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Report:The Evolution Of Cloud Computing Markets

Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...

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Report:Challenging The Middleware Megavendors

A SWOT Analysis Of Specialized Business Process Platform Vendors: Cordys, Progress Software, Red Hat, Software AG, And TIBCO

Forrester applied its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) methodology to the four middleware megavendors in September 2009: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. We now turn our...

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Blog:The Empire Strikes Back — But Who’s The Target?

It was only about a year ago when Larry Ellison was confusing the OpenWorld audience with the “cloud in a box” approach, and only a very few CIOs managed to turn a large Oracle landscape...

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Report:How To Justify An Acquisition Price

Forrester's M&A Value Prediction Framework

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be driven by a variety of different objectives, ranging from strategic asset deals, to patent motivated deals, to hostile takeovers. Acquisitions that lead to the...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Platform-As-A-Service For App Dev And Delivery Professionals, Q2 2011

Microsoft And Salesforce.com Lead, With Cordys, LongJump, Caspio, And WorkXpress Close Behind

In Forrester's 149-criteria evaluation of 10 platform-as-a-service (PaaS) vendors, we found that Microsoft and salesforce.com led the pack because of their comprehensive features for application...

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Blog:CeBIT 2012: App Stores and Cloud Marketplaces Meet Business Applications

CeBIT 2012 kicks off tomorrow — and believe it or not, it’s still the world’s biggest IT show, attracting 339,000 visitors last year and very likely even more this year. Cloud...

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Blog:OpenWorld And Dreamforce: A Competitive Game

Actually, most customers do not directly compare Oracle with Salesforce.com, as organizations buy very different things from these two vendors. While Oracle has a diversified portfolio of middleware...

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Report:Sizing The Cloud

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing

Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...

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Blog:PaaS Is Entering The Next Business Maturity Phase With AT&T

Forrester has done quite a number of reports in the last two years around platform-as-a-service (PaaS) from the long-term strategy perspective from me and from the application developer perspective...

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Blog:Axway Aquires Vordel: Why Does The Acquisition Of Security Experts By Integration Vendors Make Sense?

Axway just announced it will acquire the security specialist Vordel; and you might ask, does this make sense at all? I do believe it does! Actually, I was personally evaluating security vendors as an...

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Report:Cloud Brokers Become Change Agents

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity

The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

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Blog:Hana Enterprise Cloud - Pro and Cons

                Prior to its annual Sapphire event next week, SAP today announced the new SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. As I have followed SAP’s...

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Blog:Cloud Bursting Stimulates New Cloud Business Models

An important prerequisite for a full cloud broker model is the technical capability of cloud bursting: Cloud bursting is the dynamic relocation of workloads from private environments to cloud...

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Blog:Best In Cloud Award Winner - Congratulations From Forrester

  Computerwoche Germany has organized this week the second annual BestInCloud Award. I had the honor to be on a jury for this unique award again. The BestInCloud Award is really unique, as...

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Blog:Selling The Cloud

Many cloud computing services in the consumer space are per se for free. Even sophisticated platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments are coming from most vendors with a free sandbox environment and...

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Blog:Cloud Computing Disrupts Business Models: Fujitsu Reacts With A PaaS Strategy For ISVs

Forrester’s Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010 has quantified for the first time how enterprise demand is shifting from traditional licensing models to subscriptions and other licensing...

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Blog:Forrester's Cloud Computing Taxonomy

We just published a new report entitled "The Evolution Of Cloud Computing Markets". It recaps many of the cloud computing market observations from the last two years and categorizes the business...

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Blog:Platform-As-A-Service: Cloud Providers' Silver Bullet?

I’ve been writing about platform-as-a-service (PaaS) since the beginning of 2009, and we published our first Forrester Wave™ on the PaaS market about 18 months ago. While the lines...

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Blog:Nebula Is A Quantum Leap In Cloud Computing Industrialization (1/2)

Commoditization and economies of scale drive cloud computing. We've seen before what commoditization means to the IT industry: It stimulates standardization and consolidation to serve a volume...

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Tool:Middleware Vendors SWOT Analysis: Cordys, Q3 2010

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Blog:Forrester Introduces The Business Network Concept

We published the Business Network concept a month ago with this report: BUSINESS NETWORKS WILL PUSH THE CLOUD BEYOND IT It's now my pleasure to share the definition on my public blog above....

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Blog:Will T-Systems Be Competing With Amazon Soon?

With its latest public cloud offering, T-Systems not only comes close to Amazon’s EC2 pricing, it might even be cheaper than Amazon. The €4 billion, German headquartered IT services firm...

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Blog:FlexFrame Private Cloud Management For SAP – Revamped At Fujitsu Forum 2012

  Fujitsu’s annual Fujitsu Forum attracted about 13.000 in Tokyo and even about 10.000 people over the last two days in Munich. Fujitsu’s strength is still the competitive...

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Tool:Middleware Vendors SWOT Analysis: Progress Software, Q3 2010

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Tool:Middleware Vendors SWOT Analysis: Software AG, Q3 2010