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Report:Prepare I&O For The "Internet Of Things"

Five Key Dynamics That Will Help You Capture The Opportunity For Your Organization

"Internet of Things" (IoT) solutions that machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies like RFID tags, GPS systems, and ZigBee sensors enable are gaining momentum as multiple forces align to drive adoption...

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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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Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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Report:IT Investments Drive Operational Efficiency Across The Middle East's Oil And Gas Sector

The oil and gas sector is the engine of the Middle East's economy and the biggest contributor to the region's GDP. A shortage of talent, increasing volumes of data, remote asset locations, and an...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Evolve Supplier Management To The Changing Ecosystem

Ongoing Management: The Services Sourcing Playbook

The market for IT services is evolving rapidly, and the tactics that sourcing and vendor management professionals use to select, negotiate, and manage supplier relationships must evolve with it. The...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Computing Connects CIOs With The Business

Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems

It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For SVM Professionals: Software-As-A-Service, Q4 2011

Software-As-A-Service Still Growing, Taking Over In More Areas Of Technology

As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Market Overview: ePurchasing And Contract Life-Cycle Management In 2011 To 2012

The Four Forces Of Cloud, Smart, Verticals, And Networks Are Reshaping Markets

Four forces are keeping the $5 billion ePurchasing and contract life-cycle management (CLM) software markets highly competitive and dynamic. First, cloud delivery via software-as-a-service (SaaS) is...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Supplier Risk And Performance Management Software: The Criteria To Look For In A System

In a climate of increased regulation and greater economic, political, and environmental risk, savvy sourcing professionals are investing in supplier risk and performance management (SRPM) software to...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:FAQs About Supplier Risk And Performance Management Software

Forrester clients have many questions about supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), one of the newest, fastest growing ePurchasing software categories. These questions range from which...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:CRM Solutions For The Retail And Wholesale Trade

Solutions To Support Key Customer-Facing Business Processes

Forrester reviewed 24 CRM suite solutions to understand their strengths and weaknesses in supporting 10 key cross-functional processes in the retail and wholesale trade: 1) trade promotion; 2)...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Mobile Imperative In Retail And Consumer Goods

Using Mobile Technologies To Enrich Enterprise Interactions With Associates And Consumers

Retail and consumer goods firms face exciting opportunities to deploy mobile apps to fix their age-old problems with shelf availability and to empower their field employees to transcend their...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Execution Empowerment Opportunity Assessment

In the age of information transparency and short life-cycle merchandise, savvy consumers know more about merchandise characteristics, price and availability comparisons, and product reviews than do...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Enterprise Social Networking Can Help Crack The Code On Supplier Risk Management

Forrester conducted 56 in-person and phone interviews with sourcing and vendor management executives to better understand how they are currently using supplier risk data from third-party sources. The...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Use New Supply Chain Visibility Technologies To Improve Customer Service And Return On Assets

Firms in the traded goods sector struggle with fragile and complex extended supply chains that often bring over investment in inventory without improving disappointing customer service. Application...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Order Management Hubs, Q3 2010

Oracle EBS And Sterling Commerce Lead, With SAP, Oracle Siebel, And Microsoft Close Behind

In Forrester's 112-criteria evaluation of order management hub (OMH) vendors, Oracle E-Business Suite and Sterling Commerce led the pack among the Leaders because of their ability to support both...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Software Market 2010

Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Defying Gravity

Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), like their enterprise brethren, are shifting their technology focus from IT to business technology (BT). As their focus on business solutions — as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Hands-On Retail Pricing Execution

How To Streamline Retail Pricing Execution

As retailers adopt more-sophisticated price planning tools to contend with more-complex assortments and more merchandise with shorter life cycles, they face practical challenges in executing their...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Japan SaaS Market Forecast And Update: 2009 To 2014 Data Tables

These are the data tables for the report, Japan SaaS Market Forecast And Update: 2009 To 2014." The report provides an overview of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in order to enable vendor strategists...

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Report:Japan SaaS Market Forecast And Update: 2009 To 2014

This document provides an overview of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in order to enable vendor strategists to better understand the SaaS market in Japan. The report compares SaaS market growth with...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Predictions 2010: ePurchasing Market

Growth Will Accelerate After A So-So 2009

The ePurchasing market will post a very good growth rate of 12% in 2010, rising to $4 billion. This market for software products like eProcurement, eSourcing, contract life-cycle management (CLM),...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:The M2M Market Is A Blossoming Opportunity

Strategists: Put M2M In Your Road Map

Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies are not new, but today multiple forces align and are taking the broad M2M market to the next level. Declining M2M device costs, widely deployed IP networks, and...

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Report:Olympic Opportunities In Emerging Markets

Smart Host Cities Think Outside The Stadium

The 2008 Olympic Games were a major milestone not only for China but also for other emerging market countries hosting the Olympic Games. In just a decade, the Olympic venues will include three of the...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Industry Essential: Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry generates revenues of more than $2 trillion annually in the US alone, and the value of global brands is truly daunting with Coca-Cola estimated to have a...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:To Invest Wisely, Know The Business Value Of Diverse CRM Solutions

To help customer relationship management (CRM) professionals make smart decisions and navigate the complex CRM technology landscape, Forrester surveyed 286 companies. The goal was to determine the...

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