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Gartner News & Articles
By David Roe
| Monday Jun 10, 2013
At the end of last week Gartner published two different statements that contain all kinds of interesting facts and figures that together show that sales figures for business intelligence (BI) applications have taken a dramatic nose-dive. The market, it says, is being hit by the triple whammy of poor economic conditions, enterprise confusion over analytics and big data, and signs of market fragmentation caused by new entrants with funky new offerings.
By David Roe
| Monday Jun 10, 2013
If the Leader’s Quadrant in Gartner’s Multichannel Campaign Management Magic Quadrant (MCCM) is unchanged since last year, there are still some very impressive offerings in the other quadrants.
By David Roe
| Friday Jun 7, 2013

In the first part of an examination of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Multi-channel Campaign Management (MCCM) for 2013, we saw that the market is characterized by a re-architecting of platforms by established vendors and the addition of new functionality by the newer ones. However, even with the new functionalities and cloud offerings, the new entrants still didn't impact on the Leaders Quadrant consisting of IBM, Oracle (Seibel), SAS and Teradata.
By David Roe
| Thursday Jun 6, 2013
The Multichannel Campaign Management (MCCM) market is re-inventing itself once again. According to Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for MCCM, it is led by IBM, SAS, Teradata and Oracle (Seibel) and is marked by a re-architecting of solutions by established vendors, and the addition of new functionality by newer entrants.
By David Roe
| Wednesday May 29, 2013
If you were looking for a concrete indication of how IT spending is at the moment the recent figures from Gartner on server shipments and revenues offers just that. The figures show that in the first quarter of 2013 revenues from servers dropped by 5%, while shipments fell by 0.7% globally.
By Barry Levine
| Wednesday May 29, 2013

It’s not every day that you see the word “cool” used in the title of a Gartner report. But that’s certainly an appropriate descriptor of five selected agencies that strike the delicate balance between brand promotion and e-Commerce, as described in the new report.
By Virginia Backaitis
| Thursday May 23, 2013
The first time I heard the term Big Content, I thought “Oh brother, Are Web CMS and ECM vendors actually sticking the word 'Big' in front of 'Content' in an attempt to jump onto the Big Data bandwagon?”
By Anthony Myers
| Tuesday May 21, 2013
Over the last two years, Gartner considers the ecommerce space to still be dominated by the same leaders named in its last Magic Quadrant report, namely IBM, Oracle and hybris.
By Anthony Myers
| Friday May 17, 2013
By David Roe
| Friday May 17, 2013
Gartner announced the five content management vendors that it rates as ‘Cool’ this year for a variety of different reasons. They include in alphabetical order: Colligo, Flow, Gecod, Reveille and Xait.
By Chris Knight
| Tuesday May 14, 2013

With the unveiling of the next Android OS 'Key Lime Pie' a possibility at its Google I/O event, starting tomorrow, it seems the existing flavors are doing pretty well. Analyst figures from Gartner show almost 75% of smartphones now run the OS, powered by growth in Asia.
By David Roe
| Monday May 6, 2013
To see CRM as a market made up of one single type of technology would be a mistake. There are many different technologies in the CRM mix and the technology that is really driving growth, according to Gartner, is lead management.
By David Roe
| Thursday May 2, 2013
Cloud-based mobile application solutions FeedHenry has just announced that it has managed to secure US$ 9 million in a funding round that was led by Intel Capital. The Irish-based startup has said that it will use the money to accelerate the international roll-out of the platform.
By Katie Ingram
| Wednesday May 1, 2013
Four vendors who are making an impact in the digital marketing industry have been highlighted in a new report from Gartner.
By David Roe
| Wednesday May 1, 2013
If Google, Microsoft and Oracle are the only three vendors that made it into the Leaders Quadrant of this year’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Search, Gartner has identified many other vendors in the Challengers quadrant that are jostling for position next time round.