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• Report Five Practices To Succeed With Your Retail E-Commerce Strategy

  Processes: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail e-commerce has well over two decades of experience under its belt, so digital retail businesses at all maturity stages have a fairly established set of best practices to follow. This report...

• Report Implement Essential Change Management Practices To Improve Digital Experience Delivery

  Continuous Improvement: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  December 29, 2020 | Joe Cicman, Caleb Ewald

  So, you've finished your first major digital experience delivery project: You've launched the app, modernized the website, and integrated your digital experience technologies. Now you must create a...

• Report Understanding The Cloud Service Provider Landscape

  Landscape: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  December 23, 2020 | Bill Martorelli, Liz Herbert

  With cloud computing services now central to modern technology strategy, the challenge for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals is to focus on selecting the right partners and planning...

• Report The Market For Microsoft Business Applications Services Will Hit $10.3 Billion In 2023

  Implementation Service Providers Race To Build Solutions And Capabilities

  December 17, 2020 | Leslie Joseph

  Microsoft's portfolio of business applications in the cloud encompasses Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. These applications have seen significant growth, supported by a fast-growing but fragmented...

• Report Debunking Three Services Sourcing Myths

  How To Align Your Sourcing Strategies To The Future Of Services

  December 16, 2020 | Duncan Jones

  The old plan-build-run models of services are giving way to a new services paradigm where transformation is continuous and multidimensional. To derive competitive advantage from it, CIOs need...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Cloud Governance And Enablement Technologies, Q4 2020

  Fourteen Technologies That Underpin Cloud Governance And Enablement

  December 15, 2020 | Tracy Woo, Andras Cser

  Cloud governance is critical to firms' ability to drive growth, accelerate innovation, and provide flexibility at scale. To accelerate their performance in cloud, companies are evaluating and...

• Report Cloud Powers The Adaptive Enterprise

  Vision: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  November 30, 2020 | Dave Bartoletti

  Cloud is no longer tactical but rather a strategic enabler of connected platform economies. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must orchestrate cloud ecosystems that link employees,...

• Report Now Tech: Microsoft Business Applications Services, Q3 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 39 Microsoft Business Applications Service Providers

  August 28, 2020 | Leslie Joseph

  You can use Microsoft Business Applications to enable digital business transformation, extend business functionality flexibly, and accelerate the cloud journey. Realizing these benefits is made...

• Report From People To Products: Services Firms Offer More Software Than You Think

  Business Process Accelerators Help Digitize Business Operations

  August 20, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick

  Technology services firms build many variations of digital solutions for clients. Some vendors retain the intellectual property (IP) associated with these solutions, making it available to a...

• Report How 5G And Edge Computing Advance IoT Value

  This Dynamic Duo Dramatically Expands IoT Insights And Speed

  July 31, 2020 | Michele Pelino, James Staten

  5G networks promise exponential bandwidth and ultra-low latency to edge computing solutions that empower near-real-time insights gained from business systems built on internet of things (IoT)...

• Report Applying The Forrester Wave™: IoT Consultancies In Asia Pacific, Q2 2020

  How To Identify The Right IoT Consulting Provider For Your Business

  July 24, 2020 | Achim Granzen, Guannan Lu

  In April 2020, we published a Forrester Wave™ evaluation of internet of things (IoT) consultancies and service providers in Asia Pacific (AP). We used 23 criteria to evaluate eight vendors. In this...

• Report Choose The Right Customer Service Solution For Your Business

  Tools And Technology: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  July 9, 2020 | Ian Jacobs, Kate Leggett

  Delivering a differentiated customer experience (CX) requires the right technologies, processes, and organizational structures. Therefore, application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals...

• Report Top 10 Recommendations For Private Cloud Success

  What You Call It Doesn't Matter, But Defining Scope And Governance Is Crucial

  July 1, 2020 | Tracy Woo, Chris Gardner

  Despite reportedly high private cloud adoption, Forrester continues to see enterprises that are struggling with build-out. Success with private cloud comes only through embracing self-service, full...

• Report Now Tech: Oracle Apps Implementation Services Providers, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 28 Oracle Services Providers

  July 1, 2020 | Amanda LeClair, Liz Herbert

  Oracle customers can leverage apps implementation services providers to accelerate their shift to the cloud, foster innovation, and help with business disruption and change during these...

• Report The Pandemic Recession Demands A Digital Response

  To Adapt And Grow, Businesses Must Get Lean, Go All In On Ecosystems, And Embrace Agile At Scale

  June 25, 2020 | Ted Schadler

  Digital transformation was never optional. But most firms treated it that way, applying digital technology in dribs and drabs — until COVID-19 shuttered economies and forever altered the patterns...

• Report Australia Tech Market Outlook, 2020 To 2021

  The COVID-19 Recession Will Wipe Out Already Slowing Growth

  June 22, 2020 | Sam Higgins, Andrew Bartels

  In mid-2019, CIOs prepared budgets and tech vendors set marketing plans for the future — but the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Forecasting has become increasingly difficult, but...

• Report Your Definition Of Future Work Should Shape Your Operating Structure

  Classify Your Future Work For Successful Delivery In The Long Run

  June 4, 2020 | Gordon Barnett, Bobby Cameron

  As firms become more customer obsessed, the CIO mandate becomes richer and more complex — and that shapes the work that IT organizations must do. To succeed in this ever-changing environment, CIOs...

• Report Your Automation Psychology And Roadmap Just Shifted Gears

  Ease The Pain With A Skills-Based Future-Of-Work Plan

  May 29, 2020 | Craig Le Clair

  Forrester's "The Forrester Tech Tide™: Intelligent Automation, Q1 2020" highlights 19 intelligent automation (IA) technologies and advises on investment priorities. But because of COVID-19, the...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Global SAP Services Providers, Q2 2020

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  May 13, 2020 | Amanda LeClair, Liz Herbert

  In our 28-criterion evaluation of global SAP services providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Accenture, Atos, Capgemini, Deloitte, EY, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, NTT DATA,...

• Report Don't Hinder Effective Business Execution With Rigid Reporting Lines

  Power Your Firm's Customer Obsession — Evolve From Functional To Adaptive Structures

  May 12, 2020 | Gordon Barnett, Bobby Cameron

  As firms become more customer obsessed, the CIO mandate becomes richer and more complex — customer led, insights driven, fast, and connected. Succeeding in this ever-changing environment means CIOs...

• Report Detail Your Three IoT Scenarios

  Segmenting The Application Of Internet Of Things Across Products, Assets, And Ecosystem Sources

  May 6, 2020 | Frank Gillett

  Execs can use internet of things (IoT) in three scenarios: product IoT, operations IoT, and ecosystem IoT. This report lays out the details of each scenario with subcategories for how they will...

• Report Zero Trust Primer For 5G Security Use Cases

  More Bandwidth Means More Data To Protect

  May 1, 2020 | Jeff Pollard

  Security and risk pros concerned about 5G security will find that the security narrative was hijacked — rightfully — by geopolitical and national security concerns. For enterprise security leaders,...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: IoT Consultancies In Asia Pacific, Q2 2020

  The Eight Service Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  April 30, 2020 | Achim Granzen

  In our 23-criterion evaluation of internet-of-things (IoT) consultancies in Asia Pacific (AP), we identified the eight most significant ones — Accenture, Birlasoft, Capgemini, Deloitte, DXC...

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  Webinar Forrester's Guide To Vendor Localization Strategy In China

  April 14, 2020 | Charlie Dai, Danny Mu, Xiaofeng Wang

  The ongoing trade war and the slowdown of the domestic Chinese economy are challenging the adoption of foreign products and services not only for Chinese firms but also for international companies...

• Report Now Tech: Colocation And Data Centers, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 20 Data Center And Colocation Providers

  April 13, 2020 | Abhijit Sunil

  You can use colocation providers to optimize your infrastructure spending, increase uptime and reliability features, and unlock the best possible network connectivity options across your network...