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Market Heat Returns After A Prolonged Cooldown
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. The results indicate a growing market: We counted nearly 20% more deals in 2012 than in 2011 among firms that...

Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. Our analysis of these deals by region reveals that growth ranged widely — from slight shrinkage to...
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...


Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions
Some people say that the old Maya calendar predicts that the world will end in the year 2012. Will this happen? Most likely no. Without judging anybody’s beliefs in this ancient calendar: Some...
The 2012 Survey Shows Global Activity And A Strong Regional Focus
Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals. Our regional analysis shows that varying levels of vendor success caused fluctuations in regional activity...

A Tool For Initial Steps Toward Selection Of A Transformation Service Firm
Forrester surveyed six global transformation service firms with focused offerings in the off-the-shelf banking platform space. Their transformation service offerings are broad and rich, covering many...
The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation
Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...
2011 Saw Changes To Functional Demand But Not To How Functionality Gets Delivered
Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals and analyzed the results to find patterns in the functionality sold. Our analysis shows that the key...

During the past decade, I have worked with many analyst relations (AR) people as well as specialist AR firms. I have never blogged about them in the past, and I have no intention to do so in the...
TCS, Infosys, Sopra Banking Software, And Temenos Lead, With SAP, FIS, And Polaris FT Pursuing
In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of global banking platform vendors, we identified the eight most significant software providers — FIS, Infosys, Oracle, Polaris Financial Technology...

When designing application infrastructure strategy, planning for the renewal of their application landscape, or assessing their overall strategic position, banks and other types of firms in financial...
Service-Oriented Architecture Has Reached A Mature State In Banking
Today's financial services firms often find their application landscape can no longer cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online...
The 2012 Survey Indicates Tighter Competition
In early 2012, Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals. Survey results indicate a consolidating market: Counted deal volume for firms included in the...

Small Banks Are Cloud Providers' Primary Target Market In The Banking Space
The cloud has become a key topic for many firms in many industries, including banking. In the future, banks should leverage the potential of public and community cloud solutions if they want to...
One of our recent surveys on business applications shows that more than 60% of business and business technology (BT) decision-makers consider consolidating, rationalizing, and transforming...
Less than a week ago, initial information became public that Misys and Temenos may intend to merge. On February 7, 2012, a press release stated that “Temenos and Misys today confirm that they...
Road Map: The Business Applications Playbook
Firms are often torn between forces driving application change or transformation and the overarching desire for cost management. At the same time, they often struggle to deliver projects on time and...

Next week, I will present first results of Forrester’s 2012 global banking platform deals survey. A total of 28 banking platform vendors submitted their 2012 deals for evaluation. One year ago,...
Being A Systems Integrator Is No Longer Enough
Many banks struggle to find the right systems integrator (SI) or service partner to support their banking platform transformation initiative. Forrester talked with six vendors providing...
