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• Report Mastering Mergers And Acquisitions

  Raise Your Game To Make IT An Asset In Future Deals

  April 8, 2021 | Bobby Cameron, Patrick Carroll

  As overall market volatility and uncertainty increase, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) will once again become a core strategic option for business decision-makers. Unfortunately, few IT...

• Report Build The Business Case For AIOps

  Justify Your AIOps Investment Using Forrester's Total Economics Impact™ (TEI) Methodology

  April 5, 2021 | Rich Lane

  Enterprises around the globe are rapidly modernizing their businesses and have higher expectations than ever for delivering exceptional digital experience (DX) through agility, automation, and...

• Report Now Tech: Services Procurement Software, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 14 Services Procurement Software Providers

  March 30, 2021 | Andrew Bartels

  You can use services procurement software to manage the acquiring of contingent workers and services providers; track their performance; and make sure they are paid correctly for the value they...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: AI Consultancies, Q1 2021

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  March 25, 2021 | Michele Goetz

  In our 26-criterion evaluation of AI consultancies, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Accenture, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, EY, HCL Technologies,...

• Report Future Requirements For IaaS Platform Native Security In 2021 To 2022

  Essential Cross-Cloud Services That Should Be Part Of Your Cloud Strategy

  March 17, 2021 | Andras Cser

  Infrastructure-as-a-service platform native security (IPNS) plays a crucial role in securing data, workloads, and network communications in public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS),...

• Report The State Of IT Maturity, 2020 — On The Path To A Future Fit Technology Strategy

  The Benchmark Report In The IT Transformation Playbook

  March 9, 2021 | Bobby Cameron

  Forrester surveyed more than 12,000 global business and technology decision-makers with influence over technology purchases to better understand what mature technology leaders are doing to meet...

• Report Forrester's Public Cloud Buying Guide, 2021

  Infrastructure Differences Matter To Few — Focus On Global Availability Of Innovative Services

  March 8, 2021 | Lauren Nelson, Charlie Dai, Sam Higgins

  In 2020, Forrester published a series of Forrester Wave™ vendor evaluations for public cloud. We researched, analyzed, and scored public cloud platform providers, providing infrastructure and...

• Report Research Overview: Benchmark Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption

  Benchmarks: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  March 5, 2021 | Lauren Nelson, Bill Martorelli, Tracy Woo

  Cloud offers technology leaders a fundamentally new approach to how their organizations build, deploy, and manage software and infrastructure. Despite cloud's popularity, infrastructure and...

• Report Research Overview: 5G Technology, Products, And Services

  A Guide To Help Tech Organizations Optimize The Use Of 5G In The Business

  February 22, 2021 | Andre Kindness, Michele Pelino

  3G and 4G services gave birth to the mobile mindset; 5G will change the way businesses engage their customers and operate. A cornucopia of new 5G technology features will challenge professionals on...

• Report Future Jobs: Australia's Automation Dividends And Deficits, 2020 To 2030

  A Future Of Jobs Series Report

  February 22, 2021 | Sam Higgins, Satish Meena, J. P. Gownder

  While the advent of AI and robotics will inevitably lead to job losses or automation deficits, these forces will affect different occupations at different times and in different ways. To help you...

• Report Get Your AI Ready For Prime Time With AI Consultancies In Asia Pacific

  AI Consultancies In APAC Focus On Scaling AI To Production And Deploying Responsible AI

  February 18, 2021 | Achim Granzen

  Forrester's recent Now Tech overview of artificial intelligence consultancies in Asia Pacific (APAC) provides insight into the offerings and positioning of 23 leading AI service providers. This...

• Report Scoring Our 2020 Cloud Predictions

  COVID-19 Delayed Almost All Our Predictions

  February 10, 2021 | Tracy Woo

  Every year, Forrester predicts what lies ahead for cloud in the year to come. But have these predictions proven true over the past year for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals? This...

• Report Research Overview: Cloud Technology And Services

  Tools And Technology: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Lauren Nelson, Bill Martorelli, Tracy Woo

  Cloud offers technology leaders a fundamentally new approach to how the organization builds, deploys, and manages software and infrastructure. To help their organizations succeed, infrastructure...

• Report Data Center And Colocation Market Trends, 2021

  January 20, 2021 | Abhijit Sunil

  The colocation and data center industry has been undergoing rapid shifts in both the vendor landscape and the ways that customers consume services. This report identifies five major themes we'll...

• 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 2025

  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...