In this series, we highlight interesting new vendors and important technology trends. At Forrester, we've seen a strong interest in emerging technologies among our technology strategist clients as vendors seek to stay innovative and identify the "next big thing" in the technology marketplace. As with the first two documents in the series, this document describes several interesting companies in diverse areas, such as content delivery, innovation management, speech analytics, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation, and explains why we think these companies will be noteworthy in 2008 and beyond.