From the Editor, Gabriele Piccoli

This issue of CBR is the first in what is intended to become a yearly installment on the topic of IT trends; an issue on another annual theme, budgets and the budgeting process, is scheduled to come out later this year. Our focus here is to evaluate the new technologies and IT trends you should be watching for in the upcoming year. Making this a yearly issue enables us to create a database of the technologies and trends our readers are looking at as well as those they are gaining or losing interest in.