Applications

Infrastructure Standards Are the Key to Managing E-Learning Chaos
CIOs in education must develop infrastructures that enable their institutions to maneuver through the growing chaos in e-learning. Their success will depend on accurate and reliable assessments of rapidly evolving technical, security and education standards.
Enterprise Application on Demand
At Gartner's recent research off-site, we developed a straightforward definition that truly represents accessing Application on Demand. By applying three criteria, users can determine whether a vendor is committed to AoD or just tagging along.
Market Conditions for the Software Tool Market Are Significantly Changing
Significant changes are occurring in the way software technologies are accepted by users in various regions. These changes to user adoption patterns will impact how large and small vendors are funded and approach innovation.
Content Management Proliferation and Federation
As both content and content management systems proliferate, enterprises realize that retiring the multiple content repositories they have is often easier said than done. As a result, they are turning to content federation.
Fulfilling Users' Collaboration Expectations
The many collaboration technologies available to users create expectations that IT departments struggle to match. The gap is a breeding ground for user-led innovation and attention-sapping chaos. Use an effective workplace "birthright" strategy that's sensitive to users' expectations.
Achieving Process Agility With BPM-Based Packaged Process Templates
Business users who want process agility will seek process templates provided by business process management suite vendors. With process templates, they will realize agile solutions but will inherit many of the headaches that IT experienced with classic packaged application implementations.
Prepare for the Business Application Decision Olympics
For multinational companies, recent vendor consolidation in the business application market appears to have simplified selection decisions between megavendors SAP and Oracle. The opposite is true, however; many users will face hard decisions through 2012.
Tools for Exploiting High-Performance Workplace Social Factors
Social trends and implications will have a bigger effect than technical trends in the evolution and adoption of the high-performance workplace.


What is Findings

Gartner analysts engage in many internal research discussions. To share some of that thinking more rapidly with clients we are now publishing Findings from many of these discussions – brief summarizations of conclusions, reflecting developing research positions.

This set of Findings is a result of an annual gathering of Gartner’s global analyst community, where views of the future of IT are discussed. They cover a wide range of topics that affect our clients, the industry and business. These Findings are signposts and indicators of the future. Many are surprising. Although not all of them present definitive conclusions, you can expect to see topics discussed in Findings developed further in our research during the year. To assist you in locating items of interest, we have categorized Findings into software applications, technology, management and industry–specific topics.