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Hype — or the future of information technology? Gartner Hype Cycles clearly explain the difference. Gartner Hype Cycles are graphic representations of the maturity, estimated time to adoption and business application of specific technologies.
This collection of Hype Cycles is based on the analysis of more than 500 technologies from about 36 different technical, business and industry perspectives.
We will bring you more Hype Cycles and updates as the future of IT evolves.
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Advanced Analytics
Analytics is a vast space with broad applicability in many different business areas. To assess the maturity of any given analytics technology, it is necessary to look at specific applications.
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Application Development
Application development involves perfecting tools to speed up the process and improve application effectiveness. Trends expected include growth of the real-time enterprise and services-oriented development of applications.
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Application Integration and Platform Middleware
Application integration and platform middleware technologies are well established, yet vendor innovation continues. Emerging concepts like vocabulary-based transformation and business activity monitoring will foster additional hype.
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Data Warehousing
Data warehousing concepts and approaches have become fairly mature during a decade of refinement. However, the desire to deliver more-strategic business intelligence continues to fuel technology evolution.
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Human-Computer Interaction
Human-computer interaction technologies typically are slow to mature and gain widespread adoption. Deployment should focus on specific applications with quantifiable value, such as speech recognition in the call center.
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Information Security
Succumbing to hype from security management vendors can have expensive consequences. Enterprises should assess security needs and evaluate the relative maturity of a security technology before adopting it.
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IT in Latin America
Technology adoption in Latin American countries depends on factors that go beyond technology maturity, such as economic development, tight budgets and skills shortages.
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Mobile and Wireless Applications and Services
Some wireless applications and services (short message service and wireless e-mail) have already been shown to improve productivity. While others are headed for obsolescence (wireless Web). Gartner identifies those to avoid and those to embrace.
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Mobile and Wireless Networking
A wireless networking assessment finds many technologies struggling to climb from the Trough of Disillusionment, while mainstream methods (including WiFi 802.11b) are ready for adoption.
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Networking and Communications
A wave of change continues in the networking arena. Enterprises must understand which networking technologies and services will impact their environments, and when, so they can use the changes to their advantage.
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Open-Source Technologies
Open-source development principles are expanding into new areas. Gartner assesses the maturity of 17 open-source technologies and examines their potential to disrupt software markets and business relationships.
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Personal Computers
The cost of succumbing to PC hype is constant churn in the installed base with higher system image and support costs.
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Real-Time Infrastructure
Real-time infrastructure promises greater agility and quality of service from the IT infrastructure, while simultaneously lowering costs. RTI depends on many technologies that will evolve through 2010.
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Semiconductors
New semiconductor technologies will achieve widespread usage in the next decade. This will fuel new waves of growth in the semiconductor industry.
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Servers
Among the important technologies in the server area are those that speed server deployments, manage their use efficiently, and increase scalability through intrasystem parallelism and wide-area
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Storage
The success of various storage technologies is forecast, along with their expected life cycles and market impact.
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Web Services
Web services standards, such as Simple Object Access Protocols and Web Services Description Language, are understood and deployed. Application exploitation of Web services is still over-hyped.
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XML Technologies
Since 1998, XML has grown from a little-known standard to become the foundation of the Web computing infrastructure. Foundational and domain-specific XML standards are key to this evolution.
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