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• Report Branded Manufacturers: Master Your Own Digital Destiny

  Understand Your Brand's Digital Commerce Opportunity To Craft A Comprehensive Direct-To-Consumer Strategy

  January 29, 2021 | Michelle Beeson

  Consumer-facing brand manufacturers are doubling down on their direct-to-consumer (DTC) digital engagement and commerce capabilities. To master their digital destiny, brands must understand the...

• Report Now Tech: Warehouse Management Systems, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 19 Warehouse Management Systems

  January 27, 2021 | George Lawrie

  For years, companies outsourced transportation and warehouse management by using third-party logistics services to share logistics facilities. But supply chain disruption and rapidly changing...

• Report US Online Grocery Snapshot: Q1 2021

  IRI Data Shows How The Pandemic Has Shaped Online Grocery

  January 20, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business retail pros generally agree that the pandemic has driven rapid growth in online grocery sales. Data from IRI confirms that shift — but it's still unclear how much of that behavior...

• Report Grocers And C-Stores: Check Out Cashierless Technology Decision Points And Benefits

  January 7, 2021 | Scott Compton

  This research helps retail store operations and digital transformation executives evaluate the choices related to cashierless checkout technology, including scan by customer, smart carts, and...

• Report The Future Of Commerce Technology: Commerce Platforms End With An Ecosystem On FIRE

  Digital Acceleration Demands That Businesses Evolve Their Architecture To Survive

  January 5, 2021 | Emily Pfeiffer

  Commerce is no longer the core technical function within increasingly complex commerce tech stacks. As this landscape shifts, the new dual cores instead center around experience and operations....

• Report The Five Key Success Factors Of Every Digital Business

  Strategic Plan: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 4, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Successful organizations are largely driven by the right people, the right organizational structure, and an innovative idea for selling online that often reinforces brick-and-mortar stores. In the...

• Report New Tech: Deferred Payment Providers, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 29 Providers

  December 11, 2020 | Lily Varon

  Deferred payment solutions — a broad category covering installments; "buy now, pay later"; "pay in four"; point-of-sale financing; and alternative lending — promise merchants a boost in conversion...

• Report Now Tech: Commerce Services, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 35 Commerce Service Providers

  December 9, 2020 | Ted Schadler

  Commerce service providers are the orchestrators of the software, data, and strategy you need to deliver great omnichannel commerce experiences. They should offer you skills for commerce...

• Report Building The Business Case For Omnichannel Commerce

  Business Case: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  December 7, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Digital business professionals must build effective omnichannel business cases to minimize the risk of launching initiatives that: 1) lack critical internal support; 2) fail to meet customers'...

• Report Brands' Success Relies On Relationships With Retailers

  Brands Must Evolve From Suppliers To Partners

  August 17, 2020 | Michelle Beeson

  The pandemic has magnified the importance of digital commerce strategies. For brands, it is not all about direct-to-consumer (D2C). A significant proportion of most brands' revenue comes via...

• Report The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

  Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  July 6, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail eCommerce sales continue to climb, and digital business executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they're not missing either opportunities for direct online sales or ways that...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Suites, Q2 2020

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  May 19, 2020 | Joe Cicman, Emily Pfeiffer

  In our 29-criterion evaluation of B2B commerce suites providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Adobe, Apttus, BigCommerce, commercetools, Elastic Path Software, Episerver, Insite,...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: B2C Commerce Suites, Q2 2020

  The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  May 19, 2020 | Emily Pfeiffer, Joe Cicman

  In our 31-criterion evaluation of B2C commerce suites providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Adobe, BigCommerce, commercetools, Elastic Path Software, Episerver, Kibo Commerce,...

• Report One Customer, One Organization, One P&L

  Organization: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  May 19, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In the age of the customer, channel-specific strategies, tactics, and organizational structures become irrelevant. Why? Customers expect seamless and connected journeys. Companies must therefore...

• Report The State Of Retailing Online 2020: Marketing, Omnichannel, And Mobile

  Landscape: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  April 21, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Forrester surveyed online retailers in its annual "The State Of Retailing Online" study in partnership with the National Retail Federation (NRF). Overall retail continues to grow, including online...

• Report The State Of Digital Retail Payments In Asia Pacific

  Digital Payments Are Making Progress But Still Face Major Hurdles

  April 13, 2020 | Meng Liu

  A storm is brewing in the digital retail payments space in Asia Pacific (AP). Financial technology (fintech) innovations, booming venture capital funding, conducive regulations, and keen...

• Report Now Tech: Product Information Management, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 22 PIM Providers

  March 25, 2020 | Amanda LeClair

  You can use product information management (PIM) solutions to improve sales and customer experience, speed up time-to-market, and even enable broader content-driven digital transformation efforts....

• Report Now Tech: B2C Commerce Suites, Q1 2020

  Tools And Technology: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  February 6, 2020 | Emily Pfeiffer

  You can use B2C commerce suites to increase revenue, improve efficiency, and unite business functions. But to realize these benefits, you'll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors that...

• Report Now Tech: B2B Commerce Suites, Q1 2020

  Tools And Technology: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

  February 6, 2020 | Joe Cicman

  You can use B2B commerce suites to digitize buying and selling processes, provide convenient engagement for customers, and uncover valuable customer insights to personalize the buying experience....

• Report Forrester Infographic: Tips From The Field For Modernizing Your Commerce Stack

  Landscape: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

  January 29, 2020 | Joe Cicman

  With the bar for digital experiences constantly rising, many firms need to reimagine and reinvent their eCommerce. But with unsupported platforms, colossal upgrade costs, and legacy restrictions,...

• Report Converge OMS, Commerce, And POS To Win, Serve, And Retain Customers

  Retailers Can Merge Point Of Service, eCommerce, And Order Management To Boost Customer Experience And Simplify Operations

  January 2, 2020 | George Lawrie

  As applications migrate to cloud native architecture, distinct categories such as point of service (POS), order management systems (OMSes), and B2C commerce will disappear. End user companies will...

• Report The Top Strategies For Replatforming Your Commerce Solution

  Knowing Your Digital Maturity — And Tracking Customer Expectations — Is Critical To Staging A Successful Launch

  December 17, 2019 | Joe Cicman

  As customer expectations continue to rise and a new generation of digital buyers enters the market, delivering compelling digital experiences requires new levels of agility. And the stakes are...

• Report Redefining The Three Commerce Technology Models For Today's Business Requirements

  November 22, 2019 | Emily Pfeiffer, George Lawrie, Joe Cicman

  The original on-premises, limited, legacy commerce suites and platforms are being reborn, creating open architecture to allow commerce businesses to implement only and exactly what they need to...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: SaaS Billing Solutions, Q4 2019

  The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  November 18, 2019 | Lily Varon

  In our 29-criterion evaluation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) billing providers, we identified the nine most significant ones — Aria Systems, BillingPlatform, Chargify, Gotransverse, Recurly,...

• Report Now Tech: Recurring Customer And Billing Management, Q4 2019

  Forrester's Overview Of 34 Recurring Customer And Billing Management Providers

  October 11, 2019 | Lily Varon

  You can use recurring customer and billing management solutions to: 1) easily configure pricing models; 2) manage customer relationships; and 3) get insight into recurring customers and revenues....