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Gartner
Overview
Gartner
Gartner is a leading research and advisory company providing essential insights, advice, and tools for businesses across all industries. Staff and students engaged in strategic planning, analysis, and decision-making can leverage Gartner's comprehensive research materials and analytics services.
The IT industry holds "Hype Cycles" and "Magic Quadrants" in high esteem for their unique value.
Hype Cycles
“Hype Cycles” reports visually represent technology and application maturity and adoption, illustrating their potential for addressing real-world business challenges and capitalising on emerging opportunities.
What can it do?
- Separate hype from the real drivers of a technology’s commercial promise
- Reduce the risk of your technology investment decisions
- Compare your understanding of a technology’s business value with the objectivity of experienced IT analysts
Magic Quadrants
“Magic Quadrants” reports offer a broad perspective on the competitive landscape within significant technology markets.
What can it do?
- Get quickly educated about a market’s competing technology providers and their ability to deliver what end users require today and in the future
- Understand how a market’s technology providers are competitively positioned and the strategies they are using to compete for end-user business
- Compare a technology provider’s strengths and challenges with your specific needs
I am a staff, I can… | |
• | Design cutting-edge courses tailored for business and IT professionals |
• | Utilise data and information to support research findings effectively |
• | Provide supplementary materials to enhance lectures and seminars |
• | Evaluate and compare potential business opportunities |
I am a student, I can… | |
• | Engage with actual business case studies, industry trends, and expert insights |
• | Stay informed and current on available technologies and tools |
• | Explore how organisations enhance operational efficiency |
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To access Gartner, please refer to the user guide.
Gartner does indeed send users recommended emails based on their interests and browsing history. This personalized recommendation helps users access more valuable information and gain a deeper understanding. Additionally, they also help users delve deeper into their areas of interest by sending webinar invitations and other means.
The Hype Cycle offers a visual depiction of how emerging technologies evolve, from initial inflated expectations to eventual mainstream adoption. It helps organisations assess the maturity and real-world applicability of innovations, enabling them to make more informed decisions about investing in and leveraging these technologies.
Complementing this, the “Magic Quadrants” provides a comprehensive assessment of major players in key technology markets. This bird's-eye view of the competitive landscape empowers IT leaders to better understand the relative strengths and positioning of vendors, informing their technology procurement and partnership strategies.
Each Hype Cycle drills into the five key phases of a technology’s life cycle.
- Innovation Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist, and commercial viability is unproven.
- Peak of Inflated Expectations: Early publicity produces several success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies act; many do not.
- Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters.
- Slope of Enlightenment: More instances of how technology can benefit the enterprise start to crystallise and become more widely understood. Second- and third-generation products appear from technology providers. More enterprises fund pilots; conservative companies remain cautious.
- Plateau of Productivity: Mainstream adoption starts to take off. Criteria for assessing provider viability are more clearly defined. The technology's broad market applicability and relevance are paying off.
Gartner’s interactive Magic Quadrant features enable you to create a view of the Magic Quadrant to reflect your own business goals, needs and priorities. Most significantly the interactive features enable you to adjust the weightings applied to each of the evaluation criteria to generate a new, client-specific Magic Quadrant graphic for that market. You can then save and share these customised Magic Quadrants for your internal analyses and decision-making.
Gartner’s interactive Magic Quadrant also brings together their expert opinion and the Peer Insights user-contributed reviews into one experience. User Review tab enables you to read and evaluate what your peers have to say about the enterprise IT solutions they have implemented and use in their daily enterprise.
As a staff:
- Enhancing dissertations and coursework with credible research
- Staying up to date on available technologies and tools
As a student:
- Identifying leading companies that may become future employers
- Gaining exposure to real-life business case studies and trends
- Enriching subject and course understanding through insightful resources
- Boosting competitiveness when preparing for job interviews
Staff and students are allocated to separate tenants within Gartner for accessing the platform. Therefore, it is vital to verify that you are using the appropriate link corresponding to your role at the University before accessing Gartner services.
If a student attempts to log in using the staff link within Gartner, he/ she will encounter an authentication error stating, "Sorry, but we’re having trouble signing you in." Similarly, if a staff member tries to access Gartner through the student link, the same error message will be appeared.
