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SAR China —  China’s enterprise software market is forecast to maintain its strong performance, with an estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.6 per cent from 2008 to 2013 – the highest growth rate in the world, according to Gartner, Inc.

Although Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015, analysts warned that many virtualization deployment projects are being undertaken without involving the information security team in the initial architecture and planning stages.

Worldwide identity and access management (IAM) revenue will reach $9.9 billion in 2010, an 8 per cent increase from 2009 revenue of $9.2 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that compliance, audit and analytics requirements continue to be the main factors influencing investments in IAM, alongside operational efficiency and better integration across IAM solutions.

Xerox Corporation and its partner, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., who oversees business operations in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, are bringing their managed print services (MPS) expertise from the boardroom to the classroom, helping universities around the globe tackle cost savings by better managing print output across campus.

Gartner, Inc has identified seven non-technology-based factors that organisations need to pay close attention to in order to attain business process management (BPM) success.

A lot has happened in a year within the social software and collaboration space. The growing use of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook by business users has resulted in serious enterprise dialogue about procuring social software platforms for the business

Thought leadership marketing (TLM) can be a powerful tool for improved marketing success in IT services, according to Gartner, Inc. While thought leadership has been used by consulting firms for a long time — often accounting for as much as 20 percent of marketing expenditure — an organized discipline of TLM is only now emerging, allowing marketers to use this as a manageable tool to drive business.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the closing of its acquisition of Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs.

The go-to-market plan of many providers often includes a significant investment in indirect sales channel partners to reach more customers. However, Gartner, Inc. says that many providers execute a single communications plan across all of their partners, missing out on opportunities to cultivate and maximize loyalty and the real revenue potential of their partners.

For Nokia, removing the costs associated with navigation for drivers and pedestrians allows the company to quickly activate a massive user base to which it can offer new location features, content and services. This is part of Nokia’s strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services.

IBM and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of rich, new social networking applications for BlackBerry smartphones.

The impact of an entrepreneurial CIO is greatest when the need for productivity leverage is greatest, as in the current economic environment, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts said by 2012, the companies with the top 25 percent of earnings growth will have an entrepreneurial CIO.

The evaluation criteria used by Gartner was operators’ "Ability to Execute" and "Completeness of Vision" across 17 countries in Western Europe.

Sixty-two per cent of CEOs recognise that IT-enabled changes will be a key element in their post-recession strategy, while only 13 per cent disagree, according to a recent survey by Gartner, Inc. Preliminary results from the survey show 42 per cent of business leaders are already focusing more on revenue growth than cost control.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has been placed in the Visionaries Quadrant in Gartner, Inc’s Mobile Consumer Application Platform Magic Quadrant report published Dec. 3, 2009.

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, today announced that it has agreed to acquire AMR Research, Inc. for approximately $64 million in cash, subject to certain closing adjustments.

The energy, space and technology problems currently facing data center managers are set to worsen in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. These issues will continue to plague users in 2010, and data center and IT managers need to find pragmatic ways in which to deal with them.

Enterprises can leverage context-aware computing to better target prospects, increase customer intimacy, and enhance associate productivity and collaboration, according to Gartner, Inc.

Six “business killers” still threaten to destroy financial services institutions in the next 24 months, whether an economic upswing occurs or not, according to Gartner, Inc.

Analysts Examine the Rise of the Citizen Developer During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 18-22, in Orlando