Predictions for 2008

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, FL earlier this month, Gartner analysts identified the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. In addition to environmentally-conscious ‘green’ IT, virtualization technologies, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models and Web mashups, social software was named as a strategic technology for 2008 and according to Gartner – “one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.”

According to Gartner, “through 2010, the enterprise Web 2.0 product environment will experience considerable flux with continued product innovation and new entrants, including start-ups [like Socialtext], large vendors and traditional collaboration vendors… Nevertheless social software technologies will increasingly be brought into the enterprise to augment traditional collaboration.” Read more

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