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Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems
It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...

Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns,...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Australia and New Zealand for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges,...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

These data charts are based on the Q2 2011 Global Forrester/IQPC Business Process Maturity Online Survey.
Translating Utilities' Business Transformation Into IT Opportunities
The utilities industry is going through a massive business transformation based on the digitization and the convergence of energy and information networks. Smart computing technology enables...
SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013
For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...
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%...
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...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison
During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...
Individual Country Dynamics Drive Growth And Industry Maturity
Different factors will drive the growth of the IT services and outsourcing industries in Australia, China, and India. In Australia, as-a-service offerings, mobile application development, and mobile...

Spending On Enterprise Carbon And Energy Management Solutions Will Approach $1 Billion By 2013
A new market of dedicated solutions that allow companies to manage their sustainability strategy is ripe to be tackled by software vendors and service providers. Forrester segments this emerging...

Population growth and urbanization are stretching many cities' infrastructure and resources to breaking point. Policymakers and public leaders are increasingly looking to ICT solutions to effectively...

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...
Vendors Should Target This Large And Growing Industry
The professional services industry presents both opportunities and challenges for tech vendors. The opportunities? Professional services is one of the largest industries in terms of tech purchases,...

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace
This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...