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Adoption Is Low But Market Impact Is High As Buyers Consider Alternatives
At home and at work, people overwhelmingly use Microsoft Office. Yet content and collaboration (C&C) pros continue to ask Forrester questions about office alternatives. So we recently surveyed 150 IT...
In a work culture dominated by meetings, organizations continue to look to videoconferencing to cut travel by replicating the in-person experiences that employees prefer — or at least...
We're excited to announce the first set of winners of the 2012 Forrester Groundswell Awards, honoring the best employee mobile, collaboration, and innovation stories. These awards are being...

Strategic Plan: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business and collaboration programs can redefine work by changing the way employees connect with each other and the information they need to do their jobs. However, programs fall flat when...

Upgrading Microsoft Office can prove daunting, especially for firms still on Microsoft Office 2003 or previous versions. Although Windows 7 upgrades and hardware refreshes will accelerate the...
Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...
Marketers increasingly recognize the value of using online video to engage and inform consumers, create brand awareness, and even drive direct action. Similarly, corporate communications and business...
Polycom, Cisco, And LifeSize Lead, Followed By Resurgents Radvision And Teliris And Aggressive Entrants Huawei And Vidyo
In Forrester's 39-criteria evaluation of videoconferencing solution vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers in the category — Cisco, Huawei, LifeSize, Polycom, Radvision,...

What is the state of video use by information workers?
Communications, Training, And Collaboration Dominate Usage Scenarios
A growing number of content and collaboration professionals are interested in using webcasting and YouTube-like video portals internally for corporate communications and training. Why? They recognize...
Lessons Learned From Client Reference Interviews
Deploying a video publishing platform can be as simple as a credit card transaction if you're just looking for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution with turnkey functionality. However, many...
What are other enterprises doing to empower their employees with video creation tools and YouTube-like capabilities?
Tools To Manage And Deliver Video Are Growing; Videoconferencing Makes A Comeback
Enterprises increasingly use video in a wide range of use cases, changing how they collaborate, issue communications, train their employees, and even talk to customers. But the transformational...
Google Apps Business Is Growing; Mobile, Social, And APIs Move To The Fore
Forrester spent a day with Google Apps Vice President Dave Girouard and members of his team to hear the latest on Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government. With the US General Services...
Kaltura Joins Leaders Brightcove And Ooyala In A Maturing Market
Video is integral to many consumer-facing websites, not just from traditional media providers but from brands, companies, and organizations without a history of content creation. In Forrester's...
Performance Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
The benefits of improved information sharing and collaboration from deploying enterprise social computing are hard to quantify. With the exception of email and audioconferencing, collaboration...
Special thanks to Art Schoeller, TJ Keitt, Henry Dewing, and Ted Schadler for their input I went to Cisco's Collaboration Summit last week to hear the latest from the various product teams and...
IT departments tasked with managing their firm's video estate face rising levels of complexity with the emergence of high-end telepresence solutions. Business stakeholders are demanding support for...
The advent of new service delivery models and the rise of multisourcing have complicated an already difficult task for clients — monitoring vendor performance and ensuring that contractual...
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