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From Veto To Victory: California’s New AI Act Revives the National (And International) Conversation On AI Regulations
Defying the odds and lobbying pressure, California’s SB 53, known as the Transparency in Frontier AI Act (TFAIA), is now officially a law and new framework for AI policy nationwide. With Governor Newsom’s signature, California not only contributes to define what responsible AI governance could look like, it also proves that AI oversight and accountability […]
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Fix Your GRC Blind Spots: Risk Lessons From The Louvre
On a Sunday morning in Paris, a small crew arrived outside the Louvre’s Galerie d’Apollon in a truck equipped with a movable lift. Dressed as construction workers in yellow vests, they parked along the Seine, placed orange cones around the area, and used the lift to reach the second-floor balcony. In seven minutes, the crew […]
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Forrester analysts provide their perspectives on the latest business and technology headlines.
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Retailers: Holiday 2025 Is Here!
Retailers — jump into the 2025 holiday season with Forrester's Holiday Planning Guide and key takeaways in this blog.
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Risk Consulting Firms Are Getting Shaken Not Stirred By AI
Chief risk officers (CROs) are navigating a risk landscape that’s more volatile, fragmented, and tech-driven than ever. Yet many CROs still rely on advice from risk consulting services providers that are stuck in the audit compliance cottage industry of yesteryear, gently stirring into action. Learn how to select the right risk consulting provider for your organization in this preview of a new report.
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“CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph
At Forrester, we’re deprecating the term configuration management database in our research. Instead you’ll increasingly see it termed “IT management graph.” Find out why.
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Announcing Forrester’s 2025 Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award Winners
Learn more about the two enterprise security programs that won this year’s Security & Risk Enterprise Leadership Award.
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Netflix Q3 2025 Earnings: It’s All About Focus
Netflix is poised for a strong year-end finish, backed by another quarter of standout performance. Quality content at a fair price remains the key driver of streaming engagement — and Netflix continues to deliver, not only by doubling down on its core programming but also by expanding into must-see live events that attract advertiser-coveted audiences.
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Most Financial Services Firms In Singapore Struggle To Align Their Brand Promise To CX
The results from Forrester’s 2025 study on total experience — covering major banks, investment firms, and health insurers — are in. But before we dive into the highlights, let’s set some context.
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Retail’s Holiday 2025: More Sales, Profits, And AI-Driven Commerce
Time to pull out the holiday decorations and start building that gift list — Q4 2025 is upon us! For retail and other business leaders, this means daily meetings to raise, review, revise, and rip apart their inventory, promotion, commerce, and marketing strategies.
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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Human Capital Management Solutions, Q4 2025
The human capital management (HCM) solutions market is experiencing one of its most transformative cycles in decades. Learn eight key trends driving that transformation to better understand which platform will help unlock the full potential of your workforce.
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Stop Optimizing, Start Reinventing: Three Imperatives For Marketing Leaders In 2026
Learn three imperatives coming out of MAICON 2025 for marketing leaders looking to reimagine how marketing creates growth.
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Oracle AI World 2025: The First Look Under New Command
Get key takeaways from Oracle's newly renamed annual conference, the first with new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia at the helm.
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The AWS US-East Outage: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience
The fourth outage in five years for AWS’s US-East region was traced to DNS resolution failures that affected many core services. Find out what you should do from both the technology and the supplier risk management side to improve your cloud resilience.
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The Hard Truths: Tech Leadership Lessons From The Trenches
Welcome to the tech leader practitioner series! This new blog series will bring you insights from the professionals here at Forrester who have enjoyed careers in roles like yours or spend their days helping tech leaders tackle their thorniest challenges. Here, we will share our lessons learned through countless failures (some of them epic) and […]
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TwitchCon 2025 Revealed The Power Of Community
As I walked into my first TwitchCon at the San Diego Convention Center this past weekend, I didn’t know what to expect. Maybe I would see hordes of young men playing games on their phone or participating in e-sports competitions. Maybe I would see everyone doing cosplay. Yes, there was some of that. What I […]
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Forrester’s 2025 Enterprise Architecture Award Winner And Finalists For North America
Congratulations to Takeda Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year’s Enterprise Architecture Award for North America. Learn more about Takeda’s winning strategy as well as the strategies of our two finalists.
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Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner And Finalists For North America
Congratulations to the United States Department of the Navy, this year’s winner of the Technology Strategy Impact Award for North America. Learn more about their winning strategy as well those of finalists CBRE and Verizon.
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VMware Explore Paris 2025: Our Take On Private AI And Private Cloud Sovereignty
VMware Explore’s 2025 Paris event showcased the future of VMware Private AI and cloud sovereignty with the launch of VCF 9.0. From sovereign AI use cases to disconnected cloud operations, the event highlighted VMware’s evolving role in enabling secure, compliant infrastructure across Europe.
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Announcing The Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms Landscape, Q4 2025
Despite a somewhat frustrating past, the CRRP market is truly at an inflection point — with the realization that there’s value in the data collected to produce ratings, not just the ratings themselves.
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