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How Do You Redefine Research Delivery For The AI Era? Start With Trust.

Michael Facemire November 13, 2025
As AI reshapes how research is delivered and consumed, trust isn’t just important — it’s everything. In a world where speed and scale matter, the winners will be those who build AI on a foundation of integrity.
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Forrester’s Evaluative Research: A Matter Of Trust

Stephen Powers 1 day ago
Our evaluative research — just like our business — is built on integrity, honesty, fairness, and the courage to tell it how it is. Our methodologies are unbiased, transparent, and publicly available, ensuring consistent quality across markets and technologies.
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Tidings Of Comfort And Trust: Holiday-Season Security That Bolsters Your Brand

Jess Burn 3 days ago
Make safe, reliable digital experiences as part of the value you deliver — and help keep customers coming back yearround.

Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here

2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.

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It’s Time To Rethink Service Desk Success

Julie Mohr 4 days ago
Traditional service desk KPIs no longer reflect success in an AI-driven world. Learn how IT leaders can rethink performance measurement to align with automation, experience, and business impact.
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From Prompts To Presents: The Marketer’s Guide To Answer Engine Optimization

Nikhil Lai November 24, 2025
Answer engines such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode will deliver convenience to holiday shoppers. Brands: Provide resonant, technically sound, fresh content to improve your chances of persuading shoppers throughout their journeys on answer engines’ results pages.
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Predictions 2026: Cloud Outages, Private AI On Private Clouds, And The Rise Of The Neoclouds

Lee Sustar November 17, 2025
Cloud in 2026 will be defined by two major races: the hyperscaler race to build AI-native cloud infrastructure and the enterprise race to craft meaningful AI strategies. Our predictions break those down.

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Your Secret Weapon for Your Win/Loss Program: Three Ways to Get Buyer Feedback and Make it Actionable

Beth Caplow 15 seconds ago
Most B2B organizations track win rates, but few understand why they win or lose deals. Without identifying the root causes, you’re flying blind − and risk making decisions based on assumptions rather than facts. Done right, buyer feedback can boost win rates, sharpen positioning, and drive growth.  CRM data and sales anecdotes don’t always tell […]
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Netflix To Acquire Warner Bros.: Questions Abound

Mike Proulx 4 hours ago
This morning, following an expedited (and closely watched) bidding process, Netflix announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to acquire Warner Bros., including its studios, HBO, and HBO Max. What’s not included in the deal? WBD’s linear TV networks — CNN, TNT Sports, and Discovery Channel — which […]

2026 Predictions: 5 Shifts That Will Reshape B2B Strategy

AI agents. Influencer strategy. Pricing disruption. What’s next for B2B growth? Download the guide to uncover five bold predictions impacting marketing, sales, and product leaders in 2026.

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Creator Strategy Is A Core Strategy This Season

Kelsey Chickering 5 hours ago
Gen Zers Break From Millennials On Holiday Social Shopping Gen Z has long led in browsing, discovery, and shopping on social media — and our recent pulse check with our online community shows that social media’s influence is stronger than ever. We surveyed 554 members of our Market Research Online Community and asked which media […]
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Introducing The New Customer Feedback Management And Analytics Solutions Market Category

Colleen Fazio 22 hours ago
If you’ve talked to Forrester about customer feedback management (CFM) solutions in the past year or so, it’s likely you got a two-for-one deal. Boris Evelson and I have increasingly found ourselves co-advising both buyers and vendors about how customer experience (CX) leaders can more effectively analyze customer feedback from a variety of channels. Advanced […]
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Sales Onboarding Vs. Orientation: Set New Reps Up For Success

Peter Ostrow 1 day ago
Sales onboarding works best when HR and revenue enablement remain distinct. HR handles compliance, culture, and employee provisioning, while enablement equips sellers with knowledge of buyer personas, sales processes, and product fundamentals. Clear separation ensures that new sellers know where to turn for support and accelerates their path to productivity.
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Announcing Our Evaluation Of The Agent Control Plane Market

Leslie Joseph 2 days ago
The choice of agentic AI technology for enterprise leaders is best understood as an ecosystem of tech vendors that align with three functional planes, based on the need to: 1) build agents; 2) embed them into business workflows; and 3) manage and govern them at scale. These needs represent functional planes rather than strict layers […]
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Bolster Your B2C Marketing Operations Function With This Step-By-Step Blueprint

Jessica Liu 2 days ago
As consumer marketing grows more complex in the age of AI, B2C marketing operations must evolve to provide structure, efficiency, and governance. Our new initiative blueprint offers a step‑by‑step framework to help marketing leaders establish purpose, define remit, and leverage technology to strengthen their operations function.

2026 Tech & Security Predictions You Can’t Afford To Miss

AI cleanup, budget shifts, neocloud, and quantum threats — what’s ahead could reshape your strategy. Get Forrester’s guide with five bold predictions to stay ahead and lead with trust and value.

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KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

Brent Ellis 2 days ago
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.
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Will The New Federal Government Employee Survey Meet Agency Needs?

Angelina Gennis 2 days ago
The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has been canceled for 2025, leaving a data gap for agencies that rely on it to understand workforce sentiment and engagement.
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Black Friday And Cyber Monday: Spending Breaks Records And Exceeds Expectations

Sucharita Kodali 2 days ago
Tap into the insights from Forrester’s annual review of 116 brands during 2025’s record-breaking Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
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Introducing Forrester’s ServiceNow Services Landscape: Partner Selection Becomes More Complex With Enterprise Workflows And Agentic Transformation

Bill Martorelli 3 days ago
It used to be that you could think of ServiceNow services almost exclusively in the context of IT service management (ITSM) implementations, but the ServiceNow services market has decisively moved beyond those traditional confines.
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The Real Deal: A Black Friday-Inspired RFP Template For Vetting AI SaaS Vendors

Alla Valente 3 days ago
For those of us of a certain generation, “Black Friday” invokes memories of the Cabbage Patch Kid riots of 1983.

Build A Security Org For The Future

Download our guide to help CISOs prove business value, win budget, and reduce burnout. Use our actionable framework to align security with enterprise goals, justify funding, and lead a high-performing team.

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GRC Platforms Enter Their Grad School Era

Cody Scott 3 days ago
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms are officially old enough to be in grad school. In our 2023 market evaluation, GRC technology turned 20 years old but was still figuring out what it wanted to be when it grew up.
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431: Metrics Obsession – Fixing Dysfunctional CX Measurement

The CX Cast 3 days ago
Angelina is joined by VP, principal analyst Maxie Schmidt to dive deep into the phenomenon of metrics obsession in organizations, exploring why it happens, its symptoms, and how CX leaders can move from dysfunctional measurement practices to a culture of measurement mastery. Drawing on their keynote experiences and research, they discuss the impact of metrics on employee experience, organizational culture, and customer outcomes.
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Make Internal Communications A Strategic Lever For Employee (And Brand) Experience

Karen Tran 4 days ago
Internal communications is more than pushing information to employees. It is a strategic function that includes messaging and channels for communications, engagement, and feedback as a critical driver of employee experience.
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Forrester Analyst Takes For Digital Content In 2026

Chuck Gahun 4 days ago
Digital content will continue to be shaped by enterprises both investing in and looking to gain practical business value from genAI solutions. Here’s how we foresee digital content evolving.
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Wielding The Double-Edged Sword Of Software Engineering Insights

Andrew Cornwall 4 days ago
People in software development tend to have mixed feelings about metrics.
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Updating Our Security Champions Research To Expand And Strengthen Security

Jinan Budge 5 days ago
A strong security culture is the foundation of an effective security program. That’s why we’re revisiting essential research that explores how to build a security champions network, examining how security champion networks can help scale influence, embed security into everyday decisions, and foster trust across the business.
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India’s DPDP Act: A CIO’s Roadmap To Compliance And Competitive Advantage

Biswajeet Mahapatra November 27, 2025
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act is now fully operational, and it applies to all organizations that process the digital personal data of individuals in India. Read five recommendations for CIOs to respond.
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Paying To Observe It All: Palo Alto Networks’ Acquisition Of Chronosphere

Carlos Casanova November 26, 2025
The move marks a departure from PANW's security pure-play roots. What's behind the acquisition, and what does it means for PANW and Chronosphere customers going forward?
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