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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Don't Just Maintain Business Applications, Raise Business Responsiveness

Continuous Improvement: The Business Applications Playbook

While big projects such as delivering new off-the-shelf or custom-built applications help your organization achieve excellent business outcomes, sustaining these outcomes requires that your...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The VSB Software Market: Cloud Triggers And Custom Development

This workbook provides data on how the current generation of VSBs displays significantly different software investment plans than earlier generations. VSBs are beginning to think and act more like...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Apps Everywhere: Understanding The Need For Mobile Application Management

Integrate Mobile Application Management Into Your Mobility Strategy

Proactive IT executives are extending their mobility strategies beyond deploying and managing mobile devices and platforms with primarily corporate email access to include a wide range of mobile...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Document Collaboration Vendor Landscape

In 2009, Forrester produced The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platform to evaluate a maturing vendor landscape for document collaboration solutions. Since that report, the market has seen...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: EMEA Workplace Services, Q2 2013

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Habitat For Engagement: Unleash Workforce Potential With Agile Enablement

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global, Industry, And Technology Forces Shape The ERP Landscape

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2013 CIO Budget Priorities

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SaaS Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific For 2013 And 2014

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

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...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

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...

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For CIO Professionals

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 Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Server Virtualization Predictions For 2013

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...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Server And Data Center Predictions For 2013

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:New Dynamics Shape IT Services Spending

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:ASEAN IT Markets, 2012 To 2013: The Next Frontier To Growth

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Navigate The Future Of CRM In 2013

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...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Prepare For 2013's Shifting BPM Landscape

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Big Data Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific: 2013 To 2014

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Telcos Are Lining Up Broad IaaS Offerings For Asia Pacific Enterprises

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Applications Outsourcing Market Hits The Crossroads

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...

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