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Report:The VSB Market Under The Magnifying Glass

The Very Small Business Profile: Growing, Young, And Mobile

The very small business (VSB) market is growing in importance for an increasing number of tech vendors, in large part due to the fact that it is the fastest-growing company-size segment in terms of...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Pricing And Licensing Trends 2011

Software Sourcing Leaders Should Create Sourcing Strategies That Take Advantage Of Profound Changes In The Software Market

In 2011, Forrester expects to see major changes in the pricing and licensing approaches of traditional software providers. Increasing tension between vendors' insatiable demands for revenue and...

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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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Report:Top Barriers To Replacing Microsoft Office

Office Alternatives Haven't Yet Earned Their Name

Content and collaboration (C&C) pros show lots of interest in Microsoft Office competitors as a way to cut license costs. They run trials of Google Apps and Open Office derivatives by IBM Lotus and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Content Security, Q3 2011

SaaS Values Are Established, And Vendors Move Quickly To Capture Market Share

Content security products enable organizations to protect against email- and web-borne threats, enforce acceptable use policies, and guard against data leak risks. SaaS delivery has been a game...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Empower Self-Provisioning With Standard Telecom Contract Terms And Conditions

Tools And Technology: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Telecom and mobility services contracting challenges proliferate as distributed user firms implement advanced communications technologies like unified communications (UC) and telepresence that are...

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Report:Market Overview: Managed File Transfer Solutions

A $1.4 Billion Market Is Growing Rapidly

The managed file transfer (MFT) market is growing rapidly as the shortcomings of using basic file transfer protocol (FTP) to support external file transfers have become more apparent. Both senior...

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Report:Five Prevailing Trends In ERP

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2010; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe,...

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Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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Report:How Customers Value IaaS Cloud Channels

Hosters And Tech Vendors Are Drafting Amazon's Slipstream

The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud business, with its high margins, is a strong attractant to a slew of provider channels. But customers view different provider types differently in terms...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

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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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Develop A Two-Phased DDoS Mitigation Strategy

Protect Yourself From Hacktivists And Other Cybercriminals

Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other...

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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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Report:Segment Social Media Behaviors To Improve Tech Vendor Marketing Plans

Forrester's Social Technographics® survey, now in its second year, depicts the social media behaviors of more than 1,000 tech buyers from around the world. Tech marketers can use this data to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Involve At Least Partial Outsourcing To Achieve A Global Communications Technology Vision

Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...

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Report:Seven Steps For Developing Process-Oriented Portfolios Of Business Technology Services

How To Better Manage Complexity And Keep It Under Control

Most organizations do not effectively align their business process management (BPM) and IT functions to control the increasing complexity that multifaceted, cross-functional processes and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Protect Your Competitive Advantage By Protecting Your Intellectual Property From Cybercriminals

Business Impact: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

Protecting customer data such as credit card information, log-in credentials, and personally identifiable information is an important part of enterprise IT security. Such data fuels a large and...

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Report:Business Outcomes Are The Future Of Technology Contracts

Driving Change In The Way You Buy Products And Services

Digital capability — mobile, social, cloud, and data and analytics — disrupts business models and value streams, introduces new competitive threats, and comes with new demands for shorter...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:ERP Adoption: The Year Ahead

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Build An Information Security Management System

Policy And Procedures: The S&R Practice Playbook

Over recent years, the information security industry has matured nicely; experts and associations have documented many best practice models, and their adoption has been widespread. It's disconcerting...

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Report:Benchmarking Your Enterprise Mobile Device Operations Initiatives And Plans

This report provides insight into corporate mobility adoption trends based on results from Forrester's Forrsights surveys of IT mobility decision-makers and end user workers in North American and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Your Data Protection Strategy Will Fail Without Strong Identity Context

Protecting Information Consistently With Identity Context (PICWIC) Is A Must

According to Forrester survey data, "trusted" insiders and business partners, intentionally or unintentionally, are responsible for 43% of security breaches. The recent WikiLeaks breach illustrates...

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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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Report:Understand The True Cost Of Cloud Services

Budgeting And Planning: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Forrsights surveys show that enterprises are turning to the cloud for speed and lower cost — but are the savings really there? The answer isn't always obvious; it might be that your internal...

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