National Informatics Centre (NIC) subscribes to various Digital Information Resources in the field of Information Technology and its allied areas for the access of NIC officials up to district level across India. Online Gartner Research & Advisory Services is one of among them.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been subscribing to Gartner Reports (earlier published by McCraw Hill as Datapro Reports) since 1987. However, from the year 2000, NIC subscribed to Gartner Reports as Intraweb CD-ROM. It was accessible to NIC officials through IntraNIC and Library Website. Gartner has now phased out the CD-ROM version and brought out a world class unbiased independent Research Report, Market and Industry Trends covered under 27 fields and available as online at http://www.gartner.com
Area of Coverage Application Development Application Integration & Middleware Business Intelligence Business Process Management Consumer Technologies Customer Relationship Management Data Management & Integration ERP & Supply Chain Management Emerging Trends & Technologies Enterprise Architecture High Performance Workplace IT Asset Management IT Management IT Operations Mobile & Wireless Networking & Communications Equipment Networking & Communications Services Open Source Outsourcing & IT Services PCs, Laptops & Handheld Devices Print Markets & Management Regulatory Compliance Security & Privacy Semiconductors Servers & Storage Small & Midsize Business Software Markets Web Services
€|Features Gartner offers the combined brainpower of more than 1,200 research analysts and consultants who advise executives in 75 countries every day. Research and Advisory with 800+analyst provides suggestion and expert comments to various project proposals and documents before execution.
Gartner Core Research is a comprehensive program designed to help IT Leaders and Professionals. Gartner provide an impartial and invaluable perspective of Research by Market, Topic and Industry with the world’s most knowledgeable analysts organizations on any topic of IT. Gartner Advisory Services provides the opportunity to directly leverage Gartner analyst expertise for strategic insight and tactical guidance that applies specifically to needs and issues of IT Organisatoins.
€|Deliverables @ NIC There are two levels of named user access to Gartner Reference and Advisor sheets. . Reference Users have access to written Gartner Research for the number of Users licensed in the Service Agreement. Deliverables for Reference Users include a range of written reports, such as Spotlights, Special Reports, Research Notes, Perspectives/Research Briefs, Executive Summaries. . Advisor Users have access to written Gartner Research with the ability to interact with Gartner analysts through Standard Analyst Inquiry. Advisor Users receive the Core Research deliverables for Reference Users, stated above, as well as. . Standard Analyst Inquiry provides Advisor Users with access to Gartner analysts for inquiry sessions for the User’s individual business purposes for the benefit of organisation. Inquiry sessions are related only to the interpretation or application of published Gartner Research and are based on applicable Research Service scope of coverage, as determined by Gartner.
Teleconferences periodic “telephone meetings” on pressing, timely issues. Gartner analysts speak on these topics and then poll the listeners.
Talking Technology a monthly CD-ROM that provides an executive summary focusing on current IT issues.
Theme Conference Ticket a ticket for one employee to attend one of Gartner’s theme conferences.
€|Benefits Gartner Research has a set of powerful dynamics which can lead to improvement in the Technology Understanding and Project Deployment capabilities and also the purchase, implementation and management of technology.
NIC is getting benefits to . Discover the trends and traps of new technologies, providing NIC with the ability to provide world-class IT services to its citizens. . Verify and validate key strategic business initiatives that involve technology, using world-leading, authoritative and independent research and analysis from more than 800 dedicated, expert Gartner analysts; . Gain an improved understanding of technology and market dynamics that can avoid bad decision-making expensive errors and short-lived vendor partnerships. . Understand market alternatives and methodologies. . Improve the position of NIC in purchase processes that can reduce costs, time to selection, improve Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and reduce risk to the Government. . Access privilege to Full text Gartner Research & Advisory Services is through userid and password. . At present NIC is having two Advisory Seats and One Reference Seat.
. Other Online Digital Resources are . IEEE/IEE Electronic Library(IEL) . ACM Digital Library . Science Direct . JCCC@MCIT . Standards Online