
Cultural Pitfalls that Western Executives should avoid with Chinese Stakeholders (3/3)
by Daniel Sanchezreina | December 9, 2019
This is the last of a series of 3 posts about the cultural pitfalls between Western Executives and their Chinese stakeholders.
For the purpose of this post, “Western” loosely refers...

AWS Just Made Their Management Tools Ready for Multicloud
by Marco Meinardi | December 7, 2019
I am just back home after spending last week at AWS re:Invent in tiresome, noisy, vibrant and excessive Las Vegas. At Gartner, I cover cloud management and governance and I...
The three semi-official languages of the digital world
by Mark Mcdonald | December 6, 2019
Last night I was asked to give a talk to a group of graduating MBA students. I was looking for a topic to share that would be engaging and leave...

Midsize Enterprises Need to Share Work to Tackle Digital Expectations
by Vivek Swaminathan | December 5, 2019
The very largest companies benefit from economies of scale, preferential treatment by vendors, massive teams and budgets that support growth. Unfortunately, small and midsize companies (MSEs) don’t enjoy those luxuries....

Top 10 Gartner Emerging Technologies Client Topics for 2019
by John Wheeler | December 5, 2019
This year, Gartner launched its Emerging Technologies and Trends (ETT) research agenda dedicated to helping our Technology & Service Provider (TSP) clients improve their offerings. As we wrap-up 2019, let's...

Should Enterprises Have 50 Words for Collaboration?
by Craig Roth | December 5, 2019
You may have heard the tale that “Eskimos have 50 words for snow.” This tale has been disapproved. But the general idea is still appealing: that if something is important...

Master Data Management (MDM) Goes Open-Source
by Simon Walker | December 5, 2019
Until now enterprise master data management (MDM) solutions have required a perpetual software license, or a subscription. However, this has now changed. Unidata an emerging MDM solution vendor has taken...
Amazon pulls Alexa back from the edge with the promise of a comfortable cloud to live in
by Bill Ray | December 5, 2019
Amazon has slimmed-down the Alexa client into something that will fit onto an ARM Cortex “M” processor with only 1MB of RAM. That’s good for talking white goods, but it...

IoT integration is a Sweet Spot for Blockchain Per Gartner Survey
by Avivah Litan | December 5, 2019
The integration of IoT and Blockchain networks is a sweet spot for digital transformation and innovation. It is actually moving ahead at a much faster space than expected, according to...

Talent Shortages Erode Analytics ROI at Midsized Enterprises
by Vivek Swaminathan | December 4, 2019
contributed by Nikhil Sood, Gartner for Midsize Enterprises
According to the Gartner 2019 CIO survey, 48% of midsized enterprise (MSE) CIOs intend to spend the largest amount of new or additional...