For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Best Practices: Microsoft Office Enterprise Strategy

by Sheri McLeish, November 13, 2009

Microsoft Office licenses represent a significant ongoing cost for most organizations. Information workers spend hours every day using these applications to get their jobs done. Yet many information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals face . . .

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The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2009

Workforce Technology Adoption By Information Workers

by Ted Schadler, October 7, 2009

This is a graphical analysis of Forrester's Workforce Technographics® US Benchmark Survey, Q2 2009. This analysis is based on an online survey of 2,001 US information workers (iWorkers) at organizations with 100 or more employees. It is Forrester's . . .

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Enterprise Plans For Productivity Tools: Holding Out For Microsoft Office 2010  (419 KB PPT)

by Sheri McLeish, June 3, 2009

Forrester recently conducted a survey of enterprise CIOs and decision-makers to understand their plans for productivity tools. This research highlights some of the key findings from the data

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story

by Sheri McLeish, December 22, 2008

Writing still comprises the bulk of business communications. With this year's silver anniversary of Microsoft Word, most companies' relationship with the tool is like a comfortable marriage of best friends. Losing this companion wouldn't feel right. So . . .

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So, Thinking Of Alternatives To Microsoft Office?

Direct Answers To Frequently Asked Questions

by Kyle McNabb, November 11, 2008

Enterprises today have something not seen for at least the past decade: unprecedented choice in desktop productivity tools. Google, IBM, open source, and numerous enterprise Web 2.0 vendors offer alternatives to desktop productivity's gorilla: Microsoft . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Hot Companies To Watch: Q3 Update

Profiles of Emerging Companies And Technology Trends That Tech Vendors Should Consider When Planning Strategy

by Chris Andrews, September 10, 2008

In this series, we highlight interesting new vendors and important technology trends. At Forrester, we've seen a strong interest in emerging technologies among our technology strategist clients as vendors seek to stay innovative and identify the "next . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Hot Companies To Watch In 2008: Q2 Update

Profiles Of Emerging Companies And Technology Trends That Tech Vendors Should Consider When Planning Strategy

by Chris Andrews, June 19, 2008

The wide-ranging popularity of our first "Hot Companies To Watch" document, published in April 2008, highlighted a few important facts about technology strategists. First, it reflects the high level of interest technology professionals have in understanding . . .

For Consumer Market Research Professionals

Technographics® Survey Highlights: North American Technographics® Consumer Software And Home Office Online Survey, Q1 20  (341 KB PPT)

by Jacqueline Anderson, May 1, 2008

This highlight deck summarizes the key findings from Forrester¿s North American Technographics® Consumer Software And Home Office Online Survey, Q1 2008. This deck covers what software products consumers use and what technology home-based business . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Topic Overview: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

by Kyle McNabb, Rob Koplowitz, April 24, 2008

Forrester's Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 research helps information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals get to grips with the sometimes viral adoption of Microsoft's collaboration, enterprise content management (ECM), search, . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Technology Populism Blurs The Work/Life Boundary  (382 KB PPT)

by Kyle McNabb, Matthew Brown, April 8, 2008

The lines between home life and work life are blurring as enterprise software is making its way home and personal software is making its way into the enterprise.

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Microsoft Office: The Current And - Very Likely - Future King Of Desktop Productivity  (359 KB PPT)

by Kyle McNabb, April 2, 2008

This data chart uses data from the March 2008 North American And Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office 2007 Adoption Online Survey to examine trends in adoption of Microsoft Office 2007 desktop applications.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Adoption In A Word: Pervasive  (362 KB PPT)

by April 2, 2008

This data chart uses data from the March 2008 North American And Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office 2007 Adoption Online Survey to examine trends in adoption of Microsoft Office 2007 desktop applications.

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The State Of Microsoft Office 2007 Desktop Adoption  (354 KB PPT)

by Kyle McNabb, March 31, 2008

This data chart uses data from the March 2008 North American And Western European Enterprise Microsoft Office 2007 Adoption Online Survey to examine trends in adoption of Microsoft Office 2007 desktop applications.

For Consumer Market Research Professionals

North American Technographics Consumer Software And Home Office Online Survey, Q1 2008

North American Consumer Technographics Technographics Survey, February 28, 2008

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Answering 10 Of The Most Frequently Asked Corporate PC Configuration Questions

Windows Vista And Office 2007 Plans Affect Enterprise Buying Criteria

by Benjamin Gray, August 6, 2007

The PC market is going to heat up in mid-2008 with wider-scale deployments of Windows Vista and Office 2007 into the corporate environment. Today, we are experiencing the long tail-end of the most recent corporate PC refresh cycle as desktop operations . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

A Look At The Improvements And Shortcomings Of Microsoft Office 2007 Desktop Applications

by Kyle McNabb, July 17, 2007

Microsoft's Office 2007 desktop applications feature a new user experience, an integrated graphics engine, support for a new XML-based file format, numerous optional interdependencies with SharePoint Server 2007, and a host of optional online services, . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Duet Won't Be A One-Hit Wonder

Long-Term Road Map Will Resonate With Customers

by Rob Koplowitz, July 10, 2007

Microsoft and SAP have announced an extended road map for their joint product Duet, which provides access to SAP data and processes natively from within Microsoft Office. With support for new business scenarios, additional languages, Office 2007, and . . .

For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals

Google Releases Google Apps Premier Edition

A Low-Cost Alternative To Microsoft Office

by Erica Driver, Matthew Brown, Kyle McNabb, February 22, 2007

Today Google unveiled a new solution based on its Google Apps For Your Domain — Google Apps Premier Edition. Google's latest foray into making affordable messaging, collaboration, and office productivity tools targets business people worldwide and takes . . .

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Office Productivity Software Trends: 2007 And Beyond

Enterprises Expect A Microsoft-Versus-Google Showdown

by Kyle McNabb, December 7, 2006

In April and May 2006, Forrester surveyed 118 North American and European enterprises about their current usage of and future plans for office productivity software. Enterprise interest in this software is on the rise, thanks to Microsoft's upcoming release . . .

Microsoft Office Project Gets Boost With UMT

Acquisition Success Depends On Holistic IT Management Focus

by Margo Visitacion, August 2, 2006

Despite the attractive sticker price and familiarity, Microsoft has been unable to crack the leadership level of the project portfolio management (PPM) market. But the vendor's acquisition of UMT opens up a future as a PPM vendor. Previously, Microsoft . . .

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Gates Steps Back, Changes Everything

His Exit Marks The End Of A Software Paradigm, New Era For Microsoft

by John R. Rymer, Ted Schadler, Erica Driver, June 16, 2006

Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer downplayed the significance of Gates' new personal priority on his foundation, but Forrester doesn't buy it. Gates — his encyclopedic mind, steely will, and passion for software technology — is the essence of Microsoft. . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Developers, Get Ready: 2007 Microsoft Office Is A Serious Application Platform

by John R. Rymer, May 22, 2006

At the end of 2006, Microsoft plans to release the successor to Office 2003 — the first Office release overtly designed as an application platform, as well as a suite of personal and team applications. Assuming massive adoption of the new release, the . . .

Microsoft Office Finally Moves Front And Center Into Microsoft's BI Strategy

by Keith Gile, March 14, 2006

Microsoft has been influencing the way companies approach OLAP, data mining, and enterprise reporting for several years with products such as MS SQL Server Analysis Services and MS SQL Server Reporting Services — all delivered through the SQL Server group. . . .

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OpenOffice.org 2.0/StarOffice 8: Imitation, Not Innovation

by Kyle McNabb, December 14, 2005

OpenOffice.org and its commercial counterpart, Sun Microsystem's StarOffice 8, recently introduced new versions of the market's top open source desktop productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.0 mimics Microsoft Office in many ways and offers new, interesting . . .

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Microsoft Pushes Into Desktop Productivity Software As A Service

Is It Something For The Enterprise? It Will Be

by Kyle McNabb, November 10, 2005

A much anticipated announcement regarding desktop productivity software as a service came last week from an unexpected direction, Microsoft. The software giant unveiled Office Live, signaling its entry into desktop productivity software as a service — . . .