Technology Direction – Forrester and Gartner

Both Gartner and Forrester came up with their technology prediction this month. It is interesting to compare the two – here is a comparison.

Topic		Forrester: The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch (here)		Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 (here)	Remarks
Web 2.0		Social Computing In And Around The Enterprise Collaboration platforms become people-centric Customer community platforms integrate with business apps Tele-presence gains widespread use		Social Computing	As usual Gartner has less to say about social computing than Forrester Gartner had ignored the term Web 2.0 till 2006 Forrester has been trying to popularize the term Groundswell and has also published a book on the subject
SOA, BPM & Security		Agile And Fit-To-Purpose Applications Business rules processing moves to the mainstream BPM will be Web-2.0-enabled Policy-based SOA becomes predominant Security will be data- and content-based		Security – Activity Monitoring	Gartner has ignored SOA & BPM and I am inclined to agree with them
Mobile		Mobile As The New Desktop Apps and business processes go mobile Mobile networks and devices gain more power		Mobile Applications	Mobile is going to be very important but it is likely to give rise to a new class of applications – not possible on a desktop or laptop. Both Gartner & Forrester seems to have missed this point
Cloud		Restructured IT Service Platforms SaaS will be ubiquitous for packaged apps Cloud-based platforms become standard infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service Client virtualization is ubiquitous		Cloud Computing Client Computing Reshaping the Data Centre Virtualization for Availability	Though there is lot of hype around cloud & virtualization – I think it is still at least 2 years away
Analytics		Process-Centric Data And Intelligence Business intelligence goes real-time Master data management matures Data quality services become real-time		Advanced Analytics	No opinion
Others				IT for Green Flash Memory	No opinion