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Cool Vendors Heat Up IT Markets

Gartner highlights cool vendors with low visibility but high-impact products and solutions. These vendors often fly under the radar while forming the leading edge of technological advancement. Take advantage of the tactical and strategic opportunities they may offer. Read More




Cool Vendors in IT Services and Outsourcing, 2006

IT service and outsourcing vendors are changing the way they do business, combining and marketing products in new ways.

Cool Vendors in Enterprise Network Services

We identify five cool vendors in the enterprise communications space.


Cool Vendors in Emerging Technologies, 2006

We examine two sets of related technologies: applications that tie to massively scalable computing resources, and the hardware and software technologies that can cost-effectively deliver those resources. We also identify two breakthrough vendors with portable power solutions.

Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2006

Cool vendors in application development are concentrating on developing improved approaches to increasing the quality and effectiveness of the AD process.


Cool Vendors in Application Integration and Middleware, 2006

The application integration and middleware market continues to be interesting and ripe with smaller, newer vendors that have unique approaches to old and new challenges.

Cool Vendors in B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer, 2006

Emerging approaches and revitalized traditional approaches to multienterprise integration give users more choices for business-to-business projects. A few cool vendors have emerged to re-energize the multienterprise integration market and provide consumers with solutions that help drive revenue.


Cool Vendors in Carrier Network Infrastructure, 2006

Now that operators' traditional voice revenues are falling, they must deploy infrastructure that supports a new generation of services. We highlight seven vendors to indicate the variety of innovative products available.

Cool Vendors in CRM Marketing and Analytics, 2006

A new wave of CRM vendors is focused on maximizing customer interactions, and better understanding and predicting customer behaviors. These nine Cool Vendors offer new and innovative approaches to business, but by 2008, expect some of them to exit the market while others grow exponentially.


Cool Vendors in CRM Sales and Customer Service and Support, 2006

Renewed spending on CRM has spurred a new wave of vendors with innovative ways to manage information and maximize customer relationships. By 2008, expect some vendors to cease operations while others will have grown exponentially based on performance, vision, and ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Cool Vendors in Data Management and Integration, 2006

New vendors are emerging with innovative approaches to some contemporary issues of managing and integrating data. From high-level modeling and semantics down to underlying compression and storage, these vendors provide a look into the future of data-oriented technologies.


Cool Vendors in Data Protection, 2006

A group of cool new data protection vendors are delivering disk-based solutions that capture data more frequently and that deliver faster recovery than traditional backup solutions.

Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications, 2006

CIOs and managers of enterprise communications face many challenges, including better-managing customer interactions, improving support for staff mobility, improving network security, infrastructure consolidation and operational efficiency.


Cool Vendors in High-Performance Workplace, 2006

High-performance workplace includes technologies that span enterprise activities. The cool vendors in 2006 reflect that richness and illustrate unique approaches to achieving performance improvements.

Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management Software, 2006

These "cool vendors" represent emerging trends in HCM technology. They take familiar HR and workforce problems (such as timekeeping, analytics, recruitment, employee engagement surveys and benefits) and use new technology to achieve improved results.


Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management, 2006

We highlight five suppliers of intriguing technology in management software focused on root cause analysis and real-time infrastructure.

Cool Vendors in Mobile and Wireless, 2006

Mobile and wireless technology is driving new products and services for all types of users. Many of today's "cool" mobile and wireless technologies are more about improving capabilities of existing products or applications than creating ones.


Cool Vendors in Platform Middleware, 2006

Innovation in platform middleware continues to flourish. This report analyzes three vendors proposing innovative products addressing "extreme" scalability, availability and performance needs, and providing high productivity development for Ajax/REST applications.

Cool Vendors in Platform Middleware, Event-Driven Application Servers, 2006

Event-driven application servers are among the most-innovative evolutions in application platforms. Although still leading-edge technology, several commercial products, such as those from jNETx, OpenCloud and WareLite, are emerging in the market.


Cool Vendors in Print Markets and Management, 2006

Getting the most out of your output fleet investment is becoming easier and easier, thanks to the latest crop of vendors that offer products and services designed to help businesses better utilize and manage printers, copiers and multifunction products.

Cool Vendors in Security and Privacy

Vendors and service providers in the security and privacy area continue to innovate.


Cool Vendors in Semiconductors, 2006

Innovations that promise to revolutionize semiconductor technology include features that enable network-on-chip, wireless and backplane communications, and a new generation of storage devices. We profile six vendors.

Cool Vendors for Web 2.0, 2006

Web 2.0 represents a fundamental shift toward a more open, flexible and participatory model for creating content, systems and business models. A variety of novel Web-based applications are emerging from small "cool" vendors as Web 2.0 takes shape.