Application Development & Delivery

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Should You Care About Developer Productivity?

Christopher Condo 6 days ago
Measuring individual developer productivity has its drawbacks. Get four key strategies to help your development teams succeed in this post.
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At Its Innovation 2023 Event, Intel Is Focused On AI Developers

Brian Hopkins September 26, 2023
Get Forrester's key takeaways and unique insights from the recent Intel Innovation 2023 conference.

Integrate Generative AI Into Your SDLC

Join us for an on-demand webinar to explore the impact of generative AI on development and testing – and how TuringBots fit into the SDLC mix.

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Low-Code Opens Up New Opportunities For Marketers To Elevate And Control Martech

Joe Stanhope September 22, 2023
Low-code application development is revolutionizing how enterprises develop technology. Any tech ecosystem in which multiple applications, data sources, and processes intersect is ripe for low-code innovation. Martech is notoriously complex and dynamic, so it’s no surprise that low-code is finding its way into the marketing department. Marketing adoption of low-code appdev is still nascent, but the […]
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Serverless Functions Hold A Lot Of Promise … And Potential Security Flaws

Janet Worthington September 21, 2023
Full stack developers are concerned with accessibility, usability, reliability, scalability, and performance. So, who's responsible for the security of an application?
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Navigate The Seas Of Developer Experience

Andrew Cornwall September 20, 2023
Savvy (business) captains know the four personas of developer experience. Do you? Find out in this blog.
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AI And Generative AI For The Software Development Lifecycle

Diego Lo Giudice September 19, 2023
Learn six key points that a TuringBot pilot program should address.
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Demystifying Real-Time Data For Analytics And Operational Workloads

Noel Yuhanna September 8, 2023
I often get client inquiries about latency requirements to support real-time analytics and operational workloads. The challenge is that “real time” can vary from milliseconds to minutes depending on the use case. At its core, real-time data refers to data made available immediately (or almost immediately) to support operational and analytical workloads. This data may […]

Budget Your 2024 Cloud And AI Priorities Wisely

Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Architecture & Delivery Leaders to learn where cloud, data center, software, and emerging tech budgets are shifting.

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Open Source Under Attack: Your Source Is Ajar

Andrew Cornwall August 21, 2023
The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.
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When Is The Right Time To Invest In The Cool New Thing?

Paul Miller August 17, 2023
Not every emerging technology succeeds. Read more on how you can cut through the noise to work out when and where to commit your company’s finite resources.
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Software Asset Management Tools Play A Critical Role In Your Optimization And Rationalization Initiatives

Biswajeet Mahapatra August 17, 2023
Current economic conditions are forcing many IT leaders to take stock of their existing inventory of software and find ways to optimize its usage. Optimization of software assets may be part of larger technical debt reduction or application rationalization programs, which help reduce costs, drive utilization of resources, and the freeing up of investments for […]
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ISDP: Unified DevOps Platforms Coordinate Development And Operations

Andrew Cornwall August 8, 2023
It’s been happening for a while. There’s been a trend in the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and release automation (RA) world: DevOps tools merging into a unified platform. CI companies such as JFrog and CloudBees have acquired CDRA companies like Shippable and Electric Cloud. CD companies such as Harness are buying CI tools […]
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Generative AI TuringBots Win Again In Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies

Diego Lo Giudice August 1, 2023
Not only are TuringBots again in Forrester’s The Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, but they are expected to deliver ROI much earlier than predicted. Find out why.

2024 Tech Budget Missteps You’ll Want To Avoid

Explore benchmark data from Forrester’s 2024 Planning Guide reports for tech leaders to see where you’re over- or underinvesting.

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Planning Guides 2024: Technology Leaders

Take the guesswork out of your 2024 tech budget planning. Find out how your 2024 tech budget compares to your peers — and where to increase, decrease, and experiment with your tech investments.
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Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools Evolve To Keep Pace With Modern Application Delivery

Janet Worthington June 13, 2023
We looked at the top 50 undergraduate computer science programs in the US and found that none require a secure coding or secure application design class. Although 18% did offer electives in secure coding or application security, it’s fair to say that teaching undergrads to develop secure code is not a top priority. Static application […]
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The Forrester Wave™: Integrated Software Delivery Platforms, Q2 2023: Say Goodbye To The DevOps Tax

Christopher Condo June 13, 2023
CI + CDRA = ISDP Last year, we announced the emergence of the integrated software delivery platform (ISDP) market. At the time, we argued that DevOps and DevOps-adjacent practices had reshaped the development and delivery landscape such that the boundaries between our continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery release automation (CDRA) coverage felt arbitrary and […]
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WWDC 2023 — What It Means For Developers

Andrew Cornwall June 6, 2023
As has been the trend in recent years, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2023) keynote has kept its focus centered on consumers — read about that here. Announcements for enterprises were thin — watchOS 10 gets mobile device management support, Safari gets passkeys and profiles to keep work and home tabs separate … and […]
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Google I/O 2023: If You Remove AI, What’s Left?

Andrew Cornwall May 18, 2023
Google I/O, Google’s annual product showcase, displayed a very strong AI focus this year. We saw little new hardware, and even with Google’s “add AI to all the things” strategy, most improvements were incremental, not groundbreaking. If you haven’t already, read Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See to get up to speed […]

Get Bullish On These 2024 Tech Budget Line Items

Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Technology Executives to learn where to halt legacy spending — and boost tech budgets to power the business growth agenda.

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How To Reduce Tech Debt In Your CRM Operations

Kate Leggett May 3, 2023
Uncover how to reduce tech debt in your CRM operations by understanding your CRM footprint, the CRM vendor landscape, and mapping a strategy to business outcomes.
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The State Of IT Environmental Sustainability, 2023: Results From A Global Survey Of IT And Sustainability Decision-Makers

Abhijit Sunil April 21, 2023
Technology and sustainability leaders can use the insights in this report to benchmark their own state of IT environmental sustainability.
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Do You Use Low-Code For Marketing? We Want To Hear From You!

Joe Stanhope April 11, 2023
If you’re using low-code application development to support marketing, we want to hear from you.
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