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Report:The Standalone Business Rules Platform Market Segment Should Be Growing Faster

Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms In 2013

The market for business rules technologies is healthy, but the standalone platform segment is growing more slowly than it should. Most enterprises should use standalone business rules platforms to...

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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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Report:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition

Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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Report:Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey Results

This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey.  The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

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Report:Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences

Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

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Report:Creating Your Transformation Strategy For Digital Experience Delivery

Strategic Plan: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience is the next big opportunity for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Business leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and support need advice and...

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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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Report:The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks

The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework

One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

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Report:Unify The Digital Experience Across Touchpoints

Vision: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, goggles...

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Report:Achieve Cloud Economics For Operations And Services

Executive Overview: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for its use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted cloud services in an ad hoc...

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Report:Understanding Cloud's Multitenancy

Architectures To Balance Economies Of Scale And Security

True cloud services all use some mode of multitenancy — the ability for multiple customers (tenants) to share the same applications and/or compute resources. It is through multitenant...

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Report:Office 365: Version Two Of SharePoint In The Cloud

There's an old adage that says it takes Microsoft three times to get it right. Its commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is clearly evident in its investment in data centers, a costly retrofitting of...

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Report:Decision Time: Is SharePoint In The Cloud For You?

Early Adopters Outline The Promise And Prerequisites For Success

The days of Microsoft SharePoint being only a locally installed software product are over. Microsoft's commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is evident in its massive data-center investments, its...

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Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

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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:The New Productivity Platforms: Your Solution To The AD&D Crunch

Promise And Pitfalls On The Road To Faster Application Delivery

For fast delivery of new business applications, conventional Java and .NET are often no longer the best choices. Instead, a generation of new productivity platforms holds the potential to speed...

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Report:New Productivity Platforms: Our Interactive Vendor Profiles

A Companion Tool For The New Productivity Platforms

A wide range of vendors offer new productivity platforms, and they rely on several major strategies to speed development, deployment, and evolution of applications. Some of these platforms are best...

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Report:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong

The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...

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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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Report:How To Become A BT Leader — And Leave IT Order-Taking Behind

Three Cases Show The Path To App Delivery's High-Value Career Choices

How application development and delivery professionals serve the business is changing, calling for new delivery methods, organizational models, roles, and processes. The change: App delivery pros...

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Report:The Business Architect: Your Catalyst For Spearheading Business Process Transformation

If you've not yet heard the term "business architect" in your travels, you soon will. Whether business architects report into the business or IT, this emerging role will help usher in organizations'...

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Report:The Business Architect Cometh

Embrace This New Role To Drive Business Technology Transformation

You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. This emerging role will be vital in leading business transformation, including your own improvements...

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Report:Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011

Which Are The Safe And Best Choices Now

After two years of vendor consolidation, which are the best business rules platforms for application development and delivery professionals to consider? In our judgment, based on growth rates, market...

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Report:The Future Of Business Rules Platforms

Customers Are Moving To Event And Decision Management

Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...

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