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Report:Best Practices: Implementing OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Finds Success When Fit To Purpose And Focused On People

A decade ago, OpenOffice.org promised a free and accessible productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office. By enterprise market share standards it's far from the success once envisioned. But for...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Simplify Cybersecurity With PCI

Policy And Procedures US Government Spotlight: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

US federal law, specifically the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), requires US federal government agencies to adhere to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Appliance Market Dynamics, 2013 To 2017

Understanding of and interest in appliances is surging in China as organizations there struggle to manage massive growth while simultaneously using traditional infrastructure and platforms to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Innovation: US Federal Government

Technology Trends That Will Change The Way Government Operates

The US government, with its almost $80 billion annual IT budget, is one of the largest consumers of IT goods and services in the world. It is therefore not surprising that the same technological...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part One: Solution Deployments

ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice

Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Industry-Specific Master Data Management Trends

This set of data charts, taken from the November 2010 Global master Data Management Online Survey, analyzes data from 134 MDM-savvy IT professionals in five distinct industries-- healthcare; the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Schools Move Beyond The Basics: Competition Will Drive Technology Into The Education Market

Tech vendor strategists are attracted by the "edu" opportunity — a large and fast-growing user base and increasing reliance upon technology by governments, educators, parents, and students. But...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Balancing Custom And Packaged Apps In Your Application Portfolio Strategy

Conventional wisdom suggests buying before building software. However, as an increasing proportion of product and service value is digital — think of a naval vessel's operation system (Windows...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Open Data Changes The Business Of Government

Open Data Pioneers Offer Lessons For Launching Initiatives

Data has become quite the buzzword lately, with everyone looking to mine their big data for customer insights, operational efficiencies, and business performance improvement. Governments are no...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Social CIO

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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Report:What India's 12th National Five-Year Plan Means For ICT Vendors

Aligning Strategies With Key Government Priorities Is The Key To Success

The Indian public sector is an extremely difficult market for IT vendors due to its extended business cycles and high levels of diversity, hypercompetition, bureaucracy, and procurement complexity....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Opportunities In Education's Global Expansion

Tap Global Enterprise Experience and Local Expertise

In recent years, "study abroad" has taken on a whole new meaning — on brand new campuses. Many universities have established satellite campuses in host countries across the globe. These...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Self-Diagnostic Tool

For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Computing Connects CIOs With The Business

Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems

It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

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Report:Case Study: The UK Department For Education's Information Workplace Platform

Faced with the need to improve information management and deliver better government services in an era of reduced budgets, the UK's Department for Education (DfE) created an Information Workplace...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Asian Urbanization Creates Opportunities For ICT Suppliers

With increasing urbanization, Asian cities will undergo rapid transformation, creating opportunities for vendors that align themselves with city-level objectives. City opportunities are growing...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Not Business As Usual: ICT Opportunities In The Government Sector

The news about governments is often dire: Economic crises, austerity budgets, crises of constituent confidence, protests, riots, and war often make the headlines. However, in spite of (or perhaps...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:What CEOs Of Small Software Companies Need To Do In 2011

How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market

The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Portrait Of A Government Information Worker

Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration

North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:The Federal CIO's 25-Point Plan To Reform Federal IT