Gartner recently identified the technologies it believes will have the greatest impact on businesses over the next 10 years, naming such areas as social-network analysis, collective intelligence, location-aware applications and event-driven architectures. Web 2.0 is a major theme as Gartner joins this bandwagon. They emphasized the rise of user-generated content and web services. I certainly agree with their view here. The technology press has naturally picked up on their report.
Thanks to Valdis Krebs for pointing this Information Week article on the Gartner report. Gartner Names Hot Technologies With Greatest Potential Impact. It said, “Under Web 2.0, social-network analysis and Ajax were rated as "high impact" and reaching maturity in less than two years. Collective intelligence, on the other hand, was rated as potentially transformational to businesses. Social network analysis, as defined by Gartner, is using the information and knowledge gathered from people's personal networks to identify target markets, create project teams and discover unvoiced conclusions.” This is a nice endorsement for the utility of such tools as iQuest.
I also learned from John Maloney about the Silicon.com post on the report results, Why CIOs need to know about Ajax and mashups, This take on Gartner’s report looked at Ajax and mashups, as well as location-aware software and sensor mesh networking. There seems to be a much opportunity for mashups between these technologies (e.g., location aware software and Google Maps) unless that capability is already built in. The Silcon.com article gives some clear definitions. “Ajax (developer techniques for enhancing the responsiveness and usability of web applications) and mash-ups (the joining together, or 'mashing up', of multiple online applications to create a new service).”
Neither article linked to the actual gertner report so you must have to pay for it. Thanks to the articles for giving the non-paying public a glimpse into what they said and the abiity to quote some results.
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