Forrester

For CIO Professionals

Report:Asia Pacific CIOs Step Confidently Into 2011

Businesses in Asia Pacific are looking forward to 2011 with renewed vigor and enthusiasm. Forrester's recent Forrsights survey looks at IT budgets and priorities and highlights how CIOs across...

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Report:The Asia Pacific IT Market Comes Of Age

It's Time To Review Your Asia Pacific Strategy

The Asian IT market is set for considerable growth over the next few years as the fast-growth economies move on from the financial crisis and return to high gross domestic product (GDP) growth mode....

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Report:Cloud Services In ANZ Begin To Mature

CIOs Should Step Cautiously — Not All Segments Are Market-Ready

CIOs in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are beginning to examine the impact cloud can have on their businesses. This is the first step in broad market adoption of cloud computing. Before they make...

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Report:Benchmarking Asia Pacific CIOs' Attitudes Toward Cloud Computing

In mid-2010, Forrester surveyed 598 CIOs and other senior IT managers across Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and New Zealand on their current cloud implementations and their plans for and...

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Report:Benchmarking ANZ IT Budgets And Priorities

CIOs Drive IT Efficiency To Free Up Resources For Business Priorities

CIOs across Australia and New Zealand are emerging from the global financial crisis with a renewed vigor to ensure they effectively meet the needs of the rest of the business. However, their keen...

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Report:Insights For CIOs: Make Mobility Standard Business Practice

The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined — driven by the improvement in networks, devices, and operating systems. This means that we no longer have to consider mobility a...

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Report:ANZ CIOs Should Experiment With The Cloud In 2010

Cloud computing is coming to your organization — if it is not there already. However, most IT organizations in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) do not have a full understanding of the impact...

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Report:Understanding Asia Pacific IT Users' Demand For Language Interfaces

The Asia Pacific (AP) region is one of many complexities for regional firms and for those entering the market from outside the region. Understanding language requirements is one of the many...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Systems Integration Project Pricing Model Selection Tool

Knowing when to use the best pricing model for your IT consulting and systems integration projects can be difficult to determine. This tool helps you better select the appropriate pricing model based...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Right Pricing Model For Your Systems Integration And IT Consulting Projects

Introducing A Tool To Help Simplify The Selection Process

Sourcing executives trying to strengthen their relationships with business and IT users can do so by helping the users understand not just scope but the financial implications of their choices. One...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Green IT Starts To Affect ANZ Sourcing

But Much Can Be Learned From Best Practices In North America And Europe

While there is a clear trend toward Green IT sourcing and practice within the Australian and New Zealand economies, these firms lag their North American and European peers in their levels of interest...

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Report:Benchmarking ANZ IT Budgets

Despite A Resilient Economy, IT Spending Plans Remain Conservative

Since the credit crunch began to bite, Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) IT leaders have faced more positive market conditions than their peers in many other countries around the world —...

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Report:IT In The Public Sector In Australia

Benchmarking Your Practice Against Your Global Peers

With the tightening of IT budgets in the Australian federal government due to the review of IT operations by Sir Peter Gershon, the considerable consolidation of public sector agencies at the state...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Seeking Flexible Outsourcing Deals

Australia's Department Of Defence Lays The Groundwork For A New Sourcing Strategy

For many IT sourcing customers, the arguments and potential legal battles concerning what is in scope and what is not — both for project work and managed services engagements — are...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Understanding Today's Demand For IT Services

Project Work Is Down But Has Growth Potential; IT Outsourcing Is Just Weak

The IT services market is behaving peculiarly in this tech downturn. While project-based IT consulting and systems integration work is now falling, it: 1) held up remarkably well until Q4 2008; 2) is...

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Report:Examining Changes In IT Spend In Asia Pacific

A Two-Speed IT Economy Is Emerging

IT budgets in the Asia Pacific region are hardly immune to the economic downturn — even in those economies witnessing growth, the IT spend is down. From January to March 2009, Forrester...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Australian And New Zealand CIO Priorities In 2009

Managing The Balance Between Cost Cutting And Business Priorities

With IT departments really feeling the pinch in 2009, there is considerable pressure on CIOs to make a concerted effort to cut costs while at the same time delivering the essential capabilities that...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Industry Knowledge And Company Familiarity Are Key To Selecting SOA Systems Integrators

Many IT projects these days require service-oriented architecture (SOA) skills — however, SOA is one area where internal skills can be very thin on the ground. Therefore, it is often necessary...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: EMEA SOA Systems Integrators, Q2 2009

IBM, CSC, And Wipro Lead, With THBS And Accenture Close Behind

In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of EMEA service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems integrators, we found that IBM Global Services (IBM), CSC, and Wipro lead the pack because of their broad and...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: North American SOA Systems Integrators, Q2 2009

IBM And Infosys Lead The Pack, With Wipro Close Behind

In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of North American service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems integrators, we found that IBM Global Services (IBM) and Infosys led the pack because of their...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Australian Financial Services Firms Ramp Up Their IT Offshoring Efforts

The move toward IT offshoring is already popular within the finance sector in Australia — particularly in the banking sector. Some firms have moved IT roles offshore to their own captive...

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Report:Don't Let Resourcing Issues Delay Your 2009 Projects

As enterprise appetite for IT project work slows down, systems integrators and IT consultants are trimming staff and reining in growth plans to ensure continued profitability. This might affect their...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Australian Sourcing Pros Must Act Now To Beat The 2009 Price Increase For IT Solutions

The large drop of the Australian dollar against most currencies around the world has effectively increased the price of any IT solution sourced from outside of the country. On that basis, many IT...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Benchmarking IT Budgets In Asia Pacific

Understanding The Complexities Of The Region

IT budgets vary considerably across Asia Pacific countries — driven by diverse levels of IT maturity, large differences in the cost of human resources, and the availability of lower-cost...

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Report:Vendor Management In The Public Sector

This data chart examines the latest vendor management data from our Enterprise IT Services Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2008 as it pertains to the public sector.

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