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Forrester Evaluates Mobile Banking At The Four Largest UK Banks
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they must keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail the...
Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...
We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years
US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...
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Online households and broadband households by access platform (DSL, cable, and fiber) for the EU-7 countries of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Includes...
The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...
The Joyn Initiative Will Help Evolve Engagement Strategies
As companies evolve their strategies to embrace systems of engagement, CIOs are likely to benefit from the emergence of a new major social media communications platform, rich communication services...
Customers Have A Range Of Strong Options In This Mature Service Category
In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of facilities-based managed global MPLS service providers, we identified and qualified 11 global network operators that offer networking services to...
Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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...
Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services
Location is a cornerstone of mobile experiences and enables some of the most widely used mobile apps, such as Foursquare and Yelp. Location has also become a new battleground as Apple, Google, and...
Political Inertia Hampers Asian Economic And Tech Market Growth
The Asia Pacific region is often thought of as the growth engine of the global economy and thus of the tech market. But that engine has been misfiring on some key cylinders, leading to slower growth...
Executive Overview: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Over the next decade, telecommunications and mobility (T&M) technologies will play a critical role in the success of geographically distributed companies. Business professionals need their IT...
Organizations in Asia Pacific are realizing the cost efficiencies and business agility of virtualization and cloud computing. The region's market is crowded with regional and global...
No Dominant Market Leaders Today, But Front-Runners Are CSC And Rackspace
Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey, Q3 2012 showed that 46% of enterprises are prioritizing investments in private clouds in 2013. While slightly more than half plan to build a private cloud in...

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook
How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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...

As-A-Service Computing Will Shift Budgets From New Project Spending To Ongoing MOOSE Expenditures
In 2012, for most CIOs, spending to maintain and operate the organization, systems, and equipment (MOOSE) represents more than 70% of their information and communications technology (ICT) budget on a...

Forrester's 2013 Predictions For Asia Pacific
2013 will be a transformative year for IT adoption in Asia Pacific (AP); multiple IT trends will converge to drive industry disruptions and help spur renewed growth in IT spending. Overall, we...
Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow
Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

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...
SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013
For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...
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Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...