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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  • Stephen Powers
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Blog:What Is IT’s Role In Digital Customer Experience Strategies?

        This is a guest post from Anjali Yakkundi, a researcher serving application development & delivery professionals.  Organizations today often take a broad focus on digital customer...

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Blog:The North Plains/Xinet Acquisition: Not A DAM Game-Changer

      Guest post from Researcher Anjali Yakkundi North Plains, a legacy pure-play digital asset management (DAM) vendor based out of Toronto, Ontario, announced today that it has agreed to buy fellow...

      • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

        Report:Mobilize Your ECM Strategy

        The staggering rate of mobile device adoption today gives content and collaboration (C&C) professionals a good reason to plan ahead for offering mobile access to enterprise content. Demand for the...

        • Downloads: 575
      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Charts & Figures:Multichannel Customer Experiences Drive WCM Spending

      • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

        Tool:Enterprises Continue To Invest In ECM

      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Blog:Planes, Pains, and Multichannel Engagement

        Recently on a cross-country flight, I was just waking up when the flight attendant asked me what I wanted for lunch. She was a little annoyed because I kept her waiting while I  looked...

        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

          Report:Four Questions Guide Web Mobile Content Management Plans

          As consumers access online content on more devices — computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, eReaders, and even gaming consoles — managing and delivering digital content has grown...

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        • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

          Report:Got Content? You Need Information Architects

          The inability to find content, a lack of compliance, and poor customer experiences all add up to real costs. If you care about getting the right information to the right people at the right time and...

          • Downloads: 971
        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

          Blog:Oracle Acquires Another Piece of the CXM Puzzle With FatWire

          Oracle announced yesterday that it has agreed to buy web content management (WCM) vendor FatWire.  The prominent vendors in the WCM market have been flying off the shelves – relatively...

          • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

            Blog:Adobe Seizes The Day

            Adobe has gotten into the content management business, with its announcement earlier today of its intent to acquire Day software for $240 million. Day —with its WCM, DAM, and collaboration...

            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

              Tool:Customers Are Highly Engaged Across Multiple Channels

            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

              Blog:The Emergence Of CXM Solutions, And Why The Term “WCM” Lives On

              There has been a great deal of talk over the past few years about what acronym will replace WCM (web content management). Web experience management? Web site management? Web engagement management?...

              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                Report:The Seven C's Of Web Content Management

                The web content management (WCM) market is currently experiencing a significant evolution as requirements for those platforms have grown beyond just managing web content. Instead, organizations need...

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              • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

                Tool:The ECM Suite Remains More An Ideal Than A Reality

              • For Customer Experience Professionals

                Report:Contextualization

                Delivering Relevant Experiences In The Multichannel World

                Firms want to deliver the right experience to the right user at the right time and on the right device — a tricky proposition in this age of device proliferation. The splinternet — and...

                • Downloads: 433
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              • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

                Report:All Form Solutions Are Not Created Equal

                Demand For Web Self-Service And Standards Drive Market Transformation

                In 2006 Forrester identified Adobe and IBM as the clear market leaders in e-forms. At the time, e-forms emerged as the critical component to replace paper, leading to the digital forms of today that...

                • Downloads: 528
              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                Blog:Three CXM Trends For 2012

                As I recently celebrated my fifth anniversary as a Forrester analyst, I reflected on how my coverage area has changed. For the past five years I've covered the web content management (WCM)...

                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Report:Market Overview: Rich Media Management Software

                  Traditional Digital Asset Management Software Morphs Into New Categories

                  With online channel demands increasing, many organizations are taking a fresh look at rich media management. Often, companies lack the technology and/or strategy to properly manage and distribute...

                  • Downloads: 675
                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Report:Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences

                  Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

                  Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

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                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Report:The Forrester Wave™: Web Content Management For Online Customer Experience, Q3 2011

                  SDL And Adobe Lead The Way To Customer Experience Management (CXM)

                  The web content management (WCM) market is in transition. Functionality to enable publishing to the Web — whether internally or externally — has become commoditized. Yet now, the WCM...

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                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Report:Unify The Digital Experience Across Touchpoints

                  Vision: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

                  Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, goggles...

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                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Report:The Rich Media Management Mystery

                  What Does Digital Asset Management Mean?

                  In a world with increasing amounts of rich media assets and an increasing number of distribution channels, content and collaboration (C&C) pros are taking a closer look at rich media management...

                  • Downloads: 669
                • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                  Blog:An Interactive Discussion About Digital Customer Experience Strategies

                  Over the past year, we’ve been discussing — through our research and client interactions — the issues involved with digital customer experiences. What’s interesting about this...

                  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                    Blog:Four Points To Ponder In A Digitally Disruptive World

                    It’s amazing how quickly the world of digital experiences is changing technology, and vice-versa. I’ve covered web content management (WCM) since I joined Forrester in 2006, and that...

                    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                      Blog:The Revival Of Digital Asset Management

                        This is a guest post from Anjali Yakkundi, a Researcher at Forrester Research. It originally appeared on destinationCRM.    By now, everyone knows that engaging and dynamic customer...

                      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                        Report:Best Practices: Digital Asset Management

                        In a world with increasing numbers of rich media assets and a diverse set of distribution channels, content and collaboration (C&C) pros are taking a closer look at rich media management options....

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