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• Report The 10 Core Competencies You Need To Be Future Fit

  April 6, 2021 | Brian Hopkins, Bobby Cameron, Patrick Carroll

  You need to be future fit to deliver great experiences for your customers and employees. To help you understand how to become future fit, we examined our North American 2020 Future Fit Technology...

• Report Transform The Contact Center For Customer Service Excellence

  Executive Overview: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Kate Leggett

  Customer service is at a tipping point. Customers contact enterprises more often and via more channels; they shift between channels seamlessly and even use multiple channels simultaneously....

• Report Adopt Agile And DevOps To Drive Digital Business Success

  Executive Overview: The Modern Application Delivery Playbook

  January 6, 2021 | Chris Gardner, Jeffrey Hammond

  Every business is now a digital business. Companies are scrambling to respond to consumers' higher expectations and nimbler competitors. Application development and delivery (AD&D) organizations...

• Report US Tech Market Outlook For 2021: After The Election

  How Politics, The Pandemic, And The Economy Will Shape Industry Tech Budgets

  December 3, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  The pandemic continues, and we'll feel its ongoing impacts throughout 2021. In this report, we provide our projections by industry for tech spending and the split of tech budgets between new...

• Forum Technology & Innovation Global

  Adapt To Win

  November 4, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Liz Herbert, Matthew Guarini, Brian Hopkins

  In today’s business environment, change is constant. Technology, customer expectations, workforce issues, and economic factors are continually evolving. To thrive in this environment,...

• Report Canadian Tech Budget Outlooks In A COVID-19 Recession

  A Best-Case Scenario Of A 6.7% Drop In Tech Spending In 2020 And An Alternate Scenario Of An 11.3% Decline With Weak 2021 Growth

  July 7, 2020 | Andrew Bartels, Cheryl McKinnon

  Canada's economy had been slowing in late 2019, putting downward pressure on its tech market coming into 2020. The COVID-19 virus and Canada's containment efforts have pushed Canada into a...

• Report Adoption Profile: Hosted Private Cloud In North America, Q3 2020

  Hosted Private Cloud Providers Shift Their Focus To Hyperscaler Innovations And Managed Services

  July 6, 2020 | Bill Martorelli

  While it may seem a sideshow to an IT industry obsessed with public cloud services, hosted private cloud nevertheless holds a unique position in serving multiple scenarios and users. Hosted private...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Hosted Private Cloud Services In North America, Q2 2020

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 24, 2020 | Bill Martorelli

  In our 32-criterion evaluation of hosted private cloud providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Atos, CenturyLink, Flexential, NTT DATA, Otava, OVHcloud, Rackspace Technology,...

• Report Adoption Profile: Public Cloud In North America, Q2 2020

  May 27, 2020 | Dave Bartoletti

  Public cloud continues to be an essential business platform for rapid innovation, scalable infrastructure, and customer-driven technology modernization. After more than a decade, public cloud is a...

• Report Leverage Public Cloud To Accelerate Your Machine Learning Adoption In North America

  Meet The Service Ecosystem Of Machine Learning In The Public Cloud

  September 24, 2019 | Charlie Dai, Leslie Joseph

  The public cloud is increasingly taking on machine learning (ML) workloads. This report analyzes the key benefits of cloud-based ML and describes how companies in North America (NA) are using it to...

• Report US Tech Market Outlook For 2019 To 2020

  Slowing Economic Growth And Rising Cloud Will Squeeze CIO Options

  August 20, 2019 | Andrew Bartels

  US CIOs and other tech decision makers will face a more challenging economic environment in 2019 and 2020 as the growth surge in 2018 from the 2017 tax act fades away. While recession remains a...

• Report The Future Of VDI Is Cloud

  Cloud-Based Virtualization Will Surpass On-Premises VDI To Improve Scalability And Manageability

  July 31, 2019 | Andrew Hewitt, David Johnson

  Seeking to arm employees with the technology they need to drive business growth, enterprises have invested in digital workspace technologies like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), but change is...

• Report Adoption Profile: Hosted Private Cloud In North America, Q2 2019

  HPC Providers Shift Focus To Managed Services As Public Cloud Continues To Absorb More Of Their Market

  July 3, 2019 | Lauren Nelson

  While not the shiniest toy on the shelf, hosted private cloud (HPC) holds a unique position in serving multiple scenarios and users. HPC bridges the public and private cloud spaces — combining the...

• Report Adoption Profile: Private Cloud In North America, Q2 2019

  Open Source Is Everywhere, And Private Cloud Redefines Itself

  April 29, 2019 | Lauren Nelson

  Contrary to popular belief, private cloud is here to stay. And as enterprises align their cloud strategies to business objectives, they're redefining it. Many enterprises face a stark reality:...

• Report Audio: The State Of Extended Reality (XR) In 2019

  Listen To Forrester's Overview Of The Opportunities, Challenges, And Future Of Augmented, Virtual, And Mixed Reality

  April 19, 2019 | Jeffrey Hammond, Julie Ask

  Recent updates in hardware and development tools make extended reality (XR) ready for primetime in the enterprise. Important use cases are to extend expertise, assist with complex sales, and train...