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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...
Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

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,...


Empowering High-Performance Teams Re-Ignites Growth And Prosperity
HCL Technologies (HCL) was growing at 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2000 to 2005. Sounds good, right? Well, not so — its competitors were growing faster, and HCL was falling...
Layer 7 And WSO2 Lead This Emerging Field
In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by Intel,...

What are the key components or building blocks within a widely used widget application programming interface (API) framework today?
Strategic Plan: The Mobile App Development Playbook
In the past year, we've handled more than 200 client inquiries regarding what technology approach best suits mobile app development needs. The most common question we field is: "Should we go with a...
Ci&T Mixes Engagement And Entrepreneurship Into Application Outsourcing
Ci&T is a midtier Brazilian systems integrator that stands out in a highly competitive business by attracting and developing creative application development professionals. The firm's corporate...
Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook
Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook
With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind
Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...
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...
Going Hands On With KonyOne Shows How Middleware Is Evolving
In the latest installment in our "hands-on mobile" series, we rebuild and deploy the simple mobile application we built last fall with the KonyOne mobile middleware platform. The KonyOne platform...

Oracle's proposed contribution of the Hudson continuous integration project to the Eclipse Foundation bears further scrutiny, as Forrester expects that the reconstituted Eclipse Hudson project will...

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...

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...
Executive Overview: The Mobile App Development Playbook
The mobile shift is driving your business peers and customers to expect (and demand) support across a wide variety of smartphones and tablets. But building mobile apps is different from building...

While each development shop has its own unique characteristics, we see recurring patterns of staffing, structure, processes, and technologies that help us predict an organization's capabilities....
Use Forrester's Mobile POST Method To Create A Mobile Development Plan
Developing mobile applications used to be an arcane activity pursued by highly specialized developers, but no more. The surge in popularity of Android devices, BlackBerries, and iPhones has...