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		<description><![CDATA[ Enterprises that derive value from basic Web services must explore how to fully exploit this new development paradigm. Users must be protected from the risks of Web services while still reaping the benefits. Gartner research provides insight into Web services technology and how it is used by leading organizations. ]]></description> 
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Users Think Their E-Mail Is Slow; Are They Right?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ E-mail's asynchronous nature has always made performance monitoring difficult. When e-mail is moved to the cloud, the problem is exacerbated. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ How a Canonical Messaging Approach Can Help You Simplify and Reduce Interface Assets]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Organizations are seeking best practices as they switch from point-to-point interfaces to address development and management challenges. We provide the what, why, when and how of canonical messages, a best practice that streamlines application integration and service development activities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ SCA: Too Little, Too Late to Standardize Composite Application Development]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Service Component Architecture standard was promoted heavily by enterprise service bus vendors in 2006 and 2007, but has failed to meet expectations. SCA offers specifications for a standardized way to assemble multiple, diverse application artifacts and to create composite applications. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Enterprise Mashups and Mashable Resources]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Simple mashups execute in a user's browser or in a cloud service, but mashups that require a secure access mechanism or complex transformation logic to integrate enterprise data sources require a more robust architecture. IT must provide that architecture and manage its use. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cloud services brokerages help companies that want to consume cloud services, but lack the technology, resources or desire to do so themselves. We focus on five Cool Vendors that highlight some of the many ways in which IT providers deliver cloud services brokerage capabilities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Combining On-Premises and Cloud E-Mail: Perfect Together?]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ E-mail will be at the forefront of the trend toward combined on-premises/cloud operations. We explore the implications and possible futures of hybrid e-mail models. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ With WaveMaker Acquisition, VMware Taps Into the Citizen Developer Trend]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ VMware expands its platform ambitions with the acquisition of WaveMaker, a high-productivity, application-platform-as-a-service and cloud-enabled-application vendor. We consider how this acquisition impacts WaveMaker and VMware customers, and clarify VMware's strategy. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Private Cloud Computing, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Private cloud computing is moving rapidly from the drawing board to deployments. Gartner's research on private cloud computing in 2011 will focus on planning for future trends, technologies used to build the private cloud, and managing process and organization changes. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ SaaS Continues to Grow in the IT Service Desk Market]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The software-as-a-service model for purchasing new IT service desk tools has become increasingly popular. We expect interest in the SaaS model to continue to grow until it reaches 50% of new tool purchases. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Software as a Service, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ SaaS continues to take hold, but emerging architectural, technological and service models are making it difficult to compare one SaaS vendor with the next, or SaaS vendors with on-premises vendors. Gartner's SaaS agenda focuses on topics that have broad applicability to a range of software domain areas. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Choosing Trusted Portals for Secure External Collaboration]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A growing variety of trusted products facilitate the sharing of sensitive information with external parties, partners, legal and financial advisors, business partners, and regulatory parties. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ The Four Steps to an SOA Center of Excellence]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Service-oriented architecture projects cannot succeed and deliver benefits without a strong SOA center of excellence. The best way is to change the current organizational model gradually, in four distinct phases, mirroring the governance arrangements of the whole company. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ SOA Overview and Guide to SOA Research]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By providing an overview of service-oriented architecture and a summary of how organizations are using it, this research should help IT managers and business analysts become familiar with the concept of SOA. We provide references to Gartner research that drill down into specific SOA-related topics. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for SOA, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The fundamental design of business applications is changing from silos to shared services because of the growing use of service-oriented architecture. Cloud-based solutions are introducing new software design constraints, and SOA is becoming a fundamental practice for the Web and cloud world. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Cloud Computing, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cloud computing is at the peak of Gartner's Hype Cycle. It offers potential benefits, but users must beware of the risks and vendor marketing spin. This research updates Gartner's cloud-computing research agenda. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Web 2.0 and Beyond, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Although Web 2.0 is not as new as it was, and many enterprises are looking beyond the concept at cloud computing and attempts at Web 3.0, there is still a lot of interest in this topic. We outline our research agenda and update it to reflect recent, published research. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Key Issues for Web and Cloud Application Development, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Gartner Web and cloud application development research agenda for 2010 includes analysis of new capabilities in Web and cloud application development that provide opportunities for organizations to realize additional business value and productivity. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 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 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 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 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[ Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cloud infrastructure as a service has evolved primarily from the Web hosting market, but the cloud has created new opportunities for cost savings and business agility. The market is immature, the services are all unique and evolving rapidly, and vendors must be chosen with care. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Successful enterprise vendors are beginning to stand out, while others are leveraging their strength in adjacent markets in order to increase their appeal. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Shared SOA Interoperability Infrastructure Projects]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The deployment of comprehensive interoperability and governance capabilities, shared across multiple applications and processes, is key to successful SOA initiatives. This Magic Quadrant assesses the vendors that provide these capabilities in their application infrastructure middleware offerings. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ New and composite service-oriented business applications require a complex collection of capabilities in runtime technologies and development tools. We examine the ability of leading application infrastructure vendors to provide users with complete end-to-end support for SOA-style application projects. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cloud services brokerages help companies that want to consume cloud services, but lack the technology, resources or desire to do so themselves. We focus on five Cool Vendors that highlight some of the many ways in which IT providers deliver cloud services brokerage capabilities. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A sampling of notable small innovators in platform as a service reflects the breadth of developments brewing in this emerging strategic market. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There is rising interest among infrastructure and operations professionals in building private clouds or using the public cloud for overdraft or virtual private clouds. However, investment in management technology is required to deliver service quality, security and availability. ]]></description>
		
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  	 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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   			<title><![CDATA[ Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A sampling of notable small innovators in platform as a service reflects the breadth of developments brewing in this emerging strategic market. ]]></description>
		
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