Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011
Gartner has released a forecast that predicts a 16.2 percent increase in SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market from 2010. The SaaS revenue in the enterprise application software market in 2009 was $7.9 Billion and, according to the analyst firm, it is forecasted to increase to $9.2 Billion in 2010, a solid 15.7 percent […]
IT: Become Relevant or Die
This week CloudBlog is in Sydney, Australia, but just last week we were in Orlando Florida at Gartner Symposium – the 20th anniversary of the conference show – a feat in itself in many ways. One thing is clear, even though the two cities are roughly 10,000 miles apart, the adoption of the cloud is […]
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Internal Social Sotware 2010: Valuable or Not?
Gartner recently released their Magic Quandrant report for internal social software vendors. The below images are courtesy of Read Write Web. The first image is for 2010 the second is from last year. You can clearly see that this year there are a lot less vendors featured, you can read the RWW article on that […]
Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2010: The Rise of Idea Management
Gartner, Inc. maintains a series of well-followed reports, called Hype Cycles. Gartner Hype Cycles describe the various technologies that address a particular market. The Hype Cycle for the Emerging Technologies, 2010, was published publicly. Here is how Gartner Fellow Jackie Fenn describes this particular report: The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies features technologies that are […]
What’s the Next Casualty After Google Wave?
When Google announced that it is going to kill Wave, my first reaction was – wait, what will happen to Google Wave in Google Apps? So I looked for a post on Google Enterprise Blog. The post basically echoed what was mentioned in their official blog post . It didn’t clearly say if it’ll discontinue […]
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 […]
