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Applications and underlying business processes are changing at unprecedented speed. To keep up with the rate of change, organizations need to develop a layered application strategy that allows them to establish management and governance capabilities that can evolve rapidly.
The Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast is the leading indicator of major technology trends across the hardware, software, IT services and telecom markets. For more than a decade, global IT and business executives have been using these highly anticipated quarterly reports to recognize market opportunities and challenges, and base their critical business decisions on proven methodologies rather than guesswork.
The Gartner Predicts 2012 special report addresses the continuing trend toward the reduction of control IT has over the forces that affect it. As users take more control of the devices they will use, business managers are taking more control of the budgets IT organizations have watched shift over the past few years. Moving forward, IT departments will find that they must coordinate activities in a much wider scope than they once controlled.
Thousands of CIOs and IT Leaders around the globe attended the Keynote sessions at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, learning what it means to re-imagine IT and leadership to drive business success.
The iPad has created a transformational change in how people interact with computers. During the next five to 10 years, media tablets will instigate change in computing form-factors.
Most organizations fail at strategy execution. There's a giant leap between aspirational vision at the executive level and the reality of action at the operational level. Risk-adjusted value management enhances strategy execution.
The tablet market will grow from next to zero in 2009 to more than 320 million units sold in 2015. The way consumers will think about, and interact with computing devices has changed for good. This portion of Gartner's special research collection on tablets provides a glimpse of what consumers, enterprises and vendors can expect as this market continues to unfold.
Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report is an annual maturity assessment of more than 1,900 technologies and trends. Hype Cycles help organizations understand the landscape of technology maturity and markets, and to decide which technology innovations to adopt, postpone or ignore, and when is the time to adopt.
Every IT product and service has a finite useful life and must eventually be retired or replaced. When making these decisions, correct timing is critical. The Gartner IT Market Clock is a framework that can help IT and business leaders evaluate and prioritize IT investments.
Leading companies need sustainable, resilient supply chains that can support and drive profitability and industry leadership in the face of growing complexity and risk. Supply chain executives and leaders can use the following collection of research to move closer toward their goal of supply chain excellence.
Security failures and data breaches – impacting some of the world's most high-profile enterprises – make headlines every day. At the same time, the worst economic downturn since the 1930s has focused intense attention on inadequate risk management practices. The key to addressing these complex, interlocking problems: a mature, capable security and risk management program.
The depth of the recent recession blindsided most businesses. But there is a way to see things coming – a framework for proactively seeking and acting on the early, "weak" signals that form patterns in the marketplace. Gartner's Pattern-Based Strategy can give you the ability to model the impact of these patterns on your organization, and identify the disciplines and technologies you need to respond effectively.
Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these innovative vendors and their products and services.
Context-aware computing stands where search engines and the Web did in 1990 — a set of business and technical forces coming together without definitive rules. Here, we examine the opportunities and impact of context on organizational strategies.
This report contains recent Gartner research on IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management, with advice on how IT professionals can prepare their enterprises for the worst. By developing and continually refining such procedures, enterprises are more likely to survive in the event of the unthinkable happening.
Private Cloud Services may be over-marketed, but there's substance behind the hype that CIOs need to understand. Gartner's Private Cloud Computing research report cuts through the clutter and explores how private cloud services fit into a real cloud computing strategy.
Sustainability is growing in significance — attracting marketing attention, investment and innovation, and technology development. Mitigating the risks and exploiting the opportunities that sustainability offers requires a fundamentally more radical and strategic transformation that must start now. This special report provides insights on Gartner's comprehensive, ongoing treatment of this topic.
Social media is fast becoming an essential way of doing business. But don't be fooled — achieving real business value requires far more than superficial deployment of tools and technology. This Gartner research will help you get to the truth of the matter by focusing on where social media is heading and how enterprises can evolve strategies that will lead to real business value.
Cloud computing carries risks to both service providers and consumers that could slow corporate adoption. Providers and consumers share responsibility for the relationship, and each side must take action to achieve proper business outcomes. To minimize these risks, both sides must agree on a set of shared objectives and expectations.
Cloud computing combines new technology with unproven vendors and service providers, bringing both business benefits and potential risks. Security, reliability and manageability need to be key elements in the planning and selection processes for cloud services.
New forces are reshaping the fundamentals of how providers deliver and sell IT services and how buyers consume them. New delivery models and methods are coming that will improve the quality, predictability and value of their offerings. This report provides insight and actionable advice that buyers, providers and investors can use to improve future outcomes.
Triggered by significant changes in the business climate and environment, the new realities of IT are rapidly erasing the line between IT and the rest of the business. In this new normal, IT is pressured to do it all — innovate, drive growth, optimize costs, understand and manage risk — and to refocus governance toward business change instead of IT supply and demand.
In many organizations, application portfolios have grown beyond the IT organization's ability to effectively manage them. Aggressively rationalizing application strategies and overhauling application portfolios can help create solutions that will meet changing business requirements as well as the constraints of the IT budget.
Virtualization enhances flexibility and agility by detaching workloads and data from the functional side of physical infrastructure. Possibilities abound for networks, storage, servers and desktops, but virtualization also involves substantial upfront investment.
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