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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Navigating The Microsoft Services Landscape

Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players

Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Outsourced Testing: Customers Get The Best Value When Vendors Think Outside Of The Box

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...

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Report:How The Adoption Of Several Important Emerging Technologies Affects Sourcing

Many sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals who Forrester speaks with know that they need to play a proactive role in sourcing emerging technologies but have difficulty identifying which...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Agile Systems Integrators: Plausible Or Paradoxical?

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Evolution Of Cloud Computing Markets

Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Your Ten-Step Program To Improve Requirements And Deliver Better Software

High-quality software requirements sit at the foundation of good software deliverables — those that meet business needs, satisfy customers, and fit into existing technology architectures. Yet...

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Report:How To Foster Software Innovation To Exploit The Economic Recovery

Best Practices In Software Innovation From Leading Software Developers

Software innovation plays an increasingly vital role in enterprise success as a key part of more and more products and services, whether on the Web, a phone, a desktop PC, a car, or in your home....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Market Overview: PLM Deployment Support

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Momentum: Enterprise Mobility Year In Review

Analysis Of Mobility Press Announcements Identify Key Vendor Opportunities

An analysis of publicly available enterprise mobility announcements between mid-2008 through mid-2009 highlight opportunities for vendors in the mobility ecosystem, including device manufacturers,...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: SAP Implementation Providers, Q3 2009

Accenture and IBM Lead As The Landscape Continues To Evolve

In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of SAP implementation providers, we found that Accenture and IBM led the pack because of the breadth and depth of their SAP implementation capabilities. Both of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Redesigning Your Applications Organization

Redesigning the applications organization is the next major target for IT restructuring and is particularly attractive when cost reduction is needed. Infrastructure organizations have already gone...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview Of Current Cloud Service Offerings From Global IT Providers

Compared to traditional enterprise IT services, a new family of services is emerging that are more standardized, scalable, and billed based on consumption. Known as cloud-based IT services, ,there...

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