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Top Trends For Health Insurers And Healthcare Providers: Too Many Spinning Plates, No Room For Failure
Healthcare providers and insurers are grappling with an increasing number of simultaneous challenges — each demanding urgent attention. Both face pressure to rebuild trust, navigate regulatory uncertainty, contain costs, modernize operations, and demonstrate real ROI from digital and AI investments. Any slipup — such as a data breach, a failed AI rollout, a regulatory misstep, […]
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Not A Vendor, Still A Breach: Vercel’s Third-Party Risk Failure
Some security incidents are complex. The Vercel incident is more troubling because it was predictable. The attackers did not exploit a procurement gap. They exploited a definition gap. Here’s what happened. A Vercel employee signed up for Context.ai’s AI Office Suite using a corporate Google account and clicked something effectively equivalent to “Allow All,” granting […]
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Game Over For Trust: A Roblox Cheat Gives Attackers The Advantage
A cascading supply chain attack did not start with a zero-day exploit, an unpatched vulnerability, or a brute-force attack. It started with a bored employee wanting to get ahead in an online game. A Context.ai employee downloaded a Roblox game cheat, an unofficial script for an online game that came bundled with Lumma Stealer malware […]
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Cognitive Sovereignty: Protect Human Judgment In An AI‑Saturated World
Cognitive sovereignty describes the human ability to think independently amid AI‑generated outputs. This post explores why data literacy and humans in the loop are critical to sustaining sound judgment.
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Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Innovations Across Microsoft Teams And SharePoint: Highlights Of The M365 Community Conference 2026
Last week, I attended the Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando. Approximately 3,000 attendees came together to hear from their M365 admin peers along with senior product leaders from Microsoft and key partners. The agenda focused on the Microsoft 365 suite, with over 200 sessions primarily on M365 Copilot, SharePoint, and Teams. Here are my […]
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Call For Entries: The 2026 Enterprise Architecture Awards
For more than two decades, enterprise architecture (EA) has swung in and out of favor — embraced during periods of consolidation, sidelined during waves of decentralization, cloud adoption, and agile delivery. Predictions of EA’s demise have been a recurring industry pastime. But the data no longer supports that narrative. Across four consecutive years of Forrester […]
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Five Actionable Takeaways For CX Leaders In A Volatile World
If your work life increasingly feels like your go-to video game set to EXTREME DIFFICULTY mode, that might be because volatility has become the default setting for modern organizations: more change, less certainty, and far less time to get it “right” before the ground shifts again. In this environment, process-heavy CX operating models start to […]
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In The AI Era, Banks Need Dynamic Platforms — Results From The Forrester Wave™: Digital Banking Engagement Platforms, Q2 2026
To compete for customers and grow profitably, banks need the ability to adjust as much and as fast as required at any given moment. Leading digital banking engagement platforms (DBEPs) make that possible. My new report, The Forrester Wave™: Digital Banking Engagement Platforms, Q2 2026, reveals insights about the current AI and technology landscape in […]
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Enterprise Content Moves From Tools To Systems: Adobe Summit Takeaways
Enterprise content leaders are under pressure on three fronts. They need faster time to activation as buyer behavior outpaces traditional campaign cycles. They need greater scale as content volumes rise across channels, formats, geographies, refresh cycles, and personalization needs. And most importantly, they need stronger returns. Improving relevance for priority audiences and increasing share of […]
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Canva Recasts Itself As An AI Platform For Enterprise Work
For years, Canva’s advantage was accessibility. It made design easier, faster, and available to more people. At its recent Canva Create 2026, the big story was a deliberate repositioning: Canva aims to evolve from a design platform with AI tools into an AI platform with design tools. That changes how buyers should evaluate Canva. For […]
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WBD Shareholders Say Yes
The real question has always been what comes next — i.e., whether the merger ultimately clears the higher regulatory and political hurdles that still stand between today’s vote and a deal close.
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CPQ Vendors Face A New Test: Handling Real-World Complexity
The Configure, Price, Quote Solutions Landscape, Q2 2026, reveals a new battleground where vendors differentiate by managing real-world complexity. Vendors compete on industry focus, interoperable architectures, and AI embedded directly into execution. Sales and revenue operations leaders must prioritize solution fit, governance, and scalability to support omnichannel growth and automate execution with confidence.
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Roadmaps: Preparing To Self-Destruct In Three, Two, One …
I’m Joe Schiavone. I am a principal analyst here at Forrester. My experience has afforded me the opportunity to learn from some amazing leaders while developing my own style along the way. I have been leading tech for global organizations from PE-backed and startups to large global companies. My comparative advantage, and what has led […]
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How CX Leaders Build Resilience In A Volatile World
Back in the dim and distant past, when I ran an enterprise architecture team, we spent months building immaculate diagrams that were technically correct, logically coherent, beautifully presented — and largely irrelevant. Why? Because they sat on a shared drive and no one used them. CX teams are repeating the same mistake; only the artifacts […]
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How AI Is Rearchitecting Lending
Lending Is Reaching An Inflection Point More than 80% of financial services (FS) AI decision‑makers plan to increase investments in both predictive AI and generative AI (genAI), with most firms expecting double‑digit growth. The immediate focus for the majority of FS leaders remains pragmatic: scaling origination, reducing friction caused by handoffs, and improving risk control. […]
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Today’s Regulatory Intelligence Solutions Replace Drudgery With Confidence
Over the past five years, security and risk (S&R) professionals have experienced a flood of new cybersecurity regulations, with 170 countries now boasting cybersecurity and data protection laws. Leaders are left to decide which regulations apply, identify gaps, and implement controls — an onerous task as regulatory volume and the pace of change accelerate. Manual […]
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Why Uncertainty Changes How IT Must Reason
A Conversation With Murray Cantor (Part Two) In part one, Murray Cantor reframed technical debt as economic liability and argued that uncertainty is not an annoyance to be minimized but the core feature of IT investment. Once you accept that premise, a deeper question emerges: How should organizations reason — and decide — under uncertainty? […]
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Top Agentic AI Use Cases For AP Automation In 2026
For years, accounts payable (AP) automation focused on efficiency gains at the margins: faster invoice capture, fewer manual touches, and better dashboards. While important, these incremental improvements did not change how AP operates. That dynamic is shifting. Our latest report, Top Agentic AI Use Cases For AP Automation In 2026, shows that agentic AI, defined […]
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Tim Cook To Step Down As Apple’s CEO
Apple has announced that John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next CEO, effective on September 1, 2026. Tim Cook will step down from his current role and become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors, marking the end of a distinguished career leading one of the world’s most beloved and […]
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The Iran War Will Change How Consumers Spend
While we are in the early days relative to long-standing conflicts that shape behavior, here are four shifts that are safe to expect.
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