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Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing
Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...
Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...
With about 41,000 attendees, 1,800 sessions, and a whooping 63,000-plus slides, Oracle OpenWorld 2010 (September 19-23) in San Francisco was certainly a mega event with more information than one...

Advanced Analytics And Cloud Drive Future Growth
2011 and beyond will be the era of business intelligence (BI) innovation and growth. No other software segment enjoys the same positive market dynamics of advancing technologies, business innovation,...
Last week, I attended the ONS (Offshore North Sea) 2010 conference, one of the world’s largest energy conferences, with more than 49,000 participants, in Stavanger, Norway. The conference theme...
Some days ago at Forrester’s IT Forum in Lisbon (June 9-11) I gave a presentation together with my colleague Andy Bartels on the IT market recovery (we predict a 9.3% IT market growth in 2010)...
Cloud Services Offer New Opportunities For Big Data Solutions What’s better than writing about one hot topic? Well, writing about two hot topics in one blog post — and here you go: The...
The lines are blurring between software and services — with the rise of cloud computing, that trend has accelerated faster than ever. But customers aren’t just looking at cloud business...
Shifting Buying Preferences Lead To New Software Priorities
As the global information and communications technology market recovers from recession, the software market — the largest IT subsegment — is fueling the growth. More importantly, for the...
Cloud Computing Shifts From Cost To Innovation
Cloud computing continues to grow at a tremendous speed. But as the market and the understanding of cloud computing grows, the drivers and deployment scenarios that framed the initial cloud agenda...

Are you interested in business intelligence, wonder about the future of the analytics market or have a question on advanced analytics technologies? Then join the Forrester analysts Rob Karel, Boris...
The Oil And Gas Information Technology Innovation Dilemma The hydrocarbon logistics chain of natural gas and crude oil connects globally distributed exploration and production sites with industrial...
New Flexible Business Models Cannibalize Traditional Software Markets
Software is the biggest and fastest growing of all tech industry segments. However, its growth is fueled by disruption — new technologies and changing market demand are cannibalizing...
Translating Utilities' Business Transformation Into IT Opportunities
The utilities industry is going through a massive business transformation based on the digitization and the convergence of energy and information networks. Smart computing technology enables...
SAP Has Managed A Turnaround After Léo Apotheker’s Departure In February 2010, after Léo Apotheker resigned as CEO of SAP, I wrote a blog post with 10 predictions for the...
2012 Is The Year The Cloud Becomes Mature Based on the very high interest in this blog and its cloud predictions we are planning to host a Forrester Teleconference entiteled "2012 — The Year...
The information and communications technology (ICT) industry is facing the next big wave of verticalization. With business challenges becoming increasingly complex, ICT solutions to address and solve...
SaaS vendors must collect customer insights for innovation and compliance. As of the end of last year, about 30% of companies from our Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2011, were using some...