Do you know Gartner, the world's leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry, published relevant product information, evaluations, recommendations, and measurement services on a wide range of technology issues and trends, and they are using two tools to describe:

Hype Cycles this show the typical progression of an emerging technology in graphical terms, separating hype from reality so technology users can make informed decisions about when and if they should adopt a new technology. It was first introduced in 1995.

Magic Quadrants these are designed to help you choose the right vendor for selected technologies by providing vendor descriptions, market information, and the criteria used to determine vendors' positions within a market. Determine which vendors are leaders, visionaries, niche-players, or challengers, then discover how vendors perform in relation to each other within a market and gauge where overall markets are going.

This year, in the Gartner's report title "Magic Quadrant for ERP service providers in North America 2007" they have reported 23 companies and present with there case in there current vendor landscape.

Source : Gartner

Important to learn, Accenture, CSC, IBM, Deloitte, Capsgemini still placed comfortably in Leader landscape, where few Indian MNC's now coming into challenger zone.Another big player like EDS seems to be missing from the list.Isn't?

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