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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Platform-As-A-Service For Vendor Strategy Professionals, Q2 2011

Identifying The Best Partner Choices For ISVs And Service Providers

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings represent a critical space within the broader cloud ecosystem, as they provide the linkage between application platforms and underlying cloud infrastructures....

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Blog:Create Your Transformation Strategy For Digital Experience Delivery

  Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook (warning: pay wall) to advise application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders on...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide An Overview Of .NET Platform Adoption?

Is .NET a widely adopted platform in the financial/insurance industry, and what is the decreased time-to-market as a result of the adoption? Additionally, how is vendor package support for .NET, and...

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Report:The Business Architect Cometh

Embrace This New Role To Drive Business Technology Transformation

You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. This emerging role will be vital in leading business transformation, including your own improvements...

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Blog:The New Productivity Platforms: Your Solution To The AD&D Crunch

For fast delivery of new business applications, conventional Java and .NET coding is usually no longer your best choice. Instead, a generation of new productivity platforms holds the potential to...

For CIO Professionals

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:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong

The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...

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Blog:The Future Of Java

Java’s future 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...

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Report:The Standalone Business Rules Platform Market Segment Should Be Growing Faster

Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms In 2013

The market for business rules technologies is healthy, but the standalone platform segment is growing more slowly than it should. Most enterprises should use standalone business rules platforms to...

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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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Blog:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Rob Koplowitz and I collaborated on this research. Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research uses data from Forrester’s August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey...

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Blog:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

I prepared this research with Rob Koplowitz. The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on Microsoft SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and...

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Blog:Business Rules Platforms 2011: 3 Vendors Have Strongest Positions

After two years of vendor consolidation, which are the best business rules platforms for application development and delivery professionals to consider? In our judgment, based on growth rates, market...

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Blog:App Development Managers Should Care About Oracle’s Suit Against Google

As much fun as the juicy details of the Oracle-Google lawsuit are, the meaning of the suit for enterprise application development managers is, well, philosophical. Aside from sweating over the legal...

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Report:The New Productivity Platforms: Your Solution To The AD&D Crunch

Promise And Pitfalls On The Road To Faster Application Delivery

For fast delivery of new business applications, conventional Java and .NET are often no longer the best choices. Instead, a generation of new productivity platforms holds the potential to speed...

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Blog:Progress Software Lowers Its Sights

Clay Richardson, Mike Gilpin, and I collaborated on this blog post. I don’t normally blog in response to news events, but I feel obligated to blog about Progress Software’s strategy...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Business Architect: Your Catalyst For Spearheading Business Process Transformation

If you've not yet heard the term "business architect" in your travels, you soon will. Whether business architects report into the business or IT, this emerging role will help usher in organizations'...

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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...

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Blog:Future Of Business Rules Platforms: Events 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:...

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Report:WebSphere 7 Reaffirms IBM's Java Platform Lead

New Reliability And Integration Features Will Simplify Stack Management

With the seventh generation of its WebSphere software, IBM redefines the state of the art in Java platforms. The WebSphere 7 product family provides application development and delivery pros with new...

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

The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework

One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

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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...

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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:...

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Blog:Big Data: The Worst Category Name Ever

Grant me a "crabby old guy" rant on big data. I continually hear people in our industry using the term big data as a product-category name -- and confusing everyone about the business value of big...

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Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

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,...

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