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		<description><![CDATA[ As technology continues to advance, planners and investors need to understand when to embrace a technology-enabled trend in its formative stages versus when to ride out the hype cycle. Gartner research identifies disruptive trends arising from emerging information technology and assesses their potential impact. ]]></description> 
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	 							<title><![CDATA[ 3D Process Will Give Intel One-Generation Technology Advantage]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Tri-Gate three-dimensional transistor design will help Intel secure and grow its existing business, but by itself, it will not enable Intel to immediately challenge rival chip makers in the mobile and tablet markets. ]]></description>
		
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  					<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011</pubDate>
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	 							<title><![CDATA[ Adobe Offers Answer to 'What's the Business Impact of Social Media?']]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Adobe SocialAnalytics would add a range of social data to the data streams already available in its Online Marketing Suite. This pending enhancement could help close the loop between business results and social media. ]]></description>
		
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  					<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Context-Aware Computing: Clear Strategies and Best Practices Emerge]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Context-aware computing is a game-changing opportunity for enterprises and CIOs looking to increase their revenue and profits. In 2011, momentum is building as these technologies mature and strategies in specific industries take shape. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Analytics and Learning Technology: CIOs, CTOs Should Rethink Art of the Possible]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ CIOs should rethink the art of the possible to redefine IT's contribution in using information to support business strategy, competition and operational decisions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Executive Advisory: The Untapped Potential of Mobile: Connecting the Physical World to the Online World]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mobile technology has the potential to be a disrupter to competitive advantage, but not if used as a portable extension to the Internet. This research focuses on a capability that we believe is disruptive and underleveraged: Mobile devices can connect the physical world to the online world. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Roundup of Innovation Management Research, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This roundup presents our research on managing innovation for the period January 2009 through March 2011. The research is organized by topic with hyperlinked documents and summaries. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Telstra's iVision Acquisition Reflects the Trend Toward Increasingly Pervasive Video]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dominant Australian telecommunications carrier Telstra's acquisition of videoconferencing and unified communications company iVision is consistent with the increasing trend toward tightly integrated UCC equipment and service solutions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Context-Aware Computing, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This research looks at six new vendors, all from different technology areas, plus a look back at a previously featured vendor to see how it is faring. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Emerging Technologies, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Four vendors are breaking new ground in virtual presence and media creation: Anybots' video telepresence robot, BioDigital Systems' haptic medical training, Intellitar's simple personal chatbot creation and Xtranormal's animated video creation toolkit. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Emerging Markets, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Technology products and solutions that help address the needs of emerging market customers include clean energy production techniques, effective patient care delivery systems, a digital pen mouse and a new approach to ultrasound imaging incorporating cellular networks or Wi-Fi. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ A Maturity Model for Innovation Management]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprises succeed in managing innovation through six dimensions of maturity, such as strategic intent and fostering a culture of innovation. The Innovation Management Maturity Model enables enterprises to assess their maturity, identify performance gaps and define actions for improvement. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Context-Aware Computing Industry Heat Map]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Context-aware computing will bring about a dramatic shift in a variety of industries during the next decade. Use this heat map to judge what role context-aware computing is likely to play in your industry. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Context-Aware Computing: A Looming Disruption]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ We introduce a special report on context-aware computing. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ A Day in Your Life, 2028]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gartner's Day in Your Life project examines scenarios for various life and work roles in 2028, based on selected technological, societal and economic assumptions. Technology planners can apply the findings and adapt the process to their own planning activities. ]]></description>
		
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  	  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Context-Aware Computing, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Context-aware computing is a leading trend in IT that will surge in 2011 and cause enterprises to rethink how user experience affects consumers and employees. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Managing Innovation: A Primer]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This primer provides definitions, frameworks, practices and disciplines for managing innovation. Key Issues address how organizations will drive continuous innovation, the practices that will enable and sustain innovation, and the technologies and services that will support innovation programs. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Future Worker 2015: Extreme Individualization]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Future Worker 2015 will individualize his or her work environment by assembling personally selected tools, information and learning resources, and by tapping into wide-ranging social networks to enhance performance, productivity and trust. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Protection, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Advances in infrastructure protection technology continue to be primarily reactive to keep pace with new threats. Integration of point safeguards into platforms continues, and "in the cloud" protection delivers more hype than protection in many, but not all, areas. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the maturity of 1,800 technologies and trends in 75 areas. New this year are business use of social technology, sustainability and green IT, emerging energy technologies, enterprise architecture, Pattern-Based Strategy, and performance management. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Networking and Communications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise network planners must focus on building capabilities for intelligent networking, mobility, unified communications, cloud computing and video. These are the essential new technologies to watch. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Social Software, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Hype Cycle highlights the most important technologies that enable and support social interactions. Use our assessment to guide your planning and investment decisions, and to guide realistic user expectations in light of market hype and exuberance. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Consumer Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The consumer electronics industry is in serious upheaval due to the emergence of new technologies and migration of value from hardware to software. Manufacturers that have dominated the industry are challenged by new competitors who emerged due to the changes in industry and technology innovation. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ During 2009 and into 2010, SCM focus remained on cost, but supporting competitive advantage and/or revenue growth is scaling up the executive SCM agenda. Hype is focused on capabilities that support an organization's journey toward the higher stages of a demand-driven value network. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Human-Computer Interaction, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 3D devices and media tablets dominate the peak of this Hype Cycle in 2010, while established technologies move steadily toward the plateau. Progress of technologies in the early stages remains slow as the challenges of development and subsequent commercialization stall progress. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Understanding the evolution of application architectural styles and design practices is critical to the successful delivery of new and emerging approaches to applications, such as service orientation, cloud computing and event-driven systems. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Performance Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Performance management is an area of increasing focus across many functions, domains and software markets. This Hype Cycle analyzes the maturity of performance management disciplines and the analytic applications that support performance management. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for E-Commerce, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ E-commerce continues to rivet the attention of enterprises struggling to return to growth. This Hype Cycle will help enterprises evaluate the suitability of an exploding number of e-commerce technological capabilities, long-established and emerging, and to understand their business value. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Pattern-Based Strategy, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In this first edition of the Hype Cycle for Pattern-Based Strategy, we review the cultural disciplines and technologies that support the implementation of a Pattern-Based Strategy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Enterprise Communication Applications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The nature of communications is changing. Workers will focus on amenability for communication at a particular time, location or context, and use multiple communications technologies and applications such as telephony, mobile, e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, voice, video or Web conferencing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for ICT in China, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Hype Cycle documents technology trends that are more relevant in the emerging Chinese information and communication technology industry, as their impact on Chinese businesses is different to that in other countries. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ High-impact technologies at the Peak of Inflated Expectations during 2010 include private cloud computing, augmented reality, media tablets (such as the iPad), wireless power, 3D flat-panel TVs and displays, and activity streams. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Mobile Device Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Hype Cycle examines the status of, and prospects for, various mobile device technologies. It advises handset vendors, mobile operators, application providers and others on the maturity of these technologies and their use. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This report analyzes evolving trends in information and communication technology in India and the degree of current and projected adoption of various technologies by Indian enterprises. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Semiconductors, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ We chart the progress of technologies such as logic devices, process technologies, displays, energy sources and design techniques. Eventually, nanotechnologies based on semiconducting molecules and DNA structures will transform the semiconductor industry. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Use of Social Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This new Hype Cycle examines social technology in specific business functions and industries. Consider how social technologies are used across a wide array of circumstances when evolving your social strategy, and use this to guide realistic user expectations in light of market hype and exuberance. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This report covers key technologies for communications service provider networks in the light of the austere economic conditions under which continued innovation toward higher bandwidth, more mobility and increased use of video must be realized. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Context-Aware Computing, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Context-aware computing is poised to be a game changer for enterprises that want to increase customer intimacy and improve the effectiveness of business processes and collaboration, and big business for the technology and communications vendors that provide context-aware capabilities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for IT Outsourcing, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ IT outsourcing has proved to be relatively stable and attractive in the current economic conditions. Organizations should use this Hype Cycle to review their sourcing strategies and gauge the potential variety of offerings to meet changing business needs in long-term management contracts. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Solar Energy, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Following years of rapid growth, the solar energy industry has entered a period of retrenchment, consolidation and increased financial scrutiny. This has delayed the rate of adoption of many technologies, from those aimed at reducing silicon consumption to aspects of concentrating solar power. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Transportation, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Although transportation costs have declined during the past 12 months, companies are experiencing the transportation equivalent of the eye of the hurricane, with storm clouds on the horizon. Users must continue to consider new technologies to position themselves properly for the economic recovery. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Sustainability and Green IT, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Sustainability and green IT remain rapidly emerging issues for IT groups and the ICT industry. While varying by sector and geography, sustainability is increasingly one of the main strategic business priorities attracting marketing attention, investment and innovation, and technology development. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Process Outsourcing, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Business process outsourcing comprises many horizontal and vertical submarkets. There is greater maturity for discrete, process offerings, such as contact center, billing and payroll BPO, whereas end-to-end comprehensive offerings cluster at the Trough of Disillusionment. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for CRM Marketing Applications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Marketing applications and technologies vary greatly in terms of maturity and user adoption. This Hype Cycle can help you determine investment priorities, address drivers and inhibitors, understand benefits, and build a road map for marketing automation. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Operations, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ CSPs must save costs and raise revenue by streamlining back offices, improving the customer experience, supporting new business models and offering new solutions. This report will help CIOs and CTOs assess available technologies. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Governance, Risk and Compliance Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Regulatory compliance continues to be a major driver in the sales of a wide variety of products that automate risk-relevant tasks. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ An increased focus on measurable, more-agile processes and service orientation is altering staffing, tools and methods of software development. In parallel, governance, planning, control and quality assurance are being refined and strengthened to drive better predictability and support sourcing. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ To capitalize on the economic recovery, firms are seeking to rebuild sales capacity, improve selling practices and adopt innovation to gain decisive competitive advantages and drive growth. This research reviews the visibility, maturity and value of key technologies for optimizing sales resources. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Enterprise Information Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise information management touches on technology at every layer of an information infrastructure, but emphasizes architectural aspects rather than equipment. This year's Hype Cycle has several noteworthy changes to the technologies covered. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cloud computing continues to be the most hyped subject in IT today. We look at the different aspects of the topic and where they are on Gartner's Hype Cycle. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Business Process Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Our 2010 Hype Cycle shows that BPM hype is pervasive, but BPM itself is not a passing fad. A balance of technology and management disciplines, BPM can deliver tangible value, disrupt the status quo and transform the organization when done well. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for CRM Customer Service and Field Service, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Hype Cycle for CRM Customer Service and Field Service evaluates 34 related technologies to guide buyers focused on retaining customers, enhancing existing relationships, maintaining a competitive advantage, and attracting new customers and skilled talent. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Data and Application Security, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprise boundaries continue to blur as data is shared across the Internet between partner organizations and unmanaged endpoints, increasing concerns about data leakage and manipulation. This is encouraging greater use of application layer and data layer security controls. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Consumer Services and Mobile Applications, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This Hype Cycle covers a wide range of consumer applications and services from communications and entertainment, to productivity and collaboration. It examines the status of, and prospects for, services and mobile apps, and advises industry players on how to make the best of them. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Web continues to evolve along multiple dimensions -- social, mobile, programmable and real time -- not just outside the enterprise, but also within. These trends reinforce each other, and the resulting scale is unprecedented. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for the High-Performance Workplace, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The impact of consumerization and social media in the workplace has never been stronger. Incorporating these approaches and related technologies can drive workplace performance to a greater level of effectiveness both inside and beyond the enterprise. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Imaging and Print Services, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Use this Hype Cycle to evaluate your print strategies for generating cost savings and gaining a competitive advantage while complementing and extending your communications in digital media. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ RTI continues making steady gains, spurred by the spread of virtualization in the data center and the desire to bring cloud attributes, such as self-service provisioning, to the internal data center. However, significant technology, standardization, organizational and process inhibitors still exist. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Virtualization, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ While x86 server virtualization may be maturing, virtualization as an IT initiative is still, at best, in adolescence, and still disruptive to IT users and providers, leading to continued levels of hype while delivering the foundation for power and cooling and cloud-computing initiatives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for PC Technologies, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Hype Cycle for PC Technologies evaluates 46 PC-related technologies to guide PC buyers as they make tough cost optimization decisions and PC vendors make tough product line management decisions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Data management technologies and practices are evolving fast as organizations recognize their value and attain benefits. This document describes the relative maturity of these technologies and practices, and the opportunities that organizations can derive from established and emerging capabilities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Consulting and System Integration, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Hype Cycle for Consulting and System Integration reflects a mood of cautiously optimistic growth. The Hype Cycle is designed to help organizations discern the relative maturity and significance of specific services before making partnering, vendor selection or sourcing decisions. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Application infrastructure continues to evolve in a manner that affects business analysts, architects, developers, middleware technologists and users. It is foundational not only for modern applications, but also for integration, business process management and cloud-computing initiatives. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Content Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As organizations shift from a focus on cost optimization toward value optimization, emerging technologies can be the catalysts for change. Strategists, enterprise architects, and IT leaders should use this Hype Cycle to identify technologies with the greatest benefits and sift through the hype. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Hype Cycle for Enterprise Architecture, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In this first edition of Gartner's enterprise architecture Hype Cycle, we discuss the current and future evolution of EA practices, disciplines and technologies, with a focus on EA renewal, frameworks, approaches and viewpoints. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Emerging Technologies, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Four vendors are breaking new ground in virtual presence and media creation: Anybots' video telepresence robot, BioDigital Systems' haptic medical training, Intellitar's simple personal chatbot creation and Xtranormal's animated video creation toolkit. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Emerging Markets, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Technology products and solutions that help address the needs of emerging market customers include clean energy production techniques, effective patient care delivery systems, a digital pen mouse and a new approach to ultrasound imaging incorporating cellular networks or Wi-Fi. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Context-Aware Computing: Clear Strategies and Best Practices Emerge]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Context-aware computing is a game-changing opportunity for enterprises and CIOs looking to increase their revenue and profits. In 2011, momentum is building as these technologies mature and strategies in specific industries take shape. ]]></description>
		
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