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Application Development
Application development includes perfecting tools to speed up the process and improve application effectiveness. Future trends are likely to include the growth of real–time enterprises and service–oriented application development.
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Application Integration and Platform Middleware
There’s still a lot of hype about software infrastructure, even though many products are nearing maturity. But some advances that have not been widely hyped, such as complex business events, may have the biggest impact.
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Consumer Technologies
The proliferation of home digital products and services demonstrates that technological maturity alone does not guarantee successful passage through the Hype Cycle. Consumers also require ease of use and clear utility to embrace new technologies.
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Emerging Technologies
The 37 technologies featured on this Hype Cycle will be the most transformational in their impact in the five- to 10-year time frame, or are noteworthy due to overhype or recent maturity.
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Enterprise Speech Technology
Speech technologies have benefited many big organizations, especially in contact centers. But there are still improvements to be made to user interfaces, general performance, and the cost of deployment and maintenance.
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Healthcare Payers
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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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
Security technologies remain a priority for many enterprises. Evaluating the hype and the reality are important for prudent investments and critical for properly protecting the enterprise at a reasonable cost.
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IT Operations Processes and Tools
IT operations managers face a constant struggle to provide stability and responsiveness in a complex, fast-changing computing environment. Hype about new technologies makes their task even harder.
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Linux
Linux will face diverse challenges as it moves from an established position of strength for infrastructure deployments to a multipurpose, scalable architecture capable of displacing Unix and Windows servers and desktops.
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Mobile & Wireless Hardware and Software
Hardware and software play larger roles in wireless networking as picture and instant messaging applications become available, and voice and data converge to drive unified communications and the purchase of advanced smartphones and wireless PDAs.
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Networking and Communications
Dominating the Hype Cycle are technologies/services that support convergence of voice and data, and wired and wireless. Understand which technologies/services will affect your environments, and when, to use the technology for competitive advantage.
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Open-Source Technologies
The past year has seen more activity in open source, and many practical technologies have progressed toward maturity. But the most mature ones still tend to be concentrated in the areas of infrastructure and networking.
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PC Technologies
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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Portal Ecosystem
Portal technologies are continuing to mature, and some standards are now in place. However, they are embryonic, and other necessary standards are missing.
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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 become widespread in the next decade. This will fuel new waves of growth for the semiconductor industry, and for IT in general.
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Server Technologies
This year, added and expanded categories better reflect the evolution of server technologies. The most rapidly changing relate to technologies that help you to more effectively use and manage server resources toward a real-time infrastructure.
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Storage Technologies
We forecast the success of new storage technologies that have not yet gained mainstream status relative to their expected life cycles and market impact.
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Web Services
Elements of basic Web services are increasingly familiar, even among enterprises that have not deployed them. Yet, enterprises and vendors remain in the early stages of our Hype Cycle with regard to Web services' capabilities.
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XML Technologies
Since 1998, XML has grown from a little-known standard into a foundation of the Web computing infrastructure. Foundational XML standards and a few domain-specific standards are key to this evolution.
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