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Asia Pacific Technographics®
For the past seven years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Asia Pacific. As in recent years, this dedicated report helps companies understand the online and...
Strategic Plan: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
One of the questions that organizations launching an eCommerce operation commonly ask is, "Are there common elements behind success?" With a decade of retail eCommerce behind us, we can see that...

Assessment: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail companies evaluate their eCommerce opportunities, establishing a level set of their current strengths and weaknesses is essential. In 2008, Forrester introduced its proprietary eBusiness...
Strategic Plan: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Today's multichannel company faces enormous pressure to adapt to changing customer expectations and emerging competitive threats. Legacy channel-centric approaches and siloed organizations can no...
Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides...

How Online Retail In India Is Evolving Differently From Other Major Markets
India's eCommerce market is at an early stage but is expected to see huge growth over the next four to five years. Over the past 12 months, venture capitalists have invested heavily in India's...
eBusiness Budgets Rise Again . . . And Will Continue To Grow
eBusiness budgets rose again in 2011 and will keep rising in 2012. Why? Competition is heating up. The average eBusiness team is still maturing, and B2B firms increasingly are entering the eBusiness...

A Look At eCommerce Growth In Brazil, Mexico, And Argentina
Latin American online retail markets continue to intrigue eBusiness professionals around the world. As in years past, Brazil remains the leading market in Latin America: Online shopping extends to...

This is the first of two reports that details the findings from "The State Of North American Retail Banking eBusiness 2012," a Forrester report conducted in partnership with the Consumer Bankers...

Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey retailers on their attitudes toward and investments in the online retail channel. This year the research specifically probes mobile and tablet...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Online retail spending by category in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software, consumer...
Mobile Growth To Amplify Web Pre-Shopping More Than Ever
As consumers are more likely to own mobile devices and spend more of their time online than ever before, they are also likely now than ever to use the Web to support their purchases. By 2016,...

Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...
Mobile Deposit Service Provides Customer Convenience While Cutting Costs
In 2009, USAA pioneered mobile remote deposit for its members. Two years later, the mobile deposit service — which is a part of a larger mobile strategy — has exceeded all expectations....
eBusiness executives continue to look for new ways to increase their conversion rates and customer retention. In recent years, third-party recommendation engines, which have earned a reputation for...

Understanding The Adoption Of Key eBusiness Applications Within A Regional Context
With almost 800 million mobile phone subscribers and 23 billion short message service (SMS) messages sent during the 2010 Chinese New Year holiday alone, metropolitan China outpaces every other...
From 2008 to 2010, 26.3 million more US online leisure travelers began using social media. Members of the group that travel eBusiness professionals need to pay attention to for their social commerce...
Frequency Of Use Requires eBusiness To Take The Lead In Cross-Selling
The Web plays a central role in the lives of today's financial consumers. Consumers use this channel as the primary method of servicing their accounts and researching financial products for purchase....
Privacy And Security Concerns Must Be Satisfied To Tap Emerging Demand
More than 250 financial institutions from 40 different countries have joined Facebook, looking for friends and future customers while testing the social networking waters. While many of these banks...
Affluent US investors are managing their money online — but usually not at their full-service firms' sites. Why? Every direct brokerage's Web site is stronger than every full-service firm's...
Forrester asked US consumers what they did after their first channel of choice — either Web or phone — failed to provide the information they needed. Our data shows that among those who...
The Web Still Plays A Small Role As A Distribution Channel In France
The Internet has been slow to take off as a distribution channel for financial products in France. Although 18% of French consumers have researched a financial product online and 3% have bought a...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Online Retail Forecast by Demographics (US): Online retail spending segmented by demographics of online buyers such as age, gender, and income. Includes historical data going back to 2002 plus a...
European Technographics Financial Services Online Survey, Q4 2009
This highlight deck summarizes the key findings related to online banking and money management tools from Forrester's European Technographics Financial Services Online Survey, Q4 2009.
A knowledge of consumer payment preferences in international markets is essential to successful globalization: In few other areas does consumer behavior vary as greatly as it does in online payments....