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It’s Not You, It’s Me: What It Really Means When Budget Is The Reason For The Breakup

Shari Srebnick September 5, 2023
Despite what customers may tell you, budget is often not the real reason why they’ve decided not to renew.
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Announcing The 2023 Forrester Security & Risk Scholarship — Apply Now!

Allie Mellen September 5, 2023
A few weeks ago, I spoke on a podcast with some of my former colleagues about my experiences in the security industry as a young woman. TL;DR: It’s not always great, and that’s true for many women in the industry. We showed that in our research on Best Practices: Recruiting, Retaining, And Advancing Women In […]
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Planung für 2024

Laura Koetzle 4 September 2023
Welche speziellen Handlungsempfehlungen sollten führende europäische Unternehmen für die Planung 2024 priorisieren? Jetzt mehr im Blog von Laura Koetzle lesen.
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Building Bonds With Buyers: Strengthening The Trust Fabric

Subhendu Pattnaik September 4, 2023
In the AI age, reliance on data for insights is table stakes. In the past few months since we completed Forrester’s annual marketing survey, I have been engrossed in finding patterns and correlations in the data about the top-most priorities of CMOs globally and their challenges, growth objectives, key initiatives, technology usage, budgets, spending patterns, […]
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2024 Planning: European Leaders Must Avoid An Excess Of Caution And Invest In Bright Spots

Laura Koetzle September 3, 2023
Many of the signals we normally use to plan for the coming year are pointing in ambiguous, counterintuitive, or contradictory directions. But submitting to excessive caution would be a mistake.
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To Become Future Fit, Ditch The PMO Moniker

Margo Visitacion September 1, 2023
To become more future fit, consider moving your IT operations from a project management office to a strategic value office operating model. Learn the key points in this post.
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The Top Five Priorities For A New Revenue Enablement Leader

Peter Ostrow August 31, 2023
The sales and revenue enablement space has seen a wildly dynamic 2023, with many casualties of layoffs impacting the profession but also plenty of new opportunities opening up. At the same time, enablement leaders have had to adapt to changing priorities while continuing to deliver tangible, quantifiable value to the C-suite. If you’re a newly […]
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: Accounts, Buying Groups, Opportunities, Oh My! How Is It All Connected?

Amy Hawthorne August 31, 2023
In this week’s Saying Goodbye to MQLs blog, we discuss the relationship between accounts, buying groups, and opportunities.
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Power Up Your Content With A Plan On A Page

Phyllis Davidson August 29, 2023
A list of characteristics is not a plan! Get yours in order by capturing your consolidated B2B content strategy in a Forrester content plan on a page.
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The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Search And Product Discovery, Q3 2023, Surfaces The Challenges Of AI Unchecked

Emily Pfeiffer August 29, 2023
Our just-published Forrester Wave™ delivers the first evaluation of the commerce search and product discovery market, featuring the 10 leading vendors in the space.
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A Deep Dive Into The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023

David Holmes August 29, 2023
Get an inside look at the industry’s first evaluation of all-in-one Zero Trust Edge (ZTE) solutions, which some vendors call secure software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and others call secure access service edge (SASE).
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Apollo And Mediafly Funding Signals Renewed Interest In Sales Tech

Seth Marrs August 29, 2023
This blog covers the impact that Mediafly and Apollo’s recent funding will have on the two firms, the sales technology market, and buyers of sales technology.
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Pricing Optimization Solutions Are Becoming The Key To Revenue Maximization

Biswajeet Mahapatra August 29, 2023
Competition, economic conditions, and globalization are pushing companies to investigate ways and means to maximize their revenue and profitability. They are trying to achieve these objectives by reducing costs and increasing profits through revenue growth. Revenue growth is complex, as companies need to understand and balance multiple parameters to make it work. These parameters include […]
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Building Self-Service Applications That Would Make Michelangelo Proud

Max Ball August 28, 2023
Generative AI is on the cusp of revolutionizing chatbots for customer self-service. Learn about the role conversational AI vendors can play.
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Prevent Data Turnovers With Insider Risk Management

Joseph Blankenship August 28, 2023
Learn some valuable lessons about insider risk management from the New York Knicks and the Toronto Raptors. Really.
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The State Of Data Security, 2023

Heidi Shey August 28, 2023
Learn some of the key data security trends of the year including the causes of breaches, types of data being compromised, and post-breach effects and impact.
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GIS Innovations Flooded ESRI’s 2023 User Conference

William Dahlgren August 25, 2023
With extreme heat waves, wildfires, and floods facing populations everywhere, Esri sees the opportunity as well as the danger. Learn more in this review of the Esri user conference.
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2003 Called, And It Doesn’t Want Its Email Security Appliances Back

Joseph Blankenship August 24, 2023
Email security appliances have come a long way in the past 20 years. Learn the benefits of cloud-delivered email security.
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Three Tips To Guide B2B Demand Marketing Leaders’ Plans For 2024

Renee Irion August 24, 2023
Where should demand and ABM teams focus their efforts in the coming year? Explore the highlights from Forrester's planning guide report.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: What’s The Business Impact Of Leaving MQLs?

Terry Flaherty August 24, 2023
This week’s Saying Goodbye to MQLs blog post looks at how leveraging signals to identify buying groups can drive value for your organization.