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Technology Leaders Deliver Significantly Stronger Business Outcomes With High-Performance IT

Chuck Gahun 5 days ago
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.
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Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winners For The Americas

Frederic Giron 6 days ago
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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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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Generative AI And Knowledge Graphs: A Match Made In Heaven

Indranil Bandyopadhyay August 12, 2024
Knowledge graphs can enhance generative AI’s reliability and accuracy with structured knowledge, domain-specific facts, and reasoning. At the same time, genAI can also augment KGs with textual/visual information, generalized knowledge, and natural language processing.
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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.

What’s Your 2025 Budget Plan For AI, Software, & Tech Debt?

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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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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The CrowdStrike Moment Calls For A Redefinition Of Business Resilience

Charles Betz July 26, 2024
Crises such as the one triggered by CrowdStrike's global outage shine a bright light on many aspects of business and technology. Our new report provides a thorough overview of recommended actions for tech leaders as they face the unfolding long-term repercussions.
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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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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.

Drive High Performance With Your 2025 Tech Budget

2025 tech budgets are on the rise. Get our 2025 Planning Guide to learn where to invest your tech spend to boost performance, drive growth, and deliver competitive advantage.

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AIOps Drives Observability And Business Outcomes In IT

Carlos Casanova July 10, 2024
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

Carlos Casanova July 3, 2024
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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ERP Forrester Wave™ Evaluations For Product-Centric And Service-Centric Industries Now Live

Liz Herbert June 27, 2024
Forrester recently completed two separate ERP wave reports, one focused on product-centric industries and the other on service-centric industries. Get a preview of some of our findings in this blog.
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The Four Styles Of High-Performance IT

Matthew Guarini June 25, 2024
Most IT organizations follow a dominant style that best aligns with their business objectives. High-performance IT identifies and defines four common high-performance styles to help IT leaders craft the optimal portfolio of capabilities. Learn more in this post.
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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024: As AI Dominates, Security Becomes Paramount

Brian Hopkins June 25, 2024
Forrester’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies for 2024 reflects the continued dominance of AI but also emphasizes the growing importance of security in our increasingly connected world. Get a deep dive on the top 10 list in this blog post.
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Unleash The Potential Of Knowledge Management And Generative AI

Julie Mohr June 24, 2024
To stay ahead of competition, organizations must enable seamless information-sharing across departments. But how? Learn how combining knowledge management and generative AI can unlock a new level of knowledge-sharing and collaboration in your organization.
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Navigating The Disruption Of Broadcom’s Acquisition Of VMware

What It Means June 20, 2024
The broad changes Broadcom made in the wake of the deal have technology executives reviewing their technology roadmaps closely. In this episode Principal Analyst Naveen Chhabra walks through the changes and discusses the choices available to VMWare customers.
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Key Takeaways From SAP Sapphire Orlando 2024

Akshara Naik Lopez June 12, 2024
From generative AI to cloud to pricing announcements, the recent SAP Sapphire in Orlando was a busy event. Read this blog to get our key takeaways and perspectives on the big announcements from SAP.
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