Summary of the Orlando Gartner Symposium 2012
(all my tweets of the event can be found by searching "colbert gartnersym" on twitter)
Key Messages:
- about 2300 CIOs attended
- 91% of the attendees were using a tablet-based device (looked like all iPads to me)
- Gartner's key message = a nexus of forces is obsoleting the traditional IT approach
- Four forces creating this nexus
(all my tweets of the event can be found by searching "colbert gartnersym" on twitter)
Key Messages:
- about 2300 CIOs attended
- 91% of the attendees were using a tablet-based device (looked like all iPads to me)
- Gartner's key message = a nexus of forces is obsoleting the traditional IT approach
- Four forces creating this nexus
- Social
- Mobile
- Information
- Cloud
- key question for CIO's - how do they support growth and company success?
- focus on customer experience
- 3 imperatives
- FOCUS - do what only IT can do
- CONNECT - integration and connected architectures
- LEAD - activities and results; agile; collaboration; coopting vs controlling
- Enterprise Architecture must focus on Business Outcomes first
- John Chambers - Cisco is winning
- Meg Whitman - HP will take a year off to regroup
- Colin Powell - amazing leader; just endorsed Obama for presidency
- Core Architectural Principles
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Separation of Concerns - decoupling
- Event-Driven architecture
- Open Service-Ecosystem
- Web-Oriented Architecture - SOAP is dead; everything as a RESTful service
- Gamification will continue to gain traction in enterprises
- Windows 8 - 90% of enterprises will skip Windows 8 and wait for Windows.next
gr8 executive summary. I didn't miss a beat from the Gartner symposium.
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