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Benchmarks: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
In 2012, Forrester surveyed channel professionals to get a pulse on the progress vendors are making toward successfully building channel partner loyalty programs. The results show that the majority...

Understanding Who Chooses And Who Pays For Devices That Span Business And Personal Tasks
The spreading bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has created a more complex landscape of tech buying. But traditional divisions between consumer tech purchases and business tech purchases still...
Forrester's 2012 Tech Industry Predictions
2012 is the year that the performance of emerging markets will be crucial to the growth prospects of the global technology industry. In particular, the top tier of the emerging markets — which...
Tablets ascend to the executive agenda this year as enterprise organizations hear the chorus of calls from the C-level suites — and the demand for tablets will only grow throughout 2011. As...
You Can No Longer Manage A Complex BCM Program With Simple Office Tools
During 2010 and the early part of 2011, we witnessed a multitude of disruptive natural disasters and extreme weather events, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and blizzards. We also...
An Empowered Report
A growing number of workers own personal smartphones that they might want to use for work. However, IT support costs and security implications for personal mobile devices connected to the corporate...
Empower Workers With The Freedom To Choose Their Preferred Mobile Devices
Within the next 12 to 18 months, most IT managers worldwide will significantly alter their client computing strategies, and this will have a profound impact on smartphone adoption and management....
Use Forrester's Mobile POST Method To Create A Mobile Development Plan
Developing mobile applications used to be an arcane activity pursued by highly specialized developers, but no more. The surge in popularity of Android devices, BlackBerries, and iPhones has...
Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind
Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...
Amid the ups and downs of the global economy, the interest in innovation among senior business leadership has only increased. Most CEOs recognize that in a business environment characterized by...