Web Services

News Analysis

Featured Research

• Ten Ways to Avoid SaaS Delivery Problems and Protect Your Organization
  9 February 2012
• Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends: In-Memory Computing
  3 February 2012
• With Rypple Buy, Salesforce.com Converges HR and Social Capabilities
  21 December 2011
• Define Proper Reporting Lines for Your Social Knowledge Team
  19 December 2011
• How to Grow Revenue by Linking Online Channel to Business Processes
  19 December 2011
• Application Performance Monitoring Is the First Step to Manage the Hybrid Cloud Application Portfolio
  19 December 2011
• Choose the Right Cloud Solution for IT Modernization
  16 December 2011
• Managing Brand Risk Means Everyone Needs Social Media Education
  16 December 2011
• Accelerate IT Transformation With Cloud Computing Best Practices
  15 December 2011
• Predicts 2012: Product Support Market Will Weather the Cloud-Based Storm and Emerge Driving Value
  15 December 2011

The Basics

Essential concepts and fundamental principles

• Key Issues for Web Computing, 2011
  15 March 2011
• The Four Steps to an SOA Center of Excellence
  15 February 2011
• SOA Overview and Guide to SOA Research
  7 July 2010

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2011
  28 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for ICT in China, 2011
  28 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Software as a Service, 2011
  28 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2011
  27 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Cloud Application Infrastructure Services (PaaS), 2011
  26 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2011
  27 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2011
  26 July 2011
• Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2011
  26 July 2011

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
  8 December 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
  24 October 2011
• Magic Quadrant for SOA Governance Technologies
  17 October 2011
• MarketScope for Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence
  5 July 2011
• Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting
  22 December 2010
• Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace
  25 October 2010
• Magic Quadrant for Shared SOA Interoperability Infrastructure Projects
  21 October 2010
• Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects
  21 October 2010

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• The Concise Social CRM Vendor Guide, 2012
  6 December 2011
• Vendor Focus for Adobe: Creative Cloud Strategy
  23 November 2011
• Vendor Focus for Google: Examining Google's Disruptive Strategy and Value to Your Organization
  20 September 2011
• Vendor Rating: Citrix Systems
  14 September 2011
• Vendor Focus for Microsoft: Enterprise Search Is Dominant in SharePoint Shops, But Outside?
  24 May 2011
• Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage, 2011
  27 April 2011
• Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service, 2011
  7 April 2011
• Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2010
  31 March 2010