Budget Planning Guides

Planning and budgeting for a new fiscal year can feel overwhelming. Where should you invest, where should you pull back, and when should you stay the course? Explore our blog posts for data-backed insights across business functions.

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

Akshara Naik Lopez 2 days ago
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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European Leaders: Align Budget Planning To Accelerate Performance In 2025

Laura Koetzle September 9, 2024
Upbeat budget expectations for 2025 will serve European leaders well, but placing the right bets will be critical to securing a competitive edge. Read a few of our top recommendations.

Make The Right Marketing Budget Moves In 2025

Need budget perspective? Watch our 2025 budget planning webinar to hear benchmarks and analyst advice on where to invest, divest, and experiment with your budget.

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Budget Planning Guide 2025 For APAC Tech Leaders: Where To Invest, Cut, And Experiment

Frederic Giron August 22, 2024
According to Forrester data, 95% of APAC technology decision-makers anticipate increased IT budgets next year. But macroeconomic uncertainty will force IT leaders to make tough decisions. Get insight into where to invest, where to cut, and where to experiment with your 2025 IT budget.
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2025 Planning: Align Tech And Talent To Accelerate Customer Value Delivery

Brittany Viola August 13, 2024
As portfolio marketing and product management leaders head into budget planning season, use these four action items to guide your work.
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How Should Business And Tech Leaders Spend In 2025?

What It Means August 8, 2024
Business and tech leaders expect (slightly) bigger budgets next year. How should they use them? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Group Research Directors Stephanie Balaouras, Keith Johnston, and Srividya Sridharan dive into Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides’ recommendations for tech, marketing and sales, and customer experience (CX) leaders.
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Leverage Synergy To Stretch Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget

Matthew Selheimer August 1, 2024
Today, Forrester released our 2025 Budget Planning Guides. It’s always an exciting time when we gather survey data and insights from our client conversations to produce a set of collective recommendations that B2B marketing executives should consider for the year ahead. Read below for this year’s key planning guide highlights. Benchmark your current spending While […]
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2025 Budget Planning: Customer Experience

Watch the on-demand replay to dive into the latest data-driven guidance for CX leaders on how to strategically allocate budget for 2025.
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2025 Budget Planning: B2B Marketing

Watch the on-demand replay to explore benchmarks and advice on where to increase, decrease, and experiment with your marketing budget.
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2025 Budget Planning LIVE: Technology And Security

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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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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Customer Experience Leaders Are In Dire Straits — Invest To Overhaul Core CX Competencies

Riccardo Pasto August 1, 2024
Getting customer experience back on track will require doubling down on what matters most to customers. Explore a few of our recommendations for 2025.
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B2B CMOs Don’t Expect 2025 Growth To Come From Budget Increases

John Arnold August 1, 2024
B2B marketing leaders ae no strangers to stretching budgets. As they head into a new planning cycle, our research will help them know where to focus for optimal results.
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Invest, Experiment, And Scale Back: Budget Priorities For CISOs In 2025

Jeff Pollard August 1, 2024
The majority of security technology decision-makers anticipate further budget increases in 2025. Learn three key areas for CISOs to focus on in the year ahead in this preview of our 2025 Budget Planning Guide for security leaders.
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Tech Leaders Target Scale And Enhanced Productivity With 2025 Budgets

Paul McKay August 1, 2024
Technology architecture leaders see positive economic signs heading into the 2025 budget planning season. Find out how you can optimize your budget in the year ahead to fund new technology investment and experimentation.
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Align Budget Planning To Accelerate Performance In 2025

Sharyn Leaver August 1, 2024
Business and technology leaders are gearing up to spend in the coming year. Making the most of modest budget hikes will take cross-functional collaboration, a willingness to part with outdated tech, and strategic experimentation with (and beyond) AI.
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Budget Planning Season Is Coming. Use Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides To Cut Through Complexity.

Sharyn Leaver July 18, 2024
Our Budget Planning Guides will steer you toward budgeting decisions that set you up for success in 2025. Get a preview of what to expect when the guides launch on August 1.
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341: CX Planning Guide

The CX Cast February 7, 2024
CX leaders must invest to drive customer-focused action. This means investing more in tech to create and improve experiences, critical employee skills, unstructured feedback, and predictive modeling. Principal Analyst Pete Jacques walks us through Forrester's 2024 CX Planning guide and pragmatic budgeting advice to meet the emergent needs of customers.

Revive Your CX Outcomes With Strategic 2025 Budget Planning

Watch our 2025 budget planning webinar to learn where to prioritize your budget allocations to reverse CX declines and bolster core competencies.

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2024 Planning: European Leaders Must Avoid An Excess Of Caution And Invest In Bright Spots

Laura Koetzle September 3, 2023
Many of the signals we normally use to plan for the coming year are pointing in ambiguous, counterintuitive, or contradictory directions. But submitting to excessive caution would be a mistake.
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Three Tips To Guide B2B Demand Marketing Leaders’ Plans For 2024

Renee Irion August 24, 2023
Where should demand and ABM teams focus their efforts in the coming year? Explore the highlights from Forrester's planning guide report.
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2024 Planning: Revenue Operations And Four B2B Must-Do’s

Ross Graber August 9, 2023
With 2024 planning season rapidly approaching, preview Forrester’s four B2B revenue operations “must-do’s” to drive customer value and business growth.
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