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Report:Services-Led Solutions Reshape The Security Market

Redefining Your Competition, Partners, And Value Proposition When Everyone's A Security Vendor

The IT security market is about to undergo a significant transformation toward becoming a services-led market. Several disruptive trends are overwhelming end user IT security practices, and the...

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Report:Sizing The Cloud

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing

Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...

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Report:US Tech Market Outlook: Q1 2011

Building A Springboard In 2011 For Even Stronger Growth In 2012

While overall US tech market growth of 8.0% in 2011 will be a bit slower than the 8.9% growth in 2010, this year will still be a bright year for tech vendors. Yet, based on their own revenue...

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Report:2010 To 2012 Global Tech Industry Outlook

2011 Looks Like 2010, But With Software Leading Instead Of Hardware

2010 is ending with debt worries and questions about the future of the euro in Europe, doubts about the strength of the US recovery, and worries about overheated economies and higher inflation in...

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Report:US Tech Industry Outlook For 2011

Insurance Transformation Exposes Key Opportunities For Technology Vendors

The US insurance industry represents 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues in 2009, but even with that big number, premium growth has been declining for...

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Report:Getting Clever About Smart Cities: New Opportunities Require New Business Models

Population growth and urbanization are stretching many cities' infrastructure and resources to breaking point. Policymakers and public leaders are increasingly looking to ICT solutions to effectively...

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Report:Security And The Cloud

Looking At The Opportunity Beyond The Obstacle

Concerns about security are the most prominent reasons that organizations cite for not adopting cloud services. Therefore, creating more comprehensive security capabilities is a prerequisite for...

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Report:US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q3 2010

We Forecast Slower But Still-Robust 7% To 8% Growth

US economic growth is falling short of our already modest expectations and will expand at a snail's pace of less than 2.5% for real GDP in 2010 (avoiding a double-dip recession. As a result, we have...

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Report:Capitalizing On The Sustainability Consulting Services Opportunity

A $9.6 Billion Market In 2015 — Service Providers Helping Clients Tackle The Next Driver Of Business Innovation And Growth

Sustainability is emerging as the next driver of business innovation and growth for many companies, driven by rising regulatory and customer pressures, the need to enhance their brands, and...

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Report:ANZ CIOs Should Experiment With The Cloud In 2010

Cloud computing is coming to your organization — if it is not there already. However, most IT organizations in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) do not have a full understanding of the impact...

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Report:The Coming Upheaval In Tech Services

Four Economic And Technology Factors Will Combine To Recast The Business

The tech services market is about to undergo a massive transformation that will call traditional provider business models into question. Four factors will combine to dramatically change the dynamics,...

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Report:US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q2 2010

Despite Financial Market Jitters, 8% 2010 Global ICT Market Growth Is On Track

Financial markets in Q2 2010 have been shaken by fears that the Greek debt crisis will metastasize across the European Union (EU) and beyond. Nevertheless, Q1 demand data was strong; we continue to...

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Report:Case Study: Dimdim Enters The Web Conferencing Market With Smart Product Design And Marketing

Dimdim Points To How Small SaaS Firms Can Thrive In Crowded Markets

Interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) is heating up; 55% of firms tell us they are deploying the technology, will be deploying it in the next year or so, or are interested in it. In response,...

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Report:EMEA IT Outsourcing Deals: 2009 Review

Despite A Rocky 2009, Outsourcers Are Poised For Growth In 2010

In 2009, we recorded 409 outsourcing deals in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (EMEA). This represents a 20% increase on the number recorded in 2008. However, at the same time, we find that total...

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Report:Market Momentum: IT Services And Outsourcing Market, H2 2009

The Market Sees Convergence Driven By Nontraditional Services Players

The global market for IT services and outsourcing is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. While overall services revenues for 2009 are set to decline, the vendor landscape has already...

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Report:US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q1 2010

The Tech Market Recovery Has Begun

The tech recovery has started in the US and around the world. Q4 2009 IT market indicators showed an end to declines, setting the stage for stronger growth in 2010. The US IT market is set to grow by...

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Report:Market Overview: Virtual Event Platforms For B2B Marketers

Avoid The Pitfalls Of Early Adopters By Choosing The Right Platform And Services

Tech marketers are beginning to embrace virtual events as a way of reaching diverse audiences to meet a wide range of objectives — from brand awareness and demand generation to customer...

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Report:London 2012: Athletes And New Services Will Push Boundaries, Not The Underlying Technologies

In the first of our series of reports on the information and communications technology (ICT) behind the London 2012 Olympic Games, we looked at the six lessons that vendor strategists can draw from...

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Report:Market Momentum: Corporate Strategy Services Market, H2 2009

Demand For Business Intelligence, Performance, And Risk Management As Well As Sustainability Consulting Is Driving New Services

In H2 2009, we found fewer merger and acquisition (M&A) as well as partnership activities among the core providers of the corporate strategy services market. While providers continued to...

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Report:The State Of SMB IT Security And Emerging Trends: 2009 To 2010

Business Data Services North America And Europe

Security spending for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) has been faring relatively well through the economic downturn, and budgets appear to be strengthening, most notably in the area of new...

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Report:As IaaS Cloud Adoption Goes Global, Tech Vendors Must Address Local Concerns

Infrastructure-As-A-Service Clouds Are Local, And So Are Their Implications

Despite the buzz about cloud computing, global adoption rates for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) remain anemic. However, a look at regional differences in adoption and local concerns reveals that...

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Report:US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q4 2009

The Tech Downturn Is Over — Let The Growth Games Begin

The tech downturn of 2008 to 2009 is unofficially over. While the Q3 2009 data for the US and the global market showed continued declines in tech purchases (as we expected), we predict that the Q4...

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Report:Predictions 2010: What's In Store For Serious Games And B2B Virtual Worlds?

Firms Continue To Experiment As Vendors Seek Profitable Business Models

serious games and virtual worlds won't turn the corner on business adoption

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Report:APEJ IT Services Competitive Report: "Survival Of The Fittest"

This report focuses on the competitive dynamics of IT services by geography in order to enable vendor strategists to better understand the market dynamics inherent in each Asia Pacific region...

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Report:The State Of Emerging Enterprise Hardware: 2009 To 2010

Business Data Services North America And Europe

This report provides sample highlights of an extensive data set collected across North American and European enterprises via our Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2009....

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