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Report:The Forrester Wave™: North American Workplace Services, Q2 2013

Evaluating Leading Providers Amidst A Category Redefinition

Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

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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 Intelligence Services Providers, Q4 2012

The 12 Market Leaders That Deserve To Be On Most Shortlists

In the past few years, the business intelligence (BI) services market has evolved significantly: advisory and management consulting firms have beefed up their implementation capabilities, while...

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Report:Navigate The SaaS Implementation Partner Landscape

SI Overview For Salesforce.com, Workday, Google, And Other SaaS Integration Options

Organizations use software-as-a-service (SaaS) across more and more areas of their enterprise applications landscape — from customer relationship management (CRM) to human capital management...

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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:Cloud Strategies Of The Leading Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Providers

During the past two years, the initial exploratory interest by enterprise customers in cloud services has shifted toward more aggressive implementation plans, and the strategies of the global IT...

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Report:Global Transformation Service Firms For Off-The-Shelf Banking Platforms

A Tool For Initial Steps Toward Selection Of A Transformation Service Firm

Forrester surveyed six global transformation service firms with focused offerings in the off-the-shelf banking platform space. Their transformation service offerings are broad and rich, covering many...

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Report:Service Providers For Banking Platform Transformation

Being A Systems Integrator Is No Longer Enough

Many banks struggle to find the right systems integrator (SI) or service partner to support their banking platform transformation initiative. Forrester talked with six vendors providing...

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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:Clients And Vendors Weigh In On The Future Of Offshore Outsourcing

Looking To 2011 And Beyond, Both Focus On Increasing Business Alignment

The offshore outsourcing trend and practice is due for transformation. The proliferation of "as-a-service" offerings and trends related to mobility, social tools, and sustainability make demands for...

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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:Trends 2011 And Beyond: Business Intelligence

Agility Will Shape Business Intelligence For The Next Decade

Forrester continues to see ever-increasing levels of interest in and adoption of business intelligence (BI) platforms, applications, and processes. But while BI maturity in enterprises continues to...

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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:The Forrester Wave™: Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2011

IBM Leads A Closely Packed Group Of Suppliers

In Forrester's 36-criteria evaluation of global IT infrastructure management vendors, we found that IBM leads a closely packed group of leaders including HCL, Capgemini, Wipro, Infosys, TCS,...

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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:Portrait Of A Government Information Worker

Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration

North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...

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Report:2010 To 2012 Global Tech Industry Outlook

2011 Looks Like 2010, But With Software Leading Instead Of Hardware

2010 is ending with debt worries and questions about the future of the euro in Europe, doubts about the strength of the US recovery, and worries about overheated economies and higher inflation in...

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