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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For SVM Professionals: Software-As-A-Service, Q4 2011

Software-As-A-Service Still Growing, Taking Over In More Areas Of Technology

As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Redefine Your Workforce Computing Policy To Empower Employees

Policy And Procedures: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals solving workforce computing challenges. This report is designed to help you redefine your workforce...

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For CIO Professionals

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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Survey:Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2013

Forrester's Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2013, was fielded to 2,487 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from...

For Analyst Relations Professionals

Report:AR And Social Media, Part 1: How To Create A Social AR Strategy

Analyst relations (AR) people are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy and begin with technology-driven...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Break Down Silos With An Emerging Technology Road Map

Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Seeding The Cloud Channel

Channel Partners' Plans And Needs For Business Model Transformation

As technologies and tech decision-makers' needs evolve at a livelier pace, channel professionals need to consider channel partners' perceptions and investment plans and develop their own game plan to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends

SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!

This report answers three questions about enterprise mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices: 1) what the major trends are regarding BYOD adoption; 2) how firms are managing their BYOD programs...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:How To Successfully Set Up IT Infrastructure For Your Business In China

For the thousands of foreign companies that establish business operations in China every year, one of the first things on their to-do lists is setting up IT infrastructure, including horizontal and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Assess Your Cloud Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Cloud Computing Playbook

The business is pushing for new and innovative ways to increase top lines and pushing you to leverage cloud computing services as much as possible. On the flip side, you're also being asked to drive...

• Downloads: 892

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Capitalize On Emerging Technology For Innovation And Growth

Executive Overview: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging technology unlocks disruptive business opportunities for firms that are prepared; capitalizing on this should be a key element in your firm's innovation and growth plans. Technologies that...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:How To Create A Knockout Social Business And Collaboration Strategic Plan

Strategic Plan: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business and collaboration programs can redefine work by changing the way employees connect with each other and the information they need to do their jobs. However, programs fall flat when...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Q&A: Cyberinsurance Fundamentals For Security And Risk Professionals

Since cyberinsurance first emerged in the late '90s, the number of available policies, the scope of those policies, and the number of insurers offering them have all significantly increased. Due to...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The VSB Software Market: Cloud Triggers And Custom Development

This workbook provides data on how the current generation of VSBs displays significantly different software investment plans than earlier generations. VSBs are beginning to think and act more like...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Five Seismic Forces Reshuffle The Workforce Vendor Ecosystem

Landscape: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

2012 brought a tectonic shift in worker technology requirements. Many more employees now purchase their own devices, bring them to work, and use them to conduct personal and professional activities...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Habitat For Engagement: Unleash Workforce Potential With Agile Enablement

Vision: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives responsible for "end user computing" — the delivery and support of technology and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:An Infrastructure And Operations Pro's Guide To Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services

You Must Include These Services In Your Five-Year Road Map

Historically, disaster recovery (DR) preparedness required substantial time and financial investment. For many, DR was out of reach, and for others, it was a burdensome task that often felt like an...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Predicting Individuals' Loyalty To Mobile Computing Ecosystems

As Multidevice Adoption Spreads, Today's Weak Attachment To Vendor Ecosystems Will Strengthen

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Linking IT Services Activities To Business Value

Business Impact: The Services Sourcing Playbook

Linking IT services engagements, including outsourcing relationships, directly to any type of business value other than cost savings remains a challenge. However, it is a challenge sourcing and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Software-Defined Storage Will Sound The Death Knell For Traditional Storage Provisioning

Storage budgets are not keeping pace with the rapidly expanding data stores, and this is putting an extraordinary amount of pressure on storage administrators. Storage vendors have responded to new...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Build A Road Map For Workforce Computing

Road Map: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their five-year technology road map for workforce computing. This is important because into...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Demand Pricing That Matches Business Value — The Radical Sourcing Trend For 2013

Landscape: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes the software pricing and licensing landscape and explains why it makes it so important for sourcing and vendor management executives to implement Forrester's strategic software...

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