STAMFORD, Conn., March 7, 2006 - The quest for enterprises trying to manage, organize and search content inside and outside of their organizations in a way that is transparent and easily understood, will drive worldwide information access with search technology new license revenue to total $368.9 million in 2006, up 10 percent from $335.4 million in 2005, according to Gartner, Inc.

STAMFORD, CONN., June 13, 2006 - Worldwide IT services revenue totaled $624.4 billion in 2005, a 6 percent increase from 2004 revenue of $588.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.

Cambridge, Mass., May 23, 2006... After speeding past the $100-billion mark just three years ago, online sales will top $200 billion this year. According to The 2006 State of Retailing Online, the ninth annual Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) of 174 retailers, 2006 online sales (including travel) are expected to rise 20 percent to $211.4 billion. Sales excluding travel will reach $138 billion.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 16, 2006 - For the fourth year in a row, IT budgets will grow less than 3 percent over the previous year, according to Gartner, Inc. With such lackluster growth levels, chief information officers (CIOs) must adopt new strategies that constantly reinforce the merits of maintaining an IT staff.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 16, 2006 - While Web 2.0 offers many new opportunities for companies to grow their business, few enterprises realize how to implement the full range of capabilities to succeed. By 2008, the majority of Global 1000 companies will quickly adopt several technology-related aspects of Web 2.0, but will be slow to adopt the aspects of Web 2.0 that have a social dimension, and the result will be a slow impact on business, according to Gartner, Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 15, 2006 - IT is creating an unstoppable whirlwind of change that will bring about a level of transformation in people's personal lives, within the enterprise, and within society that is possibly greater than at any time since the industrial revolution, according to Gartner, Inc.

SYDNEY, 1 May 2006 - Outsourcing providers will increasingly institute standardised services as they try to generate better profits from their deals and to survive as competition for business becomes even tougher, according to latest research published by Gartner, Inc.

STAMFORD, Conn., April 26, 2006 - As companies attempt to implement more multisourcing agreements, the number of megadeals awarded to a single service provider has declined, according to Gartner, Inc. Megadeals are characterized as being worth more than $1 billion. In 2005, 11 outsourcing megadeals were awarded, a decline from 12 in 2004 and 16 in 2003.

London, England, 24 April 2006 -- European-based companies will fuel the growth in offshore outsourcing with a 50 percent 'year on year' rise in spending predicted in 2006 and 2007, analysts said at Gartner's European Outsourcing and IT Services Summit today. The growth in the region is primarily driven by companies based in the UK, with increasing demand in Germany and the Nordic countries in particular. Growth in the US, which is a more established market, is predicted to grow at 30 percent during the same period.

- Gartner today highlighted that a lack of planning and consideration of hidden costs are among the most common pitfalls that lead to Australian companies failing to capture business benefits from offshoring deals.

Cambridge, Mass., April 3, 2006... Bose, Dell, Sony, Panasonic, and Hewlett-Packard are the technology brands that score the highest with US consumers, according to a new survey by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester's Technology Brand Scorecard evaluated 22 of the best-known consumer technology brands, based on the responses of more than 4,700 consumers.

STAMFORD, Conn., March 14, 2006 - Strategic IT outsourcing can be an integral part of an organization's long-term business success, but a new survey by Gartner, Inc., shows that the majority of organizations worldwide are still focused on tactical IT outsourcing to achieve short-term, cost-focused objectives.

STAMFORD, Conn., February 13, 2006 - Virtual working has become the reality of business today, however many organizations will fail to adopt management practices and processes to yield maximum results from a virtual workforce strategy, according to Gartner Executive Programs (EXP), a unit of Gartner Inc.

London, UK, 7 February 2006 - New license revenue in the worldwide business intelligence (BI) software market is poised for constant growth through 2009, when the market is projected to reach $3 billion in 2009, according to the latest forecasts by Gartner Inc. In 2006, the market is estimated to reach 2.5 billion, a six percent increase from 2005.

Last week, AMR Research presented three awards for innovation in business technology at its Strategy 21 Conference. The second annual AMR Research Innovation Awards are designed to honor breakthrough ideas by small, midsize, and large companies.

Egham, UK, 23 January 2006 - Chief Information Officers (CIOs) will come under increased pressure in 2006 to perform whilst they transform their IT organisation to become more externally focussed, according to a worldwide survey of 1,400 CIOs by Gartner Executive Programmes (EXP), a unit of Gartner Inc. Gartner said executives now expect IT to play a significant role in business growth and competitiveness, a shift that will accelerate in 2006.

STAMFORD, Conn., January 4, 2006 - Following a period of cost cutting and reactive spending, organizations with more than $1 billion in revenue will be cautious when making their IT spending decisions in 2006, according to Gartner Consulting's Worldwide IT Benchmark Service.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) powerhouse vendors such as SAP and Oracle have steadily bitten off market share positions in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM), according to a report released today by AMR Research.