Business & IT Alignment
Business & IT alignment creates a virtuous cycle that unleashes the true power and potential of technology. Read insights on how to foster business & IT alignment.
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Choose The Enterprise Architecture Management Suite That Best Supports Your Transformation
Who are the top vendors in the enterprise architecture management space and what sets them apart? Find out in this preview of the new Forrester Wave™ on enterprise architecture management suites.
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Get Your AI Aligned
The big challenge with AI for business is risk. How can an organization minimize the risk while maximizing the benefit of AI? In this episode, Vice President and Principal Analyst Brandon Purcell proposes a solution to this challenge — AI alignment — and outlines how an “align by design” approach can help.
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Use Skills-Based Talent Practices To Future-Proof Your Tech Organization
Tech leaders are being asked to do more with fewer resources available, which makes cultivating the right skills in the workforce essential. The implementation of generative AI (genAI) potentially brings productivity gains but is also a point of concern, with employees experiencing what one chief product officer at a tech workforce development company calls an […]
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A Week At The TBM Conference
Get a review of the recent TBM Conference which focused on product centricity and transparency in the modern IT operating model.
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Craft An Intelligent Business Case For SaaS ERP
One of the most strategic, and costly, business applications is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. ERP is critical to an organization, underpinning functions such as finance and business operations. Organizations should strive for a modern ERP solution, but modernizing ERP is often a costly and time-consuming process.
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AI And GenAI Are Game-Changers For Enterprise Architecture Leaders
Generative AI has started to drive new levels of business value as it cuts across different domains of business operations. Learn how AI and genAI will disrupt the enterprise architecture discipline in this preview of a new report.
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The Language Of High-Performance IT For The Public Sector And Government
One of the core principles of high-performance IT is alignment. But what we are aligning to differs greatly between the public and private sectors. It’s also important to recognize the cultural and linguistic differences between the private and public sectors. Aligning language in this way helps ensure that everyone is on the same page, which can significantly improve communication, reduce misunderstandings, and lead to more effective initiatives.
Join Us Live: Key 2025 Tech & Security Predictions
Get ahead with insights from Forrester analysts. Join us on Jan. 30 for a webinar on our 2025 predictions covering the future of technology and security, from rising cyberthreats to the impact of AI and automation.
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Lead A High-Performing Digital Team
Digital teams are primarily tasked with designing, delivering, and managing digital products or services, launching digital innovations, and developing the digital roadmap.
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Is Keeping Your Commerce Tech Vendor The Right Move For You?
To retain or replatform your commerce technology solution? Forrester’s latest research guides leaders on how to answer this burning question.
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IBM Vies For Positioning As The De Facto FinOps Solution
On Tuesday, IBM announced its acquisition of Kubernetes cost management solution Kubecost. This acquisition follows a series of FinOps-focused companies in recent years with Apptio (TBM/FinOps), Turbonomic (FinOps/resource automation), Nordcloud (FinOps services), and Instana (observability). Answers To Your Top Questions About The Kubecost Acquistion What should I know? Kubecost enhances an already market-leading solution. In […]
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Why Forrester’s SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important
We recently completed The SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024. A lot has changed in the SAP ecosystem since the last edition of this Forrester landscape. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations are taking center stage for the vast majority of SAP clients. The RISE with SAP offering has undergone massive changes in the last […]
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Technology Leaders Deliver Significantly Stronger Business Outcomes With High-Performance IT
The data is clear: high-performance IT shops deliver better business outcomes and experience growth that is 1.8x faster than their peers. Find out why.
2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide
From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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Start Building Your IT Strategy At Technology & Innovation Summit North America
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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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition
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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The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024
Curious about the top cloud trends in 2024? Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2024 in this preview of a new report.
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AI Alignment: The Technology Leader’s Point Of View
Before 2022, software development primarily focused on reliability and functionality testing, given the predictable nature of traditional systems and apps. With the rise of generative AI (genAI) models, however, the concept of model and AI alignment has become increasingly crucial. Generative AI models are progressing from simple knowledge recall to handling complex tasks requiring advanced […]
Plan Your IT & Security Budgets For 2025 Success
Watch our on-demand technology budget planning webinar. Get benchmarks for strategic investments, divestments, and experiments to maximize business value from 2025 tech and security spending.
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ServiceNow And Atlassian: The Rise Of IT Management Platforms
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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AIOps Drives Observability And Business Outcomes In IT
AIOps is a critical tool for IT leaders aiming to run high-performance organizations and drive business outcomes. Learn more about the benefits of AIops in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit North America.
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Greeking Out: Aristotle’s Guide To AIOps Mastery
Aristotle’s wisdom nails it: mastering precision, appropriateness, timeliness, intentionality, and methodology isn’t just for anger management — it's crucial for AIOps too. In the chaotic world of IT, we need to separate the signal from the noise and act with clear intention.
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