Forrester

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Mobility Adoption Is Poised For Strong Growth In India

An Improving Mobility Infrastructure And Ecosystem, Combined With Business And Workforce Demand, Is Fueling Growth

The enterprise mobility market presents a huge opportunity for tech vendors in India, especially for telcos and systems integrators (SIs). Mobility is among the top priorities for business...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Delivering Custom Apps For Competitive Advantage

Global Firms Assemble Custom Apps To Support Key Processes

Manufacturers in mature industries such as automotive or more recently aerospace have evolved from making every component to focusing on market requirements and designing and managing "bought in"...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:ESBs See Rapid Growth Outside SOA's Shadow

ESB Use Cases Are About Much More Than SOA

Forrester is one among many organizations that positions an enterprise service bus (ESB) as service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure, and ESBs are indeed effective in supporting the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Revamp Your Organization For Agile And Lean

Skills And Staffing: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the skills and staffing part of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs act...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create Agile Processes For Introducing Emerging Technology

Processes: The Emerging Technology Playbook

With its careful approach to planning technology investments and general aversion to risk, IT is not meeting business demands for emerging technology as a driver for innovation and growth. Enterprise...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Feeding Frenzy Over The Mobile Developer Channel

Lessons For Winning Developer Support From The Smartphone/Tablet Battlefield

Every significant technology leap forward, such as the emergence of viable smartphone and tablet platforms, catalyzes competitive turbulence among tech companies seeking developer attention. But the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Application Infrastructure Strategies Affirm A Need For Greater Flexibility

Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey

Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that many financial services firms need to refocus their application infrastructure strategies to fully align with...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Managing Mobile Complexity

Demand For Enterprise Mobility Solutions Creates Vendor Opportunities

Enterprise mobility momentum remains a hot area of opportunity for vendors. Enterprises are prioritizing mobility initiatives as a key strategic focus, expanding the use of smartphone devices, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Adoption Of SOA: Still Strong, Even In Hard Times

Current Use Of SOA Advances 27% Among Enterprises, 45% Among SMBs

Service-oriented architecture continues to find a welcome home in both enterprises and SMBs. Even during the Great Recession, all sizes of organizations moved ahead in their adoption of SOA. Global...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Building Secure iPhone And iPad Apps

Best Practices You Must Enforce With App Developers

As consumer devices such as iPhones and iPads proliferate in the enterprise and among consumers, the number of organizations interested in custom development of mobile applications is steadily on the...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Opportunities In The SMB Cloud Services Market

SMBs' strong adoption of cloud computing is well known. What is less well understood is how SMBs are adopting cloud for various technology categories relative to one another.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Move Your Business Analysts To An Adaptive, Tool-Kit-Driven Requirements Approach

Are you still using prescriptive, template-driven business analysis and requirements approaches? Do you continue to see projects delivered late and over budget? Incomplete or incorrect software...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Financial Services Firms' Technology Stacks Indicate A Desire For Vendor Independence

Findings From Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey

Forrester's Q3 2010 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey shows that financial services firms fall into two groups: One focuses on single vendor technology stacks, allowing for easier...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part One: Solution Deployments

ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice

Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Five Strategies For Leading Diverse, Distributed Teams To Success

Leading teams is a job not for the faint of heart — particularly when those teams are multicultural, geographically distributed, and composed of individuals who work for multiple companies with...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Justify Agile With Shorter, Faster Development

Business Impact: The Agile And Lean Playbook

This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:CIO Perspectives On App Dev: We Need New Approaches To Deliver Applications Faster

Many CIOs are on the hot seat to innovate by delivering increasingly critical applications more quickly. To keep up with the accelerated pace of business, CIOs and application development and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Feast Or Beggar's Banquet?

Landscape: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Enterprises are facing challenges with mobile enablement that are similar in many ways to technology challenges we've seen in the past — yet these challenges are coming with ferocity unlike...

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