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ForecastView Spreadsheet
Smartphone installed base and subscriber data for 16 countries in Western Europe. Includes age and income ownership demographics by country as well as subscribers by operating system for selected...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Smartphone installed base and subscriber data in the United States. Includes data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only) as well as age and income ownership demographics. Includes...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Global installed base and subscribers for smartphones in 54 countries. Also includes global and regional data on subscribers by operating system (2011-2013 only). Breaks out age and income...
A Benchmarking Guide For eBusiness Professionals
Mobile technology for both hardware and software is experiencing a frenetic pace of change. What table stakes or "being in the game" means is constantly moving. eBusiness professionals have procured...

When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes
Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

eBusiness Professionals Must Prepare For New Messaging Paradigms
Mobile messaging is somewhat dull today, but it is on the verge of becoming more interesting as it transitions from a nuts-and-bolts telecom model to an Internet model with rich feature sets....

Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions
Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

Low-Cost Disruptors Expand Tablets' Addressable Market
With 55 million iPads sold through December 2011, and an estimated 5.5 million Amazon Kindle Fires sold in their first quarter on the market, tablets have gained unstoppable momentum. Forrester...

Support Empowered Workers Better By Managing Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy Efficiently And Securely
To implement your enterprise mobile strategy, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals must invest in a mobile device management (MDM) solution. This essential technology allows I&O...

Support Empowered Workers Better By Managing Your Enterprise Mobility Strategy Efficiently And Securely
To implement your enterprise mobile strategy, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals must invest in a mobile device management (MDM) solution. This essential technology allows I&O...

Product Strategists In All Industries Must Contend With The Disruption Caused By Mobile
The European mobile market will continue booming in the next five years. Forrester expects smartphone and mobile Internet penetration rates to reach 67% and 54%, respectively, by the end of 2016. To...

An Empowered Report: IT Focuses Attention On BlackBerry, iOS, And Android
The commercial mobile device landscape continues to evolve dramatically, and the days are numbered for limiting IT support to a single mobile operating system (OS). Google Android and Apple iOS are...
With more marketers running global search programs, more are asking what type of global search agency relationship works best. Marketers can choose from three relationship models: centralized models...
Enterprises of all sizes must support a multitude of mobile devices and applications that run over a wide range of mobile operating systems, as well as update devices and applications every few...
Why Market Insights + Customer Intelligence = Competitive Advantage
Companies now have more data on their customers than ever before, from surveys to social media, web analytics, and transactional data. However, most firms lack the structure and process to translate...
Tablets Will Transform Face-To-Face Client Interactions
Tablets enable financial services eBusiness executives to develop services that are fast, rich, collaborative, portable, and cool. Because of these unique characteristics, we expect tablets to have a...
Insights From Forrester's Security & Risk Council
Every six months, Forrester's security and risk (S&R) team fields a survey to the members of its Security & Risk Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's...
Designing For Mobile In The Era Of Experience
Mobile is the most transformational technology since the Internet. The phone has evolved from a single-purpose handset offering telephony services over copper wires to a wireless handheld computer...
Analytics Drive Mobile Website And Application Maturity
Mobile has reached critical mass due to improved infrastructure, advances in device utility, and overall market penetration. Engaging with customers via mobile is unavoidable: Whether or not...
The sensory experience is a critical part of engaging users in digital interaction points. Unfortunately, many legacy websites keep users at arm's length with static text, generic imagery, and few...
An Empowered Report: Four Important Considerations When Going Mobile
Consumers are using an increasing number of smartphones and tablets to extend their online presence far outside the traditional home or office, and businesses everywhere are quick to capitalize on...
Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success
Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...
Tool Up, Lean Out, And Deliver More Often To Drive Business Agility
Agile adoption continues to grow, but organizations will not be able to harness the benefits of business agility without adding additional approaches to Agile. Forrester has observed three additions...
Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...
Ten Areas Of Focus For The Next 12 Months
Expect 2011 to be an exciting year in financial services, driven for the most part by the increasingly important role of eBusiness and channel strategy professionals. The rise of smartphones, the...