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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q2 2013

One Size Does Not Fit All Developer Needs

Public cloud platforms are the keys that unlock the flexibility, productivity, and economic advantages of cloud computing. Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros use a wide variety of...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SAP Modernization

Modernizing The SAP Platform To Prepare For Innovation

Almost half of Forrester clients deploy applications from SAP, investing millions to maintain them as a system of record; many of these companies are global corporations with more than $1 billion in...

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Report:Technology Landscape: Metadata Management, Q2 2013

The Foundation For Data Governance, Tooling, And More

Metadata management is the foundation for data governance, management, and use. But despite this, firms have a spotty record of collecting, harmonizing, and managing the metadata inherent in their...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Transformation Imperative In Financial Services Defies Any Crisis

The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation

Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...

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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:Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences

Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

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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 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 CIO Professionals

Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Mobile Application Development

Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook

With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Asset Inventory, H2 2012

In July 2012, Forrester Research analyzed the software asset portfolios of 16 large global providers of IT services. During this process, Forrester received a total of 545 artifacts and...

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For CIO Professionals

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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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 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:Creating Your Transformation Strategy For Digital Experience Delivery

Strategic Plan: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience is the next big opportunity for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Business leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and support need advice and...

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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: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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Feast Or Beggar's Banquet?

Landscape: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Enterprises are facing challenges with mobile enablement that are similar in many ways to technology challenges we've seen in the past — yet these challenges are coming with ferocity unlike...

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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 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:Data Architecture Assessment Toolkit

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:How To Implement Digital Business Design

Move Deliberately, But Carefully, Toward Forrester's Vision For The Future Of Integration

Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need a foundation for recasting their integration strategies to meet 21st-century demands for business agility. Forrester's vision for...

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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

Report:Design Your Contact Center From The Outside In

Strategic Plan: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

As more enterprises develop organizational and operational structures to better manage customer experience, they need to drive this down into contact center architectural design. Today's challenge is...

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