Mobile Hits - Gartner Mobile App
I used to only know of Gartner as that company that offered a Magic Quadrant, that was a listing of their highest ranked IT / technology vendors in a number of product categories. In my new (ish) job I’ve come to know that they offer a whole lot more than that. Here’s a snippet from Gartner’s About page that speaks to that:
We deliver actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams.
Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities.
Their portal has helped me find reference documents and various other useful helpful resources specific to tasks and projects I work on regularly or for one-off projects as well. I was happy to see that there’s a Gartner mobile app, though I honestly didn’t have high expectations of it. I felt like Gartner was maybe too much of an ‘old school’ tech company to have a good mobile app. I was wrong, and I’m finding new things to like about the app regularly now.
Here are a few of the things I like about it:
It has a simple, clean user interface - easy to navigate and good at highlighting things that are of interest to me. The screenshot at the top of the post shows the home screen, with quick access to search, where I left off last (across desktop and mobile), recommendations tailored for me, a top left menu bar that goes to settings and the Gartner peer community (another great resource), and the bottom bar with one tap access to home, podcasts, videos, my saved items, and my recent activity.
Before using the mobile app I didn’t even realize that Gartner had podcasts. I like these a lot as a way to really focus on an article’s content after reading it.
Content is very nicely optimized for mobile. Individual articles look particularly great:
Lists of articles also look good:
It’s easy to share an article, download it, or listen to it with just a tap:
I have one more (sort of) related thing to mention here. I downloaded a couple of articles from the Gartner mobile app this morning, then uploaded them to Gemini and asked it to summarize them in a particular format. Gemini did a good job again with that. I bashed it a couple days back for its new memory feature’s comical fails, but the Gartner article summaries point back to when I said this might be a thing that Gemini is good at.