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Below are upcoming Forrester reports and surveys. Please note that this list does not include Quick Takes, which are driven by market events and/or client Inquiries. Dates, titles, authors, and topics of our planned research are subject to change at any time.
How networks, software, and sensors will combine to create computing services that are ubiquitous and invisible.
How big data accelerates companies' move to more process-driven strategy and action.
Our annual survey of information workers offers insights into their preferences and uses of technology.
Forrester clients often face a hybrid challenge with customer-facing websites: optimizing both security and user experience. The tightest security can be a usability disaster, and the most user-friendly user identification methods can put business assets at security risk. Poor online account recovery processes are costing businesses millions of dollars in operational costs to their contact centers as well as losses due to fraud. This report provides an assessment framework that helps security professionals identify scenario-specific login security and usability issues and make improvements in both -- rather than treating them as a zero-sum game.
How corporate and service-provider data centers will evolve over the next 5 years.
Gathering market intelligence about your software suppliers is a sourcing best practice, as it empowers your negotiations and ensures you know what to ask for and when. It’s easier to do today than it's ever been; the internet has opened up a tremendous pool of data that can be quickly accessed by time-constrained sourcing professionals. Unless you know your supplier, you risk buying the wrong products from the wrong company at the wrong price and exacerbating risk. This report highlights what information you need to obtain and how to do it quickly.
Details to follow.
| Data management has to assume an empowered business technology model to provide an agile foundation. An inside out only view will not support business agility in a digitally focused and consumerized data consumption landscape.This document provides a vision for where data management is headed to support digital transformation within the organization. |
| This report is designed to help Enterprise Architects avoid roadblocks to maintain agility in their data environment. |
By far the largest and most populated country in South America, Brazil’s presence on the world stage continues to win global attention and inspire awe with as must flair as Adriana Lima working the runway. As the motto on the country’s flag states, “order and progress” characterize Brazil’s steady internal development, as the wealth of natural resources and expansive labor pool have shaped the country into a leading economic power. Now, while Brazil dresses up to host the summer 2016 Olympic Games, businesses and consumers alike are turning their attention to the nation in hopes of leveraging its commercial opportunity. This emerging markets overview helps marketers understand Brazil’s consumer population by profiling the unique social, financial, and retail patterns that characterize metropolitan online adults.
This report will show the behaviors of today's consumers and their multi-channel habits.
In an increasingly connected world, it’s not surprising that over three quarters of the US population are banking online on a PC: checking their account balances, transferring funds, or paying bills. For this Technographics Overview we’ll look at who are these online bankers, and explore their preferences and behaviors. Compared to the 24% of the population who are not banking online, online bankers have more investable assets and higher household incomes. Also, banks should take notice of their preference for multiple banking channels, openness towards branchless banking, desire for online money management tools through their own bank, and the inevitable shift towards digital banking on connected and mobile devices.