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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies

The Info Worker Population Will Grow From 555 Million To 865 Million By 2016, With Growth Markets Leading The Way

Employees that use Internet-connected computing devices for work — info workers — will trample the boundary between work and personal spheres. In this report, we summarize how it came to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Unleash Innovation With Good Governance

Governance: The Innovation Playbook

Does your organization struggle to innovate? As organizations work to acquire and maintain competitive differentiation in a global marketplace, they often look to innovation as a key strategic...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:How Consumerization Drives Innovation

Your Technology And Culture Create An Environment Of Empowered Employees

Consumerization — employees using devices, applications, and web services without permission — is a threat to the status quo and a risk to the security of the firm. But it's also a key...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise ETL, Q1 2012

Informatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Ab Initio, And Talend Lead, With Pervasive, Microsoft, And iWay Close Behind

In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Oracle, and SAP maintain leadership positions thanks to their ability...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Affluent Investors Seek Online Collaboration

Smart Full-Service Firms Will Use The Web To Connect Advisors And Clients

Forrester's data shows that more than one in four affluent US investors express interest in online collaborative advice tools such as co-browsing. In fact, the largest segment of affluent investors...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EAs: Use POST To Define Your Collaboration Strategy

An Empowered Document: Your Collaboration Strategy Should Be People-Centric, Not Tech-Centric

Technology is diffusing throughout your business, and traditional means of IT oversight have become less effective in this age of empowered HEROes. Enterprise architects (EAs) should use new means of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Rich Communication Services Can Unlock The Value Of Systems Of Engagement

The Joyn Initiative Will Help Evolve Engagement Strategies

As companies evolve their strategies to embrace systems of engagement, CIOs are likely to benefit from the emergence of a new major social media communications platform, rich communication services...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Turn Big Data Inward With IT Analytics

The Future Of Service Monitoring And Management

Your business is complex. Big data promises to manage this complexity to make better decisions. But the technology services that run your business are also complex. Many are too complex to manage...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Secret To Better Customer Service: High Data Quality

Business process professionals supporting customer service operations understand the need for data but do little to take responsibility for its quality. Data management professionals, on the other...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Tool:Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software Adoption

For CIO Professionals

Report:Enable Workplaces Of The Future, Now!

Flexible Work And Cowork Redefine Workplace Diversity

If you haven't heard the latest office gossip, you might want to figure out why. As workers increasingly work from home, a coffee shop, a public library, the train, or one of the new coworking...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:What You Must Know About Data Privacy Regulations In Asia Pacific

Be Ready To Comply With Dynamic Regulatory Changes

Understanding the laws and regulations that govern data privacy across your organization is critical for any company, but it can be challenging. As a result, too many security and risk (S&R)...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Creating An Enterprise Database Security Plan

Planning Helps Improve Security And Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements

Hackers continue to break into critical databases across the globe, largely because of gaps in database security implementations and lack of cohesive controls. Although enterprises can pass...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Tool:The Current State Of Legal Hold Deployed With Message Archiving Is Abysmal

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Tool:Advanced Virtual Machine Backup Methods

For CIO Professionals

Report:Assess Your Mobile Engagement Maturity

Assessment: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

CIOs, as the leaders driving technology strategy, must develop a mobile engagement strategy that embraces the needs of customers, partners, and employees. Don't get bogged down in the minute details...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: European Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose Digital Experience Tools To Engage With Customers In A Cross-Channel World

Tools And Technology: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Systems that support digital experiences present challenges to tech buyers, who are discovering a vast and immature market. Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals face a...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are Typical DBA Salary Ranges, And How Large Are The Talent Pools For The Various RDBMS Types?

We'd like an analyst to speak to the following two questions: 1) What are the typical salary ranges for each of the following database administrator (DBA) positions: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and...