Posts Tagged ‘Gartner’

Jim Murphy and Ray Valdes are presenting on the topic of Generation 7 Portals.  Portals have been around since 1998 and have evolved over 7 generations according to Jim.  Gen 7 Portals include the following features, which have been built on the previous generations: Analytics Portal-less Portals Context aware Portal ubiquity Emerging UXP Widgets dominate […]

Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP).  The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

So I just read the recently published BI magic quadrant analysis from Gartner and noticed a slight adjustment in the bubbles. The Microsoft BI platform continues to increase along the ‘Completeness of Vision’ axis (X), but the ‘Ability to Execute’ measure (Y-axis) slipped a notch and I wanted to know why. After reading the ‘Strengths’ […]

On October 28, 2011, Gartner updated their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. While not much has changed from 2010 in the leader’s quadrant, there are a few new names on the chart in the other quadrants.  In the pictures here you can see the 2010 version compared to 2011. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle continue to […]

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

Video has an impact. Look at what’s changed in the entertainment world. Whit Andrews saw Nick Acosta let people video her concert and then she videod them.  He started with this video If you don’t find a corporate YouTube they will put everything on YouTube. At that point, it’s beyond corporate control. What’s driving the […]

Don Tapscott is known for Wikinomics and the Grown Up Digital.  He spoke about a revolution underway that is changing business. Revolution Welcome to the age of the wiki revolution.  It’s enabled by social media.  It’s not enabled by a centralized opposition putting everything together.  It’s a tool for military action.  Social Media was used […]

Whit Andrews is a great presenter whose focus is on search, video, and a number of other topics.   Enterprise search is now mature.  The number of Google searches for the term enterprise search peaked over 4 years ago. The point is that search is now an adult technology which should be granted a level […]

You see a lot of employees bringing their own devices into the enterprise.   This can be both good and bad. Ken Dulaney and Leslie Fiering talk about what you need to address if you allow employee owned devices in. Prediction: Although 80% of enterprises will have employee owned devices connected to compamy networks by 2015, […]