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A recently published business development analysis by research firm Gartner looked into social networks' need for a more structurally sound revenue stream, and came to the conclusion that to maintain

One term we've heard more of this past year is "gamification," the transfer of gaming activities and concepts to more mainstream enterprise software. Certainly, this isn't new: corporate games have

No single Web technology has survived longer on life support than the intranet - the broader goal of employee intercommunication and content management, to which enterprises still aspire. Despite an

Gartner is once again taking a look at the "hype cycle" for technologies and trying to assess where technologies lie along the bumpy road from technology trigger to productivity. This

I guess it's collaboration day at ReadWriteEnterprise. Earlier today we looked at Jeff Jarvis' thoughts on collaboration and left you with some questions to ponder. So here are some

Global enterprise software revenue increased 8.5% to $245 billion in 2010 according to Gartner. Enterprise software sales declined 2.5% in 2009, so this is encouraging growth for enterprise software

Want a more global perspective of enterprise technology trends? Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey included responses from 2,014 CIOs across 50 countries and 38 industries. In a recent announcement,

More than half of the 517 organizations surveyed by Gartner use open source software (OSS). When the firm first started tracking open source in the enterprise five years ago,

New research from Gartner indicates that despite all the buzz about tablets, smartphones are still the number one priority for consumers - and by extension, for workers. Forrester has

Responding to the Quora conversation we covered last week, Gartner Research Director Lydia Leong published a blog post detailing the process of creating a Magic Quadrant report. " We

Last month Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. The report positioned AT&T, Rackspace, Savvis, Terremark and Verizon as the leaders. Controversially,

As part of its Predicts 2011 series, Gartner has made four predictions for the near future of business intelligence and analytics. Also, Forrester analyst James Kobielus has written a

This week Gartner issued forecasts for both the enterprise SaaS market and the enterprise social software market. Both are predicted to finish 2010 with strong growth and see even

Gartner analyst Tom Austin has been on the road finding out what makes enterprise social and collaborative projects succeed. He's boiled it down to ten particular success factors. Defining

Gartner today announced eight predictions for IT in 2015. Last week, we looked at the broad trends Gartner and two other analyst firms expect to shape the future of

As we said last week, it's prediction season. We've kicked off our own trends to watch series, but we also wanted to check in with what the analyst firms

The nearly decade old browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is still the third most popular browser in the world, according to research firm Net Applications. Why does this ancient

Gartner is encouraging CEOs to appeal directly to CIOs regarding the iPad in a new CEO advisory. We've covered the growth of the iPad in the enterprise quite a

Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche

Gartner released its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Workplace Social Software report this week. The same five vendors held onto the Leaders and Challengers quadrants, while the Visionaries and Niche

In the past ten years, $75 billion has been spent on CRM software, according to Gartner analyst Michael Maoz. During that time, customer satisfaction has risen only 3-5 percent.

Gartner released its Hype Cycles 2010 report in August, and I've been meaning to post about it ever since. Audrey recently covered it from a cloud computing angle Marshall

Gartner has acquired the Burton Group for $56 million. The purchase is another example of how the analyst community is becoming increasingly homogeneous, dominated by a handful of firms such

Gartner has acquired AMR Research for $64 million, further tightening Gartner's grip on the analyst world. Gartner is the leading IT Research firm with annual sales of $1.28 billion. AMR

A hypothetical discussion between a cloud consultant and his client that is just too good not be posted on this late Tuesday night. Just be forewarned - this is NSFW.