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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Alternative eCommerce Delivery Options In Europe

Substitutes To Conventional Home Deliveries Exist

Shipping issues are one of the most common reasons for cart abandonment. Providing alternative delivery options can limit this phenomenon as consumers benefit from choice of pickup time and place and...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Want Loyalty? Improve Your Call Center Customer Experience

Call Center Satisfaction Ties To Loyalty Across 11 Industries

Call center satisfaction correlates with three loyalty metrics: consumers' willingness to repurchase, reluctance to switch, and likelihood to recommend. Call satisfaction also correlates highly with...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:French Online Retail Overview, 2012

French Online Retail Is On The Brink Of A Multichannel Revolution

France is the third largest online retail market in Europe; although it will continue to mature and grow at a pace outstripping overall retail growth, there are significant changes in store for...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Business Process Pros' Challenges Change As The Organization Matures

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:A Number Of Business Issues Are Driving The Need For Improvement

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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European Online Retail: Five Trends To Watch In 2012

European eBusiness Executives Strive To Give Their Customers Choice And Flexibility Across The Purchase Journey

European shoppers are becoming increasingly web-savvy and are turning to a wider range of touchpoints as they research and buy products online and offline. In response, eBusiness executives across...

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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 Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Conversations With Customer Experience Leaders: Maersk Line's Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen

In 2009, Maersk Line asked Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen, vice president of customer service, to take on the role of improving customer experience enterprisewide. Faced with increasing competition and...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Global eCommerce Opportunity

Landscape: The eCommerce Globalization Playbook

Gone are the days when most brands offered just one or two international sites: Today, a global eCommerce footprint is the end goal. To reach that goal, companies are taking a strategic look at the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:More Than 80% Of Surveyed Firms That Plan To Upgrade Will Do So Within 12 Months

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Why Amazon Matters Now More Than Ever

As Amazon.com has grown aggressively in recent years, expanded into diverse businesses, and achieved profitability, its impact on the eBusiness and retail sectors is now top of mind. For many...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Global Markets Face Pressures From Population And Urbanization Growth

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 Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Japan Cloud Computing 2010: End User Adoption Trends

This document provides an overview of cloud computing end user adoption trends in Japan for vendor strategists. The report is based on findings from a cloud computing survey targeting Japanese...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Latin American Online Retail Forecast, 2011 To 2016

A Topline Look At eCommerce Growth In Brazil And Mexico

Latin America's online retail markets are dynamic and varied. With the largest economy and approximately 40% of Latin America's Internet users, Brazil will remain the powerhouse in Latin American...

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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European Online Retail: Adopt A Local Approach

A Solid Understanding Of Customer Expectations And A Localization And Differentiation Strategy Are The Keys To Success Across Europe.

Despite some commonality in currency and legislation, there are some notable differences in customer shopping behavior and market trends across the various European online retail markets. eBusiness...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Logistics Company Aligns The Application Portfolio With Business Strategy

A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2010

What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue

To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2012: Online Retail In Australia Will Finally Hit Its Stride

Mobile Will Accelerate While Retailers Will Combine Speed With Scale

Online retail is booming in Australia — and with 93% of households set to gain access to gigabit broadband in the years ahead, today's growth is just the beginning. In 2012, five trends will...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2011

Consumers Rate The Customer Experience Across 153 Large US Brands

To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester asked more than 7,700 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Customer...

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