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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions For Your Organization

Tools And Technology: The Mobile App Development Playbook

Traversing the mobile app development technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the different native, hybrid, and web-based development approaches; the range of infrastructure...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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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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Report:Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey Results

This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey.  The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

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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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Report:Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences

Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

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Report:KonyOne Offers A Flexible, Low-Code Platform

Going Hands On With KonyOne Shows How Middleware Is Evolving

In the latest installment in our "hands-on mobile" series, we rebuild and deploy the simple mobile application we built last fall with the KonyOne mobile middleware platform. The KonyOne platform...

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Report:The Future Of Microsoft .NET: New Options, New Choices, New Risks

The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework

One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

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Report:Unify The Digital Experience Across Touchpoints

Vision: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, goggles...

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Report:Multiple PaaS Flavors Hit The Enterprise

Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Building Mobile Apps? Start With Web; Move To Hybrid

Strategic Plan: The Mobile App Development Playbook

In the past year, we've handled more than 200 client inquiries regarding what technology approach best suits mobile app development needs. The most common question we field is: "Should we go with a...

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Report:New Productivity Platforms: Our Interactive Vendor Profiles

A Companion Tool For The New Productivity Platforms

A wide range of vendors offer new productivity platforms, and they rely on several major strategies to speed development, deployment, and evolution of applications. Some of these platforms are best...

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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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Report:Application Delivery Must Enter The Age Of The Customer

A Roundtable Discussion With Forrester Analysts

Customers have more power today than ever before. They have tremendous influence and reach through social media, more options and choices for whom to buy from, and high expectations about how they...

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Report:Mainframe Migration — Panacea Or Pandora's Box?

A Framework For Mainframe COBOL Migration And Rehosting Decisions

Business executives want to reduce the recurring costs of their application portfolios any way they can and use the savings to fund new business opportunities and counteract competitive threats....

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Report:How To Become A BT Leader — And Leave IT Order-Taking Behind

Three Cases Show The Path To App Delivery's High-Value Career Choices

How application development and delivery professionals serve the business is changing, calling for new delivery methods, organizational models, roles, and processes. The change: App delivery pros...

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Report:SAP Shows Progress On Its Cloud, Mobile, And In-Memory Innovation Agenda

At its recent Sapphire Now user conference, SAP confidently extolled the virtues of in-memory computing, mobility, and on-demand applications as key innovation pillars, with social collaboration as...

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Report:Innovative Technologies Will Drive Enterprise Applications And ERP To A Bright New Future

In the next five years, enterprise apps will be transformed by technologies that disrupt preconceived notions about ownership and support costs, process flexibility, insight, and speed of delivery....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Evaluating Application Fit With Cloud

Questions You Should Be Asking To Determine Where To Run Your Apps

Faced with a multitude of public and private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings, firms must determine their approach for leveraging these options. Enterprise architects should begin mapping...

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Report:Are All Global Applications Truly Global?

Some Are Less Global Than Others

Many off-the-shelf business apps are supposed to be global. However, the reality of what it really means to be global lies between off-the-shelf support and vast amounts of customization....

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Report:Cloud Computing Brings Demand For Elastic Application Platforms

EAPs Ease Delivery Of Elastic Apps, Smoothing A Path To Cloud's Benefits

Promises that cloud computing can save money and reduce time-to-market by automatically scaling applications (either up or down) oversimplify what it takes to develop application architectures to...

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Report:Augment DevOps With NoOps

DevOps Is Good, But Cloud Computing Will Usher In NoOps

Development + operations = DevOps. DevOps denotes better communication and collaboration between application development professionals and infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. DevOps...

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