Forrester

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Creating A Mobile Services Product Road Map

A Framework For Prioritizing Proposed Mobile Services Offerings

"How do I prioritize the buildout of our mobile services?" is a question we hear often from clients. Forrester offers a mobile services prioritization framework to help companies develop a short-,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: HealthNow Implements A Data Services Layer Using Informatica 9 Platform

Today, most organizations face growing data integration challenges due to increased data volume, complex data types, and an increased business need for real-time data. Information-as-a-service (IaaS)...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Hiring Creative Developers

10 Questions You Should Ask Prospective Developers

High-performance software development organizations get that way because of their culture. One of the most important ways that frontline managers can help evolve a culture toward high performance is...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Requirements Tools Market Overview, Q2 2010

The Market Expands And Diversifies To Address Diverse Problems

The requirements tools market has expanded and diversified as the business problems that compel teams to consider adopting a requirements tool have multiplied and intensified. Gone are the days in...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Telecom's Central Role In Cloud Computing

Cloud Represents An Opportunity, But Not A Salvation, For Telcos

Without a robust communications layer, the concept of cloud computing is a nonstarter. All three dominant flavors of cloud computing — infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Clarify Your Global ERP Strategy

As enterprise firms restructure through mergers and acquisitions and expand their global presence, they face huge IT and master data synchronization costs in supporting multiple legacy and disparate...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Application Development And Delivery Role Overview

This is a workbook associated with Mary Gerush's "The Role-Based Anatomy Of An Application Development And Delivery Team" report.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:App Portfolio Development For Manufacturers: Balance Customer Service With Efficiency

Henry Ford's 1913 policy of offering consumers cars in any color they liked as long as it was black perfectly illustrates the problem for manufacturers trying to balance consumer service with...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: The Macro Trends Shaping The Tech Industry This Decade

Emerging Opportunities And Imperatives For An IT Industry In Transformation

Rather than quietly maturing into middle age as it enters its seventh decade, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is continuing to evolve rapidly. The ICT landscape is roiled...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: IOR Transformed To Increase Business Agility

Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization

The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...

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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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Key Requirements For The Banking Platform Of The Future

Design And Select Banking Platforms Based On Forward-Looking Target State Requirements

Forrester defined 14 requirements for the banking platform of the future — based on an updated view of banking IT in 2023 and Forrester's next-generation banking platform requirements. In...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Opportunities In The SMB Cloud Services Market

SMBs' strong adoption of cloud computing is well known. What is less well understood is how SMBs are adopting cloud for various technology categories relative to one another.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Atlassian Creates An Innovation Culture That Produces Results

Atlassian is a company with big ambitions. It uses its innovation culture to drive change and corporate growth in markets where the commoditizing powers of open source software are causing...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: ThoughtWorks Makes Distributed Agile Work

Many people believe that you cannot run distributed Agile projects. The Agile Manifesto itself points to colocation as a key characteristic of Agility. But ThoughtWorks is an Agile systems...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How eBusiness Professionals Can Offer Total Mobile Experiences

How To Prepare For Mobile Total Product Experiences

Mobile is evolving at a breakneck pace — and as a result, it no longer belongs as a secondary consideration within the organization's larger strategy. Unlike in prior iterations of the mobile...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Mall Of Google

The Internet Ad Giant Shifts Emphasis To Include Enterprise IT

Open source is no longer a "don't ask, don't tell" secret in enterprise application development shops: Increased executive awareness and evolving open source business models are leading shops to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: SOA Service Life-Cycle Management, Q1 2012

Software AG, Progress Software, And SOA Software Lead; IBM, Oracle, HP, And WSO2 Have Strong Solutions

In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) service life-cycle management (SLM) vendors, we found that Software AG, Progress Software, and SOA Software lead the pack....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:How Holistic Is Your Application Delivery Transformation?

This tool is a complement to the report "Transforming Application Delivery" and includes the typical assessment questions you should ask to identify areas that need the most improvement focus. The...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Sizing The Cloud

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing

Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The State Of Application Development In Enterprises And SMBs

Forrsights North America And Europe

Forrester surveyed 933 technology decision-makers and approximately 2,500 developers at North American and European enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to understand the state of...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Get To Know Your 2010 Business Analysts

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:How To Get Started With Mobile Display

Display marketers are eager to launch mobile campaigns. But they face challenges such as audience fragmentation, a chaotic vendor landscape, and myriad new technologies and devices. In order to...

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