http://www.gartner.com Gartner Media Relations en-us Press Release Update Press Release Update en-us http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2490215 Worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) software revenue totaled $18 billion in 2012, up 4.8 percent from $17 billion in 2011, according to final results from Gartner, Inc. However, Gartner said that the "Big Four" ITOM vendors IBM, CA Technologies, BMC Software and HP surrendered market share in 2012, while a new generation of ITOM vendors grew significantly faster than the market. Tue, 21 May 2013 06:18:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2490215 2013-05-21T06:18:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2489415 The news that Yahoo has acquired Tumblr represents Yahoo's attempt to move its brand back into the consumer-tech conversation. In a blog post by Allen Weiner, research vice president at Gartner, he said that after going through a checklist of Yahoo needs and Tumblr strengths, one realistic path is content platforms. Mon, 20 May 2013 16:09:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2489415 2013-05-20T16:09:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2488715 Despite economic challenges, the worldwide supply chain management (SCM) software market grew 7.1 percent to $8.3 billion in 2012. During 2012, IT budget decision makers remained highly cautious overall, but supply chain investments kept their priority status and moved forward. Mon, 20 May 2013 06:53:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2488715 2013-05-20T06:53:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2488616 Business intelligence (BI)/analytics investment will address many technology gaps for the CFO, according to a joint study by Gartner, Inc., and Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI). The study shows that 15 of the top 19 business processes that CFOs have identified as requiring improved technology support are largely addressed by BI, analytics and performance management technologies. Mon, 20 May 2013 06:27:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2488616 2013-05-20T06:27:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2484815 PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 12.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a decline of 20.5 percent from the corresponding period of 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. (see Table 1). Wed, 15 May 2013 06:50:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2484815 2013-05-15T06:50:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2484715 The converging and mutually reinforcing social, cultural and technological factors in the Nexus of Forces (cloud, mobility, social and information) are driving a radical power shift away from the culture of the enterprise and toward that of the consumer. "Cool Vendors" are exploiting this nexus to challenge long-held assumptions and affect IT investment, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner's 2013 Cool Vendors research series identifies the innovative companies, products and services th Wed, 15 May 2013 06:02:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2484715 2013-05-15T06:02:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2483315 The age of a locked-down IT system is disappearing rapidly, with total control of technology by IT fading away as more of the workforce chooses to use their own devices and applications for business purposes. This disruptive trend presents some great opportunities for enterprise architects. Tue, 14 May 2013 08:25:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2483315 2013-05-14T08:25:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2482816 Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7 percent from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide smartphone sales totaled 210 million units in the first quarter of 2013, up 42.9 percent from the first quarter of 2012. The Asia/Pacific region was the only region to show growth in mobile phone sales this quarter, with a 6.4 percent increase year-on-year. Tue, 14 May 2013 06:23:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2482816 2013-05-14T06:23:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2483215 A large number of Asia Pacific CEOs see their organisations as 'pioneers' or 'fast followers' in adopting business- and IT-led innovation, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. The 2013 Gartner CEO and Senior Executive Survey found that 32 percent see themselves as aggressive adopters of business and IT innovation while 31 percent see themselves as 'fast followers'. Tue, 14 May 2013 04:49:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2483215 2013-05-14T04:49:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2481917 The Google I/O conference is taking place this week in San Francisco, and Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, provided her thoughts on what to expect at this year's event and outlook on some of Google's key areas. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:26:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2481917 2013-05-13T06:26:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2481916 The Indian IT infrastructure market, comprising of server, storage and networking equipment, will total $2.1 billion in 2013, growing 9.7 percent compared to 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:10:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2481916 2013-05-13T06:10:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2481915 Worldwide project and portfolio management (PPM) software revenue totaled $1.65 billion in 2012, up 11 percent from $1.48 billion in 2011, according to final results from Gartner, Inc. Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2481915 2013-05-13T05:00:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2480715 India has the potential to lead the world in the adoption of the Nexus of Forces, which is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social interaction, mobility, cloud and information, however for this to happen a number technological and socioeconomic shifts must happen, according to Gartner, Inc. Fri, 10 May 2013 06:34:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2480715 2013-05-10T06:34:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2479215 Defining the role of supply chain, span of control and metrics maturity are the key enablers to demand-driven retail success, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. The 2012 demand-driven survey was conducted from September through November 2012 across six retail segments in North America, Western Europe and Asia/Pacific. Thu, 09 May 2013 05:55:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2479215 2013-05-09T05:55:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2477816 Accepting higher project failure rates can help organizations become more efficient more quickly, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said project and portfolio management (PPM) leaders who take a "fail-forward-fast" approach that accepts project failure rates of 20 to 28 percent as the norm will help their organizations become more agile by embracing experimentation and enabling the declaration of success or failure earlier in a project's life. Wed, 08 May 2013 05:59:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2477816 2013-05-08T05:59:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2476715 CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc. To get maximum value, enterprises will need to seek and embrace innovation in the way business problems are analyzed with big data. Tue, 07 May 2013 06:43:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2476715 2013-05-07T06:43:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2476115 The public cloud services market in India is forecast to grow 36 percent in 2013 to total $443 million, up from $326 million in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), including cloud compute, storage and print services, continues as the fastest-growing segment of the market in India, growing 22.7 percent in 2012 to $43.1 million, and it is expected to grow 39.6 percent in 2013 to $60.2 million. Mon, 06 May 2013 07:33:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2476115 2013-05-06T07:33:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2469515 The worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market totaled $24.5 billion in 2012, a 2.1 percent increase from 2011, according to final results from Gartner, Inc. Thu, 02 May 2013 05:52:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2469515 2013-05-02T05:52:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2469315 Australian organizations are forecast to spend almost A$70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013, an increase of 10.4 percent over 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide spending on BPMS is expected to reach US$2.8 billion, up 9.5 percent compared to 2012. Thu, 02 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2469315 2013-05-02T04:01:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2466615 As enterprise bring your own device (BYOD) programs continue to become more commonplace, 38 percent of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs Wed, 01 May 2013 06:16:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2466615 2013-05-01T06:16:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2463615 By 2016, 40 percent of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud back-end services, causing development leaders to lose control of the pace and path of cloud adoption within their enterprises, predicts Gartner, Inc. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:13:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2463615 2013-04-30T06:13:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2459015 Salesforce.com passed SAP as the lead vendor in the worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software market in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Total worldwide CRM software revenue totaled $18 billion in 2012, up 12.5 percent from $16 billion in 2011. Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:21:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2459015 2013-04-29T06:21:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2451515 The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totaled 676,263 units in the fourth quarter of 2012, a 5.4 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. Total end user spending grew by 27 percent from the same period totaling USD $219.8 million. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:55:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2451515 2013-04-25T05:55:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2448415 Pivotal, a company recently spun out of assets of EMC and VMware, was introduced today as a power behind Pivotal One, a new cloud-enabled application platform (CEAP) for private cloud initiatives and public cloud providers. It will also run a public Platform as a Services (PaaS) for IT organizations and independent software vendors (ISVs) looking to deploy application services in a public cloud. Pivotal also announced its strategic partnership with GE which committed to take a 10 perce Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:24:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2448415 2013-04-24T11:24:00Z http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2447915 The worldwide semiconductor foundry market totaled $34.6 billion in 2012, a 16.2 percent increase from 2011, according to final results by Gartner, Inc. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:07:00 GMT http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2447915 2013-04-24T06:07:00Z