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Blog:Office 2013 Launches

On Tuesday of this week, Microsoft launched Office 2013, the latest version of its flagship productivity suite. Forrester has released a report entitled Office 2013: A Breakthrough in Productivity; I...

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Client Inquiry:SaaS Enterprise Social Networks

Which enterprise social platforms vendors offer SaaS deployment models?

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Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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Client Inquiry:Enterprise Social Networking Market Size And Trends

What are the trends in the market size for enterprise social networking in North America? How will growth and adoption change these next few years?

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Report:The Information Workplace Light Burns Brighter

The Vendor Landscape Creates More Opportunity And Complexity

When Forrester introduced the concept of the Information Workplace (IW) in 2006 it was largely a vision of the future. Since then, much has changed. The world economy has suffered a prolonged...

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Report:Assessing The Skills You Need From SharePoint Professional Service Providers

Implementing SharePoint can be a broad and complex initiative. Given the depth and breadth of the product it's not surprising that SharePoint professional services firms come in all shapes and sizes....

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Blog:Enterprise Social, It's Time To...

My father was never one to use profanity, with one exception. In those instances when I was taking just too long to make a decision or show progress, he'd say, "Rob, it's time to ... or get...

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Report:IBM Case Manager Productizes The Information Workplace

The Information Workplace is moving from vision to reality. The best evidence is coming in the form of vendors offering broad, previously disparate functionality packaged together to solve common...

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Report:Staffing For SharePoint Success

SharePoint adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace. According to Forrester's July 2011 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey, 57% of organizations surveyed have already deployed SharePoint 2010 a...

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Blog:Some Thoughts on 2012 Before The Holidays

We're just about to the end of 2012 (and according to the Mayan calendar, the end of time) so I figured it was about the right time to put together some thoughts on the year.  Let's...

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Tool:Enterprise Social Tools Are Used To Address Broad Strategic Business Requirements

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Tool:Millennials Are Far More Likely To Use Social Tools Including Mobile Devices

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Report:The CIO's Role In The Social Business Policy

Policy And Procedures: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

A clear social business policy is an essential guide for employees using social and collaboration tools for customer engagement and for internal or partner collaboration. While it takes a...

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Blog:Delivering The Social Business Imperative

Forrester fields hundreds of client inquiries each year on the topic of social business and collaboration. And the trend doesn't appear to be slowing. Often the first question is, "How far behind...

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Blog:SharePoint, Meet Yammer; Is It Time For Microsoft To Burn The Boats?

In collaboration, there are cloud vendors, on-premises vendors and hybrid vendors. Here's the thing; hybrid vendors are not really cloud vendors. What do I mean by that? Let's look at two...

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Report:Disciplined Social Innovation

Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results

Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...

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Tool:Enterprise IT Investment In Innovation Will Be Substantial In 2010

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Client Inquiry:SaaS-Based Document Sharing Vendors

We need to provide shared documents to various external partners. Services we’ve seen in the past feel like a simplified, web version of SharePoint and require some form of dual factor...

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Blog:Collaboration Will Become More People-Centric In 2011 And Will Challenge C&C Pros

For a number of years now, Forrester has used the following definition for Web 2.0: A set of technologies and applications that enable efficient interaction among people, content and data in support...

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Report:Google Apps For Business: A 2011 Trip Report

Google Apps Business Is Growing; Mobile, Social, And APIs Move To The Fore

Forrester spent a day with Google Apps Vice President Dave Girouard and members of his team to hear the latest on Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government. With the US General Services...

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Tool:Collaboration Investments Are Closely Aligned With Business Goals

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Blog:Microsoft And Yammer Face A Sliding Doors Moment

In the wonderful movie Sliding Doors, Helen runs for a train and just makes it on as the doors are closing. Moments later we see her running again for the same train only to have the doors close a...

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Client Inquiry:Idea Management

What is the future vision for idea management? What are other companies doing? Who are the major leaders for idea management solutions? What are the industry best practices on how activities like...

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Blog:Google Drive Could Be Huge

Today Google announced Google Drive as a solution to store, share and synchronize content across multiple devices. Big deal? Yes, this could be a very big deal. Why? Here's the deal: Up until now...

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Blog:The Digital Disruption Changes Everything — Unless It Doesn't

I'm going to tell you a story of opportunity. I will warn you in advance that it paints the art of the possible, but ultimately it's a cautionary tale.  I have a 17-year-old son....