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Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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Report:Improve Productivity With The Cloud

Business Impact: The Cloud Computing Playbook

When a market disruption as large as cloud computing comes along, it sends ripples throughout your organization, so it should come as no surprise that attitudes toward this technology vary widely...

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Report:Forrsights: The Macro Trends Shaping The Tech Industry This Decade

Emerging Opportunities And Imperatives For An IT Industry In Transformation

Rather than quietly maturing into middle age as it enters its seventh decade, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is continuing to evolve rapidly. The ICT landscape is roiled...

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Report:Understand The True Cost Of Cloud Services

Budgeting And Planning: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Forrsights surveys show that enterprises are turning to the cloud for speed and lower cost — but are the savings really there? The answer isn't always obvious; it might be that your internal...

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Report:Global Tech Market Outlook For 2012 And 2013

Eight Themes Will Shape Vendors' Prospects Over The Next Two Years

The market for purchases of information technology goods and services by business and government will go through two transitions in 2012 and 2013. The first is a spending slowdown after the recession...

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Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

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...

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Report:Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape

We'll Use Tablets As The Conductor For PCs, Devices, And Personal Cloud Services At Work And At Home

For a new technology that is just two years old, tablets are huge hit. For CIOs the question is — will they last and what are the long-term implications? How do tablets interact with other...

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Report:IT Investments Drive Operational Efficiency Across The Middle East's Oil And Gas Sector

The oil and gas sector is the engine of the Middle East's economy and the biggest contributor to the region's GDP. A shortage of talent, increasing volumes of data, remote asset locations, and an...

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Report:2013 CIO Budget Priorities

Some Growth, Some Alignment, But More Business Visibility Is Needed

Budgets represent more than a spending schedule for CIOs. They also are an essential tool for creating collaboration with business leaders regarding tech-related business priorities, as well as a...

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Tool:Traditional Virtual Server Hosting Costs For 100 VM Workloads

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Report:Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The Markets For Personal Devices At Work

More Than 21% Of Information Workers Use Apple Products For Work

Apple's products are much more visible in business environments than they used to be. To quantify Apple's business presence, Forrester surveyed almost 10,000 information workers — workers that...

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Report:The US Tech Sector Is Adding Jobs

US Software And IT Services Industries Increase Employment In 2011 And 2012

Forrester has made the point that US companies have chosen to invest in technology instead of adding jobs. But the counterpoint is that US tech vendors — especially software and IT services...

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Report:Windows: The Next Five Years

As Mobile Device Sales Surpass PCs, CIOs Will Need To Corral A Troika Of OS Leaders

The launch of Windows 8 is a major pivot point for Microsoft — and for IT leaders and the individuals they support. The new Windows 8 user experience (UX) and programming model will transform...

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Report:eGovernment Markets In The Middle East

The public sector has always played a major role in the growth of IT markets in the Middle East. As political stability returns to most parts of the region and its neighbors, Forrester sees public...

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Report:Cloud Keys An Era Of New IT Responsiveness And Efficiency

Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

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Report:Emerging Markets And Technologies Drive Tech Industry Growth

Forrester's 2012 Tech Industry Predictions

2012 is the year that the performance of emerging markets will be crucial to the growth prospects of the global technology industry. In particular, the top tier of the emerging markets — which...

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Report:The Changing Cloud Agenda

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...

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Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012

Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012

The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...

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Survey:Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey Q4 2012

Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012, was fielded to 3,753 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,...

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Report:With Vast Government Cloud Opportunities In Asia Pacific, Vendors Need To Know Where To Look

The Shift To Government Cloud Is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

Economic, technological, and behavioral changes are driving a fundamental transformation in how governments deliver services. Asia Pacific governments will leverage cloud computing to create more...

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Report:Voice And Messaging Are Not Dead

Prepare For The Implications Of Over-The-Top Communications

Telecom carriers' core revenue base, voice and messaging, is under attack from the over-the-top (OTT) business model. Given the financial importance of voice and messaging revenues for carriers, they...

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Report:The Social CIO

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

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Report:Unleash Innovation With Good Governance

Governance: The Innovation Playbook

Does your organization struggle to innovate? As organizations work to acquire and maintain competitive differentiation in a global marketplace, they often look to innovation as a key strategic...

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Report:Prepare For Adaptive Mobile Networks

Small-Cell Technologies Will Transform Both Carrier And Corporate Networks

Mobile connections are increasingly vital to the productivity and efficiency of the businesses that CIOs support, and wireless networks are undergoing radical changes to deliver high-quality...

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Report:European IT Outsourcing — A Review Of A Market In Transition

The European outsourcing market has continued to see a high level of activity over the past 24 months, with Forrester tracking 340 deals in 2010 and 220 deals in the first half of 2011. However, as...

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