Andrew Hewitt

We are thrilled to today release our second-ever end-user experience management (EUEM) Wave: The Forrester Wave™: End-User Experience Management, Q3 2022. We looked at the top nine vendors in the market today and evaluated them across a whopping 32 criteria — up from 10 in our previous New Wave™ report. Why is EUEM so important? […]

Late Sunday evening, Bloomberg reported rumors of advanced Broadcom talks to acquire VMware, which has since been confirmed this morning. In light of Broadcom’s investment activities in the past few years, this news is unsurprising. It made a string of massively expensive enterprise software company acquisitions: Brocade Communications Systems in 2016 ($5.9 billion), CA Technologies […]

Digital employee experience is essential to support employees in the age of hybrid and remote work. Learn why.

Does the operating system matter in the world of remote and hybrid work? Learn about a more accessible version of the operating systems you already know and love.

Once Again, Citrix Is In The News For An Acquisition If you’re like many of us, you might have first wondered, “another acquisition by Citrix!?” The perennial desktop and app virtualization provider has been on an acquisition tear over the past few years, having bought Sapho in 2018 and Wrike in 2020, in an effort […]

On Monday, December 6, join us for an interactive session covering highlights from the recently published The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021. Unified endpoint management (UEM) helps enterprises better manage employee devices and applications, resulting in improved employee experience, customer trust, and business agility. Want to understand how UEM can address your top […]

Today, we released The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021. This is the third year we’ve published our unified endpoint management (UEM) Forrester Wave (see our past reports from 2018 and 2019), and this year, we looked at the top 11 vendors in the market and evaluated them across 24 criteria. Organizations looking to […]

As new generations enter the workforce, your security strategy needs to meet their needs as well. Get tips on how to strike the right balance in this blog post.

When Dell Technologies completed its acquisition of EMC in 2016, it gained a sweetheart of an asset: VMware. More precisely, it gained 80% of VMware, making the software dynamo a mostly autonomous company in the Dell Technologies family of companies. Dell Technologies just announced the expected spinoff of that 80% ownership, making VMware a fully […]

With vaccine rollouts continuing en masse in many countries, companies are starting to get greater clarity on their return-to-work strategy. Forrester’s research has been clear on the return to work: 30% of companies will return to the office “as normal,” 60% will operate in a hybrid model, and 10% will transition to an “anywhere work” strategy, in which employees primarily work remotely. This […]

In the wake of COVID-19, organizations must redesign mobility solutions to shape resilient and adaptive future workspaces.

Forrester has been talking about the connection between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) for years. And it’s not just talk: Our Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) and Employee Experience (EX Index) studies help organizations understand the key drivers of experience for customers and employees, respectively. But although we’ve published reports on government CX, […]

Even If You’re Reopening Your Offices, You Need To Plan For A Remote-Work Future This week, Google extended its remote-work plans for all 200,000 full-time and contract employees through summer 2021. Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said in a company memo, “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves […]

To make your remote workforce thrive, you must look to scale those solutions that maximize the productivity of your remote workers, meet their needs, and maintain security. To help in this challenging task, we’ve pulled together a collection of Forrester's research that will enable our clients to support their remote workforce with the best possible employee experience.

The rush to scale up virtual desktop infrastructure doesn't mean you should abandon risk management. Get three tips for IT continuity risk planning.

Remote Work Is Having A Moment: Ensure Employee Productivity Now COVID-19 is forcing companies across the globe to rapidly transition their workforces from the office into the home. Ninety-eight percent of Goldman Sachs employees are working remotely, and in the first two weeks of March, Cisco customers spent 5.5 billion minutes in virtual meetings. Our research shows that remote and […]