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Now Live — The Forrester Wave™: Point-Of-Service Solutions, Q4 2024

Lauren Cevallos November 14, 2024
The Forrester Wave™: Point-Of-Service Solutions, Q4 2024, is now live!
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Are You Aligning Your Tech Success With Metrics That Matter?

Zhi Ying Barry October 8, 2024
Tech leaders often grapple with finding a measurement approach that drives alignment. Learn the three most common misalignments in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit APAC.
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How To Adapt Site Search To Holiday-Season Changes In Customer Behaviors And Needs

Emily Pfeiffer September 30, 2024
For the 2024 holiday season, adapt your site search solution to meet consumer expectations.
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Who Is Your CISO? Understand Their Background To Reduce Risk And Bolster Trust

Jinan Budge September 23, 2024
One of the three principles of high-performance IT (HPIT) is to build trust on a foundation of security, privacy, and resilience. As a CIO, executing your strategy will be much easier if you unleash the talent of the person who plays an outsized role in building a trusted business: your chief information security officer (CISO). […]
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Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winners For EMEA

Bernhard Schaffrik September 23, 2024
Get a detailed look at how the two winners of Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Awards for EMEA have successfully demonstrated exceptional alignment, adaptivity, and trust in their IT strategies, setting a shining example for their respective industries.
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IBM Vies For Positioning As The De Facto FinOps Solution

Tracy Woo September 19, 2024
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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Manage Tech Debt Urgently To Prevent Tech Bankruptcy

Biswajeet Mahapatra September 17, 2024
The longer tech debt remains unresolved, the more resources are required to fix it. Learn how it can impact the delivery of new projects and weaken operational resilience in this preview of a new report.

Jan. 30 Tech & Security Predictions Webinar

Join us to dive into the top 2025 predictions and discover their impact on your tech and security strategies — with exclusive insights from the analysts who conducted the research.

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Why Forrester’s SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important

Akshara Naik Lopez September 16, 2024
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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Why Forrester’s Oracle Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important

Akshara Naik Lopez September 16, 2024
We recently completed The Oracle Services Landscape, Q3 2024. Since the last edition of this Forrester Landscape, Oracle customers have been eager to modernize their enterprise applications’ footprint and adopt software-as-a-service (SaaS) principles. Customers of heritage products, like E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, have been rapidly adopting Oracle Fusion Applications as Oracle is one of the […]
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The Four Agreements That Enterprise Business Applications Must Adopt

Kate Leggett September 6, 2024
Enterprise business applications run all phases of a company’s operations such as sales, customer service, accounting, finance, human resources, inventory, and manufacturing. They streamline and coordinate work across the enterprise, supporting corporate goals of revenue, profitability, and cost optimization. As a result, the market for these applications continues to aggressively grow. Today’s business applications are […]
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From Pixels To Perception: The Impact Of Foundation Models For Vision

Indranil Bandyopadhyay September 6, 2024
Large-scale AI models trained on extensive datasets are shifting computer vision toward more adaptable and scalable solutions.
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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.

Ready For These 2025 Tech And Security Shifts?

Step into 2025 with confidence! Explore our predictions for tech and security leaders, featuring key trends in AI, cloud, SDLC, and AIOps you need to know.

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Unleash The Power Of Tech: Technology & Innovation Summit APAC

Frederic Giron August 20, 2024
In an era when AI’s potential is burgeoning, technology, data, and security leaders face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summit APAC is your gateway to navigating this transformative landscape. Join us in Sydney on October 29, 2024, to harness the power of tech, talent, and AI and drive your business to new […]
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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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The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024

Tracy Woo August 15, 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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Make The Right Tech Budget Decisions Now To Succeed With AI In 2025

Matthew Guarini August 1, 2024
Technology leaders find themselves at a crossroads this budget planning season. Get pragmatic advice on where to spend your tech budget in 2025 to achieve better business outcomes.
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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 […]

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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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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Salesforce Makes Moves Into The Back Office With A Strategic Workday Partnership

Kate Leggett July 25, 2024
Salesforce and Workday announced a strategic partnership to blend customer, financial, and employee data in a shared data foundation that negates the need to duplicate data or build custom integration. The result? Optimized employee and customer experiences that up-level business outcomes for joint Salesforce-Workday customers. The strategic objective? Salesforce extends its power into back-office workflows […]
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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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