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Insights From The Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2012
The connected enterprise is becoming a reality. Businesses require access to the best market information regarding customer demand, supplier options, transport and logistics, and sales patterns. They...

Who are the leading VNOC providers? Are there any factors distinguishing these leaders? Can you explain the VNOC industry? Can you touch on VNOC maturity, adoption, benefits, and drawbacks? What...
Adobe, Cisco, IBM, And Microsoft Lead In The Web Meeting Scenario
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of Web conferencing vendors, we found that traditional vendors Adobe, Cisco, IBM Sametime, and Microsoft's two offerings led the pack because of their breadth...

The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong
The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...
Smart Full-Service Firms Will Use The Web To Connect Advisors And Clients
Forrester's data shows that more than one in four affluent US investors express interest in online collaborative advice tools such as co-browsing. In fact, the largest segment of affluent investors...
Why The Validation Process Is Critical To Product Strategy Success
"Ideate" is the first stage in the product development cycle; it's a time when product strategists gather ideas for new and innovative products and services. Before moving on to subsequent phases,...

An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees
Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...
From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes
Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

Pay Close Attention To Vendor Offers Regarding Integration And Interoperability
We're seeing the growing interest of large European enterprises in IP video along with unified communications (UC). In conversations with Forrester, several European IT clients said that video...
Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

SMBs Exhibit A Broad Adoption Profile, But Growth Is Being Stunted By The Credit Crunch
For most software categories, tech marketers once considered the small to medium-size business (SMB) market to be "software non grata." Their assumption was that most SMBs supported their operations...

First-generation enterprise search was not easy to use and produced unsatisfactory results from a usability and relevance standpoint. Today's knowledge workers demand role-specific, contextual search...
Forrester's Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2011, was fielded to 9,912 technology end users located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia,...
An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track
Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...
A challenging trend for enterprise architecture teams is extending their influence across the enterprise, and a prerequisite for achieving this influence is a deep understanding of "what's going on...
Traditional process improvement initiatives often resemble top-down social engineering, in which management identifies re-engineering opportunities, processes undergo changes and automation by...