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Report:Define Your Mobile Development Strategy

Use Forrester's Mobile POST Method To Create A Mobile Development Plan

Developing mobile applications used to be an arcane activity pursued by highly specialized developers, but no more. The surge in popularity of Android devices, BlackBerries, and iPhones has...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010

Atlassian, CollabNet, IBM, Microsoft, MKS, And Rally Lead The Pack

In Forrester's evaluation of Agile development management (ADM) tool vendors, we found that IBM and MKS led the pack with the best overall current feature sets. Atlassian, CollabNet, and Microsoft...

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Report:The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010

After The Recession, The New Normal Will Remain "Lean And Mean"

Niccolò Machiavelli said it best: "Never waste the opportunities created by a good crisis." Over the past year, the Great Recession has forced everyone in IT to think differently about where to...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010

Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind

Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...

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Report:The Mobile Architecture Imperative

Architect For Thin And Thick Mobile Clients For The Next Five Years

The past eight years have shown little business adoption of mobile applications beyond wireless email and a few key applications. As a result, firms have been able to limp along without comprehensive...

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Report:Behind "Cloud" Is Your Future Application Environment: Ultra Modular Computing

Shift Cloud Excitement To Your Own Data Centers

Cloud computing is all the rage, but its greatest benefit may be to teach IT organizations how to build flexible and cost-efficient private data centers. The technical foundations of cloud computing...

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Report:Building Mobile Apps? Start With Web; Move To Hybrid

Strategic Plan: The Mobile App Development Playbook

In the past year, we've handled more than 200 client inquiries regarding what technology approach best suits mobile app development needs. The most common question we field is: "Should we go with a...

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Report:The Widget Zoo: A Developer's Taxonomy

Web widgets are another example of a consumer-focused Web 2.0 technology that is starting to wend its way into the enterprise. There are many different species of widgets, but developers can divide...

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Report:Market Overview: Enterprise Data Modeling

A Steady State Market Prepares To Enter A Transformational New Phase

Over the past five years, selecting a data modeling tool has meant choosing between three leading vendors: CA, Embarcadero Technologies, and Sybase. In a slowly growing market, these vendors have...

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Report:Best Practices: Building High-Performance Application Development Teams

Lead Business Technology Growth Through Empowered App Dev Teams

As businesses look forward to the end of another recession, IT leaders have shifted their priorities toward growth, but many development shops struggle to support it. "Partner Player" development...

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Report:Best Practices: Improve Development Effectiveness Through Strategic Adoption Of Open Source

Open source software (OSS) is getting renewed attention from application development professionals who are looking for cost-saving alternatives amid the economic recession. But many aren't asking the...

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Report:Mobile Development Goes Multiplatform

iPhone And Android Top The List Of Devices Developers Target

The year 2010 was when mobile application development began crossing the chasm from early adopters to mainstream application development shops. But what started as "We need an iPhone app!" has now...

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Report:Developing Enterprise Web 2.0 Applications

New Business Opportunities Reward Flexibility And Adjustment

The hype about Web 2.0 often obscures the practical benefits of this set of technologies, applications, and concepts. Development teams have begun using Web 2.0 user interface technologies,...

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Report:The Future Of Mobile Application Development

Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook

With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

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Report:The Future Of Java

Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model

Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...

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Report:Five Ways To Streamline Release Management

"Next Practices" That Will Improve Release Visibility And Speed

Our first release management survey confirms that IT leaders are frustrated with slow software delivery, including dissatisfaction with the release management process. While Agile speeds software...

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Report:The State Of Application Development In Enterprises And SMBs

Forrsights North America And Europe

Forrester surveyed 933 technology decision-makers and approximately 2,500 developers at North American and European enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to understand the state of...

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Report:Securing Rich Internet Applications

This past year, Forrester saw dramatic growth in the number of developers and application platform decision-makers that indicate that they are using rich Internet application (RIA) frameworks. As...

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Report:Open Source Adoption: Notes From The Field

Adoption Moves Up The Stack, But Concerns Vary By Region

At Forrester's IT Forum EMEA 2008, we met with application development and enterprise architecture professionals from European firms that are actively using open source software and spoke with them...

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Report:With "11g," Oracle Steps Out Of IBM's Middleware Shadow

New Release Will Also Blast Past SAP NetWeaver And Challenge Microsoft

The latest release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, dubbed "11g," establishes Oracle as the innovator among Java platform vendors. The first modules of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g — the core Java...

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Report:Embracing The Open Web: Web Technologies You Need To Engage Your Customers, And Much More

The open Web is a culture, a community — and a set of preferred technologies for Internet applications. While HTML5 is the best known of these technologies, the open Web also includes...

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Report:Build Great Mobile Apps That Drive Engagement

Executive Overview: The Mobile App Development Playbook

The mobile shift is driving your business peers and customers to expect (and demand) support across a wide variety of smartphones and tablets. But building mobile apps is different from building...

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Report:Open Source Software Goes Mainstream

Convert Your Cost-Cutting Crisis Into An OSS Opportunity

Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008 makes it clear that open source software (OSS) is a top priority for software development professionals in 2009....

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Report:JAVA Under Oracle: Seven Things You Need To Know

Java Standards Will Narrow; MySQL, ADF, And JDeveloper Will Expand

Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems (ticker symbol: JAVA) will give it control over two of the most widely used application development technologies in the industry: the Java platform and...

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Report:Software Configuration Management Tool Adoption Trends In The Americas

Over the past three years, respondents to Forrester's annual Enterprise And SMB Software Survey have demonstrated increasing awareness and adoption of application life-cycle management (ALM)...

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