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Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Customer Data Management

Vision: The Customer Data Management Playbook

Customer data is the lifeblood of the contemporary enterprise. It's used in virtually every function of the business, including product research, design, and development; advertising and marketing...

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Report:New Dynamics Shape IT Services Spending

Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months

The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

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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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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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Report:IT Industry Disruptions Fuel Renewed Asia Pacific Market Growth

Forrester's 2013 Predictions For Asia Pacific

2013 will be a transformative year for IT adoption in Asia Pacific (AP); multiple IT trends will converge to drive industry disruptions and help spur renewed growth in IT spending. Overall, we...

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Report:Forrsights: Winning Software Strategies

Unveiling The Software Strategies Of Top-Performing Companies

During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 2,438 software decision-makers across Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US to determine their spending priorities around software. To...

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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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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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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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Report:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

Complement Your RDBMS-Based BI With More Agile DBMS Technologies

We know how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and flexibility challenges now represent BI's...

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Report:Five Prevailing Trends In ERP

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2010; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe,...

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Report:The State Of Business Intelligence Software And Emerging Trends: 2010

BI Vendors Need To Stay On Top Of Technology Innovation And Business Evolution

While the whole IT market is facing challenging economic times, the global software market declined by 8% in 2009 compared with the previous year. Business intelligence (BI) software, which can...

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Report:Latest BI Adoption Trends -- Still Ripe In Opportunities Across Regions, Company Sizes, And Industries

This set of data charts examines BI adoption trends from Forrester's recent Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008.

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: Predictive Analytics In The Financial Services Sector

How IBM Helps Banks And Insurers Get The Business They Really Want

Banks and insurers do a great job acquiring customers, but they fall down when it comes to cross- and upselling other services. Few financial services institutions even know if the customers they...

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Report:Collaboration And Web 2.0 Technology Adoption, Q4 2008

Firms report on their adoption and implementation of collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies.

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