Media tablets ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2012. The ranking was announced by the consulting firm in Brazil at this week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in São Paulo.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years; may be an existing technology that has matured and/or becomes suitable for a wider range of uses; and may be an emerging technology that offers an opportunity for strategic business advantages for early adopters or with potential for significant market disruption in the next five years.
Gartner noted that no single platform, form factor or technology from the segment will dominate and companies should expect to manage a diverse environment with two to four intelligent clients through 2015.
Gartner anointed mobile-centric applications and interfaces as No. 2 on the list, noting that user interactions with windows, icons, menus and pointers will be replaced by mobile-centric interfaces emphasizing touch, gesture, search, voice and video.
Contextual and social user experience were ranked No. 3 by Gartner, which noted that the future of mobile computing is based on context-aware that uses information about an end-user’s environment, activities, connections and preferences to improve the quality of interaction with that end-user or object.
Check out top 10 strategic technologies for 2012
- Media tablets and beyond
- Mobile-centric applications and interfaces
- Contextual and social user experience
- Internet of things
- App stores and marketplaces
- Next-generation analytics
- Big data
- In-memory computing
- Extreme low-energy servers
- Cloud computing
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