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IT Professionals
Learn how to run IT like a business with:
- Best practices for successfully planning, budgeting, implementing, and executing.
- Business acumen and technology expertise.
- Advice that is both forward looking and pragmatic.
- Honest assessments to help you make better decisions.
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We help IT Professionals in these roles:
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Application Development & Program Management Forrester's Application Development research and analysis helps you streamline business and IT processes; develop new application strategies; and manage project portfolios around specific business needs, limitations, and costs. Forrester helps you determine how to use tools, techniques, and processes to support and improve your application development and integration.
Forrester's research for Application Development & Program Management professionals helps you:
- Modernize application development and delivery practices to improve throughput and business impact.
- Adopt application architectures that enable greater business agility and faster time-to-market.
- Design rich, dynamic applications that support the way people actually want to work.
- Manage people, projects, and portfolios to reduce risk and meet critical delivery commitments.
- Select tools and technologies that enable project teams to meet business goals at the right cost.
- Optimize software and services sourcing strategy to serve the application portfolio.
Business Process & Applications
Our research and in-depth analysis give you an overview of best practices driving business process innovation — through core process expertise and next-generation business application technologies that support continuous improvement. The optimal result is that your firm achieves performance improvements, leapfrogs the competition, and maintains a significant competitive edge.
Forrester's research for Business Process & Applications professionals helps you:
- Define an applications strategy that maximizes value and protects against vendor lock-in.
- Become a more business-process-oriented organization..
- Continuously improve human capital management processes and technologies.
- Continuously improve customer relationship management processes and technologies.
- Continuously improve supply chain processes and technologies.
- Continuously improve financial management processes and technologies.
CIO
Forrester takes a broad view of IT management. We analyze the traditional roles and responsibilities of the IT organization. Additionally, we recognize IT's role in driving business innovation; managing governance, risk, and compliance across the enterprise; and facilitating new business models that focus on shared specialized services.
Forrester's research for CIOs helps you:
- Drive smarter technology investments.
- Shape the IT organization for today and tomorrow.
- Create a culture of performance and value.
- Elevate the IT-business relationship.
- Prepare for the future — the role of the "21st-century CIO."
Enterprise Architecture Forrester delivers research and analysis that helps you provide value to IT and the business through your influence on IT's plans and projects. Forrester also provides focus as enterprise architects work to align IT with business plans, develop application strategies, and contribute to IT innovation.
Forrester's research for Enterprise Architecture professionals helps you:
- Create a high-impact EA program built on metrics, communications, and governance.
- Advance the adoption of SOA, BPM, and other service-oriented shifts.
- Integrate the architectural stovepipes of business, information, application, and technology.
- Find and dissect game-changing technologies.
Information & Knowledge Management
Forrester's in-depth research and focused analysis helps you streamline business processes, align business and IT goals, and implement effective information management applications. We help you determine how best to manage and use structured and unstructured information, as well as better understand the processes, policies, and organization needed to effectively govern that information. Additionally, we provide insight to help you craft a top-down information management strategy that addresses high-priority business processes and enterprise information requirements first.
Forrester's research for Information and Knowledge Management professionals helps you:
- Empower employees through Web 2.0 and next-generation collaboration tools.
- Drive productivity higher by putting content to use.
- Differentiate customer experiences through multichannel content delivery.
- Converge business information, processes, and rules.
- Deliver timely, trusted enterprise intelligence for efficiency and foresight.
- Mitigate business risks associated with unstructured information.
IT Infrastructure & Operations
Forrester helps you focus on present and emerging infrastructure architectures, selection of new technologies, implementation, and operational best practices. We provide insight on issues from data center design and performance to the end user's ability to conduct business — either remote or desktop. We also conduct research and analysis on networks, storage strategies, disaster recovery, systems management, and server hardware design configuration.
Forrester's research for IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals helps you:
- Automate and simplify IT processes.
- Consolidate IT for cost, efficiency and simplification.
- Deliver a resilient infrastructure.
- Enable user productivity through mobility.
- Maintain and optimize core IT systems.
- Stay ahead of next-generation data center and communication technologies.
Security & Risk Management
Forrester's Security & Risk Management research helps you better manage your portfolio of security risks, gain control over your critical information, protect your brand, comply with regulations, and build more secure infrastructures. Our research and advice provide insight into the broad landscape of risk, information security, technology security, people, budgets, process, and policy. We also help you work with the standards, regulations, and legislation that you face now — and in the future.
Forrester's research for Security & Risk Management professionals helps you:
- Prepare for next-generation security architectures.
- Run a business-oriented security program.
- Achieve and maintain IT compliance.
- Adopt a structured approach to governance, risk, and compliance.
- Protect the organization's information assets.
Sourcing & Vendor Management
Forrester's Sourcing research guides you through the mysteries of what technology and service providers can offer. We provide strategic and process advice around sourcing while also delivering subject-matter expertise about particular products or services being sourced. You are better able to partner with IT and business executives by improving your procurement processes and information, validating your sourcing decisions to ensure that you made the best choice, and providing strategic advice to your constituents.
Forrester's research also focuses on helping you manage the providers after the initial sourcing decision.
Forrester's research for Sourcing and Vendor professionals helps you:
- Execute best practices in vendor selection, contracting, and pricing.
- Navigate the evolving ecosystem of IT suppliers.
- Set a sourcing strategy that balances value, cost, and risk.
- Manage vendors for mutual success.
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