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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how organizations operate, offering unprecedented opportunities to boost efficiency and drive innovation. Yet, alongside this immense potential comes a layer of complexity that requires deliberate strategy. AI is doing more than just enhancing systems; it’s reshaping how organizations allocate resources, advance capabilities, and achieve growth. Its influence touches every corner of an operating model, challenging leaders to not only capture the power of AI but to create meaningful value with it. The path forward is both exciting and intricate, filled with the promise of transformation and the need for thoughtful navigation. Get the latest AI insights and strategic perspectives from Forrester analysts and experts.
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KubeCon Europe 2026: The Not-So-Unseen Engine Behind AI Innovation?
At KubeCon Europe 2026, Kubernetes’ AI story shifted from “add support” to “rebuild the platform.” AI conformance, upstream GPU orchestration, shared inference blueprints, and in-platform governance are setting the new defaults.
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RSAC 2026: An AI Coming-Of-Age Story Without The Romance
RSAC Conference 2026 has come and gone. Gone, too, are the petting zoos of yesteryear, replaced this year by — of all things — pop-up tattoo parlors. Or as one attendee observed, “We’ve traded livestock for live needles.” This year’s attendance of over 43,500 was flat compared to 2025, but the sessions and exhibit floor […]
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Agentic Commerce-Era Lessons From Social Commerce And Digital Ad Channels
Before diving into agentic commerce, take stock of four lessons that social commerce taught us to make wise decisions today.
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Agentish Vs. Agentic In GTM: Choose Control Over Autonomy
As AI agents move from assisting go‑to‑market teams to executing revenue workflows, B2B leaders and revenue technology providers face a fundamental design tension: How much autonomy is safe when revenue, compliance, and trust are on the line? In revenue-focused systems, the distinction between “agentish” and fully agentic AI isn’t academic. It’s existential. AI is rapidly […]
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The Forrester Wave™: Data Quality Solutions, Q1 2026
What Modern Enterprises Need From Data Quality Platforms In the age of AI, data quality has become one of the most critical capabilities to promote trust in data and AI for modern enterprises. As organizations scale generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI, data quality solutions now sit at the forefront of enterprise success in the […]
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In Their Words: Why Executives Choose Forrester
Forrester has helped guide business leaders through every major technology shift of the past four decades — and AI is no exception. Learn how executives move faster, de-risk decisions, and win and serve clients better through our AI research and advice.
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Is AI Visibility Your 2026 Imperative? Learn How To Achieve It At B2B Summit
As B2B buyer research shifts to AI-powered answer engines, a new "visibility vacuum" is emerging. At B2B Summit North America, you'll learn how to overcome it.
Build The Experiences AI Can’t — Here’s How To Differentiate On Trust
CX, B2C marketing, and digital leaders: AI can automate journeys, but trust needs intent, identity, and context. Build the human foundation at Forrester’s 2026 CX events.
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NVIDIA GTC 2026: Building The AI Value Chain
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, the most consequential signal was not another leap in compute performance but how intentionally NVIDIA is redefining AI as end‑to‑end infrastructure spanning systems, software, data, and the physical world. The event underscored a longer‑term strategy focused on owning how AI is built, operated, and scaled, not just what runs fastest.
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Why IBM Paid $11B For Real-Time AI, Not Kafka
IBM just closed its $11 billion acquisition of Confluent on March 17, 2026, acquiring the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 500 — rely on to power real-time operations. Confluent was also named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025. The deal could […]
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Geopolitical Volatility Has Become A Technology Leadership Test
Geopolitical volatility is testing and redefining technology leadership, demanding sharper trade-offs, stronger resilience, and faster decisions from CIOs and CISOs. Read guidance from our new research to help navigate these challenges.
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Your Employees Aren’t Ready For AI — And It’s A Problem
Forrester’s AIQ Reveals Severe Gaps In Employee Readiness For AI Employers aren’t successfully equipping their employees with the understanding, skills, and ethics to succeed in a world of AI. And it’s becoming a bottleneck that inhibits productivity and return on investment. We measure this with AIQ, Forrester’s artificial intelligence quotient, and we’ve got alarming new […]
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When Things Go Wrong With A Commerce Task, Many Consumers Will Blame The Answer Engine
We asked consumers in the US, the UK, and Canada who they would hold responsible for issues when they use an answer engine to complete commerce-related tasks. Consumers might take personal responsibility for some issues (such as feeling that their prompts hadn’t been targeted enough) or might even hold the brand they ordered from responsible. […]
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Intelligent Finance: From Digital Experiences To AI‑Orchestrated Financial Outcomes
Explore Forrester’s intelligent finance research and learn how financial services leaders can deliver AI‑orchestrated financial outcomes.
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The Private AI Model Explosion
In five years, 70% of the revenue created by AI will be in private models, not public ones. Why? In a word, trust.
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The Future Is Now: Agentic AI Redefines Responsible AI
A month ago, I launched new research on responsible AI (RAI) solutions. Forrester defines RAI solutions as software ensuring that organizations’ AI models and systems are explainable, accountable, and trustworthy. In that research, I redefined RAI in three critical components of explainability, accountability, and trustworthiness. Some technology vendors declined to participate, stating that responsible AI is […]
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No, You Can’t Just Vibe Code Commerce — Yet
“What coding?” Vibe coding is the cute term for using genAI systems to create, debug, or update programming code. People can use it without knowing how to write a line of code themselves. What this means: Lots of people are generating code they don’t understand. It’s not just developers using these tools to code faster; for example, it’s schoolteachers writing their […]
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Mobile World Congress 2026: From 5G Hype To AI Hope
MWC 2026 in Barcelona made one thing clear: The 5G hype has finally cooled, and the industry is sprinting toward what’s next. While I was on the ground navigating the chaos of the Fira, my partner Octavio was tracking the global signals from the digital sidelines. Between my sore feet and his high-level view, we’ve […]
Stop Losing B2B Buyers Before They Ever Reach Your Site
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how AI search, answer engines, and answer engine optimization (AEO) are rewriting B2B buyer journeys — and get plays to protect your pipeline, boost visibility, and earn trust.
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Power Couple OpenAI + Amazon May Have Just Won Consumer Agentic Commerce
As the Shopify-OpenAI partnership appears to be ending, a new alliance may be set to dominate. Learn how it could unfold and what the implications may be.
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The Latest Enterprise Software Earnings Reveals CIOs’ Risks And Leverage
Enterprise AI adoption is early and uneven, but consumption pricing shifts budget risk to CIOs now. Use the gap between vendor narrative and operational reality as negotiation leverage.
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Do You Use AI Moderators For Customer Research? I’d Love To Hear From You
AI is transforming how experience research is conducted — from planning to analysis — thanks to new tools like AI moderators. If you are a research vendor offering AI moderators or a researcher who has used AI-moderated interviews, I want to talk to you.
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