IT Services
Gartner, 5/27/03: IT Services Market Five-Year Growth Forecast Revised
Gartner Dataquest has updated its forecast for the worldwide IT services market by region and segment. We now forecast that this market will grow from $536.3 billion in 2002 to $707.4 billion in 2007 — a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.7 percent. Our prior forecast, published in November 2002, was for a CAGR of 6.3 percent from 2001 through 2006.
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IT Management
Gartner, 5/28/03: You Need More Than Return on Investment to Measure True BVIT
The formulas commonly used to rank order IT projects don’t reflect the transformational capability of IT. Financial services providers must broaden their approaches to determine the true business value of IT.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: Real-Time Enterprises Demand More from Networks
The real-time enterprise concept is dependent on networks that communicate almost instantaneously and deliver 100 percent availability. This will require and drive renewed investments in network products and services.
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Gartner, 5/28/03: Merger of Assets Needed Between IT and Business Value
An alignment of skills, information, market acumen and budget between the IS organization and the business units that it serves can spur a merger of assets that have both technology and business value.
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Gartner, 5/29/03: IT Operations Management Is Undergoing Transformation
IT operations needs to transition from a component orientation to running like a business. Managing the budget in difficult economic times is possible.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: How to Keep Your CMM Improvement Effort From Failing
Using the Capability Maturity Model to improve software development processes is a long and difficult journey. Most attempts fail due to lack of effort and planning for the long term; five traits are warning signs.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: CMM Is a Competitive Differentiator in the Software Industry
Attaining Capability Maturity Model certification has become a key differentiator for service providers' application development services. This certification has worldwide implications.
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Business Process Management
Gartner, 5/29/03: A BPM Taxonomy: Creating Clarity in a Confusing Market
Business process management is a critical component of process automation that saves costs, while adding value. At a time when clarity is more important than ever, BPM-related terms have become increasingly confusing.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: BPM: A Key Ingredient in Business Process Fusion
Business process management is a key enabler of business process fusion applications. This new class of applications will have a radical effect on the packaged software market.
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Mobile
Internet News.com, 6/2/03: Exchange Server 2003 - It's a 'Good' Thing
By Michael Singer
Hoping to garner more market share from its rivals, mobile platform maker Good Technologies Monday aligned itself with Microsoft to make compatible software.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup said it is working with the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant to produce GoodLink and GoodInfo support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and its ActiveSync environment.
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Gartner, 5/29/03: Wireless 'Hot Spots' Heat Up
Abstract: The market for public, Internet-connected wireless LANS is growing rapidly. Internet service providers should develop products and marketing plans targeted at "hot spot" operators.
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Security
Computerworld, 6/2/03: Protecting Organizations From Prying Wi-Fi Hackers
By Jim West
Suddenly, Wi-Fi is everywhere. In New York, McDonald's restaurants offer Wi-Fi with your burger and fries. Bookstores, hotels and airports have also started to offer wireless Internet access points.
The technology is hot right now and with good reason. Wi-Fi lets employees connect to the Internet or tap into their office computer network from just about anywhere -- a conference room, their home or a hotel. No more fuss with phone lines, jacks and cables. Plus, with wireless LANs, businesses can quickly and easily expand their computer networks at a low cost.
But there's a downside. Although Wi-Fi is cheaper to install and implement than its wired counterpart, the technology is newer and more vulnerable to unauthorized access. In addition, the cost of properly securing and maintaining a high security level for Wi-Fi can add as much as 30% to the cost of the initial hardware and implementation.
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Electronic News, 6/2/03: Security firms warn over new Sobig worm
by Matthew Clark
A new incarnation of the so-called Sobig virus began spreading rapidly over the weekend, prompting e-security firms to issue warnings.
The new version of the Sobig self-propagating e-mail worm, Sobig.C, was first detected on Saturday, 31 May, and over the weekend the malware began a rampage that saw it hit computers in nearly 100 countries, according to MessageLabs.
It appears that the worm does not carry a payload that is especially dangerous, except for its ability to copy and re-send itself to contacts in an infected computer's address book. Nonetheless, its rapid spread over the weekend has prompted the likes of MessageLabs, Symantec and F-Secure to up the threat level posed by the virus. MessageLabs describes the bug as "high risk" and Symantec gives it a medium-to-high ranking of 3 on its scale of 1 to 5. F-Secure, meanwhile, has given it a level 1 ranking, its most dangerous rating.
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Government
Gartner, 5/29/03: Government Initiatives: Actions and Consequences
Government projects are designed to help governments better serve their constituencies. However, sometimes these projects bring unanticipated results.
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Hewlett Packard
The New York Times, 6/2/03: Hewlett Says Plan for PC's Is Corporate Money-Saver
By STEVE LOHR
Hewlett-Packard plans to announce a technology initiative today that it says can reduce a corporation's cost of owning and managing personal computers at least 45 percent, by shifting processing power to a central bank of shared computers.
The new effort, to be discussed at a meeting with industry analysts in New York, is part of Hewlett-Packard's drive to use its sizable investments in research and software to gain an edge on its chief rival in the personal computer business, Dell Computer.
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Hype Cycle
Gartner, 5/30/03: Understanding Gartner's Hype Cycles
Gartner's Hype Cycles offer an overview of relative maturity of technologies in a certain domain. They provide not only a scorecard to separate hype from reality, but also models that help enterprises decide when they should adopt a new technology.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: Hype Cycle for Web Services, 2003
Web services standards, such as Simple Object Access Protocols and Web Services Description Language, are understood and deployed. Application exploitation of Web services is still over-hyped.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: Hype Cycle for XML Technologies, 2003
Since 1998, XML has grown from a little-known standard to become the foundation of the Web computing infrastructure. Foundational and domain-specific XML standards are key to this evolution.
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Gartner, 5/30/03: Hype Cycle for Real-Time Infrastructure, 2003
Real-time infrastructure promises greater agility and quality of service from the IT infrastructure, while simultaneously lowering costs. RTI depends on many technologies that will evolve through 2010.
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Economic Outlook
Gartner, 5/30/03: Economic Outlook, 2Q03: Good News, Bad News
Abstract: The decisive end to America's standoff with Saddam Hussein is welcome news for a weary global economy, but prospects for a quick global economic recovery remain clouded by long-outstanding as well as new risks.
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Managing Your Career
The Wall Street Journal, 6/2/03: Are You Feeling Unappreciated? Griping May Make Things Worse
By JOANN S. LUBLIN
Few people ever feel adequately rewarded and recognized for their work achievements.
But how can you gripe about such mistreatment without being branded a whiner -- and possibly sabotaging your job? It's an especially tricky question at a time of scant raises and promotions. Many persistent complainers try to whine their way to success, says Judith E. Glaser, a New York executive coach. But they "have no idea how close they are to serious career harm.''
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