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Report:IT Will Skip Windows 8 As The Enterprise Standard

But Workers Should Have The Freedom To Use Windows 8 Devices

Windows 8 is the boldest release of the OS since Windows 95. Microsoft chose to discard the Start button in favor of a new look designed to tie together the PC, tablet, and, smartphone experience....

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Report:I&O Leaders: Engage Employees For Successful Tablet And Mobile App Adoption In 2013

Forrester data continues to show employee demand for business ready smartphones, tablets, and mobile applications. This presentation walks you through our data and provides insight into how your...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Predicting Individuals' Loyalty To Mobile Computing Ecosystems

As Multidevice Adoption Spreads, Today's Weak Attachment To Vendor Ecosystems Will Strengthen

Personal technology vendors are engaged in a battle for their customers' loyalty, which (they hope) will translate to ongoing investment in related devices, software, and services. As individuals...

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Report:Enable Workplaces Of The Future, Now!

Flexible Work And Cowork Redefine Workplace Diversity

If you haven't heard the latest office gossip, you might want to figure out why. As workers increasingly work from home, a coffee shop, a public library, the train, or one of the new coworking...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Five Seismic Forces Reshuffle The Workforce Vendor Ecosystem

Landscape: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

2012 brought a tectonic shift in worker technology requirements. Many more employees now purchase their own devices, bring them to work, and use them to conduct personal and professional activities...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Habitat For Engagement: Unleash Workforce Potential With Agile Enablement

Vision: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines the vision of Forrester's solution for infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives responsible for "end user computing" — the delivery and support of technology and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global, Industry, And Technology Forces Shape The ERP Landscape

Three key forces are reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market: the growing demands of global businesses; the increasing need for industry-specific functionality; and the expanding use...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

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Report:Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer

Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology

After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Navigating Diversity In Operating Systems And Browsers

Heterogeneity Is Here — And Mobility Is Driving It Further

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals face a splintered landscape of operating systems (OSes) and browsers, which complicates investment decisions tied to what they deploy and support for...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mobile App Discovery: Best Practices To Promote Your App

Most brands would love to have their apps among the top 25 most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store or Google Play. With more than one million apps available, there's a great risk that your app...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:2013 Forrester Mobile Security Predictions

The mobile market is evolving rapidly. Both the consumer and enterprise markets are experiencing major changes. Room exists for new innovations as well as for established players to develop new...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Show Me The Loot!

Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends

In this age of the empowered, tech-savvy worker, more and more employees are bringing their unsecured devices to work and using them for work activities. To prepare for this tide of devices,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Navigate The Future Of CRM In 2013

Vision: The CRM Playbook

The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Top Emerging Technologies To Watch: Now Through 2018

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook

Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Enters Its Awkward Teenage Years

Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition

Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

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Report:2013 Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends

More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple

Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

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Report:Office 2013: A Breakthrough In Productivity

Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In

Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

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Report:Seven Mobile Engagement Pitfalls To Avoid

And Seven Mobile-First Alternatives That Are Better

Great mobile experiences are built on systems of engagement, and that means spending money on new engagement technology. Mobile apps have the thorny problem of needing to work spectacularly and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The Enterprise Mobility Outlook For Asia Pacific In 2013

Organizations Across The Region Will Invest In Five Key Areas As Workforce Demand For Mobility Continues To Rise

This report gives enterprise mobility vendors guidance on how to identify business opportunities in Asia Pacific (AP) in 2013, providing insights into end user companies' telecom and mobility...

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Report:Content Providers Are Disrupting China's Mobile Device Market

Explosive 3G adoption in China over the past 24 months has made mobile Internet a much more competitive landscape, with new and unconventional market players entering the fray. Most of the activity...

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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:The Future Of Mobile Application Development

Vision: The Mobile App Development Playbook

With more than 1 billion smartphones worldwide, and tablets numbering in the hundreds of millions, the scope of the mobile revolution rivals that of the move from monolithic systems to client/server...

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