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For Interactive Marketing Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Marketing Mix Modeling, Q2 2013

The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise ETL, Q1 2012

Informatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Ab Initio, And Talend Lead, With Pervasive, Microsoft, And iWay Close Behind

In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Oracle, and SAP maintain leadership positions thanks to their ability...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011

Software AG, Tibco Software, Oracle, And Progress Software Lead The Way

In Forrester's 109-criteria evaluation of both commercial and open source enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, we found that Software AG, Tibco Software (Tibco), Oracle, and Progress Software are...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Customer Engagement Agencies, Q4 2012

How 13 Vendors Stack Up In An Emerging Market

In Forrester's 19-criteria evaluation of emerging customer engagement agencies (CEAs), we found that only OgilvyOne Worldwide has made a significant-enough shift in this segment of its business to be...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Risk-Based Authentication, Q1 2012

The Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 16-criteria evaluation of risk-based authentication vendors, we identified the six significant vendors in this category — CA Technologies, Entrust, iovation, RSA, Symantec, and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Video Platforms For The Enterprise, Q1 2013

Kaltura, Qumu, And Polycom Lead The Video Publishing Platform Pack

Enterprises looking to deliver video communications to employees continue to use solutions for webcasting and YouTube-like video portals. In Forrester's 23-criteria evaluation of enterprise video...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011

IBM, Jive, NewsGator, And Telligent Lead A Rapidly Maturing Field

In Forrester's first ever, 62-criteria evaluation of enterprise social platform vendors, we found that IBM, Jive, NewsGator, and Telligent led the pack due to breadth and depth of functionality and...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Suites, Q3 2012

The Solution Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 75-criteria evaluation of global business-to-consumer (B2C) enterprise-class commerce suite vendors, we identified the 10 most significant software providers — Demandware,...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: EFM Satisfaction And Loyalty Solutions, Q3 2011

Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind

In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Salesforce.com Implementation, Q2 2011

In A Rapidly Changing Market, Forrester Sees Increasing Vendor Differentiation

To help clients with complex, enterprisewide salesforce.com initiatives, Forrester recently evaluated the offerings of 11 leading service providers. In this 46-criteria evaluation of salesforce.com...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Advanced Data Visualization (ADV) Platforms, Q3 2012

Seven Leaders, Six Strong Performers, And Two Contenders Compete For Share Of The ADV Market

Enterprises find advanced data visualization (ADV) platforms to be essential tools that enable them to monitor business, find patterns, and take action to avoid threats and snatch opportunities. In...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Order Management Hubs, Q3 2010

Oracle EBS And Sterling Commerce Lead, With SAP, Oracle Siebel, And Microsoft Close Behind

In Forrester's 112-criteria evaluation of order management hub (OMH) vendors, Oracle E-Business Suite and Sterling Commerce led the pack among the Leaders because of their ability to support both...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Smart Process Applications, Q2 2013

The 12 Smart Process App Vendors That Matter Most Today And How They Stack Up

Smart process applications are a new and emerging category of applications designed to help CIOs and their firms improve the effectiveness of their human-centric business activities. But finding the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: E-Signatures, Q2 2013

Electronic signatures are gaining momentum and becoming an increasingly popular topic of inquiries by Forrester clients. In retrospect, today's e-signature users will be seen as early adopters...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Web Analytics, Q4 2011

Adobe, comScore, IBM, And Webtrends Lead A Market In Transition

In Forrester's 80-criteria evaluation of web analytics vendors, we found that Adobe, comScore, IBM, and Webtrends are Leaders because of their consistent product strength combined with compelling...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Global MPLS Services, Q1 2013

Customers Have A Range Of Strong Options In This Mature Service Category

In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of facilities-based managed global MPLS service providers, we identified and qualified 11 global network operators that offer networking services to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: North American Workplace Services, Q2 2013

Evaluating Leading Providers Amidst A Category Redefinition

Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013

Layer 7 And WSO2 Lead This Emerging Field

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by Intel,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: US Search Marketing Agencies, Q1 2011

iCrossing Takes Top Honors, With 360i And Impaqt Close Behind

Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of search marketing vendors scores iCrossing the best because of its forecast-based approach to campaign planning, qualitative and quantitative research skills,...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Technology Transformation, Q3 2012

The Majority Of The Vendors Are Leaders In This Emerging Market

Today, business transformation is often about technology transformation. At the very least, business transformation is always technology-enabled, so what sort of consultants can best help clients...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011

IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind

In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Collaboration, Q3 2011

Mobile collaboration means putting collaboration workloads onto all-important smartphones and tablets, then delivering a great user experience anywhere, anytime, on any device. This is a high bar to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms, Q1 2011

Teradata, Oracle, Sybase (SAP), IBM, SAP, EMC Greenplum, Netezza (IBM), and Microsoft Lead, With Vertica Systems As A Strong Performer

In Forrester's 56-criteria evaluation of enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform vendors, we found the EDW market increasingly competitive, as illustrated by tighter clustering of top vendors....

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:End-Of-Life: The Forrester Wave™ EFM Satisfaction And Loyalty Solutions

After evaluating two categories of enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors in Q3 2011, Forrester will no longer cover the vendor market landscape in the same way. This report explains why the...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011

Mega International, Troux Technologies, Software AG, And Alfabet Lead This Upcoming Category

Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet...

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