP AG, ERP, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Gartner's conservative mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant
- 'Tis the season for round robins. On this occasion Frank Scavo pokes a sharp stick in the eye of Gartner's Mid-tier ERP Magic Quadrant. Vinnie Mirchandani goes next having a poke at his alma mater...Guess what? It's my turn: First...
- Tags: Quadrant, Gartner Inc., ERP, Frank Scavo, Vinnie Mirchandani, SaaS Player, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Managed Hosting, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Sales, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success
- Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA successInternal view opposite external viewIn my experience SOA is a matter of faster integration, specifically when optimizing chains of companies within the same industry like the food and feed chain. It is easier to move to SOA then adapting your EDI-exchange net putting new...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, SOA Success, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-06
- Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success
- Why do we do SOA? My pal Steve Swoyer just published a piece over at Visual Studio surfacing a Gartner observation that many companies may have fallen into a "herd mentality" when it comes to SOA. That is, they do SOA because everyone else seems to be...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Mobile OS wars: Apple, RIM surge; Symbian still dominant
- Gartner's first quarter smartphone market share statistics show that Nokia's Symbian remains the dominant mobile operating system, but is losing share to operating systems from Research in Motion and Apple. To wit (see Gartner statement): Symbian's first quarter smartphone OS share was 49.3 percent, down from...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, Operating System, Smart Phone, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Watch this space: Consolidation in the offing for corporate carbon management applications
- Watch this space: Consolidation in the offing for corporate carbon management applicationsGartner has been touched by Microsoft.Which means they've been tainted. Now, everything Gartner touches is tainted too. I know that's overboard. But it's my opinion that whatever comes from Gartner is worse than useless. They...
- Tags: Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7
- Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 Unix Pimp: Skip Gartner and ask some real expertsOnce again Gartner group releases some "No Shite Sherlock" information.Only brain dead CIO's and pointy haired bosses listen to Gartner group.Gartner will say...whatever you pay them to say. Gartner's greed or laziness has...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Gartner's top 10 predictions on IT futures
- Gartner's top 10 predictions on IT futuresApollo Matrix is building this as well Great read I think this is very important in these times to include a small-business-marketing firm to help improve your companies web presence.http://www.apollomatrix.com helps companies large and small acheive this.
- Tags: Gartner Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- Global PC shipments down 6.5% in Q1 2009; HP is No. 1
- Global PC shipments totaled 67.2 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 6.5 percent decline versus first quarter 2008, according to preliminary data from Gartner. “We are seeing some evidence of channel inventory restocking, particularly in the U.S.,†said George Shiffler, research director...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Shipment, Gartner Inc., 1Q09, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Gartner: Apple's U.S. market share slips in Q1 2009
- Gartner: Apple's U.S. market share slips in Q1 2009Nobody can afford them. Worse,some people in the "blogosphere" or whatever claim workers are paid too much for their jobs. (only because corporations continue to drive down worker wages while increasing executive wages... and perks... and have no repercussions if...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Products, Apple Inc., Apple U.S., Q1 2009, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Gartner: Apple's U.S. market share slips in Q1 2009
- A new report released by Gartner says that worldwide PC shipments totaled 67.2 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a decline of 6.5 percent. We are seeing some evidence of channel inventory restocking, particularly in the U.S.,†said George Shiffler, research director at Gartner. “This restocking should...
- Tags: U.S., Shipment, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Gartner sees boom for virtualization in slump
- Gartner sees boom for virtualization in slump Analyst sees coincidental boom in new technology...That has nothing whatsoever to do with anything relating to the economy so much as the cycling of buzzwords.
- Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, virtualization, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-12
- Web 2.0 disruptive, but necessary to business
- Web 2.0 disruptive, but necessary to businessMore clap trap from the Gartner Group clownsGartner Group knows nothing about nothing. Every prediction they have made about IT is either a "no duh!" prediction, or so completely off base that it is embarrassing for them.Sadly Gartner yields too much power because...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Web 2.0, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-04-03
- Gartner: IT spending in 2009 will be worse than 2001's decline
- Gartner: IT spending in 2009 will be worse than 2001's declineIt's not just the economy, it makes senseIT shops are far to quick to spend on new hardware and systems when their existing systems haven't even paid for themselves yet. I've seen too many shops half-implement systems and then run...
- Tags: IT Shops, IT-spending, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- Gartner: IT spending in 2009 will be worse than 2001's decline
- Gartner on Tuesday cut its IT spending forecast for 2009 to $3.2 trillion, down 3.8 percent from 2008 as consumers and businesses throttle back amid the economic downturn. In a statement, Gartner said that the 2009 slowdown will be "worse than the 2.1 percent decline in IT...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., IT-spending, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- 49 mln desktops to virtually hosted by 2013
- The worldwide hosted virtual desktop HVD market will accelerate through 2013 to reach 49 mln units, up from more than 500,000 units in 2009, according to Gartner. Worldwide HVD revenue will grow from about $1.3 bln to $1.5 bln in 2009, which is less than 1% of the worldwide professional...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Desktops, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Gartner: Businesses don't need to wait for Windows 7 SP1
- Gartner: Businesses don't need to wait for Windows 7 SP1"OK ? stop laughing now"?MJ,i have a problem with this sentence. i call myself an IT professional. I worked as a software developer since DOS 3.0. I have worked on whole range of operating system. i DO NOT think vista has...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, service pack, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24

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