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The Gartner Predicts 2013 Special Report focuses on the economics, risks, opportunities and innovations that will drive CIOs to move to the next generation of business-driven IT solutions. CIOs must balance these realities with the Nexus of Forces – social, mobile, cloud and information. Our predictions were selected from across Gartner's research areas – they address the trends and topics that underline the reduction of control that IT has over the enterprise and business.

Managing VP & Gartner Fellow Daryl Plummer discusses three of the top eleven predictions for 2013.

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Predicts 2013: Adoption of Mobile BI and Real-Time Dashboards Will Improve BI Pervasiveness

14 December 2012

Business intelligence and analytics leaders should understand the trends that will improve the pervasiveness of BI. Our 2013 predictions are that mobile will improve BI; multiple data sources in business dashboards will improve situational awareness; and implementations will be more service-centric.

Predicts 2013: Advancing Data Management Maturity

10 December 2012

Organizations will need to rethink information strategy and the focus of data-oriented roles to take advantage of emergent opportunities in cloud, big data and alternative data structures. Our 2013 predictions help data management leaders to modernize approaches and address challenges ahead.

Predicts 2013: Application Development

29 November 2012

Gartner's 2013 application development predictions look at the impact of the Nexus of Forces on application development practices, the need to drive greater code quality and efficiency in staffing.

Predicts 2013: Application Integration

14 November 2012

Big IT and business opportunities are driving application integration and its complexity and cost. CIOs, managers of competency centers and centers of excellence, and IT leaders must refocus their attention and budget on integration to successfully adopt IT innovation driven by the Nexus of Forces.

Predicts 2013: Big Data and Information Infrastructure

30 November 2012

Our 2013 predictions regarding big data and information infrastructure describe how the big data phenomenon will impact organizations, resources and information infrastructure. Given the importance of future changes, organizations will need to adapt and plan ahead.

Predicts 2013: Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recover Management

29 November 2012

Process and technology, again, go to the top of the list for BCM and IT DRM. The use of virtualization, hardware footprint reduction, recovery as a service and project life cycle integration are key steps for improving the effectiveness and maturity of your BCM program.

Predicts 2013: Business Intelligence & Analytics Need to Scale Up to Support Explosive Growth in Data Sources

7 December 2012

Business intelligence leaders must embrace a broadening range of information assets to help organizations. This predicts includes the analytics of structured and unstructured data sourcing going mainstream, Hadoop-embedded packaged analytic applications and voice-enabled capabilities for mobile BI.

Predicts 2013: Business Process Improvement Leaders Need to Stop Tackling the Tactical and Get Strategic

29 November 2012

Many organizations sidestep the challenges of process ownership and advanced business process management competencies and deliver modest, continuous process improvements. Our 2013 predictions help BPI leaders break away from tackling the tactical and produce strategic business results.

Predicts 2013: Businesses Will Take Consumer Apps to the Next Level

23 November 2012

Applications are becoming the best means of providing consumers with top-notch services. Businesses that use apps to deliver the right mix of information, marketing and after-sale service to consumers will satisfy their existing customers and attract new ones.

Predicts 2013: Cloud Computing Becomes an Integral Part of IT

4 December 2012

As cloud computing continues to mature and becomes an integral part of IT, IT organizations will increasingly look to evolve in ways that demonstrate value in a cloud world.

Predicts 2013: Cloud and Services Security

28 November 2012

Security functions will continue to move to the cloud in 2013, while security for cloud services will remain a sore point for enterprises.

Predicts 2013: Cloud Services Brokerage

18 December 2012

Cloud brokerages, both internal and external, are a major force in gaining value from cloud services for IT organizations. However, the delivery of a good brokerage will often depend on the quality of the underlying enablement and management platforms.

Predicts 2013: Collaboration, Cloud and Evolving Strategies Will Drive Global Logistics

19 November 2012

Global logistics organizations will strategically innovate to enhance customer service, manage complexity, increase transparency and transform their technology landscape over the next three years. Use the five predictions in this report to differentiate your supply chain to become more competitive.

Predicts 2013: Context-Aware Computing

7 December 2012

Support for context-aware computing will differentiate market leaders from old-school companies that will slowly become irrelevant to their customer base. Security and fraud prevention services are early beneficiaries of this computing style.

Predicts 2013: CRM for Customer Service and Support in the Age of the Everywhere Custome

21 November 2012

CIOs will increasingly engage with vice presidents or directors of customer service and customer experience, together with marketing and sales, about customer service and support strategies. New trends, with more mobile customers preferring social media and crowdsourcing, highlight this.

Predicts 2013: CRM Goes More Cloud, Becomes an App, Has a New Leader and Changes Name

4 December 2012

Those in CRM need to be aware of significant shifts due in the market. Expected changes are: the number of mobile CRM apps will explode, salesforce.com will become No. 1 in CRM, more than half of all CRM spending will be on cloud versions, and consultants will change the name of their practices.

Predicts 2013: CRM Sales

9 November 2012

Sales application managers trying to understand the impact of social, mobile, cloud and big data will find guidance in our 2013 CRM sales predictions.

Predicts 2013: Data Center Infrastructure

30 November 2012

Increasing energy costs, expanding data center spaces, government regulations and rising concerns about carbon emissions have led businesses to focus more on power and cooling technologies in their data centers.

Predicts 2013: Digital Marketing Imperatives for Consumer Technology Providers

17 December 2012

Consumer technology providers must analyze noisy, big data to find customer insights, leading to a competitive advantage. Digital approaches to consumer marketing, including contextual marketing, are effective alternatives to traditional methods.

Predicts 2013: Digital Marketing Pushes Marketing Executives to a More Strategic Role

29 November 2012

As all enterprises launch initiatives to grow, compete and innovate, chief marketing officers will feel added pressure. All will extend strategic initiatives with digital marketing technology, much of it sourced externally. Marketing executives will look to social and mobile for upside revenue.

Predicts 2013: Emerging Markets Capitalizing on Top IT Trends

26 November 2012

New market opportunities keep arising in emerging markets, suggesting a permanent review of strategies by technology and service providers.

Predicts 2013: Endpoint Security Becomes Even More Important for Infrastructure Protection

29 November 2012

Endpoint security will become even more important as the number and types of devices accessing enterprise resources explode.

Predicts 2013: Enterprise Application Architecture Will Emulate Big Web Sites

28 November 2012

Application architecture in large commercial enterprises and government agencies increasingly follows the best practices and precedents of large websites like Amazon, Netflix and Facebook. Successful IT leaders will train and retain architects with the skills and knowledge to follow these leaders.

Predicts 2013: Five Areas Where Network Managers Can Reduce Costs or Avoid Investment Risk

14 December 2012

Enterprise network managers must modernize networks and services to meet demands for mobility and agility. Gartner's 2013 predictions can help network managers create plans that capitalize on emerging cost-saving options and develop strategies for dealing with growing WAN and mobile data costs.

Predicts 2012: The Future Of Business Consulting And Business Process Outsourcing Revealed

5 December 2012

These business process service predictions help current and potential BPS providers understand what to prepare for in the next four years in terms of organizational and go-to-market strategies. This research will help BPS business leaders stay abreast of the macro market trends.

Predicts 2013: Global Corporations Rethink Supply Chain Resource Management

19 November 2012

Resources required for supply chain execution in the coming decades will differ from those that dominated previously. Anticipate resource scarcity to extend to a wide cross-section of nonmaterial and organizational resources, such as talent and knowledge management, and a new energy agenda.

Predicts 2013: GRC Will Be Unprepared for Uncertainty

29 November 2012

The predictions for 2013 highlight the need for risk management organizations to mature an integrated governance, risk and compliance program in order to be prepared for the uncertainty of emerging risks.

Predicts 2013: Green IT and Sustainability

3 December 2012

Continuing stakeholder pressure and the desire of organizations to go beyond compliance to sustainable performance are manifesting themselves through various data center energy and gamification strategies, as well as an increased appetite for data-rich, supply-chain-wide solution offerings.

Predicts 2013: Information Innovation

14 December 2012

The availability of big data drives opportunities to monetize information and mature analytics strategies, particularly in certain industries, but the sheer magnitude of data and limited skills hinders these efforts.

Predicts 2013: Infrastructure Services Threatened as New Structural, Political, Competitive and Commercial Challenges Emerge

18 December 2012

Data center hijackings, compute futures exchanges, enforced support bundle splits, and the dangers of overpromoting automation may conspire to make infrastructure services markets ever-more hostile. Here we predict the impact of these challenges.

Predicts 2013: In-Memory Computing: Growing Gains, but Also Growing Pains

30 November 2012

Enabled by a relentless decline in hardware costs and rapidly maturing software enablers, use of in-memory computing will grow fast. However, IT leaders leveraging it to increase their companies' competitiveness will face new data management issues.

Predicts 2013: IT Services Sourcing; Reshaping Competition and Competencies Determines its Future

7 December 2012

Reduction, redistribution and redirection of competition, capital and competencies in IT services sourcing will determine its future. CIOs and sourcing managers should proactively explore the implications of these changes as well as the opportunities they create for their organizations.

Predicts 2013: Managing Infinite Data From Every Direction

29 November 2012

Increased storage at any point in the Web increases possibilities for storage in every part of the Web. We are only beginning to see the enormous implications of that simple fact. Clients should consider these predictions when designing systems, allocating resources or selecting products.

Predicts 2013: Marketing Technology Investments Continue to Increase and Expand into New Areas

16 November 2012

Marketing technology investments continue to increase in digital marketing and multichannel campaign management, marketing resource management and integrated marketing management, while expanding into new territory with big data. Our 2013 predictions focus on these key processes and marketing areas.

Predicts 2013: Mobile Devices and Cloud-Based Tools for Content Access and Sharing Drive Strategies

28 November 2012

The emergence of cloud-based tools, new information types, and the rise of mobile devices as a source of content creation and consumption present both challenges and opportunities. IT leaders should factor our predictions into their 2013 plans.

Predicts 2013: Mobile, Social and Federation Drive Identity and Access Management

30 November 2012

Federation technologies, mobile computing and social identity acceptance will have major effects on the practice of identity and access management in 2013 and beyond.

Predicts 2013: Mobility Becomes a Broad-Based Ingredient for Change

19 November 2012

Mobility has always been a separate topic for IT professionals, but it is now influencing mainstream strategies and tactics in the wider areas of technology enablement and enterprise architectures.

Predicts 2013: Moving Consumers Into the Next Phase of Computing

14 December 2012

As technology becomes less expensive and opens the way to new players, consumers will be looking for intuitive and immersive UIs that will truly deliver on the promise of a connected life.

Predicts 2013: A New Print Paradigm

29 November 2012

New dynamics arising from the intersection of the Nexus of Forces, commoditization of office and consumer printing, workflow digitization and the emergence of new technologies such as 3D printing are permanently altering the print market. Use our predictions to benefit from the inevitable changes.

Predicts 2013: Nexus of Forces Alters Administrative ERP Outlooks

21 November 2012

For HR and procurement leaders and CFOs, the Nexus of Forces creates new opportunities, but significant disruption and confusion, too.

Predicts 2013: The Nexus of Forces Boosts Information Governance and MDM

28 November 2012

Gartner predicts that the Nexus of Forces (mobile, social, cloud and information) will lead to unprecedented levels of enterprise data being exposed to the public. The trust required for corporate data will lead to major improvements in information governance and master data management practices.

Predicts 2013: New Trends Bring New Challenges for IT Asset Management and Procurement

27 November 2012

IT asset and procurement managers must rapidly evolve their disciplines as the elements of Gartner's Nexus of Forces – mobile, cloud, information and social – combine with new technologies to broaden their responsibilities.

Predicts 2013: Open Computing Increases Influence on Product Selection and Application Architecture

4 December 2012

Open computing, particularly open-source software, will expand its role in enterprise software portfolios and IT decision making. IT leaders who mistrust open computing efforts should moderate their views while implementing governance that controls exposure to uncertainty and risk.

Predicts 2013: Platforms as a Service Takes on More IT Responsibilities

20 November 2012

Adoption of software as a service amplifies the requirement of extension, management, integration and composition of cloud-based or hybrid software. PaaS is focused on this challenge. Enterprise IT planners and application architects should be familiar with its capabilities and use patterns.

Predicts 2013: PPM Leaders Must Embrace Constant Innovation and Change

30 November 2012

Continued economic and market turbulence will force program and portfolio management leaders to explore new and novel ways to meet the need to support constant change under constant cost constraints.

Predicts 2013: Smart City Business and Service Models Need to Keep Citizen Value in Mind

11 December 2012

Smart city processes from funding to privacy are still in development. This research focuses on home appliance OS choices, transaction model development, buildings using analytical technologies, the impact of city budgets on smart city platforms and concerns about smart city systems security.

Predicts 2013: Social and Collaboration Go Wider and Deeper

28 November 2012

Here we look at social software and collaboration using key predictions, and identify issues that will impact buyers and providers of the technology. IT and business leaders should use this report to anticipate how these trends will evolve, and to factor our recommendations into 2013 plans.

Predicts 2013: Social CRM

10 December 2012

Social CRM will see fake reviews trying to influence customers, an evaporation of social monitoring as a separate market, and increasing social customer service costs. All organizations will need to plan for the rapidly changing and evolving social CRM environment.

Predicts 2013: Software as a Service

6 December 2012

Business application and IT operations managers continue to explore SaaS. This research focuses on inadequate SLAs, the future importance of platform as a service for SaaS, churn rates with IT operations moving back to on-premises locations and the growth of SaaS in China.

Predicts 2013: Success in Leveraging UC Will Be Easier With a Unified IT and Business Strategy for Collaboration

4 December 2012

IT organizations should focus on a single UC strategy with links to collaboration and workplace transformation, using technology with simpler user interfaces and support for emerging standards for multiple devices.

Predicts 2013: Web and Portal Technologies

29 November 2012

The next few years in the Web and portal markets will witness important shifts. These changes will enable better cross-platform application development and will put more power into the hands of business leaders, citizen developers and end users engaged in Web and mobile initiatives.

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Top Industry Predicts 2013: The Nexus of Forces Will Drive Massive Transformation in Many Industries

13 December 2012

Social networking, mobile communications, the cloud and information are pressuring enterprises worldwide to make fundamental changes in business processes. CIOs and other technology decision makers should use Gartner#39;s predictions to understand and respond to these forces in their industries.

Predicts 2013: Converging Technology Promises To Reinvent Sales and Marketing Processes in Consumer Goods Manufacturing

19 November 2012

The Nexus of Forces promises to reshape the sales and marketing process for CG manufacturers. CIOs and business leaders need to recognize the opportunities to lead by spotting and leveraging new technologies that can create a more personalized relationship with consumers and customers.

Predicts 2013: Digitalization Powers Education

21 November 2012

The how, when, where and what of learning will be dramatically disrupted as bits and bytes supplant time and place as the value propositions in the education ecosystem. This research highlights some predicted disrupters to the ecosystem over the next five years.

Predicts 2013: Energy and Utilities Challenged by Nexus of IT Forces and Technology Market Convergence

26 November 2012

Utilities will face a number of difficulties in upcoming years that will disrupt business processes and create new opportunities, as well as challenge incumbent technology providers and their solutions.

Predicts 2013: External Forces Will Increasingly Challenge Banks and Investment Services Firm

20 November 2012

The Nexus of Forces, the lingering effects of the global financial crisis, and increasing pressure from customers and regulators continue to pressure banks and investment firms. Financial services providers can use Gartner's predictions when developing strategies to address these challenges.

Predicts 2013: For Healthcare Delivery Organization IT Leaders, Great Potential Will Produce Greater Responsibility

27 November 2012

IT innovations offer the opportunity for IT leaders to play a pivotal role in transforming healthcare for individual patients and whole populations. However, this requires HDO CIOs to step up the pace and the impact of technology changes. These predictions illuminate important domains of focus.

Predicts 2013: Government IT Will Be Disrupted by the Nexus of Forces

15 November 2012

With cost containment and financial sustainability remaining of paramount importance in governments nearly everywhere, the confluence of cloud, social, mobile and information will change the roles and relationships between IT and business departments.

Predicts 2013: Increasing Government Oversight Will Force Change in Privacy Controls

7 December 2012

Globally, greater government oversight regarding the collection and use of information is changing the way businesses operate. The effects will be felt primarily in enterprises' relationships with their service providers, business partners and employees.

Predicts 2013: IT and OT Alignment Has Risks and Opportuties

30 November 2012

IT and OT management are typically kept separate, but increased sophistication of OT systems and the opportunities afforded by access to OT data are driving change, with two outcomes: reducing risks and leveraging opportunity. We show the most significant examples of these pursuits.

Predicts 2013: Life Sciences Manufacturers Highlights Technology's Role in Creating Results

29 November 2012

Gartner highlights how the nexus of social, mobile, information and cloud is creating opportunities for life science companies to position themselves more competitively as the industry transforms.

Predicts 2013: Media is Adapting to a Data-Driven Future

6 December 2012

As consumer content consumption options multiply, media industry stakeholders will invest in data-driven strategies to reshape their businesses.

Predicts 2013: Mobile, Cloud and Information Fuel the Automotive Era of Smart Mobility

21 November 2012

The automotive industry continues to embrace IT for automobile and mobility-related innovations, which are ushering in the new era of smart mobility. Connected vehicles and connected drivers will steer automotive business strategies, organizational decisions and transportation legislation.

Predicts 2013: The Nexus of Forces Will Lead to Further Digitalization of Insurance Value Chains

27 November 2012

The Nexus of Forces will impact the entire insurance value chain, including business models, technologies, and sales and service channels. Life and P&C insurers worldwide can use Gartner's industry predictions to develop strategies to improve business operations in the nexus environment.

Predicts 2013: Product Design and Lifecycle Management

30 November 2012

Disruptive business models and evolving software priorities will transform the product design and life cycle management software market by year-end 2016.

Predicts 2013: Retailers' Mobile and Social Commerce Strategies Will Yield Minimal Revenue

30 November 2012

Tier 1 multichannel retailers will not gain significant benefits from mobile and social commerce strategies if they fail to understand how mobile and social customer interaction points can enhance and optimize cross-channel, customer shopping processes.

Predicts 2013: U.S. Healthcare Payers Face Challenges From Regulatory Reform and Market Disruption

12 November 2012

Healthcare payers in the U.S. are dealing with expanding regulations, changing business models and increasing concern about the adequacy of their product offerings. Payer CIOs and IT leaders should use Gartner's predictions to assess their strategies in this critically challenging environment.

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Predicts 2013: Brazil, A New IT Giant

27 November 2012

A combination of key drivers (such as the fast-growing middle class and government investments to prepare for major worldwide sporting events) is positioning Brazil on the IT world stage. These predictions give IT providers and users a sense of the IT market's direction and opportunities in Brazil.

Predicts 2013: Business Impact of Technology Drives the Future Application Services Market

21 November 2012

Underlying themes framing our 2013 predictions focus on the changing application services models driven by business outcomes such as IT enablement for the business innovation, the business buyer as influencer, business need for speed, agility, flexibility and, always, cost-efficiencies.

Predicts 2013: CSPs Need to Focus on the Nexus of Forces

19 November 2012

Market opportunities for communications service providers will stem from the conjunction of social, mobile, cloud and information. They need to combine these Nexus of Forces elements with their strengths in network connectivity to create differentiated value propositions.

Predicts 2013: Indian IT Industry Set to Embrace Uncertainty to Secure The Future

22 November 2012

By going global while staying local and by becoming lean and mobile while focusing on green, the Indian IT industry will embrace uncertainty and secure the future.

Predicts 2013: Now Is The Turning Point for Midsize Enterprises

29 November 2012

The impact of information and technology in the next three years will intensify internal and external opportunities for midsize enterprises. Midmarket CIOs need to leverage new technologies and delivery models to overcome internal resource constraints and grow their businesses.

Predicts 2013: Security Solutions

20 November 2012

Increased adoption of cloud-based computing is expected to impact the way security is consumed as well as how key government agencies will prioritize security of public cloud infrastructures.

Predicts 2013: Semiconductors and Electronics

26 November 2012

Gartner's 2013 semiconductor and electronics predictions focus on Moore's Law, the Internet of Things, smartphones, emerging memory technologies, and image analysis in cars.

Predicts 2013: Strong IT Market Transformation in China

16 November 2012

Here, we analyze and predict the major trends occurring in the Chinese markets for virtualization, smartphones, personal cloud, tablets and public cloud services. This report can help vendors looking to compete successfully in China and enterprises wanting to exploit emerging technologies.

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