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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Identify Your Current State As A First Step To Best-Practice Telecoms And Mobility Sourcing

Assessment: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

A potentially challenging but important first step in establishing a best-practice sourcing strategy for telecommunications and mobility services involves identifying the current state of your...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now Through 2018

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Avoid Tactical, Narrow Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Strategies

Strategic Plan: Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders developing a communications and collaboration infrastructure (CCI) strategic plan. Developing such a plan...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Use Context To Drive A Seamless UC&C Service Layer

Vision: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

Increasing consumerization of IT and advances in both cloud technologies and deployment models tremendously affect the enterprise not simply on how we communicate but where, when, and on what kind of...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Enter More Social, Mobile, Video, And Cloud: Is Your Infrastructure Ready To Collaborate?

Assessment: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

This report provides Forrester's maturity assessment for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for their firms' communications and collaboration infrastructure. I&O leaders...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Unified Communications And Collaboration Is Poised For Growth As Demand Rises

Market Landscape: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

I&O professionals choosing unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions today face a daunting array of solution types, capabilities, and business models. This report outlines a...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Room-Based Videoconferencing, Q3 2012

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,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Build A Better Business Case For UC

Business Impact: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who are building out communications and collaboration infrastructure. This report is designed to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Involve At Least Partial Outsourcing To Achieve A Global Communications Technology Vision

Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Telcos Dive Headlong Into Asia's Cloud

Differentiation And Precise Market Segmentation Will Determine Success

As the Asia Pacific cloud market develops, it is becoming extremely crowded with competitors looking to position — or reposition — for future success. Many traditional telecommunications...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Empower Self-Provisioning With Standard Telecom Contract Terms And Conditions

Tools And Technology: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Telecom and mobility services contracting challenges proliferate as distributed user firms implement advanced communications technologies like unified communications (UC) and telepresence that are...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Auditing Your Current Communications State - Inventory Tool

This tool is meant to serve as an inventorying checklist to be used by the IT sourcing and vendor management (SVM) organization during your audit of your company's current  communications...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:HEROes Are Using Skype — Embrace It

How To Manage Public UC Based On Skype And Mitigate Risk

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who manage unified communications (UC) must decide how to incorporate public connections based on Skype software. HEROes in today's enterprises...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Unified Communications Purchase Plans 2012

The UC Market Matures And Consolidates

Unified communications (UC) remains a priority for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. In Forrester's Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2011, we asked 547 North...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Communications Service Providers Sharpen Their Game To Deliver Global UC Services

Global Firms Will Want Multiple Service Models For Unified Communications

If you haven't done so yet, defining a global strategy for sourcing unified communications (UC) services should top your H1 2012 to-do list. UC will hit mainstream adoption by large multinational...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Case Study: A Road Map For Creating A Best Practice Global UC Strategy

How A Manufacturer Defined Its UC Strategy With A Business And End User Focus

Companies with widely distributed international operations often struggle to create a road map for a best practice unified communications (UC) strategy. This report summarizes some of the major...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Software Market 2011

SMBs Exhibit A Broad Adoption Profile, But Growth Is Being Stunted By The Credit Crunch

For most software categories, tech marketers once considered the small to medium-size business (SMB) market to be "software non grata." Their assumption was that most SMBs supported their operations...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Global Unified Communications (UC) Service Provider Selection Checklist

A feature checklist for evaluating global Unified Communications (UC) service providers.

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Defining A Global Sourcing Strategy For Unified Communications Is An Iterative Process

Most global firms with distributed international operations will implement unified communications (UC) solutions gradually over the next three to five years. During the past two years, Forrester has...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SIP Trunking May Save You Money

I&O Professionals Need To Explore SIP Trunking, But Consider Application, Security, And Interoperability Costs When Calculating ROI

The communications industry continues on its path to packetizing real-time communications managed by session initiation protocol (SIP). As a result, SIP trunking is a key component that connects...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:IMS And IPv6: A Winning Combination

An Empowered Report: Global SIP And IMS Deployment Needs IPv6

As TDM and IPv4 legacy communication technologies wave their long goodbyes, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to get reacquainted with a few previously hyped IP technologies. The...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The UC User Dilemma: If I&O Builds It, Will They Come?

I&O Teams Can Take A More Active Role In Driving User Adoption By Avoiding Six Common UC Deployment Pitfalls

The value of unified communications (UC) increases when users have the reassurance that they can collaborate across the enterprise. For many infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who are...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Forrsights: Mobility Dominates Enterprise Telecom Trends In 2011

2011 presents vendors and service providers with a variety of opportunities to address emerging trends in the enterprise mobility and telecommunications market. In results from Forrester's Forrsights...

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