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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Databases, Q4 2012

Four Leaders And Four Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The Enterprise Cloud Database Market

Cloud database offerings represent a new space within the broader data management platform market, providing enterprises with an abstracted option to support Agile development and new social, mobile,...

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Report:Navigating The Microsoft Services Landscape

Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players

Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...

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Report:Craft Your Future State BI Reference Architecture

Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook

In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...

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Report:The Future Of BI In Asia Pacific

The Top 10 Trends Affecting Market Maturity And Growth

Business intelligence (BI) adoption drivers, technology understanding, and organizational process maturity continue to vary widely across Asia Pacific. The one constant in this market is the...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Licensing Changes — What You Need To Know

Repackaging And The Move From Per-Processor To Per-Core Licensing Will Affect The Way Your Organization Uses SQL Server

Microsoft's recent announcements will affect the way your organization licenses its SQL Server product and what you have to pay to use it. To prepare for these changes, sourcing and vendor management...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Cloud Computing Road Map For Enterprise Architects

The purpose of this road map is to illustrate the implementation timing of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technologies evaluated in Forrester's...

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Report:NoSQL Offers New Options To Application Developers

Overcoming RDBMS Limitations Enables New Application Patterns

Business growth and speed are driving new application and data requirements that demand different approaches to data management. Although relational databases are great for most business...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:What CEOs Of Small Software Companies Need To Do In 2011

How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market

The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Update 2011: Q&A: SharePoint Licensing Complexities

Licensing SharePoint, And How Federation And Virtualization Play A Role

Microsoft's SharePoint has been a runaway success with many companies: so much so, that it tests the mettle of infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who are charged with building and...

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Report:Forrester's Business Intelligence DBMS Effort Estimation Model

This diagnostic tool is designed to help you understand the potential long-term cost-of-ownership savings that your organization can realize from the use of specialized business intelligence database...

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Report:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

Complement Your RDBMS-Based BI With More Agile DBMS Technologies

We know how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and flexibility challenges now represent BI's...

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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:Stay Alert To Database Technology Innovation

Specialized Data Management Options Abound — Are Any Right For Your Apps?

Growth in the volume and pace of business is driving new application and data requirements that are often well beyond the design limits of existing relational database technologies. These include...

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Report:SQL Azure Raises The Bar On Cloud Databases

Ease Of Use, Integration, Reliability, And Low Cost Make It A Compelling Solution

Over the past six months, Forrester interviewed 26 companies using Microsoft SQL Azure to find out about their implementations. Most customers stated that SQL Azure delivers a reliable cloud database...

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Report:SAP Jump-Starts Its Innovation Agenda With Sybase

Strategic Acquisition Advances Plans For Mobile And In-Memory Computing

On May 12, 2010, SAP announced its intent to acquire Sybase for $5.8 billion. The acquisition aligns well with SAP's stated innovation agenda to harness in-memory computing, mobile technology, and...

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Report:Take Advantage Of New Ways To Save Money On Database Costs

Today, databases and related infrastructure have grown to become a significant part of most IT budgets, and continued growth in the volume of data and the number of database applications threatens to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Topic Overview: Information Architecture

Information architecture (IA) is a cornerstone of enterprise architecture (EA), but 43% of the architects we surveyed either have not yet addressed this domain or have only begun to implement what...

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Report:Oracle Gets More Specific About Its Sun Plans

No Forced Migrations, But Only Some Sun Products Seem Strategic To Oracle

As the European Commission's (EC's) objections to the acquisition of Sun Microsystems continue to delay the deal, Oracle issued clarification on its intentions for Sun's technology, most notably its...

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Report:Modernization Decisions: Should Client Leave Adabas When It Leaves The Mainframe Platform?

Applications professionals at a government agency had been operating a suite of custom Adabas applications for decades. The agency was facing mounting economic pressures, it was seeking avenues for...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q3 2009

As Much Diversity Of Maturity Across Categories As Confusion Among Them

The No. 1 challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is. What categories of services exist within the definition and business model, and how ready are these options for...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009

Oracle, IBM, And Microsoft Lead, With Sybase Following Closely; Ingres Tops Open Source Databases In Current Offering

In Forrester's 153-criteria evaluation of enterprise open source and closed source database management systems (DBMSes), we found that Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and Sybase lead the pack because each...

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Report:DBMS Selection: Look Beyond Basic Functions

Advanced Features, Application Requirements, And Cost Play A Larger Role

Application development and information and knowledge management professionals evaluating database management systems (DBMSes) will find that comparing basic features and functionality is unlikely to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Inside The End User's Mind: India IT Services Demand-Side Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive background of the India IT services market dynamics from the end user perspective in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more...

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Report:JAVA Under Oracle: Seven Things You Need To Know

Java Standards Will Narrow; MySQL, ADF, And JDeveloper Will Expand

Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems (ticker symbol: JAVA) will give it control over two of the most widely used application development technologies in the industry: the Java platform and...

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Report:Behind "Cloud" Is Your Future Application Environment: Ultra Modular Computing

Shift Cloud Excitement To Your Own Data Centers

Cloud computing is all the rage, but its greatest benefit may be to teach IT organizations how to build flexible and cost-efficient private data centers. The technical foundations of cloud computing...

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