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• 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...

• Report Forrester Predictions 2021: Accelerating Out Of The Crisis

  October 28, 2020 | Sharyn Leaver

  2020 shattered the status quo. In 2021, advanced organizations will adapt and use the upheaval to forge a competitive edge. Discover your organization's path to success. Read Forrester's 2021...

• 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 Navigate The Digital Ecosystem Of Commercial Drones

  Commercial Drones Are Enabling Digital Automation In The Air

  July 20, 2020 | Charlie Dai

  Unmanned aerial vehicles — commonly called "drones" — are quickly becoming more popular for commercial uses. No longer just toys, drones are already valuable tools for surveillance, analytics,...

• Report Machine Makers And Users Fight For Control Of Machine Data

  Clarify Data Flows Before Investing In Machine-As-A-Service Business Models

  July 7, 2020 | Paul Miller

  Connected machines generate a wealth of data — data that's valuable to machine makers optimizing their machines and to machine users optimizing their businesses. It may also be useful to third...

• Report Forrester Infographic: What's All The Fuss About Digital Twin?

  June 30, 2020 | Paul Miller

  CIOs and tech leaders continue to struggle with defining and realizing the true possibilities and opportunities associated with digital twin technology. This infographic explains the core...

• Report Case Study: Haier Builds An Adaptive Enterprise

  How A Global Manufacturer Delivers Future-Focused Customer Obsession

  June 12, 2020 | Guannan Lu, Danny Mu, Frederic Giron

  Customer-obsessed firms are winning today — but applying the methods that put them in this position doesn't assure their future success. To increase their chances of success, firms must embrace an...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Smart Manufacturing, Q2 2020

  Twenty Technologies Power Manufacturing's Digital Transformation

  April 1, 2020 | Paul Miller

  Smart manufacturing is increasingly critical to manufacturers' ability to win, serve, and retain their customers. To accelerate their performance in smart manufacturing, companies are evaluating...

• Report 2020 To 2021 US Tech Budgets: The Industry Outlook

  CIOs Should Tighten Their 2020 To 2021 Tech Budgets Based On Slowing But Still Positive US Economic Growth

  March 3, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  The US tech budget outlook for 2020 and 2021 is getting darker, but growth will still be positive with a low risk of an actual downturn. In this report, we provide our 2020 to 2021 forecasts for...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Manufacturing Firms Look Beyond Core IT For Digital Capabilities

  December 2, 2019 | Ashutosh Sharma

  In April and May of 2019, Forrester surveyed 450 leaders in various manufacturing disciplines across five countries in Asia Pacific to understand their priorities, barriers, and investments. We...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Industrial IoT Software Platforms In China, Q4 2019

  The Seven Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  November 25, 2019 | Danny Mu, Charlie Dai

  In our 26-criterion evaluation of industrial internet of things (IIoT) software platform providers in China, we identified the seven most significant ones — CASICloud, Haier COSMOPlat, Huawei,...

• Report From Grease To Code: Industrial Giants Must Bet Their Futures On Software

  To Survive, Manufacturing Firms Must Become As Proficient In The Digital World As In The Physical One

  April 24, 2019 | Paul Miller

  Industrial giants rose to dominance by making high-quality physical objects. Lower-cost competition and increasingly complex multistakeholder ecosystems mean this old route to success is no longer...