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- Most employees are frustrated with IT
- If you ever get the feeling that employees do nothing but complain about the technology they use at work, you're not being paranoid. According to a new report, most workers are dissastified with their IT departments, disliking the slow speed of enterprise IT change. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Worker, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Gartner leaves SOA off 'Top 10 technology' list, but with good reason
- Gartner leaves SOA off 'Top 10 technology' list, but with good reasonWeighing and Adjudicating SOAHopefully this will be interpreted as a recommendation and not an ad, but for these issues, I urge every business person and IT person, management or staff, to get hold of a copy of "I.T. Wars:...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Top 10, SOA, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Gartner MarketScope for Network Access Control, 2008 brought to you by Sophos
- About half of the vendors in the network access control market are startup companies, most of which will grow in 2008. Starting in 2009, the overall market will begin to consolidate, as established network and security vendors embed and enhance NAC functions into their products. This Gartner report assessed vendors...
- Tags: Network, Sophos Plc., Gartner Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed
- Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed...LOL... get too greedy and lose your focus. This is the eventual outcome, and Like IBM, Microsoft will have to pare down, rethink and take some serious blows. I don't think Microsoft will go away (too bad...) but they are sure...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Oops IT, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed
- Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Corp., Michael Silver, Neil MacDonald, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Gartner's latest pep talk: CIO as corporate change super hero
- It's time for chief information officers to step up and be the big difference makers in their companies. Welcome to another CIO pep talk. This one comes from Mark McDonald, analyst at Gartner. His pitch at the Gartner Emerging Technologies conference in Las Vegas: The CIO role...
- Tags: CIO, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- IT cost cutting 101
- IT cost cutting 101Gartner analysts were smoking...something when they came up with these ideas.They are so removed from reality it's laughable. ANY company that would listen to Gartner is sure to be a big loser.RE: IT cost cutting 101By the logic Gartner uses businesses might as well consolidate down to...
- Tags: IT cost cutting 101, IT cost, Gartner Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Time for a new model of ULPC?
- Larry Dignan featured an interesting post today on the Gartner analysis of ultra low-cost PCs ULPCs in developing countries. The bottom line from Gartner? Even $100 PCs are too expensive for most emerging markets and, as we know, $100 is still unrealistic for the hardware alone, never mind...
- Tags: PC, Gartner Inc., Internet, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- IT cost cutting 101
- It's a sad commentary on IT spending when panel on how to cut your budget results in a packed room. But folks are looking for cost cutting tips and obviously looking to trim expenses. Gartner, which advocated that execs prepare to cut their technology budgets months...
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., IT Cost, Document Management, Team Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging marketsIt is a process to hit price points that will work everywhere. OLPC hasat least hit price points that mean probably hundreds of millions more will now be able to afford computers. True, there are billions in need, but, prices will...
- Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, emerging market, $100 laptop, laptop computer, Gartner Inc., phone, computer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets
- The concept of a $100 PC has been held as the Holy Grail for computing in emerging markets, but the reality is vastly different, according to Gartner. Bottom line: $100 for a PC is still the monthly salary of a teacher in Russia and two to three months salary in...
- Tags: PC, $100 Laptop, Gartner Inc., Emerging Market, Laptop Computer, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Gartner report forecasts bad news, good news for open source
- Gartner report forecasts bad news, good news for open sourceIn summary .....1 - Enterprise IT will gravitate towards SaaS2 - SaaS vendors will gravitate towards open source.Ergo, our information infrastructure will gravitate towards open source.RE: Gartner report forecasts bad news, good news for open sourceObviously a barn burner of information...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), open source, Gartner Inc., bad new, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Gartner report forecasts bad news, good news for open source
- The Gartner Group has released a preview of a forthcoming report, The State Of Open Source 2008, that contains both good news and bad news for open source. The report is expected to be released next month. First, the bad news: ...
- Tags: Software, Gartner Inc., Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Grading Gartner and Forrester
- Sam Lawrence has been a client of both Gartner and Forrester since January and has provided an interesting report card of the two analyst firms. Lawrence, CMO at Jive Software, a collaboration and community software maker, had the following key takeaways in a blog post: ...
- Tags: Analyst, Gartner Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Sam Lawrence, Account Manager, Sales Strategy, Corporate Governance, Sales Force Management, C/C++, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Gartner: Prep those IT cost cutting plans
- Gartner: Prep those IT cost cutting plansGood advcie for anyone in businessSorry but the hand writing is on the wall, a recession is unavoidable at this point. I wonder if the $8 million spent every minute in Iraq has anything to do with it?RE: Gartner: Prep those IT cost...
- Tags: information technology, OpenOffice, Gartner Inc., IT cost
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Gartner: Prep those IT cost cutting plans
- Gartner is telling clients to ready their technology cost cutting plans ahead of an economic slowdown. In October at its Symposium conference, Gartner told clients to prep two IT budgets. One assuming business will continue as usual and another assuming the worst--or a recession. It now appears...
- Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., IT Cost, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- 10 trends that will transform IT over the next five years
- Business analyst Gartner recently released a list of its top 10 IT predictions for the next three to five years. TechRepublic's Jason Hiner examines Gartner's forecast and weighs in with his own analysis.This download is also available as an entry in our Tech Sanity Check blog.
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Jason Hiner, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2008-02-20
- Gartner's top 10 predictions on IT futures
- Gartner researchers have identified 10 areas that IT professionals should pay attention to this year. Gartner: By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in computers. Our take: Gartner correctly assesses that Apple's gains are a reflection of failure...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- 271.2 mln PC shipped in the US in 2007
- Gartner estimated US PC market growth at 13.1% in Q4 2007, with 75.9 mln units shipped, up from 67.1 mln in Q4 2006. Gartner counted 271.2 mln units shipped in 2007, a 13.4% increase. by AM
- Tags: PC, Gartner Inc., Desktops, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007
- Good governance of a service-oriented architecture SOA is becoming a core competency. This Gartner Research Note examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies. While no vendor yet offers a best-in-class service-oriented architecture governance technology set, best of breed is preferable to best of brand, when...
- Tags: Quadrant, Gartner Inc., SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-12-31
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