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Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. Our analysis of these deals by region reveals that growth ranged widely — from slight shrinkage to...
The 2012 Survey Indicates Tighter Competition
In early 2012, Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals. Survey results indicate a consolidating market: Counted deal volume for firms included in the...

Demand Centers And Functional Heterogeneity Make Selection More Difficult
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Core banking and channels continue as important factors in many regions. Beyond that, regional functional...
Some Banking Platform Vendors Mastered The 2009 Storm Smoothly
Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Considering participants of both the 2009 and 2010 surveys, deal volume of the top 10 vendors increased by...
Agility Will Shape Business Intelligence For The Next Decade
Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...
Outsourced testing is here to stay — but the situation is changing. In previous years, the decision to outsource testing was primarily cost driven; however, the decision to outsource today must...
As enterprise firms restructure through mergers and acquisitions and expand their global presence, they face huge IT and master data synchronization costs in supporting multiple legacy and disparate...
A Cold Breeze And Only One Hot Region Characterize The 2009 Market
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. The regional analysis shows that Asia Pacific has been the single highly active region. Most of the remaining...
Mixing Agile Methods And Systems Integrators Requires An Artful Approach
Agile methods have become popular because, on average, they produce better outcomes. Agile's focus on learning by execution and a condensed set of engineering practices increases the cadence of...
2009 Was Not The Best Of All Times
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. Considering participants of both the 2008 and 2009 surveys, deal volume shrunk by 18% from 2008 to 2009....
Today, databases and related infrastructure have grown to become a significant part of most IT budgets, and continued growth in the volume of data and the number of database applications threatens to...
IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With Microsoft And Red Hat Close Behind
In Forrester's 123-criteria evaluation of information-as-a-service (IaaS) — also known as data services — vendors, we found that IBM, Informatica, Composite Software, and Denodo...
New Offerings From Vendors And Service Providers Lower Implementation Hurdles
As companies pursue a more ambitious agenda for product life-cycle management (PLM), the complexity of their application deployments is on the rise, creating a host of new integration, data...
Semantic Technology Is Now Ready For Increased But Focused Use
Semantic technology has been incubating for the past 10 years, but most application development professionals view it with skepticism or outright distrust, believing that the dream of semantic...