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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 Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Offshoring In Latin America: Do Argentina, Brazil, And Mexico Offer Attractive Opportunities?

As companies continue to expand and diversify their global delivery models, they are increasingly evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of new geographies. This report examines three key geographic...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends

SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!

This report answers three questions about enterprise mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices: 1) what the major trends are regarding BYOD adoption; 2) how firms are managing their BYOD programs...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Unified Communications And Collaboration Is Poised For Growth As Demand Rises

Market Landscape: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

I&O professionals choosing unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions today face a daunting array of solution types, capabilities, and business models. This report outlines a...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Understand Oracle Better To Marshal Maximum Software Negotiation Leverage

Savvier Buyers Can Get A Better Deal From This Powerful Supplier

Welcome to Oracle "May-nia," the final month of Oracle's financial year during which Forrester estimates the company will sell around $4 billion in software. If you're one of the many sourcing and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The 15 Most Important Questions To Ask Your Cloud Identity And Access Management Provider

During the past three years, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions have become a viable and cost-effective alternative to on-premises, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or...

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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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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Understand The State Of Network Security: 2012 To 2013

Benchmarks: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Throughout the year, Forrester analysts engage in hundreds of discussions with vendors and end users about security architecture and operations. Analysis of B2B survey data from Forrester's...

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Report:Africa's ICT Forecast Looks Increasingly Cloudy

Understanding The Cloud Computing Opportunities In Africa

After years of stagnant enterprise spending on information and communications technology (ICT), Africa is gearing up for a new period of growth. As political stability across the continent gradually...

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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 Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:It's Time To Reinvent Your PC Sourcing Strategy

For too many organizations, the accumulating piles of decaying PCs and spare parts are becoming intolerable, and it's time for a refresh. While some of your PCs may have survived the recession of...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:I&O Leaders: Engage Employees For Successful Tablet And Mobile App Adoption In 2013

Forrester data continues to show employee demand for business ready smartphones, tablets, and mobile applications. This presentation walks you through our data and provides insight into how your...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...

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For CIO Professionals

Survey:Forrsights Hardware Survey Q3 2012

A quick look into the survey: This forward-looking market research study about IT technology details PCs and systems management, servers and data centers, X86 server virtualization, and dives deeply...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Building The Business Case For A Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Program

Business Case: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's guidance for developing a business case to justify a BYOD program to support your workforce computing strategy. Supporting the growing number and increasing diversity...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: CRM Suites For Midsize Organizations, Q3 2012

The 18 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

During the past five years, the customer relationship management (CRM) solutions market has experienced considerable growth and turmoil, including significant vendor consolidation and a rapid rise in...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Agile Efficacy To Improve Customer Value

Future Look: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs discover Agile and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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Report:2013 CIO Budget Priorities

Some Growth, Some Alignment, But More Business Visibility Is Needed

Budgets represent more than a spending schedule for CIOs. They also are an essential tool for creating collaboration with business leaders regarding tech-related business priorities, as well as a...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2012

Continuation Of Old Trends And A Few Disruptions

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2012. Looking at...

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Survey:Forrsights Software Survey Q4 2012

Forrester's Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2012, was fielded to 2,444 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from small and medium-size...

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Predictions 2013: Enterprise Telecom And Mobility Challenges And Opportunities

Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow

Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

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Report:Big Data Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific: 2013 To 2014

The maturity and sophistication of existing data warehousing (DW) implementations across the Asia Pacific (AP) region has been variable, to say the least. If the hype around big data is to be...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Managing Information Security In BYOT Environments In Asia Pacific

I&O Professionals Need The Right Policies, Technologies, And Skills To Secure Enterprise Data

Employees are rapidly embracing personal devices, consumer software, and public cloud services for work to increase personal productivity and efficiency, a trend that Forrester refers to as...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Understand Security And Risk Budgeting For 2013

Benchmarks: The S&R Practice Playbook

The global downturn has constrained security budgets for several years now, and chief information security officers (CISOs) have become accustomed to taking on more responsibilities without...

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