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Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...
Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity
The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

Deriving More Business And Economic Models From Cloud Computing
One of the key principles of cloud computing is the sharing of resources across various infrastructure domains and locations. As more clients get to use the different resource pools available and...

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing
Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...
Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...
Business Data Services North America And Europe
This document provides 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...
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 2009. Hot...

Software AG And TIBCO Challenge IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, And SAP
The middleware software market went through a sequence of paradigm changes in the past three decades. Most vendors offer middleware portfolios with various software components from basic application...
Middleware Vendors Must Fight For Awareness In A Consolidating Market While Offering Cloud Innovations
Forrester's market momentum data includes mergers and acquisitions (M&A), product, partnership, and strategy/go-to-market announcements. A trend analysis provides vendors with important background...
Forrester's First Proposal Of A Cloud Taxonomy
Despite the current crisis, the demand for cloud computing is growing at enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Some customers consider virtual infrastructure in the Internet as...
A New $15-Billion-Plus Market Awaits Vendors
The increasing adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) across the world requires software vendors to look for a more efficient way of deploying business applications on multitenant platforms....
How Outsourcing Providers Can Turn Cloud Computing And SaaS From Threats Into Opportunities
While cloudy vendor marketing is creating customer confusion, cloud computing represents a powerful force that will change the IT services landscape. Public and private clouds in particular represent...
A Tool To Guide ISVs, Hosting Providers, And Middleware Vendors To A SaaS Future
Increasing customer demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications has already convinced 50% of software vendors to deploy some of their business applications via SaaS. The approach is turning...
SWOT Analysis: Cordys, Q4 2008
Cordys is one of the few promising new entrants into the integration and process improvement middleware market; it was recently named a leader in the Forrester Wave™ of integration-centric...
Is The Financial Crisis The Dawn Of A Technology Depression?
The financial crisis is hitting industries across the globe. As a result, the financial industry and other affected industries will clearly spend less on software licenses in 2009 in most regions....
Transforming Vendor Strategy While Managing Customer Expectations
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the hottest trend in both CRM and the small and midsize business (SMB) market in general. While SaaS appears to be a threat to software vendors with traditional...