Tagged: Gartner & News
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Salesforce.com to acquire ExactTarget in a US$2.5bn whopper of a deal News
04.06.2013 Cloud player Salesforce.com has entered into an agreement to acquire sales and marketing platform ExactTarget in a transaction valued at US$2.5bn. -
Global server shipments fall by 0.7pc in first quarter News
28.05.2013 Worldwide server shipments fell 0.7pc in the first quarter compared with last year and revenues for the sector fell by 0.5pc, according to Gartner.Categories: Servers, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Enterprise, Digital Business, Computers, CIO -
Smartphone sales not accelerating fast enough to stem decline of feature phones News
14.05.2013 The rise of smartphones is not happening fast enough to stem the decline of feature phones in key markets, with users not upgrading or replacing old devices at a pace the mobile...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
#DIF13 – 50pc of businesses will have their own app stores by 2020, says Gartner VP News
19.04.2013 In five years’ time, at least half of most enterprises will have their own app store to host the firms’ apps, as well as apps created by workers themselves to get the job done...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers, CIO, Apps -
Healthcare providers in Mideast and Africa to spend US$4.4bn on IT this year - Gartner News
25.03.2013 Healthcare providers in the Middle East and Africa will increase their IT spending by 3.8pc this year to US$4.4bn compared to 2012 revenues of US$4.3bn, Gartner, Inc, has forecast. -
Worldwide public cloud market to total US$161bn this year News
04.03.2013 The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5pc in 2013 to reach US$131bn worldwide, up from US$111bn in 2012, according to Gartner. -
Global sales of mobile phones down 1.7pc in 2012 – Gartner News
13.02.2013 Mobile phone sales dipped in 2012, though smartphone sales increased by almost 40pc in the fourth quarter – and more than half of this market is split between Apple and Samsung,... -
Online merchants to look to social network identity to eliminate fraud News
12.02.2013 Very soon online merchants will be using shoppers’ Facebook or Twitter identities as a way to boost sales and reduce fraud. -
Half of new retail customer IDs will be based on social network IDs by 2015 - Gartner News
07.02.2013 Imagine a world where personal information from social profiles can be imported to other sites requiring users to log in, therefore reducing users’ need to remember passwords... -
Social business efforts will miss benefits through 2015 - Gartner News
30.01.2013 Eighty per cent of social business efforts won’t achieve the intended benefits because of inadequate leadership and an overemphasis on technology through 2015, Gartner, Inc,... -
Mobile advertising revenue to hit US$11.4bn in 2013 – Gartner News
18.01.2013 Gartner’s latest report takes a look at the mobile advertising market worldwide and forecasts a growth of 400pc in revenue in the period from 2011 to 2016, creating new... -
Open source cloud player Enovation partners with content giant Alfresco News
15.01.2013 Irish open-source software company Enovation, which specialises in enterprise content management, has forged a partnership with US content management player Alfresco, which... -
Worldwide IT spending to hit US$3.7trn this year - Gartner News
04.01.2013 Worldwide IT spending will reach US$3.7trn in 2013, a 4.2pc increase from 2012 spending of US$3.6trn, the latest Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast suggests. -
Job security is a key barrier to uptake of cloud computing by IT managers News
12.12.2012 A key barrier to the uptake of cloud computing technologies is reassuring and convincing IS/IT managers that their jobs would not become obsolete if they shifted to the cloud, a... -
Sales of mobile phones drop while smartphone sales increase - Gartner News
14.11.2012 Worldwide sales of mobile phones have dropped in the third quarter of 2012 while sales of smartphones around the globe have risen, Gartner, Inc, reported. -
Smart device sales to bypass 1bn in 2013 - Gartner News
06.11.2012 Some 821m smart devices will be bought worldwide this year, accounting for 70pc of total devices sold in 2012, and the number of smart devices sold in 2013 will exceed the 1bn... -
Interview: Banks must focus on APIs and apps, not applications – Gartner analyst News
11.10.2012 We caught up with Gartner analyst Kristen Moyer when she was in Dublin last week to talk to her about her recent research into banks, and the strategies they need to adopt to...Categories: Financial Services, eCommerce, Data Management, Apps, Application Design and Development, Analyst -
Lenovo replaces HP to take lead in global PC market stakes – Gartner News
11.10.2012 Lenovo has taken a slight lead over Hewlett-Packard to take the No 1 position in worldwide PC shipments – a first for the PC maker in the company's history – according to... -
Hype-busting study reveals the cloud does save businesses money News
03.10.2012 Despite the hype and claims by large software companies about the miracles of cloud computing, a combined study by Ireland’s National Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero)...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Research, IT Management, Internet, Global CIO, Education, Digital Business, CIO -
Cloud, mobile and open source to transform US$9bn app industry in 2012 News
24.08.2012 The global app development market will be worth US$9bn in 2012 and major shifts in the direction of mobile, agility, cloud computing and open source projects will transform the...