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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Align Your Commercial Approach With Your Software Category Sourcing Strategy

Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes Forrester's vision of strategic software sourcing for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives. It is more difficult than ever for software sourcing professionals to meet...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Transform Your Strategic Supplier Relationships From Duels Into Duets

Performance Management: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes performance management by sourcing and vendor management leaders as part of Forrester's strategic software sourcing approach. Our conversations with clients and surveys with...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Compliance With Clouds: Caveat Emptor

Today's organizations face aggressive cost-cutting and efficiency pressures that drive businesses to consider cloud sourcing solutions. While the many properties of cloud services, such as...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:WebCenter Suite Allows Oracle Applications To Embrace The Information Workplace

Oracle is not a company that leaps to mind when you think of knowledge workers — certainly, not in the way that IBM/Lotus or Microsoft might. Yet, with the emergence of the Information...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2011: Luxury Fashion Brands

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Five European Luxury Fashion Brands

Forrester evaluated the transactional websites of five European luxury fashion brands — Burberry, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton — using our Website Functionality...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Transform HRM Processes And Systems To Drive Business Excellence

Executive Overview: The Human Resource Management Playbook

As businesses strive to achieve competitive differentiation, growth, and global expansion while carefully managing costs, people strategies play a big factor in successful outcomes. In shaping these...

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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 Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactical

Saskatchewan's Social Services Ministry's Path To Modernization

Saskatchewan is the latest Canadian province to implement comprehensive modernization and automation of its social services case management technology. It took advantage of other organizations'...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Travel Website Functionality Benchmark 2011: Four-Star Hotel Chains

Forrester estimates that, in 2011, hotels will produce $27 billion in online sales from US leisure and unmanaged business travelers. Not bad, but how much better could that be? To help travel firms...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Industry-Specific Master Data Management Trends

This set of data charts, taken from the November 2010 Global master Data Management Online Survey, analyzes data from 134 MDM-savvy IT professionals in five distinct industries-- healthcare; the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:2010 IT Budget Allocations: Planning For 2011

Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison

During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Cloud Orchestration Models

Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud

Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Understanding Business Change Management Challenges

Persistent Questions Business Process Pros Ask

The pace of continuous improvement and transformational change in business processes continues to accelerate, often outpacing employees' ability to keep up. In general, businesspeople don't embrace...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Online Customer Service Review: Wireless Communication Service Providers

An Empowered Report: A Look At The Best And Worst Of Online Customer Service

Forrester evaluated the online customer service offerings of the four largest US wireless communication service providers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Our analysis uncovered...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Updated Q4 2010: Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service

The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings

It's been almost two years since we last produced this report, and during that time the vendor landscape has changed considerably; however, one constant remains true: Backup is a struggle for both...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Case Study: Philips Uses eLearning To Communicate The Benefits Of Net Promoter

Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module

One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Five New Microsoft Licensing Twists That Every IT Buyer Should Know

Buyers May Need To Refine Their Microsoft Licensing And Adoption Strategies

Forrester has studied Microsoft's recent pricing and licensing changes and found several that could have profound implications for enterprise IT departments, including price increases and repackaging...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Stuck In Cement: When Packaged Apps Create Barriers To Innovation

Functional and industry-specific on-premises packaged apps aligned with organizational silos have worked well for well-defined, highly structured processes where volume, scale, and straight-through...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Use Social Computing To Build Differentiated Product Development Processes

In recent years, leading product development organizations have proven the value of greater cross-functional collaboration to harness contributions from across the business and bring great products...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Case Study: Digital Solutions Help Migdal's Agents To Master A Multi-Touchpoint World

eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at insurers face a strategic dilemma — managing the in-person agent field force while migrating services online. Israeli insurance provider Migdal,...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Five Essential eBusiness Criteria For A Successful Virtual Agent Vendor Selection

Virtual agent technology has continued to become more sophisticated, elevating this self-service tool from the antiquated limits of keyword search to an experience that offers conversational,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Empower Customers By Transforming Business Processes

A Roundtable Discussion With Forrester Analysts

Customers have more power today than ever before. They have tremendous influence and reach through social media, more options and choices of whom to buy from, and high expectations about customer...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: Global Benchmark 2012

Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Decide When To Buy, Build, Or Outsource BI

Tools And Technology: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Building custom business intelligence (BI) solutions is time-consuming and inflexible; therefore, application development and delivery (AD&D) pros heading BI projects should move away from a...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Cloud Computing Market Dynamics In MEA: Egypt

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Egypt for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...

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