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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, Gartner detailed the responses of 36 top CIOs in India.

Cloud and mobile technologies beat more traditional concerns like enterprise resource planning and network communications.

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, only 10% of organizations were using OSS. Gartner published the results in a report titled Survey Analysis: Overview of Preferences and Practices in the Adoption and Usage of Open-Source Software. This announcement summarizes the findings.

Decision makers aren't just looking to OSS because it's cheaper - they're also trying to gain competitive advantages through open source. "Nearly one-third of respondents cited benefits of flexibility, increased innovation, shorter development times and faster procurement processes as reasons for adopting OSS solutions," reads the announcement.

Enterproid is a new mobile startup launching today which helps companies better manage the personal smartphones used by employees for work purposes. The first product from Enterproid is Divide, a platform for separating work and personal profiles on one device, and allowing them to be managed separately. With this new service, I.T. has limited access to the device, as compared with the fully-managed deployments of business-only smartphones in years past.

I.T. can still wipe data from lost or stolen phones, but only corporate data. It can deploy enterprise apps over-the-air, but it can't see what personal apps a user has installed. And it can't track the location of a phone unless the employee gives it permission to do so.

The Institute for the Future's Foresight Engine (formerly known as Signtific Lab) is a platform to help large organizations or groups generate ideas by thinking about a variety of possible future scenarios. Participants communicate their thoughts in short, 140 character messages. These messages can be new ideas, thoughts on someone else's ideas, questions, etc. Players are rewarded for creating value with points and badges, the classic tropes of game mechanics. It's not terribly different from many enterprise innovation management platforms.

IFTF Research Manager Rachel Hatch says she can't disclose the names of corporate clients that have used the Foresight Engine for internal use. But Hatch shares some lessons learned from running these corproate forecasting games on her blog. These lessons can be applied to other applications of game mechanics in the workplace.

I find Jive Software to be a bit of a paradox. . I like the people and the company they've built. They're a local success story here in Portland. They have transformed from a client-technology, software forum provider into a collaboration leader.

They seem to be moving in the right direction. The company is headed for an IPO. So, what's the paradox?

RedMonk's James Governor and EMC VP of Global Marketing Chuck Hollis are calling for enterprises to put information on the balance sheet. In other words, start considering useful information as an asset and poorly managed information as a liability.

"If you've got an expensive manufacturing machine, you invest periodically to keep the asset running in top shape, otherwise its value falls sharply over time," writes Hollis. "Are information bases any different? How many databases in your organization are providing declining value simply because there isn't a regular program of data maintenance and enhancement?"

As confirmed earlier today, Nokia is making Windows Phone 7 its primary smartphone platform. First and foremost, this ensures that Nokia and Microsoft remain in the enterprise game. Nokia is much stronger in the enterprise in Europe than in North America, but Apple, RIM and the various Android vendors have been encroaching on that territory (see our post on Good's metrics). Meanwhile, RIM has long bested Microsoft in the enterprise mobility market. By joining forces, Nokia and Microsoft may be able to stave off some of Nokia's European losses and establish a foothold in the US.

"Windows Phone 7 was a second thought for Samsung and HTC; now it's the number-one platform for the number-one phone maker," writes Sascha Segan for PC Magazine. What this means for enterprise developers and decision makers is that the Windows Phone platform isn't going away anytime soon. This should take some uncertainty out of enterprise mobile development. Windows Phone 7 is viable, Symbian is on its way out and Meego probably won't get off the ground.

Today co-founder, president and chairman of Socialtext Ross Mayfield announced on his blog that he is stepping down from his day-to-day duties at Socialtext and joining SlideShare as vice presdent of business development. Mayfield told us about the move: "SlideShare is obviously different but what it has in common with Socialtext is being at the boundary between consumer and enterprise, which is my favorite place to play." Mayfield has been an adviser to SlideShare for the past four years. He will remain the chairman of the board of directors at Socialtext.

Socialtext was one of the first companies in the enterprise 2.0 space, and the first to offer an enterprise wiki. "Whatever your enterprise 2.0 / social business poison, our industry owes a lot to Ross for persistently questioning how we work," Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group tweeted in response to the announcement. We discussed Socialtext's role in the development of enterprise social software earlier this week.

OpenLogic provides enterprise support for a variety of open source software projects. Today the company published a list of the ten applications that its customers purchased support for most frequently.

This is an interesting list because it uses support data instead of downloads as a measure of an application's popularity. And the list is mostly what we'd expect: Apache, MySQL and Subversion are all represented. But since OpenLogic isn't the only provider of support for open source applications, this list might not be entirely accurate.

TIBCO's enterprise 2.0 offering tibbr has been a long time in the making. We first covered it in Oct. 2009. It was finally released from beta today, and the reaction has been positive. It seems that TIBCO took its time and got the product right. It may be a bit late in the game, but Tibco has serious enterprise credibility and a solid product.

This, along with the announcement that Microsoft's OfficeTalk may be commercially released, reminds us that there is still room at the enterprise 2.0 table for products from established enterprise vendors.