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From Pixels To Perception: The Impact Of Foundation Models For Vision

Indranil Bandyopadhyay 6 days ago
Large-scale AI models trained on extensive datasets are shifting computer vision toward more adaptable and scalable solutions.
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Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winners For The Americas

Frederic Giron September 4, 2024
Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Awards celebrate companies that have successfully embraced three principles: alignment, trust, and adaptivity. Learn more about how this year’s winners — First Student and Best Buy — have exceptionally demonstrated those principles in their IT strategies.
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Start Building Your IT Strategy At Technology & Innovation Summit North America

Marianne Doran-Collins August 22, 2024
The days of creating an IT strategy in a vacuum are long gone. With technology embedded ever deeper in the business, strategy conversations between business and IT organizations must stay fluent and on point. Get a blueprint of the steps needed to rapidly create a technology strategy, in a preview of our recently published research.
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How India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE India) Builds Its Critical IT Infrastructure

Ashutosh Sharma August 22, 2024
Learn how one of the largest stock exchanges in the world uses information technology to deliver services that meet stringent regulatory standards as well as unique investor needs.
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Celebrating Excellence: Scotiabank Wins The 15th Annual Enterprise Architecture Award In North America

Charles Betz August 19, 2024
Get an inside look at the enterprise architecture strategies of this year’s EA Awards winner, Scotiabank, and learn which firms were runners-up.
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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition

Tracy Woo August 16, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced an agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution. Find out what this means for the two firms and their customers in this blog.
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2025 Planning: Align Tech And Talent To Accelerate Customer Value Delivery

Brittany Viola August 13, 2024
As portfolio marketing and product management leaders head into budget planning season, use these four action items to guide your work.

From AI To Cloud: Where To Invest In 2025

Tech infrastructure budgets are rising, but businesses want outcomes from every dollar spent. Optimize your 2025 budget using insights from our tech infrastructure Planning Guide.

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2025 Budget Planning LIVE: Technology And Security

Attend our LIVE webinar on Sept. 24! Hear analyst insights on where to invest, divest, and experiment with 2025 tech and security budgets for maximum business impact. 
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Tech Leaders Target Scale And Enhanced Productivity With 2025 Budgets

Paul McKay August 1, 2024
Technology architecture leaders see positive economic signs heading into the 2025 budget planning season. Find out how you can optimize your budget in the year ahead to fund new technology investment and experimentation.
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Announcing The Modern Application Development Services Landscape, Q3 2024

Diego Lo Giudice August 1, 2024
Modern Application Development Services Defined Clients want more autonomy to better control their own innovation and development capabilities to build modern and up-to-date custom applications. In Forrester’s Priorities Survey, 2024, 64% of business and technology professionals said that bringing more development in-house would be a high or critical priority for their IT organization over the […]
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Introducing Forrester’s High-Performance IT Capability Assessment

Charles Betz July 28, 2024
Get a preview of Forrester’s High-Performance IT Capability Assessment, which allows users to rank perceptions of their capabilities’ maturity and look at the implications across the board.
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Redefining Industry: China’s Leap Into GenAI-Driven Manufacturing Excellence

Charlie Dai July 26, 2024
Learn how generative AI is helping manufacturing firms in China enhance their innovation and efficiency, positioning them as key players on the global stage.

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Insights From The 25th Accenture SAP Leadership Council

Dario Maisto July 23, 2024
From June 10–12, Accenture hosted clients, consultants, analysts, and SAP staff in Cannes for the 25th Accenture SAP Leadership Council. Get four key takeaways from the event in this blog.
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GitLab Customers Hope To Stay Out Of The Doghouse If Acquired By Datadog

Christopher Condo July 23, 2024
GitLab is a leading platform for version control, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and collaboration. With its robust features and security focus, GitLab has gained a loyal user base and has become a go-to solution for enterprise developers worldwide. A recent rumor, however, suggests that Datadog, a popular monitoring and analytics platform, is eyeing a […]
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CrowdStrike Global Outage: Critical Next Steps For Tech And Security Leaders

Andras Cser July 19, 2024
Technology leaders woke up this morning to find that a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike had gone badly wrong. Get updates on the steps that your organization should take now and in the long term as a result of the CrowdStrike outage.
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The Benefits And Challenges Of Industry Clouds

What It Means July 18, 2024
What are industry clouds? What are their use cases, benefits, and drawbacks? Find out as VP and Principal Analyst Kate Leggett provides a detailed look at the latest trends in industry clouds.
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ServiceNow And Atlassian: The Rise Of IT Management Platforms

Charles Betz July 15, 2024
The recent ServiceNow Knowledge 2024 and Atlassian Team 24 conferences revealed a structural realignment in important sections of the IT management market. Find out how in this post.
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Rethinking IT Strategy: A Comprehensive Blueprint For Success

Frederic Giron July 14, 2024
Traditional approaches to IT strategy can result in plans that are disconnected from the actual needs and dynamics of business operations. Learn how Forrester's new IT strategy blueprint can help create an IT strategy that continuously optimizes business results.
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Introducing The Digital Banking Processing Platforms Landscape, Q3 2024

Huard Smith July 11, 2024
Explore Forrester’s digital banking processing platforms landscape report, highlighting 26 vendors and the transformative potential of these modern core banking systems for enhanced customer experiences and operational efficiency.
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Build Resilience, Gain Trust

Brent Ellis July 10, 2024
As organizations ask employees and partners to execute and deliver at a faster pace, the risk of technology failure becomes greater. Learn how understanding technology resilience can help minimize these risks in a preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit North America.
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