Tag: Gartner
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AI Makes Advertising Less Transparent and Harder to Justify
As with coding, when you use AI for marketing, the decision process and internals of strategy become opaque. The robot says: The result is a steady transfer of control and transparency away from marketers and toward systems whose internals they cannot inspect. 🔗 AI Makes Advertising Less Transparent and Harder to Justify
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Gartner Predicts 40% of Organizations Deploying AI Will Use AI Observability to Monitor Model Performance by 2028
Gartner expects 40% of organizations deploying AI to implement dedicated AI observability tools by 2028, to monitor model performance, bias and outputs including model drift and LLM logic. The push comes from executive concern about risk in complex and agentic AI rather than infrastructure or application health: AI decision-making is often hidden, and errors can…
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Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning
Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense… Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for…
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Related to your interests, Tuesday
The Links Gartner Research Reveals CFOs’ Budget Plans Prioritize Growth Functions, Technology and AI in 2026 – More spending on tech, less on people. The Supreme Court doesn’t care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art – I think this means you can’t copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How…
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Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…
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Related to your interests, Thursday
Why it was a Boston vacation. Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment – “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context: Sovereign Computing, panel – This was a great panel, very detailed…
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Relevant to your interests, Monday
I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer. Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data – ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average” CIOs…
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Related to your interests, Saturday
Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays – “If your life is going to be 80% Mondays and their equivalents, the design specifications for Monday matter more than the design specifications for your vacation.” The State Of GenAI And Consumers For 2026 – As agentic AI ascends, companies are grappling with control –…
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You need to write SEO and enterprise research text for AIs now, in addition to humans. Does this mean separate pages, often hidden from humans like we see for search engine SEO? Probably. A Gartner survey of 377 U.S. consumers, conducted in June and July 2025, revealed that rather than shortcutting decisions, AI features are…
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Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI
Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. Making sense of their reports takes a lot of time, and multi-year trends are hard to pick out. Writing into a chat window that was updated with not only the research reports, but also analyst opinions – maybe notes…
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Day 2 AI looms
Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough: According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers…
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Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it
The survey of more than 200 CFOs, taken during August 2025, showed that 56% of CFOs rank achieving enterprise-wide cost optimization targets in their top five. Gartner CFO survey. The easiest way to show the value of IT is to show how it means spending less money. There’s occasional moments where “ROI” is achieved by…
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AI uses in finance, survey
Three use cases stood out as they have been adopted by more than a third of respondents that had implemented AI in their function. Knowledge management – helping organizations organize, retrieve, and leverage information for better decision-making – is the most common AI use case (49%) in finance organizations, followed by accounts payable process automation…
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The Europeans are not digging the American public cloud of late. “Europe is facing regulatory pressure, competition between countries, geopolitical tensions, and national security concerns-all focused on making sure Europe can develop and manage AI systems on its own, without depending on foreign platforms or providers,” said Lovelock. Leading to: IT spending in Europe is…
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IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud sovereignty, according to Gartner. Up from $1.3t in 2025. Spending on GenAI models is set to grow 78 percent next year in Europe as organizations look to increase investment in AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. “61 percent…
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The top use cases for AI agent pilots for marketing technology leaders are content or marketing asset production, cited by 52% of leaders piloting these tools. Other top use cases include content and marketing asset enrichment (49%) and campaign management/optimization (43%). 🔗 Gartner Survey Finds 45% of Martech Leaders Say Existing Vendor-Offered AI Agents Fail…
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“The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion”
“Gartner is now projecting that datacenter systems spending in 2025 will rise by 46.8 percent to $489.5 billion, which is an incremental $14.6 billion in spending in the datacenter for hardware and base systems software. The core IT spending is now projected to hit $3.45 trillion, an incremental $59.8 billion in spending and representing a…
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🤖 Bain Says GenAI Coding Hype Falls Flat Without Full Software Lifecycle Rethink
Generative AI stormed into software development promising a coding revolution, but so far, it’s making developers only marginally faster—and in some cases, slower. Bain & Company’s Technology Report 2025 argues that real productivity gains will require a wholesale reinvention of the entire development lifecycle, not just sprinkling AI on coding tasks. AI generated summary of:…
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Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie
How big the Kubernetes market? TAM-time for managing Kubernetes: The container management market has grown more than 20% over the past year, with a market value of over $2.5 billion in 2024. The market is forecast to exceed $4.5 billion in constant currency by 2028, with a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Gartner, August,…