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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 Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Making Informed Mobile Payment Investments In China

The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Rich Communication Services Can Unlock The Value Of Systems Of Engagement

The Joyn Initiative Will Help Evolve Engagement Strategies

As companies evolve their strategies to embrace systems of engagement, CIOs are likely to benefit from the emergence of a new major social media communications platform, rich communication services...

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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 Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Identify Your Current State As A First Step To Best-Practice Telecoms And Mobility Sourcing

Assessment: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

A potentially challenging but important first step in establishing a best-practice sourcing strategy for telecommunications and mobility services involves identifying the current state of your...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Understand Communication Channel Needs To Craft Your Customer Service Strategy

Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Master The Eight Disruptors That Will Transform Business Technology Resiliency In 2013

Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook

This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2013 Mobile Trends For Marketers

Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year

With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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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 Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Next In Tech: Indoor Positioning

Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services

Location is a cornerstone of mobile experiences and enables some of the most widely used mobile apps, such as Foursquare and Yelp. Location has also become a new battleground as Apple, Google, and...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Optimize Management Of Telecom And Mobility Sourcing

Executive Overview: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Over the next decade, telecommunications and mobility (T&M) technologies will play a critical role in the success of geographically distributed companies. Business professionals need their IT...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Voice And Messaging Are Not Dead

Prepare For The Implications Of Over-The-Top Communications

Telecom carriers' core revenue base, voice and messaging, is under attack from the over-the-top (OTT) business model. Given the financial importance of voice and messaging revenues for carriers, they...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Predictions 2013: Enterprise Telecom And Mobility Challenges And Opportunities

Mobility And Video Are Now Embedded, Social To Follow

Three major trends are changing the focus of telecom and mobility sourcing: 1) mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies; 2) video collaboration; and 3) the rise of social business. Although 2013...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Better Customer Experience Correlates To Higher Net Promoter Scores

Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Future Of Over-The-Top Services

As Carriers Move To Embrace OTT, Enterprises Will Benefit

Over the top (OTT), the network-agnostic delivery of digital services, marks an important shift in the delivery and consumption of information and communications technology (ICT) services. OTT breaks...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Emphasize Flexibility In Telecom And Mobility Services Contract Negotiations To Reduce Risk

Processes: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report is an update to "Emphasize Flexibility In Communications Service Contract Negotiations To Reduce Risk," originally published on October 9, 2012. This updated report outlines Forrester's...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Prepare For Adaptive Mobile Networks

Small-Cell Technologies Will Transform Both Carrier And Corporate Networks

Mobile connections are increasingly vital to the productivity and efficiency of the businesses that CIOs support, and wireless networks are undergoing radical changes to deliver high-quality...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Location-Based Features Are Still New For Consumers

Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, June 2012

Almost everyone has a social media account these days. However, consumers are only just starting to use interactive features like checking in, and exchanges with brands via social media are still...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Future Of Mobile Messaging

eBusiness Professionals Must Prepare For New Messaging Paradigms

Mobile messaging is somewhat dull today, but it is on the verge of becoming more interesting as it transitions from a nuts-and-bolts telecom model to an Internet model with rich feature sets....

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Mobile Technologies That Drive Sales

Tools And Technology: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

New phone features and capabilities are cropping up seemingly by the day. At the same time, this fast-paced change is dramatically affecting how eBusiness professionals interact with their teams and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Design Mobile Apps From The Outside In

Policy And Procedures: The Mobile App Development Playbook

This report outlines best practices in mobile app design that application development & delivery professionals can use to design great mobile apps. Customer expectations for mobile apps have never...

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