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Hype Cycle for Automotive Electronics
Advances in electronics spur the bulk of developments in car design. Features like stereos and airbags are standard in many new cars and, before long, things like digital radios and smarter braking systems could be too.
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Hype Cycle for the Automotive Industry
To achieve critical business objectives, automotive companies must develop individual technology and process-implementation plans. To prioritize their investments, companies must understand the benefits as well as the relative maturity of those technologies and processes.
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Hype Cycle for the Banking Industry
To increase organic growth, operational efficiencies and productivity (while coping with the rapidly growing regulatory compliance burdens), banks must adopt a diverse group of applications and technologies.
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Hype Cycle for Consumer Goods
Emerging technology applications in consumer goods are primarily focused on improving the product development process, facilitating collaboration and optmizing information utilization.
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Hype Cycle for Consumer Technologies
The consumer technology landscape, once dominated by gadgets, is evolving into an interdependent web of devices, platforms and services. Significant "silos" remain, however, and some technically mature offerings will not be able to overcome business barriers to their success in the consumer market.
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Hype Cycle for Government
Although improving performance and security remain important issues, the need to integrate processes across departments and government tiers is driving important changes in 2005.
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Hype Cycle for Healthcare Payers
New technologies and applications promise to improve healthcare payer industry business performance. EIPP, BREs, BI, EMPIs and XML hold great near-term promise. Others, such as PHRs, SOA, BPM and CRM, are receiving much attention and hype, but their maturity is still at least five to 10 years away.
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Hype Cycle for Healthcare Provider Technologies
With rising costs, personnel shortages, and legislative and funding changes, healthcare providers must know which standards and technologies will enable better decision making. Continuous speech recognition and document imaging will have the fastest and broadest impact on the industry.
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Hype Cycle for Investment Services
Technologies are emerging that will improve IT and business processes in the investment segment of the financial services industry. Strides are being made in Web services, risk management and enterprise architecture initiatives, with a focus on standardized data management and data formats.
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Hype Cycle for Life Sciences
In 2005, life sciences companies must continue to explore the potential for IT to automate critical business processes and augment their work practices.
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Hype Cycle for Manufacturing
Significant technologies/systems have reached the Plateau of Productivity for manufacturers. Lagging behind are process improvement techniques and IT support; technologies for product creation, collaboration and learning in value creation; and technologies to facilitate real-time operations.
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Hype Cycle for the Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry is at a critical stage in its evolution in which advanced technology is being sought to address business challenges. IT can be used to optimize the business and mitigate risk.
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Hype Cycle for Product Life Cycle Management
Product life cycle management applications that support product design, new product introduction, production, service and retirement continue to mature. New PLM applications are evolving to address emerging competitive and regulatory challenges.
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Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies
The retail sector has a long-standing reputation for conservative technology adoption. However, much is changing in the retail sector. Effective IT solutions, or the lack of them, can now be a survival issue in the fast-paced but low-margin retail sector.
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Hype Cycle for Transportation
To meet shippers' demands for higher service levels, the transportation industry can look forward to new IT solutions and business process improvements. Notable solutions will include radio frequency identification tracking, wireless driver/operator communications and cargo portals.
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Hype Cycle for Utility Industry Applications and Business Processes
Energy utilities will continue to invest in industry-specific applications and improve business processes in their quest to meet rising customer expectations, excel in increasingly volatile markets and create an expected shareholder return in an uncertain regulatory environment.
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Hype Cycle for Utility Industry Technologies
Energy utilities will continue to explore technology options in their quests to meet rising customer expectations, excel in increasingly volatile energy markets and create expected shareholder returns in uncertain regulatory environments.
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Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in China
China is becoming a powerful force in the information and communication technology industry. We examine its adoption of new technologies, from WiMAX and business process outsourcing to Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.
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Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in Japan
Japan's domestic market for IT and telecoms is large and unique. We examine its takeup of new technologies, such as grid computing and wireless PDAs, that are either unique to Japan or being adopted at distinctive speeds.
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Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in Latin America
The potential for IT growth in Latin America is huge, yet IT adoption there follows a different pattern than in Europe, North America and even Asia/Pacific. Lack of expertise and low levels of service offerings in new technologies continue to challenge companies based in Latin America.
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Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in India
India has created a "larger than life" information and communication technology reputation. However, India's domestic ICT industry is not the same as its export industry. This Hype Cycle shows many of the emerging technologies that will drive India's domestic ICT industry.
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