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For CIO Professionals

Report:Enable Workplaces Of The Future, Now!

Flexible Work And Cowork Redefine Workplace Diversity

If you haven't heard the latest office gossip, you might want to figure out why. As workers increasingly work from home, a coffee shop, a public library, the train, or one of the new coworking...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Social Ecosystem Maturity Assessment Model

The Social Ecosystem Maturity Assessment is presented in conjunction with the research report "Benchmark The Use Of Your Social Business And Collaboration Systems," which explains more fully how CIOs...

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Report:Benchmark The Use Of Your Social Business And Collaboration Systems

Benchmarks: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business and collaboration (SBC) takes place independently of any specific technology, tool, or service. For example, employees constantly meet to choose how to adjust plans; customers...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Five Seismic Forces Reshuffle The Workforce Vendor Ecosystem

Landscape: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

2012 brought a tectonic shift in worker technology requirements. Many more employees now purchase their own devices, bring them to work, and use them to conduct personal and professional activities...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Smart Process Applications, Q2 2013

The 12 Smart Process App Vendors That Matter Most Today And How They Stack Up

Smart process applications are a new and emerging category of applications designed to help CIOs and their firms improve the effectiveness of their human-centric business activities. But finding the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Five Trends Are Changing Records Management Technologies And Practices

What Enterprise Architects Need To Know About The Shift From Records Management To Information Governance

Despite two decades of electronic records management (RM) evolution, fewer than 10% of enterprises admit to high levels of confidence in their approach to the governance of digital information. The...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Answer Five Questions When Selecting A Cloud Collaboration And Productivity Suite

A Buyer's Guide For Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps For Business, And IBM SmartCloud For Social Business

Over the past two years, Forrester clients have shown great interest in the cloud collaboration and productivity suites Microsoft, Google, and IBM offer: We've fielded more than 150 inquiries on this...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Software Innovation In India

How Firms Can Best Capitalize On Software Development And Configuration Opportunities In India

The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or "captive" business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and more on...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Seven Business Technology Resiliency Lessons Learned From Superstorm Sandy

Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans

In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy barreled through the Caribbean and the eastern US, affecting almost half of the states in the US. The storm left millions without access to basic...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Learning And Talent Development, Q1 2013

The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

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Report:Rich Communication Services Can Unlock The Value Of Systems Of Engagement

The Joyn Initiative Will Help Evolve Engagement Strategies

As companies evolve their strategies to embrace systems of engagement, CIOs are likely to benefit from the emergence of a new major social media communications platform, rich communication services...

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Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes

Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Online Video Platforms, Q1 2013

Kaltura Joins Leaders Brightcove And Ooyala In A Maturing Market

Video is integral to many consumer-facing websites, not just from traditional media providers but from brands, companies, and organizations without a history of content creation. In Forrester's...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now Through 2018

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Smart Process Apps: To Combine Social And Dynamic Case Management

Fill Gaping Hole In Process Needs

Enterprises need to shift from isolated enterprise social projects to a process-oriented view that drives business outcomes. Smart process apps — an emerging $34 billion software category...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Avoid Tactical, Narrow Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Strategies

Strategic Plan: Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders developing a communications and collaboration infrastructure (CCI) strategic plan. Developing such a plan...

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Report:Use Context To Drive A Seamless UC&C Service Layer

Vision: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

Increasing consumerization of IT and advances in both cloud technologies and deployment models tremendously affect the enterprise not simply on how we communicate but where, when, and on what kind of...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Predictions 2013: Enterprise Telecom And Mobility Challenges And Opportunities

Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow

Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Game On: Drive Engagement With Service Management And Automation Simulations

Service management and automation (SMA) is a closed-loop control system that enables the design, development, maintenance, and adoption of services that support business teams in their capabilities...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Enter More Social, Mobile, Video, And Cloud: Is Your Infrastructure Ready To Collaborate?

Assessment: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

This report provides Forrester's maturity assessment for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for their firms' communications and collaboration infrastructure. I&O leaders...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Navigating The Microsoft Services Landscape

Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players

Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...

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Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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