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Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years. On Tuesday, Gartner analysts Carl Claunch and Dave Cearley gave a crowd of IT leaders at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 a list of the top 10 technologies that will provide important strategic advantages to IT over the next three years. They encouraged the leaders to keep these technologies in mind as they formulate budgets and long-term plans.
Claunch and Cearley delivered their list in the presentation "Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas for 2009" at the Orlando event. Here's how they defined the "strategic technologies" that made the list: "A strategic technology is one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. Here's the list: Now, let's take a closer look at each of these areas, and I'll add my take on each one. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Run, Grow, Transform. Blog Archive ยป Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a. This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation with honors such as the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the SDForum Visionary Award, Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and being ranked No. 7 on the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT survey by eWEEK.
For almost ten years now, we have been witnessing a decisive shift from client-server software to software as a service. Google, eBay, and Amazon.com established the value of multi-tenant internet applications in the consumer market, and salesforce.com, Google, and others have been proving that this same multi-tenant model is winning in the enterprise as well. This shift to Web-based applications has generated two powerful waves so far. To put Web 3.0 into perspective, we need to look at all of the major waves in the history of the Web. Technology | Say goodbye to the computer mouse. It's nearly 40 years old but one leading research company says the days of the computer mouse are numbered.
A Gartner analyst predicts the demise of the computer mouse in the next three to five years. Taking over will be so called gestural computer mechanisms like touch screens and facial recognition devices. "The mouse works fine in the desktop environment but for home entertainment or working on a notebook it's over," declared analyst Steve Prentice. He told BBC News that his prediction is driven by the efforts of consumer electronics firm which are making products with new interactive interfaces inspired by the world of gaming . "You've got Panasonic showing forward facing video in the home entertainment environment. "It also recognises your face and that you are you and it will display on your TV screen your menu.
"Sony and Canon and other video and photographic manufacturers are using face recognition that recognises your face in real time," he said. Greatly exaggerated Popularity.