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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Five Trends Are Changing Records Management Technologies And Practices

What Enterprise Architects Need To Know About The Shift From Records Management To Information Governance

Despite two decades of electronic records management (RM) evolution, fewer than 10% of enterprises admit to high levels of confidence in their approach to the governance of digital information. The...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: IOR Transformed To Increase Business Agility

Pragmatic Adoption Of SOA, Agile, Open Source, And Cultural Change Tactics Yielded Improved Business-IT Relationships And A More-Agile Organization

The Vatican Bank, or Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), transformed its application development and delivery organization over a three-year period to become: 1) agile — to respond to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Hudson's Move To Eclipse Will Bring Continuous Integration To A Wider Corporate Audience

Oracle's proposed contribution of the Hudson continuous integration project to the Eclipse Foundation bears further scrutiny, as Forrester expects that the reconstituted Eclipse Hudson project will...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:App Dev Teams Dispel The Compliance Boogeyman

The Real Effects Of Compliance Defy Expectations

Compliance does have an effect on application development and delivery — but not in the way that most people assume. In some aspects of software development, such as choice of methodology,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Sabre — A Culture Of Engagement

Sabre's Strategic Adoption Of Open Source Brings Unexpected Cultural Benefits

Sabre Holdings is an early adopter of Agile processes and open source technologies. The company was originally motivated to use open source as a tactic to avoid software capital costs, but along the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Open Source Business Intelligence (BI), Q3 2010

Actuate BIRT Leads, With Jaspersoft Enterprise, SpagoBI, Pentaho Enterprise, And Pentaho Community Close Behind

Comparing open source BI technologies is often an apples-to-oranges comparison: 1) not all vendors include the same functionality in the free community versions of the software versus commercial open...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Software Market 2010

Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Defying Gravity

Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), like their enterprise brethren, are shifting their technology focus from IT to business technology (BT). As their focus on business solutions — as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Mall Of Google

The Internet Ad Giant Shifts Emphasis To Include Enterprise IT

Open source is no longer a "don't ask, don't tell" secret in enterprise application development shops: Increased executive awareness and evolving open source business models are leading shops to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Implementing OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Finds Success When Fit To Purpose And Focused On People

A decade ago, OpenOffice.org promised a free and accessible productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office. By enterprise market share standards it's far from the success once envisioned. But for...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Enterprise Communications: The Next Decade

Ten Trends That Will Shape Unified Communications And Collaboration

Enterprise communications will continue to undergo significant changes during the next decade, as multimodal cloud services invade traditional communication products and services. Today's...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Take Advantage Of New Ways To Save Money On Database Costs

Today, databases and related infrastructure have grown to become a significant part of most IT budgets, and continued growth in the volume of data and the number of database applications threatens to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Microsoft Ups The ALM Ante With Its Bet On Teamprise

Expect VS 2010 To Accelerate The Shakeout In The Application Life-Cycle Management Market

Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS) has proven very popular with .NET developers but not so much with Eclipse developers. This presents a problem for Microsoft, because many of its largest...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Open Source eCommerce Solutions: Truths And Myths

Is Using An Open Source eCommerce Platform Solution Right For Your Business?

Open source eCommerce solutions are gaining the attention of eCommerce business and technology leaders, who are curious about their viability and applicability to their business needs. While open...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Enterprise Software Budgets And Initiatives

Consolidation, Modernization, And Collaboration Are Top Software Priorities

Budgeting and planning season is right around the corner, and an armful of new and unproven technologies and software initiatives promise to change the way IT conducts its business. IT organizations...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Software Market

Where Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Investing

Small and medium-size businesses' (SMBs') software priorities, investment levels, vendor relationships, buying processes, and use of IT differ significantly from large enterprises'. Technology...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The State Of SMB Software: 2009

Business Data Services North America And Europe

This document gives highlights of an extensive data set collected across North American and European small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) via our Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The State Of Enterprise Software: 2009

Business Data Services North America And Europe

This document gives highlights of an extensive data set collected across North American and European enterprises via our Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008. Hot...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Open Source IT Management Tools

Cost Is Not The Only Differentiator

With shrinking IT budgets and a continued need to control IT environments, the use of open source solutions to manage infrastructure and operations is no longer just an interesting experience but a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Enterprise Architects — Get A Handle On Open Source Software

Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008 revealed that software development teams are planning on pursuing and using open source software (OSS) and that...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Microsoft's Web Platform Expands To PHP

Microsoft Aims To Simplify Adoption Of PHP Web Apps On Windows

Blasphemy might be the first word that comes to mind when you hear Microsoft, PHP, and open source mentioned in the same breath. But no more: The new Microsoft Web Platform will offer simplified...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Open Source Software Goes Mainstream

Convert Your Cost-Cutting Crisis Into An OSS Opportunity

Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2008 makes it clear that open source software (OSS) is a top priority for software development professionals in 2009....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:IBM's Bid For Sun Is About More Than Just Solaris And Java

Sun's Innovations Can Improve IBM's Prospects Outside Enterprise Markets

Vendor strategists are calling Forrester asking what we make of the possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems. The conventional wisdom is that IBM wants to capture the Solaris/SPARC customer base to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Improve Development Effectiveness Through Strategic Adoption Of Open Source

Open source software (OSS) is getting renewed attention from application development professionals who are looking for cost-saving alternatives amid the economic recession. But many aren't asking the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Reliant Security Innovates With Open Source Software

Retailers that want to accept credit cards need to demonstrate that their systems are Payment-Card-Industry- (PCI-) compliant. The problem is that implementing PCI compliance can be expensive, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Latest BI Adoption Trends In Enterprises: Bright Future, But Off To A Slow Start

Our latest data shows that enterprises are slowly but surely beginning to adopt the newest BI features like open source, end-user self-service, and search-BI convergence.