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WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Security Forum 2008: Managing Security And Risk Amid Business And IT Change Security & Risk professionals walk the tightrope, brought about by constant organizational change. They must regularly balance the business demand for openness and integration against the concerns around data protection, availability, compliance, and oversight. Security Forum 2008 [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that it has acquired JupiterResearch, LLC, and its parent company, JUPR Holdings, Inc., from MCG Capital Corporation (Nasdaq: MCGC) for $23 million in cash plus assumed liabilities, subject to post-closing adjustments, in a strategic purchase that complements Forrester’s syndicated business model. JupiterResearch has 83 employees and 2007 revenues [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced its second-quarter, ended June 30, 2008, financial results. Second-Quarter Financial Performance Total revenues were $63.5 million, compared with $55.2 million for the second quarter of last year. On a GAAP-reported basis, which reflects an effective tax rate of 37 percent, Forrester reported net income of $8.6 million or [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today released the results of its 2008 North American Technographics® Benchmark survey, its largest annual data set about consumers’ technology adoption and attitudes, based on a mail survey of nearly 61,000 consumers representing 53,000 households in the US and Canada. A rich data asset for Consumer Market Research professionals’ product [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) will broadcast its second-quarter results conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, July 31, 2008. The call will be available at www.forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log in to www.forrester.com at least 15 minutes prior to the event’s broadcast. Participants may [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Security Forum 2008: Managing Security And Risk Amid Business And IT Change Security & Risk professionals walk the tightrope, brought about by constant organizational change. They must regularly balance the business demand for openness and integration against the concerns around data protection, availability, compliance, and oversight. Security Forum 2008 [...]

Fewer consumers think their financial services providers have their best interests at heart, according to Forrester Research, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: FORR) fifth annual customer advocacy scorecard. Based on a survey of 5,000 US consumers, the rankings evaluated 41 leading US banks, brokerages, and insurers. This year, consumers’ ratings of financial institutions are down across the board, [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) announced today that more than 1,400 IT and business professionals — spanning organizational roles such as CIO, Information & Knowledge Management professionals, Application Development & Program Management professionals, Technology Product Management & Marketing professionals, and Enterprise Architecture professionals — attended Forrester’s IT Forum at The Palazzo in Las Vegas, an [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) officially announces the release of the book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies (Harvard Business Press). Written by veteran Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, Groundswell features 25 case studies, a complete road map for social strategy, and global data that shows businesses how to leverage [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced its first-quarter, ended March 31, 2008, financial results. First-Quarter Financial Performance Total revenues were $55.0 million, compared with $47.3 million for the first quarter of last year. On a GAAP-reported basis, Forrester reported net income of $5.0 million or $0.21 per diluted share, compared with net income of [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) 2008 Financial Services Forum For Marketing & Strategy Professionals: How To Deliver Great Customer Experiences To distinguish themselves from competitors, an increasing number of financial services firms are striving for improved customer experiences. Experience-Based Differentiation is good news for customers, but the windfall for firms is far from guaranteed. [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) will broadcast its first-quarter results conference call on the Web at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. The call will be available at www.forrester.com. Investors who want to hear the call should log onto Forrester’s Web site at least 15 minutes prior to the event’s broadcast. Participants [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) IT Forum 2008: Boosting Innovation — Driving Transformation Many IT leaders are hesitant to embrace their role in accelerating business innovation — even though most feel that IT plays a significant role. Often finding themselves fighting the sludge in IT’s engines — improving development and infrastructure operations — they [...]

Despite a long-term future marked by commoditization, enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will surge over the next five years, growing 43 percent each year to reach $4.6 billion globally by 2013, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). The five-year Forrester forecast includes a breakdown of future business spending on [...]

More than 850 marketing professionals gathered in Los Angeles this week for the Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Marketing Forum. The two-day sold-out event focused on new ways to use technology to engage customers — from digital innovations that encourage user interaction to social media that turns customers into influencers. Forrester analysts and senior marketers [...]

In a year where retail industry sales are expected to experience sluggish growth, Americans will continue to flock to the Internet for clothing, computers, and even cars. According to The State of Retailing Online 2008, the 11th annual Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) of 125 retailers, online retail will continue to [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) IT Forum 2008: Boosting Innovation — Driving Transformation Many IT leaders are hesitant to embrace their role in accelerating business innovation — even though most feel that IT plays a significant role. All too many find themselves fighting the sludge in IT’s engines — improving development and infrastructure operations [...]

Thirty-eight percent of cell phone users in Western Europe will use mobile Internet services by 2013 according to a new five year forecast by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). The growth in adoption means that 125 million Europeans will access the Web regularly from their mobile phone — triple the number that do so today. [...]

WHAT: Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) Marketing Forum 2008: Marketing’s New Imperative For Success: Engagement Today’s marketing and strategy professionals face a tough reality — the classic marketing funnel is broken. Only 13 percent of consumers say they buy products because of ads, and more than half of B2B marketers say they struggle to reach [...]