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A Digital Product Passport Needs More Standardization And Fewer Standards

Paul Miller November 18, 2024
The Digital Product Passport promises significant benefits for sustainability, auditability, and consumer information, but a lack of agreement on standards makes it difficult to realise this promise ahead of European deadlines in 2027.
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Predictions 2025: CMOs Clear Out The Clutter

Mike Proulx October 24, 2024

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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Data Security: The Time Is Now To Pioneer A New Strategy

Heidi Shey September 25, 2024
Data security is both a high priority and struggle for many organizations. Find out why and get some next steps in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit, December 9–11 in Baltimore.
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Get From Data To Decisions Faster With Our New Data, AI & Analytics Service

Srividya Sridharan September 10, 2024
Data and AI leaders today must create business value from trusted data, build the foundation to scale AI, and cultivate a data-driven culture. To help them meet these challenges, Forrester is launching Forrester Decisions for Data, AI & Analytics. Learn more about this new service and how it can benefit your organization.
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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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Level Up Your AI Data Maturity At Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summit North America

Zeid Khater August 7, 2024
Struggling to effectively process, analyze, and utilize constantly changing data spread across various systems? Learn three key competencies to help develop a data maturity plan of action in this preview of an upcoming workshop.
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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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Wasn’t Generative AI Supposed To Disrupt Business Intelligence?

Boris Evelson July 25, 2024
Generative AI was supposed to disrupt how we analyze data using BI tools. Find out why that hasn't happened yet.
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Struggling With B2B Data Quality? Let Me Guess …

Brett Kahnke June 21, 2024
Over the years, Forrester analysts have helped thousands of B2B clients grapple with data quality challenges. Across those highly custom sets of business issues, a few clear patterns have emerged.
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Improving B2B Data Quality: Changing The Tires On A Moving Car​

Brett Kahnke June 21, 2024
Managing data quality requires a defined strategy to tackle data management, domain insight gathering, and team enablement, with planning cycles focused on governance, compliance, and technology.
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Forrester’s AI Webinar Series: Navigate The Choppy And Exciting Waters Of Enterprise AI

Sudha Maheshwari June 7, 2024
AI is having — and will continue to have — a profound impact on how data scientists, software engineers, and other job functions perform their roles. Get tips on how to define, build, and implement your enterprise AI strategy with the help of Forrester's AI Advantage client webinar series.
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Unleash The Power Of Tech: Technology & Innovation Summit North America

Matthew Guarini June 6, 2024
Technology and data leaders are at a pivotal moment, being pressed to chart a path that capitalizes on new and emerging technology to drive meaningful business results. Learn how Forrester’s annual Technology & Innovation Summit North America can help you get there.

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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Modernize Your Cloud Governance To Match Today’s Cloud Strategy

Tracy Woo April 17, 2024
As the cloud landscape adapts to new changes, there is a renewed interest in cloud governance programs. But implementation of cloud governance may prove to be more difficult than expected. Find out why.
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Low AIQ Threatens Employees, Customers, And Your AI Initiatives

J.P. Gownder April 11, 2024
Most leaders underestimate the amount of training and upskilling their employees need to productively use AI tools. That miscalculation puts organizations at risk. Learn how to avoid the risks of Low AIQ.
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The DOJ And SEC Acknowledge That AI Amplifies Harm And Signal Stiffer Sentences

Michele Goetz March 25, 2024
Following comments from the DOJ and SEC, tech leaders are more concerned about keeping up with new AI regulations and guidelines. Learn four key steps your enterprise can take to prepare.
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​Data Quality Is Now The Primary Factor Limiting GenAI Adoption​

Brett Kahnke February 26, 2024
With the rapid advancement of genAI technology available to businesses even without highly specialized skills, internal data quality is now the primary limiting factor standing in the way of genAI enablement.
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Data Governance: Your Key To Unlocking An Insights-Driven Business

Jayesh Chaurasia February 5, 2024
The key to turning data into meaningful and actionable insights across the organization lies in a frequently overlooked area — establishing a strong foundation of data governance.
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Tap Into The Potential Of Synthetic Data For AIOps

Carlos Casanova January 19, 2024
Learn how leveraging synthetic data can help with the critical time to realize AIOps value, such as autoremediation capabilities and enhanced decision-making.
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The EU Data Act Is Now In Force — What It Means For You And Your Organization

Martha Bennett January 12, 2024
Find out what the Act means for your organization and get seven tips on what to do next.
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AWS’s Silent Nod To FinOps

Tracy Woo December 12, 2023
Last week, Amazon.com VP and CTO Werner Vogels closed out re:Invent 2023 with his keynote address on the “frugal architect.” This isn’t the first time that Vogels has introduced this topic. In fact, it was a theme he originally introduced in 2012 that revolves around architecting with cost in mind. To me, and likely to […]
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