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Tool:Forecast: Western and Central IT Purchases, 2010 To 2011

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Blog:US Tech Market Will Grow By 6.2% In 2013 And 6.8% In 2014, As Improving Consumer Spending And Housing Offset Government Cutbacks

No one would claim that the US tech market is booming.  With Europe still mired in recession and debt problems, US economic growth looking soft, and business and consumer worries about the US...

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Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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Tool:Forecast: Eastern Europe, Middle East, And Africa, 2010 To 2011

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Tool:Forecast: Asia Pacific IT Purchases, 2010 To 2011

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Report:Smart Computing Connects CIOs With The Business

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...

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Client Inquiry:IT Services, Software, And Computer Hardware Inflation Rate Forecasts

What are your predicted IT services, software, and computer hardware inflation rates in 2012 and 2013?

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Tool:Enterprise/SMB Buying Of Communications Equipment Outpaces Telco Purchases

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Report:European Information And Communications Technology Market 2011 To 2012

The North-South Divide Persists, With Wide Variations In Country Information And Communications Technology Growth

Is there a uniform European market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions? A few years ago, it looked like there might be one, with similar patterns of growth across all the...

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Blog:IT Investment May Be Hurting US Job Growth

The tech industry has generally enjoyed a good reputation with the public and with politicians -- unlike those "bad guys" in banking, or health insurance, or oil and gas.  However, analysis that...

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Client Inquiry:Churn Is A Critical Metric For SaaS Vendors

How important of a metric is churn to SaaS vendors?

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Blog:Global Tech Market To Grow By 5.4% In 2013 And 6.7% In 2014

The 2013 New Year has begun with the removal from the global tech market outlook of one risk, that of the US economy going over the fiscal cliff. On New Year's day, the US House of...

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Report:Caution: IT Investment May Be Hurting US Job Growth

IT Vendors Should Take Steps To Avoid Potential Political Backlash

The 2010 US economic recovery has largely been a jobless recovery. While many factors have been blamed — ranging from too much economic stimulus and regulation to too little — investment...

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Tool:US Data Shows 12% Rise In Business IT Investment In Q2 2010; Smaller Increases Forecast

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Blog:Despite Fears About Economies In Europe And US, Forrester Still Forecasts A Strong 2010 IT Market, With 7.8% Growth Globally

Expectations about economic growth prospects and the resulting implications for tech markets have been gyrating wildly in 2010. First, there were fears that the Greek debt crisis would spread to...

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Tool:Forrester Tech Industry Wheel For Process Applications: ePurchasing And CLM, 2011

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Client Inquiry:How Do Supplier Networks Differ From AP-EIPP?

What distinguishes supplier networks and AP-EIPP, and what are example vendors of each?

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Blog:Despite Economic Problems, Tech Market Will Continue To Grow In 2011 And 2012

As readers of my blog will remember, we were all ready to publish our mid-2011 update to our global economy report (see July 28, 2011, "Forrester Will Lower Its Tech Market Forecast By...

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Blog:Tech Buying Is On Hold Until After The Election

We are just at the start of the earnings releases on Q3 2012 vendor revenues and a week and a half from the first release of US GDP data on business technology investment in the quarter, but it is...

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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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Tool:Global ePurchasing Software Revenues By Size Of Vendor

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Client Inquiry:Comparing Our SaaS Revenue Forecast

How does Forrester's SaaS revenue forecast compare with other forecasts?

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Blog:What A Romney Presidency Would Mean For The US Tech Market Outlook

  With the US presidential election race entering the two-month sprint to election day, I think it is useful to speculate on what a Romney administration would mean for the US tech market (in...

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Blog:A Tale Of Three Software Vendors: Microsoft Up, IBM Lagging, SAP In Between In Q2 2010

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, Q2 2010 seemed like the best of times or the worst of times for the big software vendors.  For Microsoft, it was the best of times; for IBM, it was...

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Blog:Tech Market Will See Similar Growth In 2011 As In 2010, But With Important Twists

At first glance, our forecast that the global IT market will expand by 7.1% in 2011 is right in line with the 7.2% growth we are estimating occurred in 2010 (see our January  11, 2011,...