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Invest, Experiment, And Scale Back: Budget Priorities For CISOs In 2025

Jeff Pollard August 1, 2024
The majority of security technology decision-makers anticipate further budget increases in 2025. Learn three key areas for CISOs to focus on in the year ahead in this preview of our 2025 Budget Planning Guide for security leaders.
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European Leaders: Align Budget Planning To Accelerate Performance In 2025

Laura Koetzle 1 day ago
Upbeat budget expectations for 2025 will serve European leaders well, but placing the right bets will be critical to securing a competitive edge. Read a few of our top recommendations.
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How Close Are We To Killing Passwords?

What It Means 5 days ago
Are passwords obsolete or still a necessary evil? In this episode, Vice President and Principal Analyst Andras Cser and Principal Analyst Geoff Cairns describe where we are on the path to passwordless authentication for both enterprise and consumer users.

Get More From Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget

Synergy and collaboration will be key to making marketing investments go further. Download our 2025 B2B marketing Planning Guide to learn more.

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European Banks See A Drop In CX Quality, Mirroring Global Trends

Oliwia Berdak 6 days ago
In 2024, European banks joined other regions and industries to see a significant drop — a worrying sign with grave business implications.
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Ten More Important Emerging Technologies For 2024

Brian Hopkins September 3, 2024
As AI continues to dominate the technological landscape in 2024, security, the need for trust, and innovation in advanced computing remain vital. These trends influenced our selection of the next 10 top emerging technologies for 2024.
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AI And The Green Market Revolution Will Intertwine

Thomas Husson September 2, 2024
While AI has huge potential to mitigate the environmental crisis, the technology that powers AI has a huge impact on climate change and water resources. Learn how the futures of AI and the green market revolution are intimately linked and how they will both become invisibly embedded into our daily lives.

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Don’t Miss Out: Keynotes at Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA 2024

Paul Ferron 4 hours ago
In today’s fast-paced B2B landscape, staying ahead requires more than just traditional strategies. At the upcoming B2B Summit EMEA 2024, our keynote sessions will equip you with the insights and tools needed to drive meaningful change and achieve sustained growth. Here’s a sneak peek into the value-packed sessions you won’t want to miss: It’s Time […]
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AI Computing Will Change The World By Empowering People, Not Automating Tasks

Ted Schadler 14 hours ago
Most of the hype and boardroom enthusiasm for generative AI (genAI) stems from the belief that AI machines will automate the repeatable tasks that people used to do, thereby saving firms money with fewer employees doing more work. While we believe that’s true for rote knowledge tasks and some knowledge worker roles, it’s not really […]

Focus 2025 Security Budgets On Risk Mitigation And Tech Sprawl

Security leaders, explore our 2025 Planning Guide for benchmarks on where to invest, divest, and experiment with your budget.

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Privacy Advocates Come For Contact Centers

Christina McAllister 21 hours ago
“Please be advised that your call may be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes.” We’ve all heard this message at some point — a familiar prelude to countless conversations worldwide. This disclosure has remained largely unchanged over the years but may no longer serve any purpose. The bar for what’s considered legally acceptable consent […]
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Q2 2024 Tech Service Provider Earnings: Four Forces Determine Their Future

Ted Schadler 23 hours ago
We analyzed the Q2 2024 earnings announcements of five large public technology service providers. Get the story behind the story in this post.
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Dirigeants européens : Optimisez la planification budgétaire pour accélérer les performances en 2025

Laura Koetzle 9 Septembre 2024
Découvrez comment nos guides de planification budgétaire 2025 peuvent aider les dirigeants à faire des choix stratégiques pour maximiser la croissance dans un environnement économique incertain.
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AI Agents: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Stephanie Liu 4 days ago
As AI becomes more agentic, making decisions on behalf of businesses and eventually consumers, the risks will grow more complex. Learn more about the use cases and risks of AI agents in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.
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The Four Agreements That Enterprise Business Applications Must Adopt

Kate Leggett 4 days ago
Enterprise business applications run all phases of a company’s operations such as sales, customer service, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory, and manufacturing. They streamline and coordinate work across the enterprise, supporting corporate goals of revenue, profitability, and cost optimization. As a result, the market for these applications continues to aggressively grow. Today’s business applications are […]

Drive High Performance With Your 2025 Tech Budget

2025 tech budgets are on the rise. Get our 2025 Planning Guide to learn where to invest your tech spend to boost performance, drive growth, and deliver competitive advantage.

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Dear AI, Please Change The World Already

Brian Hopkins 4 days ago
Generative AI (genAI) arrived in 2022 with massive expectations, promising to transform everything. But two years later, the initial excitement is shifting to skepticism, with many now demanding, “Show me the money!” While no one doubts AI’s potential, the pressing question remains: When will AI truly deliver, and should your organization wait or dive in […]
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From Pixels To Perception: The Impact Of Foundation Models For Vision

Indranil Bandyopadhyay 4 days ago
Large-scale AI models trained on extensive datasets are shifting computer vision toward more adaptable and scalable solutions.
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Introducing The CLM Landscape 2024: From Use Case-Driven Solutions To Enterprise Contract Management Platforms

Alla Valente 4 days ago
As global interconnectedness exponentially increases the number of commercial and business relationships between organizations, the speed of innovation is also reshaping how they operate. In other words, for an organization to execute on its generative AI (genAI) strategy (and for the record, the absence of a genAI strategy is a genAI strategy), they’ll need to […]
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Build An Alliance With Your CIO

Jinan Budge 5 days ago
Learn how to build, improve, repair, or elevate your relationship with your technology counterparts in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit in Baltimore, December 9–11.
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Amazon Vs. Walmart: Revenue And Profit Comparison, 2010–2024

Jitender Miglani 5 days ago
This blog post discusses the revenue and profit trends of Amazon and Walmart and their growing dominance in US retail.

From AI To Cloud: Where To Invest In 2025

Tech infrastructure budgets are rising, but businesses want outcomes from every dollar spent. Optimize your 2025 budget using insights from our tech infrastructure Planning Guide.

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Technology Leaders Deliver Significantly Stronger Business Outcomes With High-Performance IT

Chuck Gahun 5 days ago
The data is clear: high-performance IT shops deliver better business outcomes and experience growth that is 1.8x faster than their peers. Find out why.
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Fifteen Common B2B Customer Advisory Board Mistakes

Laura Ramos 6 days ago
Learn where customer advocacy programs can fall short — and how B2B marketers can keep the focus on value.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024

Naveen Chhabra 6 days ago
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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The First Forrester Wave™ Evaluation Of Revenue Orchestration Platforms For B2B Is Live

Anthony McPartlin 6 days ago
The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Orchestration Platforms For B2B, Q3 2024, provides a comprehensive market evaluation of the ROP category, highlighting how these platforms integrate sales engagement, conversation intelligence, and revenue operations to enhance frontline productivity and buyer interactions through AI capabilities.
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Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winners For The Americas

Frederic Giron 6 days ago
Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Awards celebrate companies that have successfully embraced three principles: alignment, trust, and adaptivity. Learn more about how this year’s winners — First Student and Best Buy — have exceptionally demonstrated those principles in their IT strategies.

Overhaul Core Competencies With Your 2025 CX Budget

Download our 2025 Planning Guide for CX leaders to learn how to allocate your 2025 budget to reverse CX declines and boost quality.

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Walmart Tops List of Leading US Retailers By 2023 Sales

Cindy Liu 7 days ago
Walmart leads Forrester’s 2023 US retailer ranking, with Amazon in second. The top 10, representing 38% of total retail sales, remain unchanged from 2022.
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370: Your CX Cast Budget Planning Guide

The CX Cast September 3, 2024
Forrester's annual Budget Planning Guide for Customer Experience offers data-driven guidance on where to increase, decrease, or experiment with your budget for 2025. Co-authors Principal Analyst Riccardo Pasto and VP, Executive Partner Katy Cobian explain the research process for creating the recommendations and how CX pros should use the budget planning guide.
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Designed By (And For) You: Analyst Picks For Forrester’s B2B Summit EMEA

Nicky Briggs September 3, 2024
Based on attendee feedback, we’ve retooled this year's event to focus more on practical, hands-on learning and increased peer interaction. Discover some of what's in store.
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