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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Methodologies Enlarge To Address The New Business Landscape

Landscape: The EA Method Playbook

Digital is increasingly part of products and services offerings — provoking disruption to the old ways of doing things. Companies are facing uncertain market changes and economic conditions,...

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

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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For CIO Professionals

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 Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: EMEA Workplace Services, Q2 2013

Providers Driving Workplace Services In EMEA

Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Software-Defined Storage Will Sound The Death Knell For Traditional Storage Provisioning

Shrinking storage budgets and rapidly expanding data stores are putting extraordinary amounts of pressure on storage administrators. Storage vendors have responded to new customer requirements for...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How US Consumers Shop On Mobile Devices

Consumers Use Mobile Phones Primarily For In-Store Product Research

Sales remain small on mobile devices, and online retailers are taking a cautious approach to investment in mobile services — for now. In this report, we discuss the size of the US mobile retail...

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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:Create A Habitat Of Technology Engagement And Enablement For Your Workforce

Executive Overview: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

BYOD. BYOPC. Consumerization. These are the words that send shivers down the spines of infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for "end user computing" in their companies....

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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 Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Build A Road Map For Workforce Computing

Road Map: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their five-year technology road map for workforce computing. This is important because into...

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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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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Seeding The Cloud Channel

Channel Partners' Plans And Needs For Business Model Transformation

As technologies and tech decision-makers' needs evolve at a livelier pace, channel professionals need to consider channel partners' perceptions and investment plans and develop their own game plan to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Strategic Benchmarks 2013: IT Infrastructure

Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Waste Management Builds A True Private Cloud

Secrets To Success: Designed With The Customer And Inspired By Public Cloud

By building a private cloud the right way, Waste Management (WM) reduced resource deployment time from two and a half months to around 20 minutes and gave existing public cloud users a satisfactory...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Fuse Business Acceleration Technologies To Optimize User Experiences

Deliver Blazing-Fast Web, Mobile-Native, And Hybrid Applications

Over the past decade, infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have focused large amounts of resources on making their customer-facing websites blazingly fast because website experience had a direct...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Managed Service Providers, Part 2

Service Provider Market Dynamics Will Muddy The Channel Ecosystem

An inflection point has surfaced in the managed service provider (MSP) market. Tech vendors must awaken to the revolution that is swiftly taking shape in the ecosystem as cloud computing adoption...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: IT Budgets And Priorities In 2013

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism

What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2013 Global Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2013 UK Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

Forrester Evaluates Mobile Banking At The Four Largest UK Banks

With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they must keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2013 US Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings

With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SaaS Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific For 2013 And 2014

IT's Involvement And Support Are Poised To Grow Sharply

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption is rapidly going mainstream across more and more markets in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). But there's still a disconnect between business decision-makers' demand...

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