Gartner Says SaaS Is Growing Big In Enterprise Application Software Markets
SaaS is slowly gaining adoption not just in the small and mid market range but also in big enterprises. According to a new Gartner report “Software as a Service 2009-2014″, the SaaS revenues within the enterprise software market will grow in 2010 by 14.1 percent from the 2009 revenues. In 2009, the revenues were $7.5 billion [...]
Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2.
Here’s Part 1. The reason I’m doing it again is that Michael Krigsman just published the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad. Still a bit complex. Me thinks the simplified, geekified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle still works: And if it doesn’t – well, it’s almost Friday. In fact for some of [...]
Is SaaS Dead? No. Neither is Debate.
We’ve had email dead, resumes dead, wikis dead themes, now it’s apparently time for the SaaS is Dead meme, thanks to a recently published Gartner report. My favorite quote from the report: SaaS is not a panacea, and companies need to evaluate and understand the trade-offs that SaaS presents Indeed. Here’s another quote from Gartner [...]
Is SaaS Dead?
There is a meme going on in the tech world about whether SaaS has lost its charm and it is on the way to extinction. This is based on Gartner’s recently published report on the need to re-evaluate the rationale for SaaS. SaaS may not have delivered on its early grand promises – of the [...]
Magic Quadrant. No. Magik Quadrant. No. Magik Kvadrant. From the Creator of the Enterprise Octopus.
Sam Lawrence, formerly of Jive Software and Enterprise Octopus, most recently Blackbox Republic is baaaack. Big Time. Sorry. I mean Go Big Always. This time (actually a month ago) he is presenting the Magik Quadrant from a customer prospective. (Should it not be the Magik Kvadrant?) There you have it. But I can’t steal his [...]
The Value is in the Glue
One the recurring themes I keep seeing is that the adoption of cloud computing is being driven by our current sucky economic circumstances. I don’t disagree that the macro-economy is a *contributing* factor in cloud adoption, but I really don’t think it’s the primary driving factor. Rather, I think cloud adoption is part of a [...]
According to Gartner Social CRM is Going to be Big
I read an interesting article on information age a few days ago which references some new Gartner predictions around Social CRM. According to the article: “Over 80% of growth in enterprise use of social networking tools will be driven by customer engagement projects, analyst forecasts Enterprise adoption of social media will occur primarily in the [...]
Gartner Talks About The Role Of Cloud Computing In IT Organizations In The Coming Years
The analyst firm Gartner has made some predictions regarding how IT organizations will shape up in the next few years of this decade. Some of these predictions are about how Cloud Computing will transform IT and I will highlight them here in this post. One of the most important predictions by Gartner is that 20% [...]
Gartner Says Cloud Computing Is The Top Technology Trend In 2010
The analyst firm Gartner has predicted that Cloud Computing will be the top most technology area IT should concentrate in the year 2010 (Story via Stephen Shankland of CNET). Last year, Cloud Computing stood at # 3 spot behind Virtualization and BI. Even though it is a good news for cloud computing vendors, I am [...]
Would You Manage CRM with a Wiki?
Or human resources with a blog? How about project management with forums? Funny questions to ask, no doubt. Of course it’s not possible to effectively address many of the critical business functions using basic Enterprise 2.0 tools. Yet when it comes to social software, it often seems that the only game in town is to [...]
Stating the Obvious: Gaming the Cycle
Yesterday, I began to blog a bit about IT cycles. I wanted to expound on that a bit more today. To recap: I believe we are at the early stages of a new cycle in IT innovation (specifically, enterprise IT). The new cycle can be called a “productivity boom,” and it is being amplified by [...]
Cloud Computing Is Not Killing Open Source Anywhere – A Response To Gartner
Image via Wikipedia Couple of weeks back, Andrea Di Maio of Gartner wrote a blog post arguing that cloud computing is killing open source in the government. He says that the government agencies are finding cloud based alternatives to proprietary infrastructure, OS, office applications, etc. instead of the traditional open source software. According to him, this implies death [...]
Simplifying the Gartner Hype Cycle – 2.0 Style
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani did a good job of un-hyping the Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies. He points out some inconsistencies comparing this year’s chart to the 2007 version. He should know, he is a Gartner Alumnus himself. But I’ve been wondering if there was a way to further simplify it, i.e. make [...]
Gartner prediction is way too conservative
Gartner has released a new report that predicts a 7 year time frame for the maturation of Cloud based technologies (Here is the associated press release). They talk about a three phase evolution of the markets, spread all the way to 2015. They call the current phase (2007-2011) as Pioneers and Trailblazers. They call the [...]
IDC on the Growth of Cloud Computing
Warning – this might end up turning into a bit of a rant here! IDC have come out with a new report on the prospects for Cloud Computing. They’re now saying that; The cloud model offers a much cheaper way for businesses to acquire and use IT — in an economic downturn, the appeal of [...]
