Gartner Highlights Emerging Technologies

Last week Gartner released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade. From Corporate Blogging to Carbon Nanotubes and Speech Recognition to Service-Oriented Architecture, the Hype Cycle highlights the progression of an emerging technology from conception, to market over-enthusiasm, through a period of disillusionment, to an eventual understanding of the technology’s relevance and role in a market or domain. As such it provides an invaluable aid to strategic planners who advise their organisations on the adoption of emerging technologies.

"The IT industry is awash with hype and buzz words and Gartner’s Emerging Technologies Hype Cycles cuts through this to offer an independent overview of the relative maturity of technologies in any given domain," said Alexander Linden, research vice president at Gartner. "It provides not only a scorecard to separate hype from reality, but also models that help enterprises to decide when they should adopt a new technology."

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