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February 2012

PaaS 2012: Tactical Risks and Strategic Rewards
Despite its promising future, the PaaS market remains immature and volatile. Some emerging vendors are still reluctant to fully endorse it and pursue defensive strategies; others continue to promote proprietary solutions and many see PaaS as simply a new deployment model for old workloads and architectural models.

January 2012

How to Get Started With a Pace-Layered Application StrategyTM
Developing a Pace-Layered Application Strategy requires deconstructing your portfolio into individual applications and identifying the specific business processes that each application supports. This research will show you how to develop a mechanism for periodically reviewing and reclassifying applications and applying new governance model requirements.
Architecting Your Mobile Strategy
When looking at mobility initiatives, enterprises should focus on three areas: creating a cross-functional mobility team, understanding how specific groups of users make use of mobile technology, and using a repeatable and defensible methodology to create a mobile endpoint-independent architecture.
Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2012 and Beyond: Control Slips Away
These top predictions herald changes in control for IT organizations when budgets, technologies and costs become more fluid and distributed.

December 2011

The Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2011
The third annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 focuses on the healthcare value chain's pursuit of high-quality patient care at optimal economic cost. We strive to identify organizations that use their supply chains to improve the patient care experience.
Top Technology Predictions for 2012 and Beyond
This session, based on Gartner predictions for the next five years, explores how the IT industry will evolve and how this will affect businesses and the lives of people.

November 2011

The 10 Fundamentals of Building a Private Cloud Service
Private cloud computing initiatives will not be successful unless a strategic plan covering 10 fundamentals is established and put into action.

October 2011

Emerging Technologies for Mobile Security
Which mobile security technologies come and go in the mobile device space through 2016?
Multitouch Will Be One of the Most Disruptive Technologies of the Decade
Multitouch has already been disruptive in the smartphone market, and this disruption will spread to other parts of the consumer electronics segment.
Prioritize Your IT Investment, Divestment and Replacement Options
When is the best time to upgrade, replace or change your sourcing approach?

September 2011

Success in Media Tablets Depends on Building an Ecosystem
To compete in this market it takes a clear vision for how you'll add value to the user's life, a strong ecosystem of supporting applications, and an effective launch.
Technology Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore
Companies must identify the disruptive technologies that will impact their users and their business and develop plans to address them.
Cloud eMail: Key Decision Factors for Your IT Strategy
Despite popular belief, email is not the perfect cloud application.
Supply Chain Strategy for Manufacturing Leaders: The Handbook for Becoming Demand-Driven
Achieving demand-driven excellence requires leaders to provide a vision, market it internally, empower the team and institutionalize success.

August 2011

Why Cloud Computing Will Be More Secure Than What You Have Today
Gartner research shows that security concerns are the Number 1 issue cited by organizations considering cloud-based computing.
iPad and Beyond: The Future of the Tablet Market
Consumers will see an aggressive push from PC and mobile phone device vendors in the coming months.
Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
New technologies and trends examined this year are application services and outsourcing, cloud application infrastructure services, cloud security, privacy and smart cities.
The Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report: What's Hot for 2011
The Gartner Hype Cycle special report looks at the most important topics this year, with particular focus on the emerging technologies Hype Cycle.
How to Use the Cloud and Stay Secure
While security concerns are often listed as the top impediment to cloud adoption, the demand for business use of cloud computing is exploding and unstoppable.

July 2011

How Cloud, Mobile & E-Commerce Will Drive IT and Business Success
CIOs and senior IT leaders must understand the opportunities and risks of blending information like location, presence and social networks to create context-aware applications.
Key Issues in Sustainability, 2011
The sustainable perspective is no longer optional.
The 10 Fundamentals of Building a Private Cloud Service
In private cloud computing, technology is the easy part. Much more difficult, but perhaps more important, are changes in processes, skills and organization, business model, and service definition.
Pattern-Based Strategy: Getting Business Value from Big Data
"Big data" is rapidly becoming a recognized market term for the growth in the volume of data in organizations. Understanding how to use Pattern-Based Strategy to seek, model and adapt to patterns contained in big data will be a critical IT and business skill.

June 2011

Separating Enterprise Tablet Applications from Consumer Apps
What should you look for when evaluating the newest application that a vendor is trumpeting to the marketplace?
8 Components of Social Enterprise Initiatives
By 2015, the 20% of enterprises employing social media beyond marketing will lead their industries in revenue growth.
Supply Chain Top 25 for 2011
The Supply Chain Top 25 is the annual Gartner ranking of the best supply chains among manufacturers and retailers in the Fortune Global 500.
Context-Aware Computing Industry Heat Map
Advice CEOs, CIOs and their staffs can use concerning which industries are the most affected and which are likely to be affected by context-aware computing.

May 2011

Cloud Services Brokerage
Cloud services brokerage makes cloud computing easier, safer and more productive.
Cloud Computing Strategies to Optimize Your IT Initiatives
Cloud computing is moving from a new idea to the next big strategy for optimizing how IT is used.
From iPads to Portals: A World of Doors and Windows
Media tablets are a multifaceted phenomena that, by the sheer weight of their unit sales (expected to reach 208 million units by 2014), will force enterprise IT departments to consider their place in the organization.
Delivery and Consumption of Services Is Empowering, and Cool
Delivering and consuming services to improve business outcomes is the new driver of coolness for 2011 Cool Vendors. Innovative technologies, ongoing consumerization of IT, and cloud computing also continue to characterize coolness.
Cool Vendors Empower Modern IT Strategies
Cool Vendors is Gartner's evaluation of the hottest little-known companies in technology from around the world.

April 2011

Four Risky Issues When Contracting for Cloud Services
Buyers who increasingly look into leveraging cloud solutions as part of their IT services value chain should use this research to understand key areas of risk for their organizations.
Architecting the Convergence of OT and IT
Operational technology is converging with IT. This convergence offers tactical and strategic opportunities.
Plan for Future Economic and Business Trends Affecting IT
Economists expect 2011 to be the year when business revenues, earnings, market share, and the like return to or exceed levels reached in 2007.
iPad and Beyond: The Media Tablet in Business
Consumerization is here to stay, and moving very fast. If you can think of an application for tablets, your competition may well be thinking in the same way — and acting on it.

March 2011

Nine Critical Factors for Application Overhaul Success
The real goal of application overhaul is lower total cost of ownership and improved agility of the application portfolio. These nine critical success factors will help CIOs and application managers establish an application overhaul program with maximum business benefits.
Technology Trends You Can't Afford to Ignore
Companies must identify the disruptive technologies that will impact their users and their business and develop plans to address these disruptions.
3 Styles of Securing Public and Private Clouds
The use of public and private cloud services will break many security processes and controls. In order to protect customer and business data, enterprises need to develop standard security strategies for different risk conditions.
Develop a Social Media Strategy That Will Improve Your Business
By 2015, 40% of large enterprises will have a corporate "Facebook," for circulating both business and personal data. We'll examine how to develop a social media strategy and explore how social media can best benefit your business.

February 2011

Integrate Operational Technology and IT for Business Success
An independent world of "operational technology" (OT) is developing separately from IT groups. If IT organizations do not engage with OT environments they may be sidelined from major technology decisions — and place OT systems at risk.
Private Cloud Computing: Driving a Strategy
Through 2014, IT organizations will spend more money on private-cloud-computing investments than on offerings from public cloud providers. To make the best decision, you need to be able to evaluate the private cloud computing trend, vendors and road maps.
Balance IT Cost, Risk and Innovation to Drive Business Growth
Today's 'new normal' business demands a new focus on innovation, cost, risk management and governance. Changes offer enterprises the opportunity to leverage information technology toward significant business growth and continued optimization of business operations.
Consider PaaS in Your Cloud Strategy
By 2015, most enterprises will have part of their run-the-business software functionally executing in the cloud, using PaaS services or technologies. Join Research VP and Distinguished Analyst Yefim Natis to stay current on this high-impact long-term trend.

January 2011

Top Technology Predictions for 2011 and Beyond
As organizations build plans for the years ahead, IT is challenged by tight scrutiny regarding cost, growth opportunities and risk. Increased transparency and the need to drive business value are bringing disruptive change to IT Organizations.
Top Technology Predictions for 2011 and Beyond
Increased transparency and the need to drive business value are bringing disruptive change to IT organizations. This On Demand Webinar, explores how the IT industry will evolve and how this will affect businesses and the lives of people.

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