Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008

During its latest Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will impact most organizations. It is interesting to list these technologies, and you can refer to Gartner for further information:

1- Green IT, with the impact of new regulations, ecology behavior, ..;

2- Unified communications, and the move to IP telephony

3- Business process modeling, and service oriented architecture development

4- Metadata management, as part of an overall enterprise information management (EIM) strategy.

5- Virtualization 2.0, to improve flexibility and efficiency

6- Mashup & Composite Apps., for creating composite enterprise applications.

7- Web Platform & WOA., through Web based "cloud computing" environments.

8- Computing Fabric, to suit the enterprise needs

9- Real world web, to augment the reality that a user faces,

10- Social Software, to augment traditional collaboration in the enterprise.