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This report outlines steps to define, model, and deliver data that is viable for a multitude of use cases whilemaintaining consistency across the organization
This document outlines the necessary process oriented aspects to measure the performance of a CM program.
This Wave will evaluate vendors on their mobile business intelligence platforms, with criteria related to security, reporting and dashboarding, writeback, etc.
The Assessment Chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
The Organization chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
The Business Case chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy playbook.
The Organization chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy playbook.
Peer-to-peer influence is powerful in B2B and CMOs must develop marketing strategies that engage with individuals to not only shape opinion and sentiment about the brand, but cause these individu...
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Emerging markets adopt technology differently; charting the leapfrog effect in networks, software, and elsewhere.
Compare your organization’s market insights maturity to other companies and identify key capabilities gaps to prioritize efforts and investments.
This document reveals a performance management framework for the organizational aspects of a succesful CM Program.
This report provides concrete ways to establish performance management programs that assess and reward contributionto the business
With Agile and Lean traditional measures which tend to focus on one set of artifacts, usually technical, are not enough. In fact, Application Development teams need to focus on business value rat...
This report highlights the wide range of content oriented technologies that Forrester covers closely, such as ECM, DAM, MultiChannel Capture, Records Management and Managed Print Services. ...
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This document will identify and evaluate the functionality that is provided by Enterprise Content Management software vendors. It will also identify the leading vendors in each segment of t...
This document will identify and evaluate the functionality that is provided by Master Data Management software vendors. It will also identify the leading vendors in each seg...
A landscape of the major and innovative eDiscovery vendors, mapped to their strengths across the eDiscovery spectrum.
A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. This report shows how to justify your information management in...
This is the strategic plan report of the Business Intelligence (BI) playbook for Application Development and Delivery (AD&D) professionals.
This is the Benchmarks report of the Business Intelligence Playbook for Application Development & Delivery professionals.
This report will outline advanced and emerging customer analytics techniques that are helping firms analyze customer data more effectively.
The Tools And Technology chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy playbook.
The Assessment chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
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Companies rely on both explicit, or programmatic, loyalty and implicit, or unstructured, loyalty to identify and drive retention, engagement, and profitability from their best customers. This rep...
Lead to Revenue Management can increase revenues and lower costs of sales, but CMOs can struggle to link investment to business value. This reports helps marketing executives calculate and s...
This report will highlight the type of customer metrics to track that a reflective of growth, profitability and customer experience.
Businesses are more vulnerable than ever due accelerating economic conditions, market and consumer shifts, competitive changes, and digital disruption. Business Agility counteracts these challeng...
As companies move to more process-oriented organization and activity, a new executive role will emerge.
The focus of the wave is the early-stage aspect of embracing OTT communication services for business. It will help the CIO to answer questions like: Which over-the- top communication services sho...
The report looks into the new opportunities provided by open government data for both new and existing businesses.
The report streamlines the main fundings of our annual survey of network decision-makers, yielding insight into future plans for mobility, M2M, device management, and other priori...
The advent of smart cities represents a powerful opportunity for IT service providers.
Updated economic outlook for global technology spending, 2013-14.
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The wiring of homes energy and entertainment systems will create data "exhaust" that many service providers will seek to leverage.
How sensor development will be a key element of making computing systems more aware of their surroundings.
This report outlines the steps loyalty marketers must take to build a road map for improving their customer loyalty program. It will help you prioritize the most important investments for making ...
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The Road Map chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
This report outlines how to create an organization that has all the talent and skill sets needed for successful implementation and ongoing implementation of a CRM initiative. It will also discuss...
Success with customer analytics requires a concerted effort by the firm to use existing resources as well as invest in future people, processes, and tools. This report will guide the business cas...
Offer management, and more specifically targeted offer management, plays a critical role in the success of loyalty programs. This report will explore the ins and outs of sophisticated offer manag...
This report will help digital media buyers understand how they stack up to peer organizations and provide recommendations for evolving your digital media buying practice.
This report will provide comparative benchmarks for emerging technology adoption
Managing data is as much a facet of business processes and analytics as it is a back-office infrastructure investment. This report explores the convergence of technology to technology andback-off...
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How to build a framework of metrics and KPIs based on roles, responsibilities, and processes.
This document highlights case studies from companies at the forefront of optimizing content management.
This report revisits the success criteria outlined in the planning stage of the playbook (business impact). This research provides a mechanism to determine how well the IA program measures ...
This report defines the roles, responsibilities, processes and procedures for managing trusted content, in light of significant changes in the environment, such as cloud computing, an...
The Business Case chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
The greatest obstacle for ECM adoption is not about technology but more focused on user acceptance. Defining an effective business case is a key step to influencing user adoption. The...
This report will answer the following: what are best practices for running critical processes associated with business technology resiliency, including the business impact analysis, risk ass...
This report will walk readers through the steps of developing a performance management plan for your emerging technology program.
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics to measure your IAM initiatives.
This report will discuss the long-term evolution after incorporating emerging technology into your EA program.
Current IT Service Desk metrics do not provide a full indication of success. The 'age of the customer' demands an approach that assess the end users/internal IT customers experience in regards to...
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The Performance management chapter of the Agile Commerce Playbook.
The financial model backing a loyalty program sets the stage for profitability and success. This report will explore common financial models for loyalty programs and maximizing a program's ROI.
The Continuous Improvement chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
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This document will help AD&D pros define their mobile road map strategy.
This report will help AD&D pros manage their performance.
The Benchmarks chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
This report will help AD&D pros to organize their mobile teams or units
Too many organizations view PCI as an undue and unjust burden. Forrester holds the opposite view, we believe that PCI incentivizes security. It forces executives to take security seriously and un...
This is the change management report of the Business Intelligence (BI) playbook for Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) professionals.
Forrester uses the TechRadar methodology to make projections a decade into the future of the use of technologies in a given category. This TechRadar will focus on "data killing" technologies such...
The customer analytics journey requires deliberate steps to advance across key dimensions such as analytics maturity, technology implementation and use case development for activating insights. T...
Forrester surveyed senior marketers about the progress marketing had made toward becoming customer-driven across five key areas: strategy organization, measurement, data &analytics, and CRM t...
Shopper marketing as a discipline has gotten a lot of attention, both new and renewed, from CMOs as the division of marketing closest to the consumer as she completes purchases offline. As the na...
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This report introduces the key concepts in the data management playbook. It provides a proposed framework to discover opportunity, plan, act, and optimize data management practices for digital fi...
Failure of corporations to comply with regulations and to manage risks puts customers, employees, communities, and shareholders at risk on a daily basis.
This report discusses a timeline and associated roadmap for rolling out its digital experience technologies strategy, including what key aspects of the strategy to tackle first, timeline, and mil...
This report discusses a timeline and associated roadmap for rolling out its CRM strategy, including what key aspects of the strategy to tackle first, timeline, and milestones.
Current networks rely on numerous security devices and controls to protect the network and its data. These include firewalls, IPS, WAF, NAC, content filtering gateways, network access control, VP...
This report discusses business outcomes companies look to achieve with digital experience technologies, potential revenue/cost savings opportunities, and setup and operational costs. It will also...
Forrester applies its Website Functionality Benchmark to Health Plan Websites.
To defend against the mutating nature, complexity, and methods of today’s attacks, you will need an arsenal of security controls, processes and services. And everyday, new solutions emerge that p...
Selecting the right vendor for your IT services needs is becoming increasingly important, as the solutions in the IT services marketplace evolve and change, and the importance of strong business ...
Forrester’s research shows that consumers demand more from brands in the 21st Century. Marketers now have a steeper hill to climb to earn consumers’ brand preference, referral a...
This report will update the 2011 market overview in light of acquisitions in the space. It will define the enterprise search landscape today and briefly cover leading vendors strengths and ...
The Performance Management chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
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Mobile engagement, particularly in customer-facing processes, requires deep changes to strategy, brand expression, experience design, application development and delivery, and operations. And fir...
53% of IT professionals surveyed consider increased investment in collaboration to be a high or critical priority. Business expectations are high and so are the stakes for the CIO. New technologi...
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This is the processes report of the Business Intelligence playbook for Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) professionals. What processes are in place to support the following stages...
The Organization chapter of the Retail eCommerce Playbook.
Backup and recovery is the base technology that many business technology resiliency plans are built on. This wave evaluation will look at the top providers of data center backup and recovery soft...
Based on a survey of BMA membership, Marketing's role has expanded dramatically beyond interactions with Sales and Product Management, crossing over into all aspects of the business. This report ...
The Road Map chapter of the Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook.
A “how to” guide that spans business case, strategic objectives and organizational definition.
Your business keeps changing, and so must your business applications keep changing. This report will identify best practices for how to make decisions and set roadmaps and life cycles for ongoing...
This report will discuss the key skills, staff, and organizational structures needed for watching and adopting emerging technology.
This report describes the importance of Google Glass for marketers.
Nearly all business transformations today are technology dependent and focus on breaking traditional business silos. These are high risk/high complexity projects that require knowledge of technol...
Analytics initiatives are becoming front and center for firms wanting to derive more value from their customer data, and as a result, a strategic priority for many firms. This report will highlig...
When elevating listening beyond social, it is crucial to work with the right software and services providers. This report outlines the service provider landscape to help firms understan...
Data management has to assume an empowered business technology model to provide an agile foundation. An inside out only view will not support business agility in a digitally focused and consumeri...
Forrester clients often face a hybrid challenge with customer-facing websites: optimizing both security and user experience. The tightest security can be a usability disaster, and the most user-f...
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How big data accelerates companies' move to more process-driven strategy and action.
This report will show the behaviors of today's consumers and their multi-channel habits.
Our annual survey of information workers offers insights into their preferences and uses of technology.
Your company’s core relationship with its customers is being transformed by technology. In the “Age of the Customer,” organizations that harness digital technologies to un...
How corporate and service-provider data centers will evolve over the next 5 years.
Successful CMOs of the future will be dynamic leaders that anticipate the tight integration of technology and marketing objectives and know how to navigate through the technology landscape to cre...
How networks, software, and sensors will combine to create computing services that are ubiquitous and invisible.
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This report is designed to help Enterprise Architects avoid roadblocks to maintain agility in their data environment.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is using iPads and social technology to transform the way Team Members serve guests and master the job. CIO and SVP of business transformation, Chris Laping, takes a ver...
This template is intended to help you build an RFP for MPLS IP VPN services. It should be treated as a starting point only, to be tailored to fit your specific needs, including adding and removin...
It’s no longer a question of whether technology plays a role in marketing, but rather what role the CMO needs to play in selecting the best solution to drive marketing, and overall business...
This report discusses how to lay out a successful plan for a CRM initiative. Included are a checklist for creating the strategic plan, pitfalls to avoid, and examples of other companies’ strategi...
Successful coalition loyalty programs like Nectar and Airmiles cover a majority share of consumer spend and offer a neutral currency and loyalty card across multiple partners, covering grocery, f...
This sheet provides an overview of the contents of the business capability development workbook, as well as guidance on how to use it. This material is intended as a starting p...
The Performance Management chapter of the Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook.
Forrester clients describe their data governance work as long on effort, but limited in success. Clients describe an inability to sustain data governance beyond a project, feel it is too bureaucr...
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the im...
Forrester's research with senior marketing leaders shows that enterprisewide commitment and engagement are critical to successfully building a brand in the 21st century. But this is also marketer...
Every organization is at a different stage of adoption of customer analytics-whether it is use of descriptive analytics techniques, customer segmentation or advanced real-time analytics in custom...
The reporting structure of an IT organization affects how roles operate in that shop. The structure must support the goals of the organization and be consistent with its culture and capabilities....

Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other cybercri...
Reaching social listening maturity - fully integrating social data with business strategies and technologies - requires a concerted effort across the organization. This report outlines ...
Windows 8 is the boldest release of the OS since Windows 95. Microsoft chose to discard the Start button in favor of a new look designed to tie together the PC, tablet, and, smartphone experience...
There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications a...
This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity r...
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 ...
Forrester data continues to show employee demand for business ready smartphones, tablets, and mobile applications. This presentation walks you through our data and provides insight into how your ...
Developing a vision and building a strategic plan are vital first steps on the road to agile commerce. But once your CEO says "yes," what next? Getting ready for action and taking the first concr...
This report will walk readers through the steps of selecting the right emerging technology for their organization.
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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 ...
Personal technology vendors are engaged in a battle for their customers' loyalty, which (they hope) will translate to ongoing investment in related devices, software, and services. As individuals...

Update of the "Welcome To The Era Of Agile Commerce" report originally published on 3/11/2011.
Understanding the laws and regulations that govern data privacy across your organization is critical for any company, but it can be challenging. As a result, too many security and risk (S&R) prof...
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