For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Trends In Enterprise 802.11n Adoption, 2009  (427 KB PPT)

by Chris Silva, October 15, 2009

A data chart that looks at 802.11 adoption trends.

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2009 Enterprise Mobility Spending And Adoption Trends   (472 KB PPT)

by Michele Pelino, August 7, 2009

Using data from BDS Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2009, Forrester examines enterprise mobility spending and adoption trends.

For Technology Product Management & Marketing Professionals

Demand Insights: Enterprise Mobility 2009

Prepare For The Rise Of The Mobile Wannabes And The Services To Support Them

by Michele Pelino, July 28, 2009

Forrester's latest Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2009, shows continued enterprise mobility momentum — even during these challenging economic times. Buyers are investing in mobile applications for . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Vendor Landscape: Enterprise 802.11n Infrastructure

by Chris Silva, July 24, 2009

The most recent iteration of the Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, has held out great hope, with greater speeds and greatly improved signal range, but as a newly ratified technology it has yet to be widely adopted due to perceived interoperability issues, higher . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Identifying Components Of The Network Skills Gap

Identify Roles And Skills That Are Significantly Important For Successful Network Management

by Chris Silva, Usman Sindhu, June 12, 2009

Organizations are upgrading their infrastructure with technologies that improve network efficiency, performance, security, and management. As a result, IT ops pros' roles must also evolve in network, system, service, and operation management skills. These . . .

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TechRadar™ For IT Infrastructure And Operations Professionals: Branch Office Technologies, Q2 2009

Core Technologies Ripe For Consolidation And Centralization

by Chris Silva, May 26, 2009

As businesses look to IT for the efficiencies, savings, and streamlining that will improve the bottom line, consolidation of branch office infrastructure represents a distributed but easy-to-optimize area of IT infrastructure. All the technologies included . . .

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Wireless Architect - Job Profile And Description  (36 KB XLS)

by Chris Silva, March 31, 2009

Position overview: Wireless architect professional has the expertise to design and manage wireless networks by making mission-critical and business-critical wireless network decision.

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Mobile Operations - Job Profile And Description  (38 KB XLS)

by Chris Silva, March 31, 2009

Position overview: Mobile operations professionals are tasked with managing mobile networks internal and external to the organization, managing device choice, and ensuring devices and applications reliant on these networks are properly secured and managed.

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Future View: Mobile Unified Communications Demand And Evolution, 2009 To 2014

Revenue Growth Will Follow As Vendors Facilitate Easier Integration

by Michele Pelino, March 19, 2009

Today, few enterprises integrate unified communications (UC) functions with mobile applications because most companies do not yet understand the value proposition of mobile UC integration. We believe that UC integration into mobile line-of-business (LOB) . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Understanding The Network Skills Gap

Emerging Network Technologies Exacerbate Skills Shortcomings

by Chris Silva, March 5, 2009

Organizations are looking to IT to bring cost savings and efficiency to the business in the unsure future of 2009. In most organizations, this has led to IT being tasked with increasing network design complexity through the uptake of higher-level networking . . .

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Inquiry Spotlight: Enterprise Mobility, Q4 2008

by Benjamin Gray, Chris Silva, October 7, 2008

From January to June 2008, Forrester's IT infrastructure and operations team fielded 1,332 inquiries, which included a myriad of wide-ranging enterprise mobility technology adoption and strategy questions. As firms evolve their investments in enterprise . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

WiMAX In The US: How It Could Affect The Enterprise Wireless Infrastructure

by Chris Silva, Lisa Pierce, August 1, 2008

As standards have matured, WiMAX has garnered increased enterprise interest and vendor hype. If key providers in the US, notably Clearwire and Sprint, deploy the service as planned over the next 12 to 18 months, enterprises can look at WiMAX as a WAN . . .

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The State Of Mobile Infrastructure: 2008

What Critical Elements Are IT Organizations Evaluating This Year?

by Chris Silva, August 1, 2008

Mobility is a priority for the majority of enterprises today. Whether formalizing and executing a mobile strategy, providing more mobility support to employees, or implementing a solution to ensure seamless coverage across multiple networks, enterprises . . .

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Forrester TechRadar™: Enterprise Mobility Infrastructure, Q3 2008

Infrastructure And Services Converge To Make The Workplace Place-Agnostic

by Chris Silva, July 14, 2008

Enterprises see mobility as a top priority and seek to provide more mobility support to employees, implement solutions that provide seamless movement between networks, and formalize mobile policies. However, simply making mobility a key success goal is . . .

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Demand Insights: Enterprise Mobility 2008

Mobility Use Expands Year Over Year — But The Supplier Market Is Still Murky

by Michele Pelino, July 11, 2008

For years there has been a lot of talk — but not much action — around enterprise mobility. Today, the tide is turning. Results from Forrester's Enterprise Network And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2008, show that mobility initiatives . . .

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The State Of SMB Networks And Telecommunications: 2008

Business Data Services North America And Europe

by Ellen Daley, July 9, 2008

This document gives highlights of an extensive data set collected across North American and European enterprises via our Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2008. Hot topics for SMBs include mobility, . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

The Rise Of 3G-Enabled Enterprise Applications: Spotlight On Sprint

by Lisa Pierce, April 17, 2008

US 3G service providers have invested billions in upgrading their networks to support higher-bandwidth, lower-latency mobile services like EVDO/Rev A or UMTS/HSPA. As a result, enterprises are using these services with growing frequency — about twice . . .

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Technographics® Survey Highlights: European Technographics Online Consumer Technology Survey, Q4 2007  (362 KB PPT)

by Joost van Kruijsdijk, April 15, 2008

This highlight deck summarizes the key findings from Forrester's European Technographics Online Consumer Technology Survey, Q4 2007

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End-Of-Life: The Forrester Wave™ WLAN Infrastructure

by Chris Silva, April 4, 2008

As enterprises become progressively more mobile, the adoption of wireless LAN (WLAN) that's already in place in the majority of North American and European enterprises continues to proliferate in more areas within organizations. Research has found that . . .

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Mobile Network Usage Enterprise And SMB  (150 KB PPT)

by Chris Silva, April 3, 2008

Forrester Research analysts created an enterprise and SMB survey aimed at contacting decision-makers across vertical industries to explore those companies¿ use of mobile devices and mobile device management software and to understand the drivers behind . . .

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Inquiry Insights: Enterprise Mobility, Q1 2008

by Michele Pelino, March 4, 2008

Forrester receives more than 20,000 inquiries per year that provide a pulse on what are, for our clients, hot topics and pain points. During the past five years, Forrester fielded more than 1,000 inquiries on the topic of enterprise mobility, more than . . .

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Intelligent Mobile Access: Providing Secure Connectivity Across Multiple Mobile Networks

Multiple Networks Demand A Next-Generation Secure-Access Solution

by Chris Silva, February 26, 2008

Enterprises are quickly becoming mobile on all fronts. Inside the enterprise, wireless networks are covering more physical space. Outside, cellular voice and data networks are making up a greater portion of IT spend. The end result is an increasingly . . .

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Key Wireless Trends That Will Shape Enterprise Mobility In 2008

by Chris Silva, Benjamin Gray, February 8, 2008

Mobile operations — a subset of IT operations that marries mobile devices, carrier services, voice, and access technologies — is emerging as a new category of IT professionals in 2008. A major driver of the advent of this new group will be the increased . . .

For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals

Top Consumer Technology Predictions For 2008

by Charles S. Golvin, December 27, 2007

In consumer technology, 2007 was clearly the year of the iPhone and Facebook. Apple's foray into the mobile handset market spurred innovation among the Cupertino company's new competitors, gave partner AT&T a much-needed halo of cool, and opened consumers' . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

SWOT Analysis: Municipal Wireless Networking, Q4 2007

Four Key Vendors Compete For Municipal Wireless Deployments

by Sally M. Cohen, December 10, 2007

Today's municipal wireless network vendors must couple innovative access and back-haul technology with forward-thinking network applications and services to win deals. Now these vendors must go further and answer the call from municipalities for business . . .