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Report:Enterprise Hadoop Best Practices: Concrete Guidelines From Early Adopters In Online Services

Today's big data challenges require innovative approaches for extreme volumes, velocities, varieties, and variabilities of data for advanced analytics. Increasingly, high-tech early adopters are...

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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...

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Report:Updated 2012: BI Service Provider Short-Listing Tool

Create a shortlist using our tool to find the right set of providers based on your technology requirements, industry, project size, and geographic scope.Eliminate or add partners based on factors...

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Report:Best Practices: Knowledge Management For Customer Service

Use Knowledge To Power Personalized Customer Experiences

Customer service managers agree that the right knowledge, delivered at the right time in the service resolution process, is critical to a successful interaction. But they struggle to tame the volume...

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Report:Web Content Management Is Alive And Well in 2011 Thanks To Online Customer Experience

Findings From Forrester's Q1 2011 Web Content Management Survey

Forrester recently surveyed 260 content and collaboration (C&C) professionals with decision-making roles in web content management (WCM) about their WCM strategies for the coming year. Enterprises...

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Report:Trends 2011: It's Time For The Business To Own Master Data Management Strategies

Business process professionals recognize master data management (MDM) as a critical enabler to deliver optimized business processes and trusted business insights. But ownership of MDM remains in the...

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Report:Solvency II — What It Means To You

With the deadline fast approaching for Solvency II compliance, global insurance firms need to take urgent action to avoid being compelled to adopt a standard model for computing their capital...

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Report:The Evolution Of Integration Alternatives

This presentation provides some perspective on how integration tools have evolved over the past few years, resulting in significant functional overlap in many cases. It explains the simultaneous...

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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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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:Avoid Process Data Headaches: Align Business Process And Data Governance Initiatives

Today, enterprises swim in an endless ocean of business data used to power mission-critical business processes, executive decisions, corporate policies, and business rules. Many organizations kick...

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Report:Case Study: Symantec Uses Relevant Knowledge Content To Better Serve Customers

Symantec, a provider of security, management, backup and recovery, data availability, and data loss prevention products, was considering novel ways to make relevant content available to its technical...

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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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Report:Meanings Matter: The Semantic Web Enriches Data Management And Fuels Processes

Semantics is just a fancy word for what things truly mean. Historically, semantics has been the realm of geeky information management specialists. But for business process pros, process integration...

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Report:Enterprise Hadoop: The Emerging Core Of Big Data

Today's big data challenges require innovative approaches to extreme volumes, velocities, varieties, and variabilities of data for advanced analytics — and enterprises are increasingly turning...

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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:Mobile Applications Will Empower Enterprise Business Processes

An Empowered Report: Harnessing Mobile Technology For Process Acceleration

Mobile applications for business use are receiving a great deal of attention from package application software vendors and considerable interest from business process professionals. But other than...

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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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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 ROI Of Data Warehousing Appliances: Flexibility

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Continuing Value Through New Data Applications

Business process (BP) professionals implement data warehousing (DW) appliances to deliver more powerful analytics more rapidly, inexpensively, and pervasively. Unfortunately, some BP pros push back...

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Report:Time To Get Serious About Mobile Learning

The mobile landscape is changing daily — new devices and more secure device management platforms, easier accessibility to content from multiple devices, evolving mobile Web standards (e.g.,...

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Report:Trends In ETL Adoption

This data chart examines ETL adoption trends based on a survey of 173 professionals who have purchased ETL software at their organizations.

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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:BI On BI: How To Manage The Performance Of BI Initiatives

Performance Management: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Business intelligence (BI) is often defined as processes and technologies to manage business performance, with the ultimate goal of making more informed decisions based on real data, not hunches. But...

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Report:Data Quality Platform Adoption Trends

This set of data charts examines data quality platform adoption trends gleaned from recent surveys.

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