Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2013 and Beyond. ORLANDO, Fla., October 24, 2012 View All Press Releases Analysts Examine Latest Industry Directions at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 21-25 in Orlando Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2013 and beyond. Gartner analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here through October 25. Gartner's top predictions focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that will impel CIOs to move to the next generation of business-driven solutions. Selected from across Gartner's research areas as the most compelling and critical predictions, they address the trends and topics that underline the reduction of control that IT has over the forces that affect it. "The priorities of CEOs must be dealt with by CIOs who exist in a still-turbulent economy and increasingly uncertain technology future," said Daryl Plummer, managing vice president and Gartner fellow.
Contacts About Gartner Gartner, Inc. Phil Simon: 10 Technology and Business Trends for 2012. It's that time again -- time to look around the corner and make predictions about the new year. Here are 10 technology and business trends that will affect businesses and consumers alike in the coming year. The continued proliferation of platforms We have entered the Age of the Platform and many companies have started embracing ecosystems, partners, and crowdsourcing. Even Twitter's recent redesign is a clear attempt to mimic the functionality and success of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other powerful platforms.
The rise of mobile payments You can now pay for Apple products by yourself if you have an iPhone and the Apple Store App. Jack Dorsey's Square has even more ambitious plans: to turn your phone into your own portable payment system. Continued dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and GoogleThe Gang of Four isn't going anywhere. A more semantic web Semantic technologies -- i.e., those that enable data to be understood across multiple languages -- are becoming more prevalent. Business and Technology News - ITP Report. Gartner has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2012 and beyond. Analysts said that the predictions herald changes in control for IT organizations as budgets, technologies and costs become more fluid and distributed.
Gartner's annual Predicts research on industry trends titled "Top Industry Predicts 2012: Industries Face intensified Consumerization and Technology Disruption," features 15 strategic planning assumptions that CIOs, senior business executives and IT leaders should factor into their enterprise planning and strategy-setting initiatives. "Many industry business models will be challenged through 2015 as customers continue to adopt an always-connected digital lifestyle and market competitors exploit emerging technologies to achieve business growth and success," said Kimberly Harris-Ferrante, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
Shadow Computing. What is Shadow Computing I hear you say? Well it is really quite simple; it’s what I use to call maverick buying by the business. As often appears to be case when IT (Development and Operations) tend to be constantly behind the latest technology curves and always (or often) late in bringing new technology into the business for greater business benefit. Shadow computing is when the business sees new technology and finds a great way to improve efficiency or communication and they go and “outside of process or policy” purchase the new technology and start deploying it across their operation.
This happened way back when PDA’s were becoming popular in the domestic social marketplace and suddenly staff were using expenses to get these PDA’s and synchronize with their mail systems and e-diaries so they could keep “on the move” and still up to date and in touch. This moved quickly onto smart phones. Any feedback and comments are always welcome! Five Open Source Technologies for 2012. Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than US$1 billion a year in revenue. It will be a watershed moment for the open source community, who have long seen their approach of community-based development as a viable, even superior, alternative to traditional notions of how software should be written.
"I think we're seeing a fundamental shift in where innovation happens, going from the labs of a few software companies to these massive open source efforts," said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat. Certainly, open source has left the proprietary software world in turmoil over the past few years, as Linux, the Apache Web server, Perl, Apache, Hadoop, OpenOffice, GIMP and dozens of other programs put the pinch on their commercial counterparts. But what are tomorrow's open source heavy hitters?
Here are five projects to watch closely in 2012. Nginx The upcoming year promises to be a good one for Nginx. Stig. 2000 forecasts, did they get it right? Fantastic futures? Technology and business in 2012. 27 December 2011Last updated at 00:08 By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News Look into the ball: What does 2012 hold for business technology? Although those of us following the Mayan long calendar may be heading into 2012 with some trepidation, for those taking a longer-term view here is our annual peek into what next year holds. Just as there are 12 days of Christmas, 12 people from across the technology spectrum give their insights to what the next year will hold. We have the first six here, with part two following on Friday.
It's been a turbulent year for technology, and enterprise is no exception. The consumerisation of IT continues apace with more and more of us bringing our own devices to work. These topics and more all made it into last year's predictions. Number one would be social networking in business. I think this is going to be very significant, because there are a number of reasons why companies might want to do this. And in fact the opposite is true. 2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide | Technology business.
What is 2012 likely to bring to the tech industry and its users? IDG -- the publisher of InfoWorld, Computerworld, Network World, CIO, CSO, ITworld, PC World, Macworld, and other tech publications throughout the globe -- surveyed its editors to gaze into their crystal balls and predict a key trend or development for 2012, as well as select their key story for 2011. The death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the rise of social media as a tool of protest topped a diverse roundup of nominees. Here are the editors' individual preductions for 2012 and their pick for 2011's top story, in no particular order. [ Learn about consumerization of IT in person March 4-6, 2012, at IDG's CITE conference in San Francisco. | Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, subscribe to the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter. ] Simon Jary, publishing director, IDG U.K.