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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Federal IT Cost Reduction Efforts Will Require Process Change To Succeed

In an attempt to control IT costs, the US federal government is establishing mandates that are forcing deep and massive technology change. With data center consolidation and cloud migrations entering...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Canadian Tech Market 2012 To 2013

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases

Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Governments Embrace New Modes Of Constituent Engagement

Social Media, Mobility, And Open Data Transform eGovernment From Electronic To Engaged

One of the most significant changes in city governance has been the growing trend toward constituent engagement — both with individual citizens and local businesses. Even in non-democratic...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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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:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Forrsights: Business Execs Increase Direct IT Spend To Support Systems Of Engagement

Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure

During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Executives' Perceptions Of Differentiation Among Suppliers: Update For 2011

Results, not products, differentiate vendors in the eyes of executives.Executives assign strategic supplier status to vendors that are willing and able to align in substantial, not superficial, ways....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:With Vast Government Cloud Opportunities In Asia Pacific, Vendors Need To Know Where To Look

The Shift To Government Cloud Is Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

Economic, technological, and behavioral changes are driving a fundamental transformation in how governments deliver services. Asia Pacific governments will leverage cloud computing to create more...

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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 CIO Professionals

Report:Tech Vendor Outlook For The US In 2012 To 2013

Software And IT Consulting Services Have The Best Prospects

The US tech market outlook for vendors is looking brighter for 2012 and 2013, with the US tech market projected to grow by 7.5% in 2012 (7.1% including telecommunications services) and even faster in...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012

Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012

The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Master 10 Trends For Your Cloud Journey

Road Map: The Cloud Computing Playbook

Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Information And Communications Technology Industry Opportunities In Professional Services

Vendors Should Target This Large And Growing Industry

The professional services industry presents both opportunities and challenges for tech vendors. The opportunities? Professional services is one of the largest industries in terms of tech purchases,...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Appliance Market Dynamics, 2013 To 2017

Understanding of and interest in appliances is surging in China as organizations there struggle to manage massive growth while simultaneously using traditional infrastructure and platforms to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2013

Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential

CIOs care about tech market trends for three reasons: 1) to understand how much other firms are spending on information and communications technologies (and where); 2) to determine where they ought...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:European Information And Communications Technology Market 2012 To 2013

Spending Growth Comes To A Halt As Europe Slides Into Recession

Overview of the European ICT Market

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Social CIO

Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:eGovernment Markets In The Middle East

The public sector has always played a major role in the growth of IT markets in the Middle East. As political stability returns to most parts of the region and its neighbors, Forrester sees public...

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