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| Top Emerging Technologies Announced During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2000 | |
| New Emerging Technologies Research Highlights Trends in Wearable Computing, Profiling and Privacy | |
| Lake Buena Vista, Fla., October 17, 2000 - Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB), today announced the participants for its Emerging Technologies Pavilion, 21 cutting-edge companies that demonstrate areas that will be critical in growing e-business to its full potential, and in particular, in the evolution of e-business beyond the confines of the traditional PC. | |
| The Emerging Technologies Pavilion again takes center stage at ITxpo, the exhibit arm of Gartner's flagship conference, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2000, which is taking place October 16-20 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla | |
| This year's Pavilion exhibitors are small vendors or start-ups demonstrating an innovative capability or application representing the beginning of a major trend or discontinuity. The products include biometrics, network security, speech recognition, and a wide range of products designed to speed information sharing and access on mobile devices. | |
| Besides the Pavilion exhibits, Jackie Fenn, Gartner vice president and research fellow, has unveiled new research at a separate Symposium technology track that discusses the top trends shaping IT-related business processes and consumer interactions. The research also profiles how the contributing technologies will evolve and what the impact will be for business and technology planners. According to Ms. Fenn's research, by 2010, 70 percent of the population in developed nations will spend 10 times longer per day interacting with people in the e-world than in the physical one. | |
| One key enabler to this trend is the always-on/wearable environment that will extend the anytime, anyplace reach that has been achieved for voice, through cellular phones, to include text-based interactions such as e-mail and chat. By 2010, 40 percent of adults and 75 percent of teenagers will have always-on/wearable computing and communications capabilities. | |
| "Being able to communicate over all mobile devices is a trend that will continue to evolve," Ms. Fenn said. "Voice recognition, unified messaging, voice over IP and managing electronic interaction between consumers, suppliers and employees are being incorporated in a variety of new technologies, many of which will be on view at the Emerging Technologies Pavilion." | |
| The research also reveals that customer-oriented communities and profiling will lead to an improved understanding of an enterprise's customer base and new revenue opportunities through new products and services. Ms. Fenn predicts that by 2005, enterprises will routinely capture 30 times more data about their customers than in 2000. Many emerging services will capitalize on the knowledge of the customer's location and surrounding environment. | |
| "The Emerging Technologies Pavilion provides attendees with an insight into technologies and capabilities that will have a major impact on the future of business processes, work patterns and social interactions," Ms. Fenn said. "An early appreciation of these trends will help guide IT planners in investment and architectural decisions." | |
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES PAVILION COMPANIES Each company provided the following information: |
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| 360 Commerce This in-store customer service desk enables retailers to deliver cross-channel services customers want now, without changing their existing point of sale. See channel convergence in action with demonstrations of purchase on the Web/return in the store, reserve on the Web/pick in the store and in-store Web purchases. | |
| Air2Web Air2Web's Always Interactive Suite of Services allows any company to develop wireless interactive multimedia applications that can deliver content to all mobile devices, regardless of network, carrier or device. | |
| Authoria Authoria is the market leader in e-Workforce Communication. Authoria's Web-based solutions deliver dynamic, personalized answers to employee questions about HR policies and benefits. Authoria captures and maintains HR knowledge-base assets, reduces costs, improves efficiency, and delivers high-quality employee service. | |
| AvantGo The AvantGo Enterprise solution enables your organization to build, integrate, deploy and maintain a mobile environment. AvantGo Enterprise helps businesses to quickly and easily deliver information and applications over wireless and wired networks to handheld devices and Internet-enabled phones, while leveraging existing IT infrastructure investments. | |
| Computers 4 Kids Computers 4 Kids is a nonprofit organization that recycles computers from corporate desks to students' desks. Our mission is to help students of all ages acquire the technology and technology skills they need to succeed in the future by providing equitable access to technology resources in schools, communities and homes. | |
| DMP Scout is a linguistic information retrieval system. It outperforms its competitors by: Natural language interface-Cross-lingual searching; Precision recall (possibility of including synonyms, hyponyms and related terms); Superior ranking- Presentation of hits by including topic list (automatically generated); Automatically generated (translated) summary. The result is a more efficient access to and processing of information across all language. | |
| Encirq Encirq is an online marketing company that has developed a data engine for delivering individualized messages over the Internet, while protecting privacy. Encirq helps marketers leverage consumer information not previously available and enables personalized marketing programs. The company's first product converts online reports from banks and credit card issuers into interactive media called Illuminated Statements. | |
| eTrue.com, Inc. eTrue.com is the leading application service provider (ASP) for verifying people's identities using multiple biometrics (face, finger, voice recognition). eTrue will be demonstrating its Web outsourcing offering, which provides the most reliable way to verify a user with the least amount of capital outlay, integration effort, maintenance and risk. | |
| Graphic Gems Graphic Gems 3D ServicePack is a hosted and managed service allowing businesses to leverage the power of 3D without the majority of initial, expensive cost of ownership investments. Our ServicePack is made up of three distinct services: 3D Image Creation, 3D Image Hosting and the 3D Image Library. Graphic Gems' unique solution set enables businesses with the power of 3D on their e-commerce sites, driving higher user interests, increased traffic, improved sales and exceptional customer satisfaction. | |
| iConverse Showcasing its Parallel Publishing technology, iConverse will demonstrate how it enables the rapid creation of voice and data applications for multiple devices - PDAs, cell phones and pagers - all at once. Attendees will be able to see how they can easily create device customized mobile e-business applications using iConverse's visual development platform. Demo will include the ability to device-customize speech and data applications in real time during the development process. | |
| I-Link I-Link is a communications ASP that helps service providers and developers worldwide bring new VoIP solutions quickly to market and gain the immediate benefits of enhanced services. It operates a global real-time intranet that supports high-quality VoIP service, and builds the software-based switching and signal processing technologies that make IP telecommunications possible. Through I-Link's scalable hosting platform, developers and their customer base can now add low-risk capabilities to pervasive tools such as phones, fax machines, pagers and the Web, while reducing costs and maintaining and enhancing quality. | |
| LifeFX LifeFX is adding a level of interactivity and humanity to the Internet never before seen by developing the most believable photo-realistic, 3D, "digital people" to enhance and facilitate communications, education, entertainment and commerce. These digital people can interact in real time on a 28-Kbps bandwidth. | |
| Megaputer Intelligence Megaputer is a leading manufacturer and distributor of advanced software tools for data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, semantic text analysis, and information retrieval. | |
| OnePage OnePage provides three products: Content Aggregation Products that simplify the collection and dissemination of Web-based data; Portal Presentation Products that allow individuals to personalize portal pages with uniquely relevant and valuable content; and Corporate Portal Products that combine the content aggregation features and portal presentation functionality in a single product specifically designed for corporations. | |
| Qiave Technologies QSecure uses a new form of host-based security to ensure the integrity and viability of your most important data. By locking down content, including binaries, system files and registry keys, QSecure hardens the operating system. Using the intuitive interface, with a click of the mouse you can easily configure security across your entire enterprise. | |
| Techies Day Techies Day is a joint program of CNET and techies.com created to address our nation's increasing demand for a qualified technology workforce. Find out how you can be a part of TechiesDay 2001, an initiative that unites technology professionals, teachers and students to promote technology career awareness, readiness and achievement among students. | |
| Transindigo Transindigo's Elara provides transactional entitlement, privilege management and information security across the enterprise. The system enables companies to effectively manage the breadth and depth of electronic interaction among customers, suppliers, partners and employees. Elara supports all platforms, from e-commerce Web infrastructure to back-office legacy systems. | |
| VistaSource VistaSource provides business solutions to the Linux and ASP markets. Anyware Office provides a full-featured Office product through any Java-enabled browser with a desktop client of only 850K. This turnkey solution will allow ASPs to quickly offer an Office Suite solution to their customers. The Anywhere Office product allows ASPs the foundation product to build a world-class ASP solution. | |
| Voci Voci's technology creates an agentless call center, automating routine commerce telephone calls. Serena is Voci's proprietary speech recognition ASP platform, built with best of breed configuration and operation of multiple customer applications, high-quality speech application tuning, quick updates and changes, and complete call center system integration. Voci's newest product is Catalog V-Suite. | |
| Websprocket.com WebSprocket provides the essential tools necessary for the development and management of networked embedded systems. | |
| YY Software YY Software provides patented, intelligent auto-response solutions for "Customer Interaction Center" systems in the B2B commerce and e-commerce marketplace. Unlike other solutions based on keyword or phrase recognition, YY Software's solution actually understands customer e-mails and Web interaction. By automatically and accurately answering e-mail and Web requests, YY Software's flagship product, Email Specialist, can produce high-benefit value proposition that increases customer satisfaction. | |
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