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Top 10 Strategic Technologies in 2010

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

In one of the latest reports Gartner, the world’s leading IT research and advisory company, revealed its list of top 10 strategic technologies for 2010. The company defined a strategic technology as one which has the potential for significant impact on a business entity in the next 3 years. Factors responsible for such impact include the need for a substantial investment, high potential for disruption to IT, or the risk of late adoption.

These technologies are viewed as strategic because of having enough maturity for entering broad market and providing strategic advantage if adopted early. They also influence the organization’s long-term plans and initiatives.

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Gartner: 22 Percent Growth in Global SaaS Earnings in 2009

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The latest forecasts of Gartner, the world’s leading information technology market research and advisory company, show that the market for software-as-a-service (SaaS) is expected to reach $8 billion in 2009, which is a 22% increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion. Besides, the market will be consistently growing through 2013 with the worldwide SaaS revenue reaching the figure of $16 billion for the enterprise application market.

“The adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets as tighter capital budgets in the current economic environment demand leaner alternatives, popularity increases, and interest for platform as a service and cloud computing grows,” said Gartner representatives.

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Outsourcing Will Continue to Grow in 2009

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

According to the latest statement of Gartner, the world’s leading information technology market research and advisory company, outsourcing is expected to continue its growth in 2009 despite the global economic downturn.

“Although things look gloomy for the larger global economy, the outsourcing market represents a dichotomy: on the downside, organizations’ cost-cutting outsourcing strategies may negatively impact market growth, but at the same time, the upside is that outsourcing will be adopted by more organizations to help them work through financial and competitive challenges,” said Gartner representatives.

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Cloud Services: Convenient for Small Business

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Recently, in the IT outsourcing world a new trend called “cloud computing” is gaining more and more popularity. This type of service implies that a customer stores his business data on remote servers of a service provider accessing the data via the Internet. So, why is using a cloud service beneficial?Cloud computing

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