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Blog:Calling eBusiness Technology Decision Makers - Forrester Needs Your Help

If you're an eCommerce technology decision-maker, we would love your help with our annual eBusiness technology investment panel survey. The survey is built to help eBusiness & Channel Strategy...

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Report:Optimize Your Mobile Banking Strategy

Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

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Blog:The State Of Canadian Online Retail 2013

Last week Forrester published a report on the state of online retail in Canada. We surveyed 1,103 adult online shoppers in Canada to understand what challenges the Canadian public face when shopping...

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Blog:SunTrust Reboots Its Digital Platform With Responsive Design

With mobile and tablet usage now mainstream, a big hurdle for eBusiness professionals is how to scale digital experiences across consumer touchpoints without dragging development momentum to a near...

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Blog:Commerce Server, Cactus Commerce & Ascentium - The Path Forward

In the words of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, everything flows and nothing stands still. This is certainly true of Ascentium, the Seattle based interactive agency that last year acquired Cactus...

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Report:Integration Challenges For Mobile Commerce

When the iPhone launched four years ago and triggered off the acceleration of mobile commerce, eBusiness leaders, eager to get their feet wet, went looking for solutions. For many, transcoding or...

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Report:Case Study: SunTrust Reboots Its Digital Platform

Responsive Web Design And Agile Development Prove A Winning Formula

With mobile and tablet usage now mainstream, Forrester believes that eBusiness teams must find time-to-market and cost efficiencies in their digital development processes. In previous research we...

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Blog:HTML5 – Maturing Desktop Browser Support Opens The Door To Enhanced Commerce Experiences

  eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are no strangers to HTML5. Ubiquitous support for the next generation of open web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) across...

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Report:Understanding Responsive Design

What eBusiness Teams Need To Know About The Future Of Multitouchpoint Web Design

The splinternet has created a headache for eBusiness leaders who must now support optimized commerce experiences across an increasingly complex landscape of web-enabled touchpoints. Maintaining...

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Blog:Apple's Retail Self-Checkout Is No iPhone 4S, This Really Is An Upgrade

For the next 2 minutes as you read this blog post, please try to forget about Apple the product company and instead focus on Apple the retailer. Two years ago, Apple undertook a worldwide roll out of...

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Report:Location-Based Commerce: An Evolution In Mobile Shopping

Since the dawn of mobile commerce, retailers have dreamed of leveraging location-based services to deliver an immersive multichannel experience for in-store shoppers. Retailers have experimented with...

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Report:Using Facebook Login To Your Advantage

Demystifying The Hype And Misconceptions Of Social Login For eBusiness

Everyone remembers Microsoft's Passport service, positioned to be a ubiquitous sign-on protocol across the Web and at one time adopted by web giants including eBay, Expedia, and Monster. However, the...

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Report:Market Overview: Mobile Commerce Solutions For Retail

In just two years, mobile commerce has matured from a nascent channel adopted by a few progressive companies to a critical commerce touchpoint. Today, mobile offerings must be both fully...

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Blog:Is Responsive Design The Future of Cross Touchpoint Web Development?

If you’ve been chatting with your web development team recently, you might recall them talking about responsive design. But, what is responsive design and why should eBusiness professionals be...

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Blog:The Brick-And-Mortar Renaissance

Since the 1970’s, retail stores have slowly undergone a digital evolution. POS systems replaced cash registers, credit cards became the payment norm, and security tags reminded shoppers to pay....

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Blog:An NRF Retrospective

As the annual retail pilgrimage to the Jacob Javits Center draws to a close, I started wondering if anything has changed since last year. As I met with Forrester’s retail clients during the...

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Report:Optimize Your Mobile Business

Continuous Improvement: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

Congratulations! Your mobile web store, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Business as usual is not an option, and change is...

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Blog:Unleashing The Location Potential In Your Mobile Commerce App

The consumer appetite for smartphones shows no signs of slowing in 2011 and neither does the growth of the mobile channel at leading retailers. eBusiness leaders, who have been focused on replicating...

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Blog:Hybris Secures An Additional $30M In Funding: What It Means

Today hybris announced it has secured an additional $30M in funding from two Silicon Valley VC giants (Meritech Capital Partners and Greylock Israel). This funding comes only 18 months after hybris...

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Blog:Mobile Commerce, There's An App For That

Mobile apps are undoubtedly cool, and executives at leading online retailers have been mandating a presence of their brand in the Apple and Android app stores, but eBusiness professionals must focus...

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Report:The Coming Of HTML5

Why It's Time To Think Seriously About Using HTML5 To Differentiate The Desktop Shopping Experience

With broad support across smartphone and tablet devices, HTML5 is already underpinning many mobile web experiences. However, adoption of the technology on the desktop has been slow to date due to...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Global Commerce Service Providers, Q1 2012

SapientNitro, Deloitte, And IBM GBS Lead, With A Strong Pack Of Contenders Close Behind

In Forrester's 72-criteria evaluation of the top 12 global commerce service providers (GCSPs), we found that SapientNitro, Deloitte, and IBM Global Business Services (GBS) led the pack with their...

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Blog:Navigating The Maze Of Mobile Commerce Solutions

Have you been sitting on the mobile commerce fence? Ready to make the jump? Good for you, but you may not be prepared for the maze of solutions and vendors at hand to help you implement your...

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Report:.Brand And The Impact For eBusiness

CMOs Must Drive Their Firms' Domain Strategy Now

A fundamental transformation of the way brands and consumers connect on the Internet is amid us. Icann, the authority responsible for Internet domains, has approved a plan to expand the 22 currently...

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Report:The State Of Canadian Online Retail — 2013

Forrester has partnered with Canada Post and Shop.ca to evaluate the changing trends in online retail in Canada. On paper, the Canadian online retail market has been going through a renaissance,...

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