Gartner dentifies Mashups among the Top Five technologies!

During the Gartner Symposium Itxpo 2008 the Gartner analysts Carl Claunch and Dave Cearley presented a list of 10 technologies that, according to Gartner, will provide IT important strategic advantages over the next three years. They have recommended IT managers to consider these technologies in formulating their budgets and their long-term plans.
And at number 5 we find... the Enterprise Mashups! This is an important confirmation for all the persons like us, our customers and our partners that has strongly believed in the potential of mashups approach and in the uniqueness of Knowledge Services.
KS is the only tool that enables rapid development of mashups without programming: instead of exploiting low-level API, KS provides ready connectors to easily integrate a wide range of systems (Board, QlikView, MS Visio, Autodesk, ESRI, Google Maps and many others).

The complete ranking:

1. Virtualization
2. Cloud Computing
3. Servers: Beyond Blades
4. Web-Oriented Architectures
5. Enterprise Mashups
6. Specialized Systems
7. Social Software and Social Networking
8. Unified Communications
9. Business Intelligence
10. Green IT