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Deloitte named a forward-deployed engineering (FDE) practice back in December 2025. At the time, it read as a consulting rebrand with better vocabulary. Then, between May 4 and July 15 of this year, four technology providers committed roughly $9 billion to putting their own engineers inside their customers’ buildings. Anthropic opened with a $1.5 billion enterprise services venture alongside Blackstone, […]

AI agents are delivering measurable business value to CRM operations by closing the gap between data, decision, execution, and results. In interviews with dozens of consultancies and customers, we found that AI agents in CRM: Increase productivity and lower the cost to serve. A public sector firm saves 90% in routine labor costs while processing […]

For years, enterprise software leaders focused on application transformation. Today, many are discovering that technology procurement may be the bigger obstacle to modernization. As organizations accelerate investments in AI, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, and cybersecurity, they often find themselves constrained by fragmented contracts, inconsistent licensing models, overlapping vendor agreements, and limited visibility into technology consumption. […]

B2B leaders have spent the past few years asking how AI can make their teams more productive. That internal focus must transition to a bigger question that demands more urgent attention: How do we respond to AI changing how buyers discover, evaluate, and choose providers? That question sits at the center of what I call the […]

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to enterprisewide deployment, sovereignty concerns now touch every layer of the AI stack. Organizations are no longer evaluating AI based solely on model performance, innovation speed, or cost. They are increasingly asking whether they can control how AI systems are built, governed, operated, and evolved. This shift is transforming […]

As commerce vendors embed genAI assistants into their platforms, digital leaders must balance productivity gains against growing governance risks to ensure that AI-generated work remains visible, auditable, explainable, and aligned with organizational policies.

When every marketing team plans independently, buyers experience the consequences: overlapping communications, competing priorities, and inconsistent journeys. The solution isn’t a new org chart. It’s a new approach to planning.

Enterprise teams are moving agentic AI projects toward production faster than they are developing the architectural disciplines needed to build, govern, secure, and operate them. At the same time, many organizations are searching for a target-state agentic architecture that will stand the test of time. That, unfortunately, is a fool’s errand in the rapidly evolving […]

AI is no longer a future feature in application security; it is rapidly becoming a core part of how application security (AppSec) tools identify, prioritize, and remediate risk. Yet despite aggressive vendor investment, adoption remains constrained by trust concerns, questions about value, and uncertainty about pricing models. In our new report, The State Of Artificial […]

Paul Miller discusses his physical AI and autonomy highlights from this year’s Farnborough International Airshow.

For years, business process outsourcing (BPO) ran on a familiar playbook: labor arbitrage, process standardization, and global delivery. That era is rapidly slipping into oblivion. Our latest research on the BPO market points to a deeper shift — AI isn’t just changing how efficiently providers deliver but how they create value, how clients consume services, […]

The US federal government experienced its first significant customer experience decline since Forrester began measuring federal CX in 2016. Learn what drove the drop, which agencies led and lagged, and the key factors shaping CX performance across federal agencies.

Today, Microsoft announced Project Perception: a series of red, blue, and green team agents designed to be coordinated together in an agentic architecture to evaluate infrastructure and close gaps as close to autonomously as possible. The red team agents find potential paths to compromise, the blue team agents prioritize and evaluate them, and the green […]

AI adoption is accelerating, but too many organizations remain focused on deployments and efficiencies rather than customer value. Learn why the most successful AI adopters build customer-focused strategies that drive trust, differentiation, and business outcomes.

The constraint marketing leaders are running into is no longer about content generation. It’s scaling marketing without losing trust, quality, or control.

According to our recent research, most B2B marketing leaders (96%) see their function as a strategic partner or the primary driver of growth for the business. Yet they believe (47%) that many of their peers see marketing as a support or promotion function that handles sales requests, promotes news, and executes launches. This disconnect, for […]

The AI market has finally come back around to the (correct) conclusion that people are important. Thank goodness. And on that note, The Forrester Wave™: Conversational AI Platforms For Employee Services, Q3 2026 (aka AI to help employees) is finally live! To put it bluntly, the market has progressed further than I thought possible since […]

Modern video games don’t make you read a manual before you start to play. They drop players into a simulated world, give them simple objectives, and let them learn by doing. Even board games take the same approach, with cut-down quick-start versions and even free downloadable content to hook you in. That same principle explains why interactive experiences often […]

Most CX leaders know stakeholder alignment is hard. Strategy workshops stall. Teams focus on blockers. Momentum fades before transformation begins. In this episode, Angelina Gennis and Martin Gill share lessons from a season of CX forums and immersive experiences. From stakeholder management workshops to AI-powered game shows and full-scale transformation simulations, they explore how interactive […]

The core question that has consumed analytics and business intelligence leaders for years is, “What is the one best way for business users to consume data?” The answer has at times been reports, dashboards, or low-code GUI-based self-service analytics. The latest answer is generative AI-based natural language prompts. Maybe we have the question wrong. Perhaps […]