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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 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 Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Managing Information Security In BYOT Environments In Asia Pacific

I&O Professionals Need The Right Policies, Technologies, And Skills To Secure Enterprise Data

Employees are rapidly embracing personal devices, consumer software, and public cloud services for work to increase personal productivity and efficiency, a trend that Forrester refers to as...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:IT Industry Disruptions Fuel Renewed Asia Pacific Market Growth

Forrester's 2013 Predictions For Asia Pacific

2013 will be a transformative year for IT adoption in Asia Pacific (AP); multiple IT trends will converge to drive industry disruptions and help spur renewed growth in IT spending. Overall, we...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Hosted Virtual Desktops Versus Physical PCs: Understanding The Operational Cost Differences

When considering hosted virtual desktops (also known as virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI) as an alternative or in addition to physical PCs, it's difficult to find reliable information about the...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Building The Business Case For A Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Program

Business Case: The Workforce Enablement Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's guidance for developing a business case to justify a BYOD program to support your workforce computing strategy. Supporting the growing number and increasing diversity...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Five Steps To A Successful BYOC Program

A Pragmatic Approach To Achieve Both Freedom And Security

In 2012, as an I&O workforce computing professional, you will be faced with more people using their own computer for work than ever before. Many highly influential employees are already doing so, and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape

We'll Use Tablets As The Conductor For PCs, Devices, And Personal Cloud Services At Work And At Home

For a new technology that is just two years old, tablets are huge hit. For CIOs the question is — will they last and what are the long-term implications? How do tablets interact with other...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Determine Your Workforce Computing Hardware Budgets For 2012

Balance Security And Efficiency With Responsible Empowerment

IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders spend nearly 25% of their IT hardware budget on workforce computing hardware. However, Forrester finds that these priorities and budgets favor security...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise And Reshapes The Markets For Personal Devices At Work

More Than 21% Of Information Workers Use Apple Products For Work

Apple's products are much more visible in business environments than they used to be. To quantify Apple's business presence, Forrester surveyed almost 10,000 information workers — workers that...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:It's Time To Reinvent Your PC Sourcing Strategy

For too many organizations, the accumulating piles of decaying PCs and spare parts are becoming intolerable, and it's time for a refresh. While some of your PCs may have survived the recession of...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:People Are Bringing Macs To Work — It's Time To Repeal Prohibition

An Empowered, Laissez -Faire Approach Will Forestall Insurrection

Mac users are drinking furniture polish in back hallways, getting their fix from fellow bootleggers who have blazed the trails around IT's prohibition. End user computing professionals steeped in two...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:RFP Template For PC Refresh

Over the past few years, SVM professionals have lived through an era of commoditization for PCs, facilitated by sourcing processes such as RFxes and online reverse auctions. In reviewing our clients'...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Three Steps I&O Leaders Should Take While HP Re-Evaluates Options For Its PC Business

What The HP Personal Systems Group Announcement Means For I&O Leaders

When HP announced on August 18 that it was planning to carve off a $40 billion hardware manufacturing division, I&O leaders the world over paused to reflect and take it in. Their next thought was...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Does Your IT Department Support The Needs Of The Mobile Workforce?

An IT Support Report Card On Employee Mobile, Social, And Collaboration Tools

In 2016, Forrester projects that 63 million US information workers will telecommute at least part-time. Our recent survey of 4,985 US information workers indicates we're well on our way to hitting...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Hardware Infrastructure Market

SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing

Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware infrastructures...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure Markets

Cloud Services, New Technologies, And The Rise Of Informal Computing Buyers

Important trends are surfacing in computing infrastructure markets that will cause vendor strategists to take a fresh look at new buyer behavior, shifts in business models, and adoption of emerging...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Ignoring Cloud Risks A Growing Gap Between I&O And The Business

Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure

Over the past several years, we've seen two key cloud trends in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space: 1) Public cloud adoption rates are highest among "informal buyers" (non-IT employees),...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Update Q4 2010: The Universe Of Corporate PC Backup Options

Protecting The Corporate PCs Is As Important As Protecting Servers

What's your reaction to this scenario? Your CEO leaves his laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that a far-sighted employee had...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:What Technology Populism Means For Tech Marketers

Information Workers Flex Muscles As Business Tech Decision-Makers

Technology Populism — information workers provisioning technology outside of IT's auspices — is a topic of great interest to both technology vendors and IT departments. But is it more...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Consumer Cloud Services Are The Foundation For Multidevice Strategies

A Consumer Product Strategy Introduction To The Personal Cloud

Consumers are embracing cloud services now without realizing it. Amazon.com's Kindle, the Palm Pre, Spotify, virtually every Google product, and a raft of products from other brands are now using...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:PC Purchasing Trends: North American SMBs

Using data from Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Hardware Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2009, we look at PC purchasing plans for North American SMBs.

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