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IT spending forecasts project the money spent on technology infrastructure and support systems.

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Client Inquiry:Yes You Can Buy Unified Communications Component Services Standalone And Avoid Silos
Brownlee ThomasSeptember 23, 2011
Are unified communications (UC) components being sold as standalone offerings? Maybe it goes against the idea of "unified," but does Forrester see a trend of buying only one component or feature set...
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Blog:Canada Takes A Long-Awaited First Step To Eliminate Archaic Foreign Ownership Restrictions On Telecommunications
Brownlee ThomasMarch 16, 2012
The Canadian federal government has (finally) made a move to lift Canada’s rules on telecommunications operator ownership from a previous maximum of 46.7% (20% direct plus 30% indirect) foreign...
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Client Inquiry:Tier Your Remote Sites For MPLS Services To Avoid Paying For What You Don't Need
Brownlee ThomasOctober 06, 2011
How are global enterprises tiering their sites for MPLS WAN services?
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Blog:MNCs Are Trying To Uncover The Value And Vendor Options For 'Global' Mobility Management
Brownlee ThomasJanuary 13, 2012
I've had several conversations with Forrester IT clients in sourcing and vendor management and infrastructure and operations roles during the past few months about how-when-why-who to outsource...
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Client Inquiry:Best Practices On Delivering Mail To Employees Working From Home
Brownlee ThomasOctober 01, 2011
Do you have best practices information on how companies with work-from-home programs deal with delivering hardcopy mail to their employees at home?
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Blog:Identify Your Current State As A Starting Point For A New Communications Strategy By Conducting An Audit Of What's Out There
Brownlee ThomasMarch 16, 2012
Defining a best-practice communications strategy requires establishing a planning starting point. To do this SVM professionals need to undertake a comprehensive audit of the company's...
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Blog:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Global MPLS Services, Q1 2013
Brownlee ThomasApril 01, 2013
Customers Have A Range Of Strong Options In This Mature Service Category In Forrester's latest deep-dive Forrester Wave™ evaluation of facilities-based managed global MPLS service...
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Blog:Mobility Is The Tail That Will Wag The UC Dog
Brownlee ThomasOctober 20, 2011
How much of your IT operating and capital budget will go to UC related investments? I predict that spending by large distributed enterprises (defined as firms with 1,000 or more employees) on...
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Blog:Nine In Ten Large Enterprises Will Multisource International Telecom Services - Including Their WANs
Brownlee ThomasDecember 15, 2011
Anecdotal evidence from several dozen Forrester IT client inquiries and consulting engagements during the past two years suggests that large MNCs are almost always multisourcing their international...
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Blog:What I Learned About Telecom Pain At Forrester’s SVM Forum
Brownlee ThomasJune 29, 2012
I recently had several one-on-one meetings with SVM professionals at two Forrester SVM forums — in Vegas late May and Paris mid-June. One major pain point was mentioned by a number of our...
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Blog:SVM Pros Should Play A Pivotal Role To Facilitate IT-Business Discussions To Define Or Refine A Comms Technology Strategy
Brownlee ThomasMarch 16, 2012
SVM pros often are tasked with facilitating formal and informal discussions between IT operations and business stakeholders for input and feedback when attempting to evaluate and refine a strategy...
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Client Inquiry:What Should We Avoid In Mobile Contracts?
Brownlee ThomasFebruary 28, 2012
What should we be avoiding during mobile contracting?
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Client Inquiry:Prioritizing Mobility Strategies Within Your IT Department
Brownlee ThomasOctober 28, 2011
Why is it so important that I prioritize a mobility strategy?
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Blog:Mobility Will Be A Big Driver For IT SVM Organizations To Change Their Approach
Brownlee ThomasAugust 17, 2010
Business users often view IT SVM as a bottleneck to getting new technologies that will make them more personally and professionally productive and that also will help ensure their firm’s...
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Client Inquiry:Preventing Telephone Cramming
Brownlee ThomasMarch 13, 2012
How are retailers and other companies getting their telecom service provider to help prevent telephone cramming?
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Client Inquiry:Keep Track Of Your Telecom Contracts
Brownlee ThomasSeptember 16, 2011
We're suddenly getting long-distance bills 10 times higher than before after we reassigned about half our lines to a competitor for business contingency reasons. Somehow, we lost our discount...
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Client Inquiry:How Many WAN Service Providers Should Be Utilized?
Brownlee ThomasMarch 05, 2012
At smaller sites outside North America, is it a best practice to use one, a few, or several WAN service providers?
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Client Inquiry:Give Home Workers An Allowance For Broadband
Brownlee ThomasSeptember 16, 2011
Are most companies accepting whichever broadband Internet users may have, or are they standardizing on specific providers and classes of service?
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Client Inquiry:What Are The High-Speed Ethernet WAN Service Adoption Trends For Global Organizations?
Brownlee ThomasDecember 06, 2011
What are the trends in adoption and use of Ethernet WAN services by very large global organizations?
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Blog:SoftBank’s Sprint Rescue – What It Means For Sprint Enterprise Customers
Brownlee ThomasOctober 15, 2012
SoftBank plans to inject $20 billion ($12 billion cash and $8 billion of new capital) to acquire 70% of Sprint Nextel. The deal will give Sprint about $8 billion in new capital, which will be used to...
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Blog:Enterprise Connect 2013 Briefings And Sessions Indicate Mobile And Video Are Embedding In UC
Brownlee ThomasMarch 27, 2013
Last week I attended Enterprise Connect 2013 where I had over two dozen one-on-one briefings with UC technology and services vendors. Highlights included Microsoft’s keynote by Derek Burney...
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Blog:Telecoms Contracting Best Practices: Success Clauses Help Avoid Fallout From Provider Spin-Offs, Sell-Off, Market Exit
Brownlee ThomasJune 01, 2010
Enterprise telecoms market consolidation can disrupt your service delivery if your service provider is acquired by a competitor. Other disruptions that might have a negative impact on the quality of...
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Blog:New iPhone Hype! ... But Won’t Tech Savvy Business Users Just Queue Up And Buy It Themselves? Does SVM Need To Act?
Brownlee ThomasOctober 04, 2011
Good news and bad: You — as a provisioner of technology to the business — will likely NOT be buying iPhones en masse to the resounding cheers of the business. However, given that...
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Blog:Optimize Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing
Brownlee ThomasApril 09, 2013
Telecommunications and mobility (T&M) technologies will play a critical role in the success of geographically distributed companies during the next ten years. Business professionals need their...
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Client Inquiry:WAN And Voice Service RFPs
Brownlee ThomasAugust 26, 2011
What are the key considerations when developing a global telecoms RFP?

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Client Inquiry:Yes You Can Buy Unified Communications Component Services Standalone And Avoid Silos

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Blog:Canada Takes A Long-Awaited First Step To Eliminate Archaic Foreign Ownership Restrictions On Telecommunications

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Client Inquiry:Tier Your Remote Sites For MPLS Services To Avoid Paying For What You Don't Need

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Blog:MNCs Are Trying To Uncover The Value And Vendor Options For 'Global' Mobility Management

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Client Inquiry:Best Practices On Delivering Mail To Employees Working From Home

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Blog:Identify Your Current State As A Starting Point For A New Communications Strategy By Conducting An Audit Of What's Out There

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Blog:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Global MPLS Services, Q1 2013

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Blog:Mobility Is The Tail That Will Wag The UC Dog

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Blog:Nine In Ten Large Enterprises Will Multisource International Telecom Services - Including Their WANs

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Blog:What I Learned About Telecom Pain At Forrester’s SVM Forum

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Blog:SVM Pros Should Play A Pivotal Role To Facilitate IT-Business Discussions To Define Or Refine A Comms Technology Strategy

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Client Inquiry:What Should We Avoid In Mobile Contracts?

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Client Inquiry:Prioritizing Mobility Strategies Within Your IT Department

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Blog:Mobility Will Be A Big Driver For IT SVM Organizations To Change Their Approach

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Client Inquiry:Preventing Telephone Cramming

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Client Inquiry:Keep Track Of Your Telecom Contracts

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Client Inquiry:How Many WAN Service Providers Should Be Utilized?

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Client Inquiry:Give Home Workers An Allowance For Broadband

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Client Inquiry:What Are The High-Speed Ethernet WAN Service Adoption Trends For Global Organizations?

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Blog:SoftBank’s Sprint Rescue – What It Means For Sprint Enterprise Customers

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Blog:Enterprise Connect 2013 Briefings And Sessions Indicate Mobile And Video Are Embedding In UC

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Blog:Telecoms Contracting Best Practices: Success Clauses Help Avoid Fallout From Provider Spin-Offs, Sell-Off, Market Exit

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Blog:New iPhone Hype! ... But Won’t Tech Savvy Business Users Just Queue Up And Buy It Themselves? Does SVM Need To Act?

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Blog:Optimize Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

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Client Inquiry:WAN And Voice Service RFPs

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