Gartner Predictions are Galileo-Radar Developments
Gartner’s report titled “The Next Round of Consumer Technologies Will Soon Hit the Enterprise” seems to be in line with what Galileo-Radar consortium is developing.
Physical location and orientation data will be one of several keys to information technology business growth in the next several years
says market-research firm Gartner Inc. (GR is all about location and orientation in real world social networking context)
It will be consumer-driven innovation that continues to move. (GR is all about consumer driven in business-consummer networking context)
Within five years, what Gartner terms “augmented reality” (GR head up display is all about augmented reality where information is super imposed over real world objects) will be one of the consumer-driven innovations. Augmented reality, used for many years in niche applications, provides an overlay of relevant digital information by automatically sensing the physical location and orientation of the user. (GR basics) Routine availability of location-based sensing and augmented reality will lead to new enterprise applications that are location- and context-sensitive, Gartner says.
“In the emerging world of ‘permanent beta’ innovation led by Web-native companies such as Google, the dominant approach is to throw a new capability out to potential users, see what they do with it, then figure out how to monazite it,” Fenn said. “This fertile breeding ground enables a raw idea to be refined rapidly. (GR will use the spiral development method, described in the D2-Golantech document)
The areas where most innovation will occur will be those relevant to individuals and small workgroups, including personal productivity, communications and social networking. (GR, GR and again GR)
Next Three Years:
Web Platforms—the use of Web-based application services will start in the area of personal productivity, and spread to enterprise applications. (GR Arena for web based services) Just as “mashups” use third-party data, (GR Meshup as described in D2-Sonarion) presentation and development tools to create original functionality, enterprises will increasingly benefit from the data and application services provided by nontraditional enterprise providers. (GR vision of recurring revenue as described in D0-Galileo-Radar).
Community Communication Platforms—enterprise users have been accustomed to communicating through private channels, such as telephone, e-mail or IM, and attempts to move to a shared collaboration space have, for the most part, failed. Highly successful consumer community sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, and Cyworld, operate under the opposite assumption—that postings and communications are public and visible by default, unless you specify otherwise. (GR arena and concept of GR social and business networking) In the collaboration space, the migration of alternate operating assumptions such as these will be as important as specific functionality.
Five Years Plus:
Augmented Reality—As discussed previously, location-based sensing and augmented reality that are just now developing in the consumer space will spread to enterprise applications such as location- and context-sensitive information. (GR in five years)
Gartner predictions are a tremendous back wind to the GR vision.
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