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Report:The VSB Market Under The Magnifying Glass

The Very Small Business Profile: Growing, Young, And Mobile

The very small business (VSB) market is growing in importance for an increasing number of tech vendors, in large part due to the fact that it is the fastest-growing company-size segment in terms of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:The Forrester/TechTarget Shows Stronger Pressure For An ESB Purchase

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Pricing And Licensing Trends 2011

Software Sourcing Leaders Should Create Sourcing Strategies That Take Advantage Of Profound Changes In The Software Market

In 2011, Forrester expects to see major changes in the pricing and licensing approaches of traditional software providers. Increasing tension between vendors' insatiable demands for revenue and...

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Many Buyers Want Security From Their Cloud Provider

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Governance-Oriented SOA Products Correlate With Higher SOA Satisfaction

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Tool:Different Supplier Types Offer Contrasting Strengths

For CIO Professionals

Report:Top Barriers To Replacing Microsoft Office

Office Alternatives Haven't Yet Earned Their Name

Content and collaboration (C&C) pros show lots of interest in Microsoft Office competitors as a way to cut license costs. They run trials of Google Apps and Open Office derivatives by IBM Lotus and...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Content Security, Q3 2011

SaaS Values Are Established, And Vendors Move Quickly To Capture Market Share

Content security products enable organizations to protect against email- and web-borne threats, enforce acceptable use policies, and guard against data leak risks. SaaS delivery has been a game...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Empower Self-Provisioning With Standard Telecom Contract Terms And Conditions

Tools And Technology: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Telecom and mobility services contracting challenges proliferate as distributed user firms implement advanced communications technologies like unified communications (UC) and telepresence that are...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:SIs Lag In Agile Adoption Compared With The Broader Development Community

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Managed File Transfer Solutions

A $1.4 Billion Market Is Growing Rapidly

The managed file transfer (MFT) market is growing rapidly as the shortcomings of using basic file transfer protocol (FTP) to support external file transfers have become more apparent. Both senior...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Five Prevailing Trends In ERP

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2010; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:How Customers Value IaaS Cloud Channels

Hosters And Tech Vendors Are Drafting Amazon's Slipstream

The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud business, with its high margins, is a strong attractant to a slew of provider channels. But customers view different provider types differently in terms...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview: European IT Infrastructure Outsourcing

Several forces are slowly transforming the stable but growing market for IT infrastructure services in Europe, including the rising profile of offshore suppliers, maturing global delivery,...

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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 CIO Professionals

Tool:Technical Complexity And Resource Deficiency Challenge IT Security Practices

For CIO Professionals

Tool:Forecast: US Individuals With Two Or More PCs Or Smartphones Forecast, 2008 to 2016

For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Develop A Two-Phased DDoS Mitigation Strategy

Protect Yourself From Hacktivists And Other Cybercriminals

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Clarify Your Global ERP Strategy

As enterprise firms restructure through mergers and acquisitions and expand their global presence, they face huge IT and master data synchronization costs in supporting multiple legacy and disparate...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Organizations Doing More SOA Governance Are More Satisfied With SOA

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Top Challenges Are Creating A Road Map, Evangelizing, And Ensuring A Customer Focus

For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Segment Social Media Behaviors To Improve Tech Vendor Marketing Plans

Forrester's Social Technographics® survey, now in its second year, depicts the social media behaviors of more than 1,000 tech buyers from around the world. Tech marketers can use this data to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Involve At Least Partial Outsourcing To Achieve A Global Communications Technology Vision

Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...

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