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Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism

What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

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Report:Answer Five Questions When Selecting A Cloud Collaboration And Productivity Suite

A Buyer's Guide For Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps For Business, And IBM SmartCloud For Social Business

Over the past two years, Forrester clients have shown great interest in the cloud collaboration and productivity suites Microsoft, Google, and IBM offer: We've fielded more than 150 inquiries on this...

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Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

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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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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:Predictions For 2013: Cloud Computing

We'll Finally Get Real About Cloud

As we start the new year, there is one clear takeaway regarding the cloud computing market: Enterprise use has arrived. Cloud use is no longer solely hiding in the shadows; IT departments are no...

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Report:The Rise Of The New Cloud Admin

And No, It's Not Your Virtualization Manager

Nearly half of all enterprise IT shops claim to be prioritizing private cloud investments in 2013, but both in the largest enterprises and those firms that are most aggressively investing in public...

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Report:Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey Results

This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey.  The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

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Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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Report:Don't Move Your Apps To The Cloud

Use The Cloud To Transform Them Instead

It has become conventional wisdom that leveraging cloud services will save you money. But that isn't universally true. To achieve these benefits, especially from cloud platforms...

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Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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Report:Write An Effective Cloud Use Policy

Encourage Cloud Consumption The Right Way

You know your company is using cloud services; our Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2011 shows that the average enterprise has between four and 12 software-as-a-service (SaaS) services in use already,...

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Report:A Sample Cloud Use Policy

A Cloud Playbook Template For Effectively Communicating Use

This cloud computing playbook toolkit item contains a sample cloud computing policy document that can be used by CIOs as a basis for crafting an effective policy around the use of cloud computing...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012

In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of the cloud strategies of online collaboration software vendors, we identified eight significant collaboration services providers — Box, Cisco Systems,...

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Report:Multiple PaaS Flavors Hit The Enterprise

Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...

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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:Prepare For The Connected Enterprise Now

Insights From The Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2012

The connected enterprise is becoming a reality. Businesses require access to the best market information regarding customer demand, supplier options, transport and logistics, and sales patterns. They...

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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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Report:Understand The True Cost Of Cloud Services

Budgeting And Planning: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Forrsights surveys show that enterprises are turning to the cloud for speed and lower cost — but are the savings really there? The answer isn't always obvious; it might be that your internal...

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Report:Cloud Brokers Become Change Agents

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity

The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

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Report:Develop Cloud Metrics Using The Balanced Scorecard

Performance Management: The Cloud Computing Playbook

This report outlines the performance management of Forrester's solution for CIOs working on developing effective objectives and metrics for their organization's cloud strategy. Crafting and measuring...

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Report:Make The Cloud Enterprise Ready

In 2008, Forrester examined whether cloud computing was ready for the enterprise. In 2012, the answer is a definitive yes, but many enterprises aren't ready for the cloud. This report outlines the...

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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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