Forrester

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks

Jeffrey S. Hammond and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. One Microsoft platform era is ending, and another is beginning. The .NET era as...

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...

• Downloads: 568
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:The Future Of Digital Customer Experience Is More Than Mobile

Stephen Powers and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook to advise application...

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...

• Downloads: 161

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:Application Server Platforms: How Do Open Source Solutions Compare With The Big Players?

I'm looking for information on the latest application server platform software. We would like to compare some of the open source options with the big players such as WebSphere.

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Decision Time: Is SharePoint In The Cloud For You?

Early Adopters Outline The Promise And Prerequisites For Success

The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over. Microsoft's commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is evident in its massive data-center investments, its...

• Downloads: 666
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Application Development In The Cloud: Let’s Go Deep

  Developers are driving cloud computing in new directions and toward deeper enterprise adoption. We see a new pragmatism in our research: Developers favoring collections of cloud-based...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Playbook: Achieve Cloud Economics For Operations And Services

Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for its use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted cloud services in an ad hoc...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Is Forrester's Assessment Of The API Business Development And Landscape?

How are companies such as MasterCard International and Visa providing APIs to their services? Also, what is your assessment of the API business landscape? What is the market sizing? Who is playing?...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:How Cloud Computing Will Change Application Platforms

Cloud computing will bring demand for elastic application platforms. Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down)...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Business Rules Platforms

Customers Are Moving To Event And Decision Management

Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...

• Downloads: 791

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Here Comes The Open Web – Embrace It

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:An Object Lesson In BT

Forrester has long advocated adoption of a “business technology” approach to replace traditional IT. “BT” recognizes the fundamental role information technology plays in...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Java

Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model

Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...

• Downloads: 1321

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Forrester's PaaS Wave: Salesforce & Microsoft Lead, But The Race Is Far From Over

In Forrester's 149-criteria evaluation of 10 platform-as-a-service (PaaS) vendors, we found that Microsoft and salesforce.com led the pack because of their comprehensive features for application...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Cloud Computing Brings Demand For Elastic Application Platforms

EAPs Ease Delivery Of Elastic Apps, Smoothing A Path To Cloud's Benefits

Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down) oversimplify what it takes to develop application architectures to...

• Downloads: 1176

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:The Business Architect Cometh

[Forrester Principal Analyst Alexander Peters, PhD. and I collaborated on this research.] You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. A...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Embracing The Open Web: Web Technologies You Need To Engage Your Customers, And Much More

The open Web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open Web also includes...

• Downloads: 1079
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:Office 365: Version Two Of SharePoint In The Cloud

There's an old adage that says it takes Microsoft three times to get it right. Its commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is clearly evident in its investment in data centers, a costly retrofitting of...

• Downloads: 661
• Comments: 7
• Rating:

For CIO Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

• Downloads: 1375
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:New Productivity Platforms: Our Interactive Vendor Profiles

A Companion Tool For The New Productivity Platforms

A wide range of vendors offer new productivity platforms, and they rely on several major strategies to speed development, deployment, and evolution of applications. Some of these platforms are best...

• Downloads: 28

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Unify The Digital Experience Across Touchpoints

Vision: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, goggles...

• Downloads: 1022
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Why I'm Worried About Java's Future

Java's future is on my mind lately. Oracle's new ownership of Java prompts a series of "what will Larry do" questions. But more to the point, the research Mike Gualtieri and I have been doing...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Understanding Cloud's Multitenancy

Architectures To Balance Economies Of Scale And Security

True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same applications and/or compute resources. It is through multitenant...

• Downloads: 874
• Comments: 1
• Rating:

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:Understanding Cloud's Multitenancy

Forrester’s James Staten and I collaborated on this research. True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same...