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Report:Market Overview: Digital Experience Service Providers

Turn The Odd Couple Into The Power Couple

Selecting a digital experience service provider is a complex and stressful task. In many cases, marketing teams select the service providers and oversee product selection, leaving IT to support and...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013

Analysis Of 13 Global Leaders' Capabilities And How They Stack Up

Enterprise mobility is booming; organizations must connect with employees, customers, and partners in new ways and across new devices and applications. But many organizations don't know how to move...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: IT Organization Redesign Consultancies, Q4 2012

New technologies, service offerings, business changes, and other factors are driving CIOs to change the structure, processes, governance, and culture of IT organizations. However, redesigns are an...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Technology Transformation, Q3 2012

The Majority Of The Vendors Are Leaders In This Emerging Market

Today, business transformation is often about technology transformation. At the very least, business transformation is always technology-enabled, so what sort of consultants can best help clients...

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Report:Market Overview: Mobility Services

Fast-Growing Market Gives Buyers Lots Of Choices But Also Tradeoffs

The emerging mobility services market creates choices for buyers. Leading organizations are scrambling to create mobile experiences for employees, partners, and customers — both applications...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Oracle Services Providers, Q2 2011

How To Sift Through A Crowded Field Led By Accenture, IBM, And Infosys

Forrester evaluated 14 leading global services providers in the Oracle applications market to assess strengths, weakness, and differences in strategy. This report will help Oracle application buyers...

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Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2010: Regions

Some Like It Hot

Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Four regions — Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America — saw average to very strong...

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Report:The SaaS Market Hits Mainstream: Adoption Highlights 2011

Forrester recently surveyed more than 1,000 firms across North America and Europe to better understand software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption and the business drivers for SaaS usage. We found that...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: SAP Services Providers, Q2 2011

Market Consolidation Continues; New Delivery And Pricing Models Prevail

The past two years have seen significant change in the SAP services market: acquisition and consolidation have run rampant, and new delivery models have changed the game for buyers and providers...

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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:Market Overview: European IT Infrastructure Outsourcing

Several forces are slowly transforming the stable but growing market for IT infrastructure services in Europe, including the rising profile of offshore suppliers, maturing global delivery,...

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Report:Market Overview: North American IT Infrastructure Outsourcing

IT infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) customers in North America enjoy a growing range of alternatives for services, encompassing a variety of categories including traditional outsourcers,...

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Report:Understanding The Diversity In Offshore Infrastructure Management Services

The current trend toward shorter, asset-light deals allows offshore providers to compete with the global majors on a more equal footing for all but the largest infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) deals....

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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:The Forrester Wave™: EMEA Applications Outsourcing, Q4 2010

In Forrester's 50-criteria evaluation of 15 leading providers of applications outsourcing (AO) solution vendors, Forrester found that in this maturing market, Accenture and IBM lead the pack, with a...

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Report:China Healthcare Environment And IT Opportunity

This report provides a comprehensive background of the healthcare dynamics in China in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully. The report discusses the...

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Report:Pros And Cons Of Future IT Models

Several new IT models are emerging from the experiments by IT shops and the innovative thinking of management consulting firms. These models attempt to overcome the silos both within IT and between...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The x86 Server Grows Up And Out

New Modular Servers, Converged Fabrics, And Virtualization Will Reshape Your x86 Infrastructure

From their origins as "PCs with the display cut off," x86 servers have undergone a steady evolution in capabilities and performance, driven by a combination of semiconductor technology and system...

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Report:Market Overview: The Portal Server Market In 2010

Options Shrink, Alternatives Grow, Complexity Remains

Portal server products gained a bad reputation in the first round of large-scale (and frequently unsuccessful) implementations. Yet it's no wonder that firms continue to invest in portal servers: The...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: North American Applications Outsourcing, Q3 2010

IBM And Accenture Lead A Highly Competitive Field In A Mature Industry

In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of 12 leading providers of applications outsourcing (AO) solutions vendors, Forrester found that in this mature market IBM and Accenture lead the pack due to...

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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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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:Asia Pacific Managed Telecom Services Market, 2009 To 2013

Given the rapid development in business activity across the region, Asia Pacific has been recognized in terms of managed telecom services (MTS) adoption. As multinational organizations explore this...

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Report:Enterprise Social Networking 2010 Market Overview

2010 will be a defining year for enterprise Web 2.0. With IBM Lotus and Microsoft attempting to extend dominant positions in collaboration and messaging to social software, a very broad and rich...

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Report:Application Outsourcing Clients Are Satisfied, But Want More

As part of an upcoming report, "The Forrester Wave™: North American Applications Outsourcing, Q3 2010," Forrester Research interviewed 54 reference clients about their experiences and...

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