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• Webinar The Three Change Agent Personas You Need To Drive More Decision-Making From Data

  Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. Eastern time (16:00-16:40 GMT) | Cinny Little

  The ever-changing technology landscape — data lakes, AI, augmented analytics — broaden insights pros’ ability to drive more actions that matter. Yet, that’s not happening as...

• Webinar Enterprise Business Insights And Analytics: Key Findings From The Forrester Tech Tide™

  Thursday, March 11, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern time (16:00-17:00 GMT) | Boris Evelson, Mike Gualtieri, Cinny Little

  Turning raw data into actionable insights is increasingly critical to firms’ ability to win, serve, and retain customers. To accelerate their journey to become insights driven, companies are...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Digital Intelligence Technologies, Q1 2021

  Sixteen Technologies Underpin Digital Intelligence

  March 2, 2021 | James McCormick

  Digital intelligence (DI) practices are increasingly critical to firms' ability to win, serve, and retain their customers. To accelerate their performance in DI, companies are evaluating and...

• Report Deploy These Three Change Agent Personas To Drive More Decision-Making From Data

  Intermediate Level: People Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  February 26, 2021 | Cinny Little

  Customer insights (CI) pros, along with all business and operations areas, struggle to drive more decision-making that matters from data and insights. To remain competitive, firms must accelerate...

• Report Evolve Data And Analytics Roles And Skills For The Adaptive Enterprise

  Advanced Level: People Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  February 26, 2021 | Boris Evelson, Cinny Little

  Insights-driven businesses (IDBs) must continuously build and improve on five competencies: strategy, people, process, data, and technology. Weaknesses and gaps in any one of the competencies —...

• Report Break Through Data Governance Fatigue

  A Framework For Effectiveness And Sustainability

  February 25, 2021 | Michele Goetz

  Data governance was never about the data. It was about your business. Focusing on command and control cultures, bureaucracy, complexity, and technology has hobbled data governance success....

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Enterprise Business Insights And Analytics, Q1 2021

  Intermediate Level: Technology Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  February 17, 2021 | Boris Evelson

  Turning raw data into actionable insights is increasingly critical to firms' ability to win, serve, and retain customers. To accelerate their journey to become insights driven, companies are...

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  Playbook The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  Build An Insights-Driven Business

  Harnessing and applying data and analytics at every opportunity to differentiate your products and customer experiences is fast becoming a prerequisite for success. But setting up the technology...

• Report AI 2.0: Upgrade Your Enterprise With Five Next-Generation AI Advances

  Advanced Level: Technology Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  February 9, 2021 | Kjell Carlsson, PhD, Brandon Purcell, Mike Gualtieri

  Just when you thought you knew what AI could and couldn't do, it quietly gets a radical upgrade. Five key advances redefine AI use cases and break the chains that have shackled enterprise AI...

• Report Now Tech: Data Governance Solutions, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 23 Data Governance Solution Providers

  February 8, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  You can use data governance solutions to improve trust through consistent data definitions and quality requirements; ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and ethical use; and ultimately...

• Report Chief Data Officers: Evolve Your Teams To Accelerate Impact From Data Insights

  January 5, 2021 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  In many organizations, the chief data officer (CDO) role has evolved to become more of a chief insights officer with purview over both data and analytics. With a single role responsible for the...

• Report Monetize Data Strategically: Prioritize Data And Analytics Initiatives

  Intermediate Level: Process Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  December 23, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Everyone wants to monetize their data, but the growing stream of data and analytics requests overwhelms insights teams. In a recent Forrester inquiry, a client asked, "Is a dollar of cost savings...

• Report Build An Insights-Driven Business

  The Executive Overview Of The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  December 9, 2020 | Srividya Sridharan, Gene Leganza

  In a hypercompetitive business environment and the post-pandemic world, applying data and analytics at every chance to differentiate products and customer experiences is a prerequisite for success....

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  Webinar Deconstructing The Forrester Wave™: Social Listening Platforms, Q4 2020

  November 17, 2020 | Jessica Liu, Sarah Dawson

  Social listening platforms' value extends beyond the marketing department to public relations, consumer insights, market research, customer service, and product teams. Brands can apply social...

• Report Introducing AI-Powered, Human-Controlled Digital Decisioning Platforms

  Use DDPs To Encapsulate Decision Logic Powered By The Best Of Analytics, AI, Math, And Human Logic

  August 11, 2020 | Mike Gualtieri, Boris Evelson

  Digital decisioning platforms (DDPs) allow application development and delivery (AD&D) pros to combine the best of human decision logic with the best of AI to implement application-embedded...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Location Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2020

  Tools And Technology: The Digital Intelligence Playbook

  June 23, 2020 | James McCormick

  In our 30-criterion evaluation of location intelligence platform providers, we identified the nine most significant ones — CARTO, Esri, Google, Hexagon, MapLarge, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and...

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  Webinar Struggling To Find Value In Data? Insights Service Providers Deliver Business Value — And Build Culture And Capacity

  June 15, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  Firms make fewer than 50% of their decisions based on quantitative information as opposed to gut feeling, experience, or opinion. And, that doesn’t seem to change. Turning data into insights...

• Report Build A Maturity-Based Business Case For Insights-Driven Investments

  The Business Case Report In The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  May 18, 2020 | Boris Evelson

  Investing in individual technologies for an insights-driven business (IDB), such as data fabric, business intelligence (BI), and analytics, demonstrates tangible business benefits and significant...

• Report Now Tech: Predictive Analytics And Machine Learning, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 37 PAML Providers

  May 1, 2020 | Mike Gualtieri, Kjell Carlsson, PhD

  Predictive analytics and machine learning (PAML) solutions deliver enterprise-grade tools for analyzing data, building predictive models, and deploying AI/ML solutions that drive business outcomes....

• Report Q&A: Scale AI With Automated Machine Learning

  Answers To Seven Key Questions That Unlock Enterprise Outcomes With AutoML

  March 18, 2020 | Kjell Carlsson, PhD

  There's good news for enterprises that want to transform using machine learning (ML) and AI. Automated machine learning (AutoML) helps data scientists, and everyone else, build predictive models,...

• Report Organizational Intangibles Will Make Or Break Your Data And Analytics Practice

  Vision: The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  February 28, 2020 | Brandon Purcell, Srividya Sridharan, Gene Leganza

  Wondering why your insights-driven transformation is not taking off despite the right investments in technology? You're not focusing enough on the intangibles that drive this transformation...

• Report Build A Data Literacy Curriculum Of ACES

  Increase Awareness, Deepen Comprehension, Expand Expertise, And Enable Scale To Deliver True Data Literacy

  February 14, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  This is a companion report to "Data Literacy Matters: The Writing's On The Wall," which establishes the four goals of a data literacy program: awareness, comprehension, expertise, and scale (ACES)....

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2020

  The 14 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  February 12, 2020 | Noel Yuhanna

  In our 25-criterion evaluation of data management for analytics (DMA) providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise...

• Report Now Tech: Graph Data Platforms, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 14 Graph Data Platform Providers

  February 3, 2020 | Noel Yuhanna

  You can use graph data platforms to become significantly more productive, deliver accurate customer recommendations, and quickly make connections to related data. But to realize these benefits,...

• Report Research Overview: Data, Analytics, And Insights

  Beginner Level: Technology Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  January 27, 2020 | Srividya Sridharan, Gene Leganza

  There are many data, analytics, and insights technologies that help enterprises unlock the value of their internal and external data. This research overview for business insights professionals...