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Report:Oracle's Journey To Cloud Computing: Denial, Defiance, Acceptance . . . Dominance?

Following the recent successful integration of its latest acquisitions, Oracle is ramping up its marketing messages around cloud enabling enterprise data centres via what it is positioning as an...

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Report:Why Strategic Functions Fail

Part 3 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Fail

Certain roles in IT can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth information on the common...

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Report:SlideShare Ties Conferencing To Millions Of Slides

More Than A Million Shared Slides Get An Audio And Video Facelift; Consumerization Gets Another Injection; IT Gets Another Vendor To Track

Why does the world need yet another webconferencing vendor? Because the existing solutions don't deliver all the value that your employees crave at a price you can afford. SlideShare has answered the...

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Report:Market Update: Office Productivity Alternatives

Adoption Is Low But Market Impact Is High As Buyers Consider Alternatives

At home and at work, people overwhelmingly use Microsoft Office. Yet content and collaboration (C&C) pros continue to ask Forrester questions about office alternatives. So we recently surveyed 150 IT...

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Report:Cloud Computing Market Dynamics In MEA: Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

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Report:Telcos As Cloud Rainmakers

Cloud Computing Presents Opportunities And Risks For Telcos And Their Customers

Cloud computing is changing the telco business model: Traditional telecom offerings migrate into the cloud and evermore over-the-top (OTT) players enter the telco value chain. Corporate CIOs should...

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Report:Market Overview: Video Platforms For The Enterprise

Companies are using streaming video — live and on-demand — to enhance marketing, training, and business communications with internal and external audiences. The market for video...

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Report:The Total Economic Impact™ Methodology: A Foundational Framework For Investment Decisions

Underlying any investment is the ever-present question of "What am I going to get for my money?" To answer this question, Forrester developed the Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology. TEI...

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Report:The Who Of Business Technology Decision-Making

The BT Governance Collection: Stakeholders And Structures

Enterprise governance is about decision rights: who has input into decisions, who makes them, how are outcomes measured, and who is held accountable for those outcomes. Business technology (BT)...

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Report:2013 Predictions: The ePurchasing Software Market Will Grow 5%

More SaaS And Commoditization Shape 2013 Growth

CIOs should take an interest in the market for ePurchasing software (software to support buying, sourcing, contracting, and vendor management activities) for two reasons: 1) to find technology tools...

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Report:Forrsights: European Companies Start To Embrace New Systems Of Engagement

Our Software Decision-Maker Survey Shows A Shift In Emphasis From Systems Of Records To Systems Of Engagement

During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 676 software decision-makers across Germany, France, and the UK to determine their spending priorities around software. With new systems of...

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Report:Cloud Computing Market Dynamics In The Middle East And Africa (MEA): Regional Overview

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) for vendor strategists. The report will allow vendor strategists to understand cloud-related market trends...

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Report:Cloud Broker — A New Business Model Paradigm

Deriving More Business And Economic Models From Cloud Computing

One of the key principles of cloud computing is the sharing of resources across various infrastructure domains and locations. As more clients get to use the different resource pools available and...

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Report:WebCenter Suite Allows Oracle Applications To Embrace The Information Workplace

Oracle is not a company that leaps to mind when you think of knowledge workers — certainly, not in the way that IBM/Lotus or Microsoft might. Yet, with the emergence of the Information...

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Report:Cloud Computing Market Dynamics In MEA: Egypt

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Egypt for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...

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Report:Ignoring Cloud Risks A Growing Gap Between I&O And The Business

Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure

Over the past several years, we've seen two key cloud trends in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space: 1) Public cloud adoption rates are highest among "informal buyers" (non-IT employees),...

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Report:Mobile Application Development: Weigh User Demands Against Flexibility And Costs

Springboard Research witnessed strong uptake of the development of mobile "micro-apps" within Asia Pacific (AP) enterprises during 2010. The majority of these applications were driven by internal...

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Report:Corporate Sustainability Will Depend On IT Solutions

Six Types Of IT For Sustainability Solutions Drive Sustainable Performance

Improving the environmental sustainability of corporate processes and products is slowly but surely moving up the strategic agenda of large companies around the world. In interviewing sustainability...

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Report:CIOs: Support HEROes — Create Social Innovation Networks Using The PACT Framework

An Empowered Report: Using Social Technologies To Empower Innovation

Customers already use social technologies to wrest power away from large corporations. Now employees are also adapting social technologies in pursuit of innovations to support these empowered...

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Report:The Evolution Of Enterprise Carbon And Energy Management Software

Spending On Enterprise Carbon And Energy Management Solutions Will Approach $1 Billion By 2013

A new market of dedicated solutions that allow companies to manage their sustainability strategy is ripe to be tackled by software vendors and service providers. Forrester segments this emerging...

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Report:Defining The Boundary Between Business Tech Buying And Consumer Tech Buying

Understanding Who Chooses And Who Pays For Devices That Span Business And Personal Tasks

The spreading bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has created a more complex landscape of tech buying. But traditional divisions between consumer tech purchases and business tech purchases still...

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Report:Emerging Markets And Technologies Drive Tech Industry Growth

Forrester's 2012 Tech Industry Predictions

2012 is the year that the performance of emerging markets will be crucial to the growth prospects of the global technology industry. In particular, the top tier of the emerging markets — which...

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Report:Assessing The Skills You Need From SharePoint Professional Service Providers

Implementing SharePoint can be a broad and complex initiative. Given the depth and breadth of the product it's not surprising that SharePoint professional services firms come in all shapes and sizes....

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Report:Mobile Security: An Increasing Need For Indian Enterprises

In Springboard Research's latest "Asia Pacific (AP) IT Market Predictions 2011" report, we noted that rapid growth in the use of smart mobile devices, combined with an explosion in social computing,...

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Report:The Next Wave Of Office Productivity

Mobile, Cloud, And Collaboration Are Leading The Transformation

Microsoft Office remains a mainstay in workplaces. Despite media buzz about online alternatives like Google Apps Premier Edition or pragmatic arguments about free Open Office suites, most enterprises...

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