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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:European Information And Communications Technology Market 2012 To 2013

Spending Growth Comes To A Halt As Europe Slides Into Recession

Overview of the European ICT Market

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Tech Market Outlook: 2012 To 2013

The Big Dragon's IT Spending Will Slow Down In 2012

The European debt crisis has gradually begun to affect China, slowing economic growth in the country in the first half of 2012. To reflect this, we've revised our China tech market forecast and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2012 To 2013

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases

Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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