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Report:Five Seismic Forces Reshuffle The Workforce Vendor Ecosystem

Landscape: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

2012 brought a tectonic shift in worker technology requirements. Many more employees now purchase their own devices, bring them to work, and use them to conduct personal and professional activities...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Seeding The Cloud Channel

Channel Partners' Plans And Needs For Business Model Transformation

As technologies and tech decision-makers' needs evolve at a livelier pace, channel professionals need to consider channel partners' perceptions and investment plans and develop their own game plan to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Waste Management Builds A True Private Cloud

Secrets To Success: Designed With The Customer And Inspired By Public Cloud

By building a private cloud the right way, Waste Management (WM) reduced resource deployment time from two and a half months to around 20 minutes and gave existing public cloud users a satisfactory...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Managed Service Providers, Part 2

Service Provider Market Dynamics Will Muddy The Channel Ecosystem

An inflection point has surfaced in the managed service provider (MSP) market. Tech vendors must awaken to the revolution that is swiftly taking shape in the ecosystem as cloud computing adoption...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SaaS Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific For 2013 And 2014

IT's Involvement And Support Are Poised To Grow Sharply

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption is rapidly going mainstream across more and more markets in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). But there's still a disconnect between business decision-makers' demand...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Five Trends Are Changing Records Management Technologies And Practices

What Enterprise Architects Need To Know About The Shift From Records Management To Information Governance

Despite two decades of electronic records management (RM) evolution, fewer than 10% of enterprises admit to high levels of confidence in their approach to the governance of digital information. The...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Capacity Management And Planning Tools In 2013

Reap The Agility And Financial Benefits From Emerging Infrastructure

The emergence of inexpensive server technology and cloud infrastructure has caused many IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to simply dismiss the need for accurate workload and...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The 15 Most Important Questions To Ask Your Cloud Identity And Access Management Provider

During the past three years, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions have become a viable and cost-effective alternative to on-premises, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

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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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Cloud Channel Trends, 2013 To 2014

A Critical Mass Of Channel Partners Are Embracing Cloud

Forrester recently surveyed channel partner company executives on their business model plans with respect to cloud computing. What we learned: After much gnashing of teeth (over marginalized...

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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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Realize Practical Application Performance Management

Application performance management (APM) is a natural evolution of infrastructure monitoring. As IT management evolves toward service management and ultimately to business technology, quality of...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

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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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Cloud Has Changed Channel Sourcing Dynamics For Software

Which Channels Are Customers Sourcing From?

In 2010, Forrester published a report on channel sweet spots to address how small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) source their software needs. Two years later, we're revisiting this topic to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Cloud Sourcing Models Dictate Sourcing Strategy

The Diversity Of Solutions Poses New Challenges For SVM Professionals

Anxious to take advantage of the rapid growth rates associated with cloud services, technology services vendors have developed a host of new solutions. These include pure infrastructure-as-a-service...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now Through 2018

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition

Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

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