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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Case Study: Manufacturer Will Consolidate Global Telecom With A Telco Integrator

Building Contingencies Ensures Price Competitiveness And Provider Innovation

A US-headquartered global consumer manufacturing firm recently asked Forrester to review its global telecom sourcing strategy with the aim of helping it balance opportunities against risks associated...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Process-Driven Transformation Will Depend On Stronger Business-IT Partnerships

How IT Will Forge Lasting Relationships With Process Owners And Process Teams

Business process transformation requires an unprecedented level of collaboration among business owners, process teams, and IT, three groups not accustomed to working together. IT usually limits...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations

The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:M2M Connectivity Helps Telcos Offset Declining Traditional Services

But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity

Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

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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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Prepare I&O For The "Internet Of Things"

Five Key Dynamics That Will Help You Capture The Opportunity For Your Organization

"Internet of Things" (IoT) solutions that machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies like RFID tags, GPS systems, and ZigBee sensors enable are gaining momentum as multiple forces align to drive adoption...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2010 IT Budget Allocations: Planning For 2011

Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison

During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The State Of B2B Integration

Most Enterprises Plan Imminent B2B Upgrades To Address Key Issues

Forrester surveyed 300 senior IT managers in North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regarding the state of their business-to-business (B2B) integration infrastructure and plans for future...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Mobile Imperative In Retail And Consumer Goods

Using Mobile Technologies To Enrich Enterprise Interactions With Associates And Consumers

Retail and consumer goods firms face exciting opportunities to deploy mobile apps to fix their age-old problems with shelf availability and to empower their field employees to transcend their...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus On Customers And Business Architecture For Greater Business Process Maturity

Results From The Forrester/IQPC Survey Of Business Process Pros

Over the past decade, business process transformation and continuous improvement initiatives have gained strategic traction. Despite C-suite attention, most organizations still fall relatively low on...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2011 Social Technographics® For Business Technology Buyers

Technology Marketers Must Prepare For The Coming Storm

Data from Forrester's Q1 2011 US and European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers indicates that both social media habits and the role social media is playing...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Integration: The Next Frontier For Enterprise Social

The "Social Layer" Ignites The Next Wave Of Social Technology Innovation

Enterprise social technology vendors have begun to actively position their offerings to meet integration requirements, and the term "social layer," which Forrester originally heard from Socialtext...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Industry-Specific Master Data Management Trends

This set of data charts, taken from the November 2010 Global master Data Management Online Survey, analyzes data from 134 MDM-savvy IT professionals in five distinct industries-- healthcare; the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Balancing Custom And Packaged Apps In Your Application Portfolio Strategy

Conventional wisdom suggests buying before building software. However, as an increasing proportion of product and service value is digital — think of a naval vessel's operation system (Windows...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends In Aligning Capabilities, Skills, And Tools For BPM COE Programs

These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:2011 Top 10 IaaS Cloud Predictions For I&O Leaders

Empowered Users, HPC, And Business Intelligence Will Drive Adoption

IaaS is undoubtedly one of your top priorities, but will you craft a plan for success? Many enterprises are headed toward a number of cloud pitfalls, such as misunderstanding the makeup, benefits,...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Open Source And Cloud-Based Integration Trends

A Recent Forrester Survey Shows Divergent Plans

Open source and cloud-based integration solutions are becoming more prevalent in many organizations. Still, many others are resisting these new alternatives, sometimes based on rational concerns but...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Business Process Initiatives Focus On Customer Experience And Cost Reduction

These data charts are based on the Q2 2011 Global Forrester/IQPC Business Process Maturity Online Survey.

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Executives' Perceptions Of Differentiation Among Suppliers: Update For 2011

Results, not products, differentiate vendors in the eyes of executives.Executives assign strategic supplier status to vendors that are willing and able to align in substantial, not superficial, ways....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part One: Solution Deployments

ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice

Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...

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