Outsourcing

While there are many types of outsourcing, in general it refers to contracting a business process or function previously performed in-house to an outside entity. Research coverage includes application outsourcing, data center outsourcing, and hosting and managed services.

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  • Noel Yuhanna
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Tool:Mobile Development Popularity Is Now On Companies' Radar More Than Ever

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    Blog:Strong Growth And Innovation Seen For Information-As-A-Service In 2011

    Over the course of this year, I’ve spoken with many organizations that are continuing to expand their usage of information-as-a-service (sometimes called data services) to support new business...

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      Blog:Database Migrations Are Finally Becoming Simpler

      Lately I have been getting quite a few inquiries on database migrations asking me about migration approaches, best practices, and tooling. Some of the reasons why companies are looking...

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        Charts & Figures:Mobile Development Popularity Is Now On Companies' Radar More Than Ever

        Specialized Data Management Options Abound — Are Any Right For Your Apps?

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        Tool:Data Volume Growth Remains A Major Concern For Most

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        Blog:Take Part In Forrester's Database Management Survey

        Forrester is currently running a database management survey assessing the state of the database market. We are surveying companies across various verticals to understand the type of DBMS...

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          Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

          The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

          Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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          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...

          • Downloads: 527
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          Report:NoSQL Offers New Options To Application Developers

          Overcoming RDBMS Limitations Enables New Application Patterns

          Business growth and speed are driving new application and data requirements that demand different approaches to data management. Although relational databases are great for most business...

          • Downloads: 653
        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

          Report:Stay Alert To Database Technology Innovation

          Specialized Data Management Options Abound — Are Any Right For Your Apps?

          Growth in the volume and pace of business is driving new application and data requirements that are often well beyond the design limits of existing relational database technologies. These include...

          • Downloads: 1147
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          Report:Your Enterprise Data Archiving Strategy

          Data Archiving Is A Flexible Technology That Delivers Many Use Cases

          With growing data volume, increasing data security breaches, and complex application-performance issues, most enterprises today face significant data management challenges. Keeping inactive data...

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          Report:Database Tools Fill Gaps In Vendors' Bundled Tools

          DBAs Gain Advanced Yet Usable Features For Heterogeneous DBMS

          Vendors continue adding new and improved database administration features to their database management systems (DBMS) to automate more functions, yet enterprises with large and complex environments...

          • Downloads: 449
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          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...

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            Report:The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011

            IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind

            In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...

            • Downloads: 779
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            Report:Market Overview: Database Security, 2011

            Database Security Solutions Mature While The Market Consolidates

            Enterprise databases continue to experience growing attacks despite enhanced security processes and increasing database security approaches. Security gaps in solutions persist in intelligent...

            • Downloads: 812
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            Report:SQL Azure Raises The Bar On Cloud Databases

            Ease Of Use, Integration, Reliability, And Low Cost Make It A Compelling Solution

            Over the past six months, Forrester interviewed 26 companies using Microsoft SQL Azure to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that SQL Azure delivers a reliable cloud database...

            • Downloads: 518
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            Report:The Future Of Customer Data Management

            Vision: The Customer Data Management Playbook

            Customer data is the lifeblood of the contemporary enterprise. It's used in virtually every function of the business, including product research, design, and development; advertising and marketing...

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            Report:The Steadily Growing Database Market Is Increasing Enterprises' Choices

            An Overview Of The Enterprise Database Management System Market In 2013

            Business demand for more applications, larger databases, and new analytics initiatives is driving innovation and growth in the database market, with new options for cloud, in-memory, mobility,...

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            Report:Why Enterprise Database Security Strategy Has Become Critical

            This presentation discusses database security trends and drivers, current database security challenges, why enterprises should focus on an enterprisewide database security strategy, the three pillars...

            • Downloads: 42
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            Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012

            Four Leaders And Four Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The Enterprise Cloud Database Market

            Cloud database offerings represent a new space within the broader data management platform market, providing enterprises with an abstracted option to support Agile development and new social, mobile,...

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            Tool:Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 '11

          • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

            Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 '12

          • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

            Blog:How Many DBAs Do You Need To Support Databases?

            I frequently get asked the question of how many databases a DBA typically manages. Over the past five years, I have interviewed hundreds of organizations on this topic, asking them about...

            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

              Blog:Join Our Data Management Tweet Jam On MDM’s Next Evolution: Tuesday, July 20, 3-4 PM ET

              Many large organizations have finally “seen the light” and are trying to figure out the best way to treat their critical data as the trusted asset it should be. As a result, master...

              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                Report:Case Study: EMC Tames Oracle ERP Data Growth

                Informatica Helps Archive Data To Improve Performance And Lower Cost

                Like most large organizations, EMC struggles with the performance and manageability of mission-critical applications because of increased data volume and user numbers. In the past, EMC added more...

                • Downloads: 238
              • 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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