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Which are the most hyped technologies today? Check out Gartner's latest 2015 Hype Cycle Report. Autonomous cars & IoT stay at the peak while big data is losing its prominence. Smart Dust is a new cool technology for the next decade! By Geethika Bhavya Peddibhotla, KDnuggets. Gartner, the leading market and technology research firm, has published its 2015 Hype Cycle Report of Emerging technologies. Fig. 1: Gartner 2015 Hype Cycle. For comparison, here is Fig. 2: Gartner 2014 Hype Cycle. What's the Hype Cycle about? As... [Lire la suite]

While technology like the connected car has been hyped for years, the growth for all Internet of Things (IoT) applications across all sectors is growing exponentially. Gartner projects all of these connected things will grow from 4.9 billion in 2015 to 25 billion by 2020, and this includes cars. By looking at connected car functionality and architecture, we can get a better understanding of all IoT platforms. To simplify, there is a fairly consistent set of IoT components—sensors, mobile or device apps, big data stores, data... [Lire la suite]

source Gartner By leveraging the Internet of Things, enterprises will be presented with a wide range of opportunities that will result in significant benefits; The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly become one of the most familiar — and perhaps, most hyped — expressions across business and technology. That hype, however, is entirely justified and is backed up by the numbers. We expect to see 25 billion Internet-connected things by 2020, and close to $2 trillion of economic benefit globally. These things are not general purpose... [Lire la suite]

Analysts identify the top digital marketing trends, and where they place on the Gartner Hype Cycle. In their session at the Gartner Digital Marketing Conference, Adam Sarner and Mike McGuire, research vice presidents for Gartner for Marketing Leaders, pinpointed specific trends on the Gartner Digital Marketing hype cycle to describe which ones will have the most impact on digital marketers. The hype cycle illustrates technologies that move through the peak of expectations to the trough of disillusionment and eventually to the... [Lire la suite]