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Technology Planning Is Hard — Forrester's TechRadar™ Is Here To Help

Making smart decisions on technology adoption, maintenance, and retirement is hugely challenging, and the stakes are high. Good technology planning strengthens and optimizes your IT portfolio and keeps your mission-critical business processes running smoothly. But to make the right decisions, stakeholders need to assess technologies against both technology and business criteria. Forrester's TechRadar methodology helps you do just that.

What Is Forrester's TechRadar?

Forrester's TechRadar research methodology predicts the future success and business impact of a set of related technologies. It provides stakeholders from IT and the business a framework to assess technologies against. How does it work? Forrester's TechRadar:

  • Defines the maturity of a technology's ecosystem today.
  • Assesses the technology's current business value-add.
  • Forecasts the technology business impact in future phases of maturity.
  • Predicts how long it will take to reach the technology's next ecosystem phase.

TechRadar is a clear, concise, and honest evaluation that helps you decide which emerging technologies to adopt and when to retire technologies that are on the decline.

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Forrester TechRadar™ For I&KM Pros: Enterprise Web 2.0 For Collaboration: Wikis And Social Networks Are Ready To Deliver High Value To Your Enterprise
No longer new, Web 2.0 technologies solve problems that enterprises have today ¿ but most have not yet used these tools to anywhere near their potential. Waiting for tools to mature seems prudent, but if you wait too long, employees may create their own collaborative environments on the Web.

Forrester TechRadar™: Identity And Access Management, Q2 2008: Market Seeks Solutions That Support Business Flexibility And Compliance
Identity and access management (IAM) continues to be a fragmented field of disjointed technologies with difficult and expensive implementation cycles and even more costly efforts in the wake of bad technology decisions.

Forrester TechRadar™: The Extended Supply Chain Application Ecosystem, Q2 2008: Wireless Fleets Forge Ahead; Global Trade Management Goes Mainstream
Skyrocketing oil prices, pressure from low-cost competitors and ever-changing, complicated global trade regulations are enough to make even veteran supply leaders want to hide their heads in the sand.

Forrester TechRadar™: Infrastructure Virtualization, Q2 2008: Client And Server Virtualization Progress, But Storage Virtualization Reboots
Every major category of IT infrastructure has been endowed with some virtualization capability. Although virtualization can make your IT environment more cost-effective and agile, the underlying technologies have matured at different rates.

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