Forrester

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2013 eBusiness Organizational Trends

eBusiness Professionals Believe Teams Should Integrate With Their Organizations

As digital channels and strategies grow in importance across firms and become increasingly vital to the success of the company as a whole, eBusiness teams see their responsibilities, budgets, and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Best Practices For Tablet Media Apps

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Sizing The Cloud Markets In Asia Pacific

Understanding Cloud Growth Dynamics Across The Region

Exploiting cloud computing growth opportunities in Asia Pacific requires insights into future cloud market size, growth dynamics, adoption trends, and demand drivers, all of which vary widely across...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Use POST To Build A Road Map For Mobile Engagement

Road Map: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

How do you build a road map for something as fast-moving and disruptive as mobile apps, devices, and projects? Certainly not by letting projects unfold at random as budgets and sponsors appear. To...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Project/Program Portfolio Management, Q4 2012

How The Top 10 Providers Stack Up In A Newly Divided Market

Demand for business agility fuels adoption of Agile development techniques that can deliver differentiating business technology (BT) solutions within accelerated time frames. Agile development...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Infosys Technologies Helps Develop A TCOE For Telecom New Zealand

To build a test center of excellence (TCOE) on time and on budget, Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) knew it needed a partner with the expertise required to ensure success. TNZ was seeking a good cultural...

• Downloads: 325

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Put Process At The Heart Of ERP

Users Are Set To Benefit As Business Process Flexibility Improves In Applications

Today's ERP applications are still too complex and inflexible. Organizations continue to be plagued with customization and upgrade headaches as a direct result of the software's rigidity and poor...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using Business Capability Maps To Guide Application Portfolio Rationalization

Business' Process Goals Strongly Influence Application Strategy

Most firms have application portfolios with significant redundancy — a legacy of how business needs have been funded or past merger and acquisition activity. Firms initiate application...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Services In ANZ Begin To Mature

CIOs Should Step Cautiously — Not All Segments Are Market-Ready

CIOs in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are beginning to examine the impact cloud can have on their businesses. This is the first step in broad market adoption of cloud computing. Before they make...

• Downloads: 435

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Ultimate Software Reinvents Its Development Shop To Stay On Its Game

Ultimate Software finds itself in a highly competitive market: It is a relatively small player compared with industry giants such as Oracle and SAP. Given Ultimate's smaller size, it can't simply...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Six Business Technology Trends That Will Propel Your Firm In 2013

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes

Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Capitalize On The Digital Experience Imperative With Better Governance

Processes: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Organizations still struggle to get the right content to the right consumers at the right time. Outdated technologies, policies, and procedures mean that IT can't keep pace with the business' demands...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mobile Apps For Marketing

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:India IT Services Report: 2010

This document provides an early and accurate market size estimates for 2010 in India, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement

CIOs Must Plan Now For New Systems Of Engagement

By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Build A Corporate App Store Into Your Corporate Mobility Strategy

Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store

Today, many employees use their personally owned smartphones and tablets for work to access a variety of mobile applications. Some companies are also proactively deploying mobile applications to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Defining A Scalable Site Optimization Process

Process Enables Sustained Online Testing Success

Online testing is an extremely effective site optimization technique, but few Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals have successfully scaled their testing initiatives to affect customer experience...

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Report:Augmented Reality: Emerging Tools To Explore

eBusiness Pros Should Evaluate The Use Of Mobile Augmented Reality To Simplify Services

Mobile augmented reality (AR) is on the verge of becoming a powerful tool that eBusiness professionals can use to engage consumers all the way through their purchase journey. The use of augmented...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Fuse Business Acceleration Technologies To Optimize User Experiences

Deliver Blazing-Fast Web, Mobile-Native, And Hybrid Applications

Over the past decade, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have focused large amounts of resources on making their customer-facing websites blazingly fast because website experience had a direct...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011

Software AG, Tibco Software, Oracle, And Progress Software Lead The Way

In Forrester's 109-criteria evaluation of both commercial and open source enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, we found that Software AG, Tibco Software (Tibco), Oracle, and Progress Software are...

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