Forrester

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends In Aligning Capabilities, Skills, And Tools For BPM COE Programs

These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Master 10 Trends For Your Cloud Journey

Road Map: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:European IT Outsourcing — A Review Of A Market In Transition

The European outsourcing market has continued to see a high level of activity over the past 24 months, with Forrester tracking 340 deals in 2010 and 220 deals in the first half of 2011. However, as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Top Three Ways Manufacturers Can Drive Higher Conversion Rates Through The Online Retail Channel

A Joint Study With Channel Intelligence Examines Best Practices Regarding Online Conversion

To better understand how manufacturers can increase the ultimate conversion rate on leads they send to online retailer websites, Forrester teamed up with Channel Intelligence to analyze the patterns...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Establishing A Global Direct Online Sales Footprint

An Analysis Of B2C Manufacturers' International Expansion

Global brands are increasingly looking to sell direct on their own websites — and not just in their home markets. After examining the global direct-to-consumer sales presence of manufacturers...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Importance Of True International Marketing Content

Tech vendors are likely underperforming in international markets because their central marketing teams do not successfully integrate inputs from their field marketing colleagues about local market...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2012 To 2013

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases

Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Case Study: Caterpillar Aligns Business And IT To Build Customer Value And Power Growth

Caterpillar has encountered a dramatic shift in the buying process as its customers move to digital channels to learn about and support construction equipment. While reinforcing its traditional...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Convenience And Utility Score The Mobile Engagement Value

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The New Paradigm Of Retail

Vision: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

Agile commerce promises to change the offers that retailers provide and the ways in which consumers buy; as a result, the look and feel of retail is certain to change in lockstep. All retailers will...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Information And Communications Technology Industry Opportunities In Professional Services

Vendors Should Target This Large And Growing Industry

The professional services industry presents both opportunities and challenges for tech vendors. The opportunities? Professional services is one of the largest industries in terms of tech purchases,...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Process-Driven Business Of 2020

Why And How To Shift From Incremental Improvement To Transformation

Business executives expect the CIO to help continuously improve processes by implementing major software suites, developing new apps, or enhancing existing processes. Spurred by the great recession,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Spotlight On Award-Winning Communities

Processes: The B2B Online Community Playbook

This report showcases the exemplary community processes into practice by Forrester's 2011 Groundswell Award winners and finalists. These community leaders did not achieve success by luck, rather they...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Search Engine Marketing Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (Western Europe)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Financial Services Affluent Survey 2013

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in January 2013 of 1,051 affluent US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,051), there is 95%...

For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Selecting Technologies That Support The Business

Technology Vision Toolkit: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook

This toolkit is a companion to the "Track Tech Trends That Influence Business Strategies" report from the BT Strategic Planning playbook. It presents a simple yet effective tool for targeting...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Client Inquiry:How Are Brands Encouraging Social Interaction On Mobile Devices?

How are brands using social and encouraging consumers to interact with social on mobile devices, especially in automotive?

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:SAP In The Cloud: Market Update And Lessons Learned From Early Adopters

The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Humdrum Hardware: Why Google And Microsoft Are Goading Their Partners To Innovate

Google Nexus and Microsoft Surface Force OEMs To Up Their Games

Google's and Microsoft's efforts to launch first-party hardware, form exclusive partnerships, and acquire partners are disrupting the status quo within their ecosystems. These changes are driven...

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