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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose Digital Experience Tools To Engage With Customers In A Cross-Channel World

Tools And Technology: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Systems that support digital experiences present challenges to tech buyers, who are discovering a vast and immature market. Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals face a...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Mobile Feast Or Beggar's Banquet?

Landscape: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Enterprises are facing challenges with mobile enablement that are similar in many ways to technology challenges we've seen in the past — yet these challenges are coming with ferocity unlike...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Creating Your Transformation Strategy For Digital Experience Delivery

Strategic Plan: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience is the next big opportunity for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Business leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and support need advice and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Build A Corporate App Store Into Your Workforce Computing Strategy

I&O Should Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store

Today, employees are using personally owned smartphones and tablets at work, and firms are leveraging an array of mobile applications to interact with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Design Mobile Apps From The Outside In

Policy And Procedures: The Mobile App Development Playbook

This report outlines best practices in mobile app design that application development & delivery professionals can use to design great mobile apps. Customer expectations for mobile apps have never...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Coming Of HTML5

Why It's Time To Think Seriously About Using HTML5 To Differentiate The Desktop Shopping Experience

With broad support across smartphone and tablet devices, HTML5 is already underpinning many mobile web experiences. However, adoption of the technology on the desktop has been slow to date due to...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Understanding Responsive Design

What eBusiness Teams Need To Know About The Future Of Multitouchpoint Web Design

The splinternet has created a headache for eBusiness leaders who must now support optimized commerce experiences across an increasingly complex landscape of web-enabled touchpoints. Maintaining...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Here Comes The Open Web — Embrace It

The New Web Platform For Customer Engagement And Much More (Part 1)

The Web is moving on to a new era of openness, mobility, and digital business. The open Web is a platform built on HTTP (the fundamental web protocol), a new generation of HTML, dynamic languages,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption: Content And Collaboration Is Just The Start

Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros

Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:A SharePoint Custom-Development Strategy Is More Crucial Now Than Ever

Adoption Of SharePoint 2010 — A Serious Application Platform — Is Strong

The stage is set for a big upswing in custom application development on SharePoint. First, SharePoint Server 2010 adoption is very strong, and this version of the product has the strongest features...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of Java

Java Will Be Constrained By The Bounds Of Oracle's Business Model

Drama has been running high since Oracle began to shape up the Java technology it acquired along with Sun Microsystems. Oracle ended the impasse over a new core Java release, set out a road map for...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Define Your Mobile Development Strategy

Use Forrester's Mobile POST Method To Create A Mobile Development Plan

Developing mobile applications used to be an arcane activity pursued by highly specialized developers, but no more. The surge in popularity of Android devices, BlackBerries, and iPhones has...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Mall Of Google

The Internet Ad Giant Shifts Emphasis To Include Enterprise IT

Open source is no longer a "don't ask, don't tell" secret in enterprise application development shops: Increased executive awareness and evolving open source business models are leading shops to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Elastic Caching Platforms, Q2 2010

GigaSpaces, IBM, Oracle, and Terracotta Lead; Alachisoft, GemStone, And ScaleOut Software Are Strong Performers

Forrester evaluated eight elastic caching platform vendors using 124 criteria and found GigaSpaces, IBM, Oracle, and Terracotta to be Leaders because of their strong elastic caching features and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Does HTML 5 Herald The End Of RIA Plug-Ins? Not Really

The Pending Demise Of Popular Rich Internet App Platforms Is Wildly Overstated

Will HTML 5 make rich Internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash/Flex and Microsoft Silverlight obsolete? For at least the next five years, the answer is a definite "no";...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Enterprise Platform Trends, H1 2009: Bye-Bye Vista

Forrester's six-month study of 75,453 enterprise users during H1 2009 reveals interesting insights into browser type, operating system, screen resolution, color depth, and Java and Flash adoption....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:What Semantic Technology Means To Application Development Professionals

Semantic Technology Is Now Ready For Increased But Focused Use

Semantic technology has been incubating for the past 10 years, but most application development professionals view it with skepticism or outright distrust, believing that the dream of semantic...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:With "11g," Oracle Steps Out Of IBM's Middleware Shadow

New Release Will Also Blast Past SAP NetWeaver And Challenge Microsoft

The latest release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, dubbed "11g," establishes Oracle as the innovator among Java platform vendors. The first modules of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g — the core Java...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Distributed Enterprise 2.0

CIOs In Consumer-Facing, Distributed Firms Can Capitalize On Cloud Computing

In a desperate effort to maintain the connection with fickle consumers, line-of-business executives and their allies in IT are conspiring to lower the IT drawbridge in order to deliver personalized...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Perform Realistic Web Testing To Ensure Blazing Fast Web Site Performance

This workbook discusses the importance of realistic performance Web testing, what it is, and recommendations.

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Microsoft's Web Platform Expands To PHP

Microsoft Aims To Simplify Adoption Of PHP Web Apps On Windows

Blasphemy might be the first word that comes to mind when you hear Microsoft, PHP, and open source mentioned in the same breath. But no more: The new Microsoft Web Platform will offer simplified...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Cynergy Employs Developer-Designers To Harness The Power Of RIAs

Resolving The Conflict Between Development And Design

With the advent of rich Internet applications (RIAs), Cynergy Systems had to change from a traditional software development house into a service provider that fuses design-house graphical flair with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Trends In WCM: A Focus On Personalization, RIAs, Rich Media, And Analytics

This Data Chart, based on data from Forrester’s October 2008 North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific Web Content Management Online Survey, shows the projected trends for Web content management (WCM)...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Platform-As-A-Service Is Here: How To Sift Through The Options

The Rewards And Risks Of PaaS For Application Development Shops

The term platform-as-a-service describes many different approaches to developing applications that run in Internet data centers, and each of these approaches is suited to a limited number of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Enterprise Platform Trends, H2 2008: Chrome Arrives And Vista Departs

Forrester's month-on-month study of 51,913 enterprise users in H2 2008 reveals interesting insights into browser type, operating system, screen resolution, color depth, and Java and Flash adoption....

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