by Gene Phifer | January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
I am down in Orlando at IBM’s Lotusphere 2009 event. Lotusphere is the annual conference targeted at users of Lotus products. It is held in the Disney Dolphin and Swan hotels, so once again I’m communing with Mickey Mouse. The opening session of Lotusphere 2009 started with an eye-opening segment by the Blue Man Group. [...]
Category: Cloud web Tags: collaboration, IBM, lotus, lotusphere, ucc
by Gene Phifer | November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Last week I was in Detroit delivering a local briefing. The majority of the audience was from the automakers. You can guess what they were dealing with: cost cutting above all else. Being in IT in automakers (and many other industries) is not fun right now. But in our zeal to cut costs, which usually [...]
by Gene Phifer | October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
I just had an inquiry with a client who wanted to discuss Web 3.0. In discussing his questions, I learned that he had equated Web 3.0 to the semantic Web. Gartner has made it clear that we don’t think there will be a ‘Web 3.0′, at least not any time soon. Web 2.0 was a [...]
Category: Cloud web Tags: cloud computing, mobile web, semantic web, web 3.0, web innovation
by Gene Phifer | September 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
Gartner’s 2008 Web Innovation Summit was held last week. It was an exciting week, with lots of good buzz from attendees and exhibiting vendors alike. As usual, the analysts did an outstanding job delivering presentations, running roundtable sessions, and doing client 1-1 meetings. I ran into a few surprises at the Summit. For one, I [...]
Category: Cloud web Tags: Cloud, cloud computing, SaaS, web, Web Innovation Summit
by Gene Phifer | September 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Finally, Gartner’s Web Innovation Summit 2008 has arrived. As co-chair, I have been working hard on this conference for over nine months. We have an exciting agenda focused on the Web, Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. I will be presenting the following sessions during the week: Analyst Keynote Don’t Forget to Mind the [...]
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