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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Optimize Application Strategy To Generate Business Value

Strategic Plan: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the strategic planning process for business applications managed by application development and delivery professionals. This report is designed to help you maintain a viable set...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Five Trends Are Changing Records Management Technologies And Practices

What Enterprise Architects Need To Know About The Shift From Records Management To Information Governance

Despite two decades of electronic records management (RM) evolution, fewer than 10% of enterprises admit to high levels of confidence in their approach to the governance of digital information. The...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Opportunities In The SMB Cloud Services Market

SMBs' strong adoption of cloud computing is well known. What is less well understood is how SMBs are adopting cloud for various technology categories relative to one another.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Data Architecture Assessment Toolkit

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:PaaS Market Dynamics in China, 2012 To 2017

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is garnering attention and focus from multiple corners of the Chinese market as traditional IT vendors, independent software vendors (ISVs), telcos, and Internet...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Readiness Assessment For Application Strategy Transformation

This tool is a self-test to determine how ready a company is to transform its application strategy by moving away from providing cost-effective systems of record and toward driving compelling user...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 '12

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Use A Reference Architecture To Speed Cross-Channel Digital Experience Delivery

Forrester's Digital Experience Reference Architecture Balances Four Opposing Forces

Four opposing forces complicate digital experience delivery: the need for speed of initial delivery and ongoing change, the need to deliver experiences that are coherent and familiar across channels...

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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 Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Critical Sourcing Decisions Depend On Your Application Portfolio Analysis

In the realm of IT services sourcing, the strategic decisions and vendor selection process for your company's applications and infrastructures are perhaps the most important. Your service...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Cloud Mobile Development: Enabled By Back-End-As-A-Service, Mobile's New Middleware

Successful mobile apps, especially enterprise mobile apps, typically need to interact with a well-architected set of back-end services, but most mobile app developers are more skilled at client-side...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Digital Experience Delivery Maturity Assessment

Assessment: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

This report outlines for IT professionals more than 100 essential practices for organizations looking to deliver their digital experience transformation strategies. It asks questions such as: Do you...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2011: Regions

The 2012 Survey Shows Global Activity And A Strong Regional Focus

Forrester surveyed 25 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2011 deals. Our regional analysis shows that varying levels of vendor success caused fluctuations in regional activity...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Look For True Off-The-Shelf Support For Your Country

Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions

Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. Our analysis of these deals by region reveals that growth ranged widely — from slight shrinkage to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Next-Generation Portfolio Management: Strategic, Lean, And Delivery-Enabled

Vision: The Portfolio Management And PMO Playbook

Before IT can transition to business technology (BT) and become an effective partner with the business, the two groups of leaders must completely rethink the way they plan and execute — and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Digital Business Design Is The New Integration

Create A Cohesive Business From Your (Seemingly Random) Collection Of Applications And Data

Integration is a perennial challenge for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Vintage, monolithic applications are hard to deal with, and point solutions abound, including point...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism

What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2012

Market Heat Returns After A Prolonged Cooldown

Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. The results indicate a growing market: We counted nearly 20% more deals in 2012 than in 2011 among firms that...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Don't Move Your Apps To The Cloud

Use The Cloud To Transform Them Instead

It has become conventional wisdom that leveraging cloud services will save you money. But that isn't universally true. To achieve these benefits, especially from cloud platforms...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Global Banking Platforms, Q4 '12

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Financial Services Firms Prepare For The Business Applications Of The Future

Service-Oriented Architecture Has Reached A Mature State In Banking

Today's financial services firms often find their application landscape can no longer cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online...

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