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WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) Technology Sales Enablement Forum 2011: New Buyers, New Demands: Accelerating Sales Performance The status quo is the enemy of technology vendors today. On the customer side, technology investment decisions have migrated from the data center to the boardroom, shifting purchasing criteria from capabilities to business outcomes. However, many firms’ [...]

Today, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) honored the six final 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award winners for excellence in effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or business goal. Winners of the fourth annual Forrester Groundswell Awards in the International Business-to-Consumer (B2C) division were honored at Forrester’s Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA in London. [...]

Online retail sales in the US will reach nearly $52 billion this holiday season, a 16 percent increase over last year’s weak numbers, according to a new forecast by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). The 2010 growth rate is twice the rate in 2009, when online holiday sales grew 8 percent in the wake of [...]

Today, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) honored 16 Forrester Groundswell Award winners for excellence in effective use of social technologies to advance an organizational or business goal. The fourth annual Forrester Groundswell Awards were announced at Forrester’s Consumer Forum 2010 in Chicago and for the first time included winners in a Management division, in addition [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced its third-quarter ended September 30, 2010 financial results. The company also announced that its board of directors has approved a special cash dividend of $3 per share and authorized the repurchase of up to an additional $60 million of its common stock. Third-Quarter Financial Performance Total revenues were [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) will broadcast its third-quarter earnings conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 28, 2010. The call will be available at forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in to forrester.com at least 15 minutes prior to the event’s broadcast. Participants may [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) Forrester’s Marketing & Strategy Forum EMEA 2010: Multidimensional Customer Engagement Strategies for driving customer engagement continue to rapidly change. For the past several years, companies have been weaving social media into their customer relationship management and marketing strategies. As more-powerful mobile devices became commonplace, many companies have added mobile [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) Forrester’s Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum EMEA 2010: The New Imperative: Empower, Innovate, Sustain Unprecedented changes are under way for how organizations identify, source, and manage technologies that drive innovation and growth. IT is driving increased efficiency and improved value to the business through the adoption of Lean practices. [...]

The new frontier in online retailing lies across international borders, as US companies attempt to capitalize on the growing demands of foreign consumers. According to “The State Of Retailing Online 2010: Key Metrics, Multichannel, And Global Strategies” report, conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) for Shop.org, nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of retailers surveyed are [...]

While global adoption of social networking is still on the rise, other forms of social interactions, such as content creation, experienced no substantial growth in the past year, according to Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). “A Global Update Of Social Technographics®” is based on Forrester’s Consumer Technographics® data from more than 275,000 consumers in Asia [...]

The generation gap of technology adoption between younger and older Americans is widening, spurred on by Gen Y’s rapid integration of mobile and social behaviors, according to the largest annual survey of Americans’ technology adoption and attitudes by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). “The State Of Consumers And Technology Benchmark 2010” report is a graphical [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum 2010: The New Imperative: Empower, Innovate, Sustain Unprecedented changes are under way for how organizations identify, source, and manage technologies that drive innovation and growth. IT is driving increased efficiency and improved value to the business through the adoption of Lean practices. The business [...]

Customers have more power than ever, thanks to groundswell technologies that give them unprecedented amounts of information and connections. As a result, companies must empower their employees to solve customers’ problems using the same technologies — social, mobile, video, and the Internet, according to the new book from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), Empowered: Unleash [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) Consumer Forum 2010: Unleash Your Organization To Serve Empowered Customers With the advance of social tools such as Twitter, YouTube, and foursquare, firms are transforming how they interact with their customers. That’s because with these tools in hand – accessible on smartphones, tablets, and connected TVs – customers are [...]

Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) will host three new role-focused Forums, furthering the company’s commitment to serving IT, marketing, and technology industry professionals through a role-based strategy. Forrester’s CIO Forum, Business Process & Application Delivery Forum, and Content & Collaboration Forum will take place October 7-8, 2010 at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced its second quarter ended June 30, 2010 financial results. Second-Quarter Financial Performance Total revenues were $64.7 million, compared with $61.6 million for the second quarter of last year. On a GAAP-reported basis, Forrester reported net income of $6.9 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, compared with net income [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) Security Forum 2010: Building The High-Performance Security Organization As the global economy recovers in 2010, many companies are looking for a way to transform the security organization from a silo of technical expertise into a business partner focused on proactive information risk management. But, with the rapidly changing threat [...]

Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) will broadcast its second-quarter earnings conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, July 29, 2010. The call will be available at forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in to forrester.com at least 15 minutes prior to the event’s broadcast. Participants may [...]

Forrester Research, Inc., (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that it has expanded the expertise and depth of its role-based research organization. During the past six months, the company has hired 27 new research professionals in North America and Europe to provide research-based insight, data analysis, peer-to-peer programs, and consulting services to its clients across 19 roles, [...]