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Young consumers are using more technology at a younger age to connect with more people than ever before, according to a survey of more than 5,000 US and Canadian online youth between the ages of 12 and 21 by Forrester Research Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). For example, 87 percent of 15-year-olds use instant messaging, while nearly [...]

Growing compliance and governance requirements are fueling a spending surge in enterprise content management (ECM), leading to a 19 percent CAGR that will outpace the overall software market through 2008. Rather than purchasing multiple products to address varying content and usage needs, firms are looking for enterprise content platforms that provide a common set of [...]

While the information technology (IT) industry is an incredibly important economic sector, there is no single measure of the vitality of the industry at any point in time. But no longer. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) are pleased to announce they will unveil the Forrester/ITAA US Tech [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced that it has been awarded a California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS) contract by the State of California’s Department of General Services. Forrester’s CMAS contract provides state and local government agencies in California with a streamlined process for accessing Forrester’s research and advisory products and services at competitive prices. [...]

Twenty million more Americans will pay their bills online over the next five years, according to a new forecast by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Much of the growth will be fueled by today’s tech-savvy young consumers, who will seek the ease and convenience of online bill payment as they lead more complex financial lives. [...]

As companies begin to replace pre-Y2K ERP systems, they are challenging vendors to provide licenses that incorporate more flexibility and better software life-cycle support. Vendors have answered with new licensing metrics to help companies avoid overpayment. With these new choices, businesses must decide if they need advanced licensing metrics to account for complex business needs [...]

Speakers include Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney; Ginni Rometty, SVP, IBM Global Services; and Ralph J. Szygenda, CIO, General Motors./li> New research will be showcased on emerging markets like India and China, IT innovation, and new IT architectures. More than 400 business executives will attend. As US firms evaluate new opportunities and threats from emerging markets [...]

WHAT: Businesses are at risk at both ends of the workforce spectrum. The US could face labor and skills shortages of crisis proportions as 76 million baby boomers retire throughout the next two decades, leaving prospective and unfilled positions in all industries. The incoming workforce will not only expect technology to help make up for [...]

WHAT: While the US could face labor and skills shortages of crisis proportions as 76 million baby boomers retire throughout the next two decades, few businesses are reportedly paying attention. According to Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), the benefits of adding technology to the list of potential remedies is another aspect of the issue that [...]

Despite concerns about consumer confidence, US online retail sales this holiday season will hit $18 billion, a 25 percent increase over last year, according to Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Even if economic worries dampen consumer spending, simple math accounts for a likely healthy increase in online sales: 2.5 million new households are expected to [...]

WHAT: The technology industry’s historical US-centric world order is waning due to the rapid growth of India and China, with their tech-savvy middle-class, IT-hungry corporations and rapidly expanding innovation capabilities. Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) projects three scenarios for the evolution of this new tech world order based on how a number of factors play [...]

Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced its third-quarter ended September 30, 2005 financial results. Third-Quarter Financial Performance Total revenues were $39.0 million, compared with $33.9 million for the third quarter of last year. On a GAAP-reported basis, which reflects an effective tax rate of 44 percent, Forrester reported net income of $3.2 million or [...]

European banks will spend ¿50 billion on renewing their overall application landscape in the next seven years, according to Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). Banks beginning their application landscape renewal initiatives by 2010 will invest a total of about ¿100 billion on related software and services over the lifetime of these projects. As a result, banking [...]

In its first ever pan-Asian survey, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) finds that IT budgets are up in Asia Pacific, with 36 percent of firms increasing their spending on technology in 2005 compared with 17 percent that are decreasing spending. A majority of the firms also have a positive outlook about the future — 53 [...]

Based on analysis of technology spending cycles over the past half century, a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORR) predicts a significant slowdown in US IT spending growth in 2007. Forrester projects that technology spending growth will shrink from 7 percent increases in 2005 and 2006 to a 2 percent increase in 2007, [...]

According to industry hype, voice over IP (VoIP) pure plays like Skype and Vonage are on the verge of transforming and taking over the telecom industry. But Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) believes that pure plays have no chance of dethroning proactive European incumbent telcos from their consumer fixed voice market leadership. Forrester thinks that VoIP [...]

Polish consumers lag in technology ownership and Internet usage, but they are likely to rapidly catch up with their Western European counterparts once incomes increase, according to new Consumer Technographics data from Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR). While overall online banking uptake and PC availability remain low, online Polish consumers already match online Southern Europeans in [...]

The number of consumers who are tuning out traditional media and advertising, and using consumer-to-consumer communication like blogging, mobile messaging, comparison shopping sites, word-of-mouth marketing, and peer-to-peer networks continues to rise. These technologies will have a significant impact on the way companies uncover consumer insight and accelerate the innovation of products, services, and design. According [...]

Processing paper invoices and determining whether and how to pay them costs companies both time and money. The chance to cut these costs through automation is creating growing business demand for electronic invoice presentation and payment (EIPP) software. EIPP falls into two categories: accounts receivable (AR) solutions for sellers who want to get electronic invoices [...]