With the digital world upon us, digitalisation will significantly change the technology market through the Internet of Things, according to Gartner, Inc. While IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will show an average annual growth rate of 2.2 per cent through 2017, the Internet of Things (things, people, places and systems)…
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Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top industry predictions for IT organisations and users for 2014 and beyond. Most industries are facing accelerating pressure for fundamental transformation, including embracing digitalisation in order to survive and stay competitive. Gartner’s annual Predicts research on industry trends titled “Top Industries Predicts 2014: The Pressure for Fundamental Transformation Continues to…
Digital business incompetence will cause a quarter of businesses to lose competitive ranking by 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. During the second quarter of 2013, Gartner conducted a survey of 151 participants who were intimately involved in making digital business strategy decisions or in locating, developing and acquiring talent for those digital business strategy endeavours….
CIOs are increasingly looking to enterprise architecture (EA) to help drive their digital strategy, according to Gartner, Inc. Fifty-two per cent of respondents in Gartner’s 2013 CEO and Senior Executive Survey said their organisations have a digital strategy. Analysts said that digital technologies (what Gartner terms the Nexus of Forces — mobile, social media, big…
Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially software as a service (SaaS), are finding security provisions inadequate. Gartner, Inc. said SaaS contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident. This leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users. It also makes it harder for service…
The worldwide IT outsourcing (ITO) market is forecast to reach $288 billion in 2013, a 2.8 per cent increase in US dollars (and 5.1 per cent in constant currency*) from 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Compared with Gartner’s previous forecast, nearly all ITO segments are now forecast to grow more slowly during 2013. “We continue…
Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76 million units in the second quarter of 2013, a 10.9 per cent decrease from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This marks the fifth consecutive quarter of declining shipments, which is the longest duration of decline in the PC market’s history. All regions…
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 2 per cent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Last quarter, Gartner’s forecast for 2013 IT spending growth in US dollars was 4.1 per cent. The 2.1 percentage point reduction mainly reflects the impact…
The consumption of video on mobile devices for work-related purposes is on the rise, according to Gartner, Inc., bringing organisations under increasing pressure to support and manage it. Gartner predicts that by 2015, at least 60 per cent of information workers will interact with content applications via a mobile device. “Developing and supporting new content…
Worldwide IT spending by government organisations is projected to total $449.5 billion in 2013, a slight decrease of 0.1 per cent from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The forecast includes spending by government sector organisations on hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications. Analysts revised the growth rate downward from the previous…