Category: Strategy

This month Gartner offered its views on 10 strategic technologies that enterprises need to track for 2011. No major surprises to see cloud computing, mobile technologies and social networking on the list. Though in these cases companies should already have firmly established business objectives and implementation plans in place. Gartner includes ubiquitous computing, which, although omitted from their list, should include applications enables by Near Field Communications (NFC). Another technology / IT process that we're likely to much about in the coming years is Master Data Management (MDM). MDM refers to identifying, leveraging and managing the subset of information that is critical and integral to the operation of a company. [div class=attrib]From Gartner:[end-div] Cloud Computing. Cloud computing services exist along a spectrum from open public to closed private. The next…