Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Gartner Highlights Key Emerging Technologies in 2005 Hype Cycle
Gartner Highlights Key Emerging Technologies in 2005 Hype Cycle
via Micropersuasion
Gartner bills itself modestly as the "world's leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry." They have released what is essentially a corporate intelligence report identifying the "key emerging technologies" for 2005 with an analysis of the cycle of hype that touts the adoption of new media technology. Gartner explains,
The report groups these emerging technologies into three "key themes" for business to watch: "Collaboration, Next Generation Architecture and Real World Web." The press release gives a brief definition of each of these emerging technologies.
Collaboration technologies: podcasting, P2P/VoIP, desktop search, RSS, corporate blogging, and Wiki
Next Generation Architecture techologies: a more technical list of what Gartner feels will be the next generation of business software/systems architecture.
Real-World-Web technologies: a Gartner analyst, Ms Fenn, "believes that adding networking, sensing and processing to real-world objects and places is creating a 'Real-World-Web' of information that will enhance business and personal decision-making," these Real-World-Web technologies include: Location-aware applications, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Mesh Networks — Sensor.
This press release is a good place to get an introduction to what may be the key technolgies of near future. It also will give you a sense of what the business community is grappling with as they try to assess and instrumentalize recent developments in new media. Pay attention to the language these corporate analysts/researchers use to describe this emerging digital business culture of interactivity and social networking, it offers a glimpse of some of the defining terms in an important conversation about the new media world.
via Micropersuasion
Gartner bills itself modestly as the "world's leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry." They have released what is essentially a corporate intelligence report identifying the "key emerging technologies" for 2005 with an analysis of the cycle of hype that touts the adoption of new media technology. Gartner explains,
"the Hype Cycle highlights the progression of an emerging technology from conception, to market over-enthusiasm, through a period of disillusionment, to an eventual understanding of the technology's relevance and role in a market or domain."
The report groups these emerging technologies into three "key themes" for business to watch: "Collaboration, Next Generation Architecture and Real World Web." The press release gives a brief definition of each of these emerging technologies.
Collaboration technologies: podcasting, P2P/VoIP, desktop search, RSS, corporate blogging, and Wiki
Next Generation Architecture techologies: a more technical list of what Gartner feels will be the next generation of business software/systems architecture.
Real-World-Web technologies: a Gartner analyst, Ms Fenn, "believes that adding networking, sensing and processing to real-world objects and places is creating a 'Real-World-Web' of information that will enhance business and personal decision-making," these Real-World-Web technologies include: Location-aware applications, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Mesh Networks — Sensor.
This press release is a good place to get an introduction to what may be the key technolgies of near future. It also will give you a sense of what the business community is grappling with as they try to assess and instrumentalize recent developments in new media. Pay attention to the language these corporate analysts/researchers use to describe this emerging digital business culture of interactivity and social networking, it offers a glimpse of some of the defining terms in an important conversation about the new media world.
