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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.

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April 4, 2012

"The BI, analytics and PM software market was the second-fastest growing sector in the overall worldwide enterprise software market in 2011"

— Quote found in a April 2, 2012 Gartner press release titled “Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Software Market Surpassed the $12 Billion Mark in 2011”

8:56am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyJ3tfW1

April 3, 2012

"Seventeen percent of global IT spending will be generated by BRIMC in 2012, representing nearly $658 billion, and the markets remain far from saturated. While professional and consumer market opportunities can be found in many emerging markets, Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico and China (BRIMC) continue to perform particularly strongly, and this is where over half of emerging markets’ IT spending will be concentrated in 2012."

— Quote by Luis Anavitarte, research vice president and head of emerging markets research at Gartner. Quote found at in a Gartner press release titled: “Gartner Says Emerging Markets Will Generate $1.22 Trillion in IT Spending in 2012”

7:38am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyJ0GPGd

Filed under: gartner it-spending technology Asia A/P brazil bric brimc india russia china mexico

March 29, 2012

"Effective leaders use technology, which includes IT, to cut internal distortions and strengthen market signals, feedback and the customer experience. They are using technology to “amplify” the enterprise."

— Quote found at Gartner website: CIO Agenda 2012: Executive Summary

4:23pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyIm0ykf

Filed under: CIO Gartner CIO-Agenda 2012

March 27, 2012

"After more than a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve regionally within the enterprise application markets. Increasing familiarity with the SaaS model, continued oversight on IT budgets, the growth of platform as a service (PaaS) developer communities and interest in cloud computing are now driving adoption forward."

— Quote by Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner. Quote found in a Gartner press release at Gartner Says Worldwide Software-as-a-Service Revenue to Reach $14.5 Billion in 2012

3:50pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyIfThgp

Filed under: Gartner cloud saas paas

March 1, 2012

"By 2014, organizations integrating communities into customer support will realize cost reductions ranging from 10 percent to 50 percent."

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Quote found at Gartner’s press release: “Gartner Says Organizations That Integrate Communities Into Customer Support Can Realize Cost Reductions of Up to 50 Percent”

8:22am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyHHjxtb

Filed under: Gartner communities CRM support

February 1, 2012

"Competitive advantage cannot be sustained other than by ceaselessly pursuing new ways to compete, and changing one’s culture to match the new needs"

— Quote by Jorge Lopez, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. Quote found at Gartner Says Second Half of the Information Age to Focus on Exploitation of Technology and the Information It Processes

9:23am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFjGLs0

(Notes: 37)

Filed under: gartner competitive-advantage competition information technology

January 31, 2012

"Worldwide information volume is growing annually at a minimum rate of 59 percent annually, and while volume is a significant challenge in managing big data, business and IT leaders must focus on information volume, variety and velocity."

— Quote found at a Gartner press release page: Gartner Says Solving ‘Big Data’ Challenge Involves More Than Just Managing Volumes of Data

1:54pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFh8z-w

Filed under: Gartner big-data data big_data information analytics bigdata

January 24, 2012

"virtualization as an IT initiative is still in its adolescence, and is disruptive to IT users and providers"

— Quote by Gartner found on Gartner’s website for it’s Hype Cycle for Virtualization, 2011 report, authored by Gartner Analyst Philip Dawson

4:05pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFJ3x0y

(Notes: 1)

Filed under: virtualization gartner

December 1, 2011

"Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2012 and Beyond"

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