Forrester

For CIO Professionals

Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

• Downloads: 360
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Master The Mobile Banking Imperative

The Mobile Banking Imperative

This report, written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, is also relevant to CIOs and other IT leaders. CIOs at every bank face major changes as consumers move their banking activities...

• Downloads: 60

For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Engagement Demands Process Transformation

Processes: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

To take advantage of an app in an employee's or customer's pocket, you have to help them accomplish a task quickly and easily whenever they want to and wherever they are. That means CIOs and business...

• Downloads: 354
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

• Downloads: 163
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer

Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology

After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

• Downloads: 129
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Computing: It's All About The Ecosystem

Competition Shifts From Devices To Ecosystems

CIOs might interpret the recent flood of mobile device product announcements, highlighted by the September 12 unveiling of Apple's iPhone 5, as competing vendors fomenting demand for the holiday...

• Downloads: 359
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Mastering The Business Tablet Landscape

Landscape: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Tablets are the darlings of hypermobile employees who want to be always connected and productive. They are the newest player in the mobile landscape and are even starting to be a viable alternative...

• Downloads: 571

For CIO Professionals

Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

• Downloads: 543
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

• Downloads: 190
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

• Downloads: 128
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Tool:Convenience And Utility Score The Mobile Engagement Value

For CIO Professionals

Report:Build A Mobile Engagement Dashboard

Performance Management: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile will touch and change everything in your business — from the way your sales reps use catalogs on iPads to engage customers at the point of sale to the way your finance team empowers your...

• Downloads: 108

For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

• Downloads: 662
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

• Downloads: 249

For CIO Professionals

Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

• Downloads: 386
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Great Mobile Experiences Are Built On Systems Of Engagement

Vision: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT...

• Downloads: 594
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

CIOs have a deep responsibility to lead their company's journey to a world where billions of customers, partners, and employees wield touchscreen mobile devices. CIOs will need to expand their...

• Downloads: 498
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Seven Mobile Engagement Pitfalls To Avoid

And Seven Mobile-First Alternatives That Are Better

Great mobile experiences are built on systems of engagement, and that means spending money on new engagement technology. Mobile apps have the thorny problem of needing to work spectacularly and...

• Downloads: 319