{"id":341,"date":"2017-04-24T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/?p=341"},"modified":"2017-04-25T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:28:01","slug":"leveraging-gartner-using-technology-research-to-make-informed-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/2017\/04\/24\/leveraging-gartner-using-technology-research-to-make-informed-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Gartner: Using Technology Research to Make Informed Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-342 \" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2017\/04\/gartner-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2017\/04\/gartner-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2017\/04\/gartner-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2017\/04\/gartner-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/files\/2017\/04\/gartner.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/>When business and technology change occurs so rapidly, organizations must leverage expert technological research and advice to\u00a0aid in decision making. Gartner offers\u00a0impartial and invaluable perspectives of the world\u2019s most knowledgeable experts. Gartner focuses on the most important trends in technology representing the critical issues, opportunities and challenges facing us today. Their research covers industries such as education, healthcare and transportation, with topics such as technology in the classroom, governance, latest technology trends and many more.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who may not be aware of this opportunity &#8211; students, faculty and staff have access to this resource.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>To access this resource take the following easy steps:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in to the My.Scranton portal<\/li>\n<li>Click the Library tab<\/li>\n<li>In the \u201cLibrary Resources\u201d channel, click Databases<\/li>\n<li>Click the letter \u201cG\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down and click on \u201cGartner\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope you will explore and leverage Gartner the next time you have a research\u00a0assignment, want to understand the latest technologies available to you, or to continue your professional development. Let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Lorraine Mancuso, IT\u00a0Project Manager <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When business and technology change occurs so rapidly, organizations must leverage expert technological research and advice to\u00a0aid in decision making. Gartner offers\u00a0impartial and invaluable perspectives of the world\u2019s most knowledgeable experts. Gartner focuses on the most important trends in technology representing the critical issues, opportunities and challenges facing us today. Their research covers industries such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,35],"tags":[71,72],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-news","category-computer-tools","category-it-news","tag-gartner","tag-it-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/itmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}