Forrester

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: European Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers

Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Appliance Market Dynamics, 2013 To 2017

Understanding of and interest in appliances is surging in China as organizations there struggle to manage massive growth while simultaneously using traditional infrastructure and platforms to...

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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:The Power Of Predictions

Case Studies In CRM Next Best Action

Many business process pros have implemented next-best-action technologies to improve customer retention, boost upsell and cross-sell, and enhance customer experiences. Best practices for customer...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part One: Solution Deployments

ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice

Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Industry-Specific Master Data Management Trends

This set of data charts, taken from the November 2010 Global master Data Management Online Survey, analyzes data from 134 MDM-savvy IT professionals in five distinct industries-- healthcare; the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Balancing Custom And Packaged Apps In Your Application Portfolio Strategy

Conventional wisdom suggests buying before building software. However, as an increasing proportion of product and service value is digital — think of a naval vessel's operation system (Windows...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Zero In On CRM HEROes: The Role Of Surveys, Observations, Analytics, And Engagement

An Empowered Report: Part 1

A customer relationship management (CRM) highly empowered and resourceful operative (HERO) is anyone who takes the initiative to apply technologies creatively within business processes to make the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2011 Online Retail Technology Investment Outlook

Integration And Mobile Commerce Increase As Priorities In The New Year

Online retailing has performed well in 2010. For a majority of online retailers, those results are translating into continued strong investment in eCommerce and mobile technologies in 2011....

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Employees Connect And Collaborate Using Social Technologies

For CIO Professionals

Tool:The Perceived Impact Of Social Media On Innovation

For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

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For CIO Professionals

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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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The eCommerce Content Conundrum

Solving The Growing Content Challenge Through A Cocktail Of Solutions

Commerce organizations are drowning in content. Their catalogs have grown, the sources of the product content propagated, and site versions divide and multiply across geography, microsites, and...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Convenience And Utility Score The Mobile Engagement Value

For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Mothercare Uses Knowledge Management To Unify Customer Experience Across Touchpoints

Specialty retailer, Mothercare Group, worked with self-service vendor, Transversal, to improve knowledge management across its three key touchpoints — the Web, call centers, and retail stores....

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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 CIO Professionals

Tool:Front-Office Employees Are Using Social Technologies To Help Answer Questions

For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Tool:A Variety Of Technology Payment Models Are Preferred By Online Retailers

For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Computing Connects CIOs With The Business

Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems

It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Computing Solutions Are On The Rise

A Snapshot Of Adoption From The InformationWeek 500

Smart Computing, the latest cycle of tech innovation and growth based on new technologies of awareness, analysis, and alternatives, began in 2008. Since then, a growing number of companies have...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Support HEROes — Create Social Innovation Networks Using The PACT Framework

An Empowered Report: Using Social Technologies To Empower Innovation

Customers already use social technologies to wrest power away from large corporations. Now employees are also adapting social technologies in pursuit of innovations to support these empowered...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Innovation Is A Priority In Most Organizations

For CIO Professionals

Report:What CEOs Of Small Software Companies Need To Do In 2011

How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market

The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...

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