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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition

Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Pivot Your Data Strategy And Architecture To Unleash Business Transformation

Assessment: The Data Management Playbook

Enterprise architects who drive data management strategy must contend with new data source platforms and complex consumption and analysis scenarios. Current data management systems were built as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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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:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs Must Champion Engaging Employee Experiences

CIOs' Focus On The Workforce Experience Aligns Technology With Strategies To Engage And Motivate Productive Workers

Innovative products and services plus a laser focus on the customer are the engines of growth in the information economy. To succeed, business leaders must recruit, develop, and sustain an engaged...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrsights: Winning Software Strategies

Unveiling The Software Strategies Of Top-Performing Companies

During November 2011 and December 2011, Forrester surveyed 2,438 software decision-makers across Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US to determine their spending priorities around software. To...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Map The ECM Journey To A Successful Project

Road Map: The Content Management Playbook

This report outlines the enterprise content management (ECM) road map for enterprise architecture professionals working on content management. An ECM road map that maps the ECM components to a time...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:2013 Forrester Mobile Security Predictions

The mobile market is evolving rapidly. Both the consumer and enterprise markets are experiencing major changes. Room exists for new innovations as well as for established players to develop new...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview: IT Services In China, 2013

Businesses Now Have More Options To Drive Competitive Differentiation In China

China has entered a new phase of economic development, driven by government focus on expanding the domestic market. This transition will have a significant impact on private and public organizations...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Playbook:The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

Protect And Manage Your Critical Information Assets

Data is the lifeblood of today's digital businesses, and for economic and even political gain, highly skilled cybercriminals are determined to steal it. Meanwhile, customers around the globe have...

For CIO Professionals

Report:Open Data Changes The Business Of Government

Open Data Pioneers Offer Lessons For Launching Initiatives

Data has become quite the buzzword lately, with everyone looking to mine their big data for customer insights, operational efficiencies, and business performance improvement. Governments are no...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Assemble A Strong Cross-Functional Team To Achieve ECM Program Excellence

Organization: The Content Management Playbook

Successful enterprise content management (ECM) implementations require an ongoing partnership between IT, compliance, and line-of-business managers. Strict top-down initiatives or monolithic...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact

Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Drive Business Insight With Effective BI Strategy

Executive Overview: The Business Intelligence Playbook

How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Navigating Diversity In Operating Systems And Browsers

Heterogeneity Is Here — And Mobility Is Driving It Further

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals face a splintered landscape of operating systems (OSes) and browsers, which complicates investment decisions tied to what they deploy and support for...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: US Retail eBusiness

As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Contextual Delivery And Cross-Channel Analytics Revolutionize Digital Experiences

Landscape: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

AD&D pros have had an uphill journey to support digitally enabled customer experiences as they navigate the coordination of existing investments and management of a complicated technology ecosystem....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Playbook:The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...

For CIO Professionals

Report:Rich Communication Services Can Unlock The Value Of Systems Of Engagement

The Joyn Initiative Will Help Evolve Engagement Strategies

As companies evolve their strategies to embrace systems of engagement, CIOs are likely to benefit from the emergence of a new major social media communications platform, rich communication services...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q1 2013

Predictive analytics enables firms to reduce risks, make intelligent decisions, and create differentiated, more personal customer experiences. But predictive analytics is hard to do without the right...

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