http://www.silicon.com Results for analyst en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/how-the-cloud-is-swallowing-your-comms-39668400.htm The move towards higher mobile data allowances will also see the extension of unified communications to smartphones and other wireless data devices, according to the analyst. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:52:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39661659,00.htm One quarter of business applications will be created by citizen developers by 2014, according to analyst Gartner. Citizen developers represent an innovative new way of creating software - just be mindful of the legal complications, says lawyer Mark... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/virtualisation/virtualisation-real-life-tales-of-how-to-get-it-right-39661656.htm Figures from analyst Gartner released earlier this year reveal only 16 per cent of current IT workloads are running on virtual machines. Adoption rates of virtualisation have yet to match the hype surrounding it, here Andrew Donoghue hears from... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39646338,00.htm Increasing numbers of businesses are moving their systems onto cloud computing platforms: analyst house Gartner says worldwide revenues from cloud services will pass $56.3bn this year and are on track to grow to $150bn by 2013. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39655946,00.htm Analyst group Gartner has drawn up a list of the applications it thinks will be most popular by 2012, ranking applications based on criteria including their estimated market penetration, revenue and consumer value. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39650567,00.htm Michael Chui is a senior fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, the economics research arm of analyst house McKinsey & Company. In an exclusive interview, silicon.com reporter Tim Ferguson spoke to Chui about the report he co-authored on how CIOs... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/unified-comms-what-it-needs-to-succeed-39653038.htm They certainly shouldn't just be throwing technology at the problem, says Rob Bamforth, principal analyst at Quocirca. Jeff Mann, research vice president at the analyst house, recently noted business users typically treat the different technology... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39650560,00.htm According to analyst house Gartner, Android took a 3.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of this year, while Windows Mobile's share declined to 7.9 per cent - a drop of 3.2 percentage points year-on-year. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817859p,00.htm However, to the client (and business analyst) it means what the system will do. This final paper of the series it looks at decision making techniques - how to select the best idea from the many come up with - and how to justify recommendation to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60813054p,00.htm Armed with the right source code analysis tool, a security analyst no longer has to guess at the places in the software that impact privacy, operations, and data integrity. Buried in the millions of lines of source code that power organization are... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60807213p,00.htm Join industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc.and opinion leaders from SonicWALL, Inc.as they help you make the right call on telecommuting. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60807214p,00.htm Join Toby Bell, Research Vice President at featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc.and Lisa Sutrick, Director, CCM Product Management at Pitney Bowes Business Insight, as they look at how businesses are moving to an integrated Customer Communications... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39635527,00.htm The five things you need to be thinking about now, as identified by analyst house Gartner, for one. October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:33:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39631827,00.htm Currently, eight out of 10 new PCs run Windows XP, nearly eight years after the operating system was first released, according to analyst Forrester. A multitude of Microsoft operating systems have been launched into the world since the first... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:38:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39631824,00.htm A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK software industry is in fine fettle, although much more needs to be done to support the growth of small tech firms. Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39631822,00.htm According to research by analyst NPD Group, Windows 7's first week after release blew Vista's out of the water. That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no surprise - but just how much more love is Microsoft's latest OS getting? editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:18:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39626369,00.htm Financial services is not making the steepest cuts, however: that honour goes to the agriculture mining and construction industry with a 9.2 per cent year-on-year fall, followed by the discrete manufacturing industry with an 8.5 per cent drop... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:58:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60301754p,00.htm Project management has been increasing in visibility both inside and outside the executive office. Now, with the emergence of business analysis as an independent field, understanding and using the correct terminology is more critical than ever. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:46:39 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39617382,00.htm New OSes such as Android and Maemo will cut away at Symbian market share," Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst, said in a statement, adding: "Although there are relatively few open source OS-based smartphones in the market today, the open source OS... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39617378,00.htm The wave is opened by a home loans manager and a business analyst who use Gravity to design the business process model for selling insurance on mortgages offered by the bank. To help design the process for selling insurance on the mortgage deals a... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:39:02 +0000