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IT Trends
Based on the same comprehensive study of IT executives as IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks, Technology Trends and IT Management Best Practices 2009/2010 covers the latest IT trends. These IT trends are the technologies and IT practices that are receiving the most attention from IT executives based on current adoption, prospects for further adoption and investment activity.
Read the 6-page Executive Summary to discover which technologies are bonafide IT trends and which are just hype.
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Covers 13 IT technologies
- ERP
- CRM
- Business Intelligence
- SOA
- Server virtualization
- Storage virtualization
- Desktop virtualization
- SaaS
- Cloud computing
- VoIP
- Unified communications
- Social networking
- Green IT
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Covers 10 IT Management Practices
- IT steering committees
- IT change control board
- IT balanced scorecard
- Benchmarking IT Spending and Staffing
- IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Project management office (PMO)
- IT security policy compliance audits
- Disaster recovery plan testing
- Contribution to open source development projects
- IT Staff telecommuting
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The first part of this report reviews adoption trends of 13 selected technologies and IT initiatives. For each technology, it reviews:
- How widely it is adopted
- How many organizations are currently investing in it
- Prospects for future adoption
- The economic experiences of those who have adopted it in terms of return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO)
The second part of Technology Trends and IT Management Best Practices examines adoption trends for 10 IT best practices, allowing executives to quickly understand:
- How widely these management practices are being implemented
- How vigorously adopters are putting these management initiatives into practice
- How quickly adoption of these practices within the IT community should spread over the next few years
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