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How To Build A Premium Airline In The Sky Of Sameness
Budget Is Dead. Long Live Premium? The demise of Spirit Airlines has provided endless fodder for late-night comedy that pokes fun at the misery of budget airline travel in the United States. But what about the other end of the spectrum? Do legacy carriers merely move people through the sky, or can they lay claim […]
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Drowning In Rules: Navigating America’s AI Regulatory Patchwork
US companies are drowning in AI rules. With a labyrinth of conflicting state laws and no single federal requirement, even the most responsible innovators are struggling to stay afloat. California’s landmark Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act proved that states can regulate AI without killing innovation, but it also underscores a hard truth: The current […]
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The Most Expensive Customer Complaint Is The One You Ignore
Many organizations treat complaints as routine service issues — yet they often reveal something far more pernicious. Learn a more strategic and productive way for handling complaints at Forrester's CX Summit EMEA June 8-10.
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Oracle Applications Analyst Summit: Fusion Agents Are Shifting From Assist To Decide
At Oracle’s 2026 Applications Analyst Summit, leadership drew a hard line: Agentic AI lives only in Fusion, not EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, or Hyperion. Forrester unpacks the productized agentic apps, AI-first migration playbook, and the gaps that CIOs must address in the next 12–18 months.
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AI Is Everywhere In GTM. Customer Value Isn’t.
AI is already reshaping how buyers discover, decide, and engage. The real opportunity now isn’t just efficiency — it’s redesigning GTM around measurable customer outcomes and using AI to deliver value where it matters most.
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Your AI Reinvention Needs An Engine
Last week, Accenture brought global industry analysts to Bangalore for an intense three-day session to assess whether its strategy is genuinely differentiated. For a company with the scale, breadth, and depth of Accenture, I think this is a red herring. I went in with a different question: whether the world’s largest professional services firm is […]
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Hannover Messe 2026: Do Robots Need Tea Breaks?
Paul Miller discusses his highlights and lowlights from this year’s Hannover Messe industrial trade show: robots, AI, partnerships, and more.
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Navigate The Next Era Of Search At Forrester’s CX Forums
As answer engines divert discovery and squeeze the funnel, B2C marketing leaders are looking for the fastest, most durable way for their brand to become more visible and authoritative. Join us at an upcoming CX Forum to explore the new rules of visibility.
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Ensure That You’re Asking The Right Questions About Agentic Commerce
Companies thinking about agentic commerce strategy often start in the wrong place. Get anchored in the right agentic commerce questions at Forrester’s CX Forums this June.
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CIOs Must Turn IT Finance Into A Value Engine
CIOs are under relentless pressure to justify technology spend, accelerate AI adoption, and prove that IT creates measurable business value. Yet many CIOs are trying to tell that story with one hand tied behind their back. Their IT finance teams remain stuck in a record‑keeping mindset — excellent at reporting costs but ill‑equipped to explain […]
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AI Is Turning Unified Storage Into A Strategic Decision
Unified storage has long been treated as a pragmatic, commodity storage investment: Balance cost, simplify operations, move on. In a world of AI enablement and, consequently, downside AI risk, that mindset no longer holds. Agentic, autonomous AI use cases are making storage a strategic decision point to address capability needs, performance requirements, and GRC concerns. AI systems increasingly operate directly on live enterprise data, […]
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SUSECON 2026: From Open Infrastructure To Operational Sovereignty
SUSECON 2026 in Prague marked a clear advance on the platform pillars SUSE introduced a year earlier in Orlando — and a more forceful articulation of its choice narrative. SUSE argued that choice only matters if it can be operationalized: enabling sovereign workload control and resilience not just to technical failure but to economic and […]
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Atlassian And ServiceNow: The Dominant AI-Enabled IT Management Platforms Lean Into Context Graphs
A two-years-later follow-up to ServiceNow And Atlassian: The Rise Of IT Management Platforms (July 2024) and a continuation of Context Graphs Are A Convergence, Not An Invention (April 2026) Most public discussion of enterprise AI still fixates on models, GPUs, and benchmarks. That focus misses where durable value is actually being created. The hard work […]
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Building The Human Foundation Of The AI-Powered Enterprise
As organizations rush to deploy AI, too many forget the people it’s meant to serve. A human‑first foundation is what separates AI that frustrates from AI that truly drives better experiences.
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GenAI Is Rebuilding Search, And Google is Still Winning (Q1 2026 Search Revenue Up 19% YoY)
Every tech cycle needs a good funeral: a villain to bury and a hero to crown. In genAI’s version of the story, kill advertising (again) and Google (search) is dead. The plot is tidy: GenAI replaces searching, ads become obsolete, and the web finally escapes the “attention tax.” It’s a satisfying story. Clean. Moral. Wrong. […]
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Spring-Clean Your Customer Data For Consumer Personalization Programs
Every year, the arrival of spring brings open windows and blossoming trees. For many, it’s also time for spring cleaning. Whether you love or hate the spring-clean, it’s an important ritual in ushering in the warmer seasons. This year, we recommend extending your spring cleaning ritual to your company’s customer data for consumer personalization programs. […]
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The GTM Singularity Is Here, And We’re Ready: Parting Thoughts From B2B Summit North America
B2B Summit North America made one thing clear: Leaders know the ground is shifting, and they’re ready to adapt. Across three days, conversations centered on navigating the GTM singularity with confidence, alignment, and optimism.
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Why Strategic Portfolio Management Is Entering A New Era
Key Insights From The Forrester Wave™: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q2 2026 Strategic portfolio management (SPM) has quietly become one of the most critical capabilities for enterprises navigating constant disruption. As organizations juggle digital transformation, AI investments, regulatory pressure, and cost optimization, the ability to align strategy, funding, and execution has never mattered more. That’s why my latest research, The […]
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How Google Pay Is Using UPI Circle To Reach Young Banking Customers In India
If you’re a retail banking leader in India, your future customer may already be learning how digital money works — and it may not be through your bank. This isn’t a future scenario; it’s happening now. While bank digital teams debate how much control is “too much,” customers have been clear about what they want: […]
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SLED Leaders: Use IT Spend Management To Manage Budget Pressures
What does Forrester’s IT spend management framework mean for state, local, and educational (SLED) tech leaders? I connected with Yessica Jones, a former State of Arkansas CIO who recently joined the Forrester team, on this topic, and it produced some interesting observations: SLED tech leaders are not expecting funding cuts. In fact, in a recent […]
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