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Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...
Providers Driving Workplace Services In EMEA
Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

Vision: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives responsible for "end user computing" — the delivery and support of technology and...
Three key forces are reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market: the growing demands of global businesses; the increasing need for industry-specific functionality; and the expanding use...

Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology
After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

Some Growth, Some Alignment, But More Business Visibility Is Needed
Budgets represent more than a spending schedule for CIOs. They also are an essential tool for creating collaboration with business leaders regarding tech-related business priorities, as well as a...

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism
What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

IT's Involvement And Support Are Poised To Grow Sharply
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption is rapidly going mainstream across more and more markets in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). But there's still a disconnect between business decision-makers' demand...

Emerging Asia Steps Up
In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...
For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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...

The Battle Moves To The Management Layer
I&O pros continue to rank the drive to improve IT infrastructure consolidation, availability, and agility — driven by virtualization — as a top priority. With nearly six in 10...

This report outlines Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on data center infrastructure. This report is designed to help you build a road map for 2013. As...

Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months
The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

Analysis Of 13 Global Leaders' Capabilities And How They Stack Up
Enterprise mobility is booming; organizations must connect with employees, customers, and partners in new ways and across new devices and applications. But many organizations don't know how to move...

The ASEAN3 countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) represent 78% of the IT spending of the ASEAN countries excluding Singapore. Indonesia and the Philippines will experience dynamic...
Vision: The CRM Playbook
The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as...

The maturity and sophistication of existing data warehousing (DW) implementations across the Asia Pacific (AP) region has been variable, to say the least. If the hype around big data is to be...

Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook
Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...

Organizations in Asia Pacific are realizing the cost efficiencies and business agility of virtualization and cloud computing. The region's market is crowded with regional and global...
The New Foundations For Innovation In A Maturing Industry
As more IT organizations operate under the dueling mandates of delivering cost savings and innovation, suppliers of applications outsourcing services are getting ready for the next phase of their...
Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is garnering attention and focus from multiple corners of the Chinese market as traditional IT vendors, independent software vendors (ISVs), telcos, and Internet...

Benchmarks: The S&R Practice Playbook
The global downturn has constrained security budgets for several years now, and chief information security officers (CISOs) have become accustomed to taking on more responsibilities without...
Forrester's 2013 Predictions For Asia Pacific
2013 will be a transformative year for IT adoption in Asia Pacific (AP); multiple IT trends will converge to drive industry disruptions and help spur renewed growth in IT spending. Overall, we...