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October 9th, 2007 Gartner’s top 10 technologies for 2008: SOA precursors; fabric computing; Real world Web; WOA Gartner outlined its top 10 strategic technology areas for 2008 and many roads lead to service oriented architecture.   The top 10 is off to the right and there aren’t any huge surprises. Who didn’t see green IT and virtualization being listed? But what’s notable are all of the SOA precursors to be found. Business process modeling (No. 3), metadata management (No. 4), mashups and composite apps (No. 6) and Web platforms (No. 7) all add up to SOA down the road. All of those aforementioned items need to be done as large companies adopt SOA. What’s notable here is that Gartner’s list is focused on 2008. If you assume everyone in this packed room at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando runs back to the office to implement these technologies (fat chance) mass SOA adoption should come sometime in 2009 or 2010. “SOA isn’...

Going green tops Gartner's 2008 IT trends list Posted by Chris Hynes at 12:41PM, Thursday 11th October 2007 Shifting to "Green IT" and unified communications are next year's top two trends, according to analyst Gartner. Environmentally-friendly "Green IT" will continue to be at the forefront of businesses' strategies next year, according to analyst Gartner who this week revealed the top 10 trends and technologies it believes will be key in 2008 and beyond. Potential "green" regulations could further constrain companies from expanding data centres and the impact of power grids and carbon emissions are under constant scrutiny, meaning that the pressure to get and stay green is only set to increase. Gartner has previously claimed that the manufacturing, transportation and use of IT equipment causes roughly two per cent of the world's carbon emissions, on a par with the aviation industry. Although the issue has been widely highlig...

ROI STRATEGIES SaaS ERP gains ground in large IT shops Herman Mehling, Contributor 01.02.2008 The Software as a Service (SaaS) model is quickly growing in some enterprise software markets (notably customer relationship management), but it's been slow to gain traction in ERP. Until now, that is. More on SaaS Large firms weigh SaaS as NetSuite goes public For years, SaaS has been popular with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), where vendors such as Intaact Corp. and NetSuite Inc. have been successful in addressing simpler computing needs and environments, compared with those of large enterprises. The generic SaaS model has numerous cost benefits, including no up-front costs, no licensing fees and rapid, easy deployment. Many SMB CIOs have moved their mission-critical apps to a SaaS model to reap these benefits -- and now large-enterprise CIOs are following suit. "The ability to adopt on-demand services on a pay-as-you-go basis is a perfect sourcing strategy for businesses...