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Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide An Overview Of .NET Platform Adoption?

Is .NET a widely adopted platform in the financial/insurance industry, and what is the decreased time-to-market as a result of the adoption? Additionally, how is vendor package support for .NET, and...

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Report:Achieve Cloud Economics For Operations And Services

Executive Overview: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Cloud computing has reached an inflection point for enterprises — a comprehensive strategy for its use is now required. Until now, most companies had adopted cloud services in an ad hoc...

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Blog:Create Your Transformation Strategy For Digital Experience Delivery

  Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook (warning: pay wall) to advise application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders on...

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Report:New Productivity Platforms: Our Interactive Vendor Profiles

A Companion Tool For The New Productivity Platforms

A wide range of vendors offer new productivity platforms, and they rely on several major strategies to speed development, deployment, and evolution of applications. Some of these platforms are best...

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Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

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Report:The Future Of Business Rules Platforms

Customers Are Moving To Event And Decision Management

Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...

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Blog:The New Productivity Platforms: Your Solution To The AD&D Crunch

For fast delivery of new business applications, conventional Java and .NET coding is usually no longer your best choice. Instead, a generation of new productivity platforms holds the potential to...

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Blog:The Future Of Java

Java’s future will be constrained by the bounds of Oracle's business model. Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun...

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Report:Office 365: Version Two Of SharePoint In The Cloud

There's an old adage that says it takes Microsoft three times to get it right. Its commitment to SharePoint in the cloud is clearly evident in its investment in data centers, a costly retrofitting of...

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Blog:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Rob Koplowitz and I collaborated on this research. Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research uses data from Forrester’s August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey...

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Blog:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

I prepared this research with Rob Koplowitz. The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on Microsoft SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and...

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Blog:Business Rules Platforms 2011: 3 Vendors Have Strongest Positions

After two years of vendor consolidation, which are the best business rules platforms for application development and delivery professionals to consider? In our judgment, based on growth rates, market...

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Blog:App Development Managers Should Care About Oracle’s Suit Against Google

As much fun as the juicy details of the Oracle-Google lawsuit are, the meaning of the suit for enterprise application development managers is, well, philosophical. Aside from sweating over the legal...

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Report:How To Become A BT Leader — And Leave IT Order-Taking Behind

Three Cases Show The Path To App Delivery's High-Value Career Choices

How application development and delivery professionals serve the business is changing, calling for new delivery methods, organizational models, roles, and processes. The change: App delivery pros...

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Report:Cloud Computing Brings Demand For Elastic Application Platforms

EAPs Ease Delivery Of Elastic Apps, Smoothing A Path To Cloud's Benefits

Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down) oversimplify what it takes to develop application architectures to...

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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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Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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Blog:Progress Software Lowers Its Sights

Clay Richardson, Mike Gilpin, and I collaborated on this blog post. I don’t normally blog in response to news events, but I feel obligated to blog about Progress Software’s strategy...

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Blog:The Business Architect Cometh

[Forrester Principal Analyst Alexander Peters, PhD. and I collaborated on this research.] You may have heard the term "business architect" in your travels; if you haven't, you soon will. A...

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Blog:Future Of Business Rules Platforms: Events And Decision Management

Business rules platforms are a mature technology for automating decision and policy logic and for managing fast changes to that logic to keep up with business changes. Now customers are seeking more:...

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Report:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong

The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...

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Report:Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms 2011

Which Are The Safe And Best Choices Now

After two years of vendor consolidation, which are the best business rules platforms for application development and delivery professionals to consider? In our judgment, based on growth rates, market...

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Blog:Big Data: The Worst Category Name Ever

Grant me a "crabby old guy" rant on big data. I continually hear people in our industry using the term big data as a product-category name -- and confusing everyone about the business value of big...

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Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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Blog:Application Development In The Cloud: Let’s Go Deep

  Developers are driving cloud computing in new directions and toward deeper enterprise adoption. We see a new pragmatism in our research: Developers favoring collections of cloud-based...