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The Data Management Playbook For 2019
Your Business Is Only As Fast As Your Data
What you know — and how well you use that knowledge — fuels your competitiveness and growth. To keep up with empowered customers and nimble competitors, you must change how your firm provisions and...
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Webinar Read The Writing On The Wall: Data Literacy Matters
Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 10:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. Eastern time (15:00-15:40 GMT) | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Did you miss the recent blog "Data Literacy Matters – Do We Have To Spell It Out?!" If you did, don’t worry. We’re going to spell it out for you here. The gap between wanting to...
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Report Applying The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms, Q3 2019
Extend Your Investment In An Enterprise BI Platform Beyond Just BI
In July 2019, we published two Forrester Wave™ evaluations on enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms — client-managed and vendor-managed. We used 19 criteria to evaluate 20 vendors across...
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Report Monetize Data Strategically: Prioritize Data And Analytics Initiatives
Intermediate Level: Process Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
December 2, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Everyone wants to monetize their data, but the growing stream of data and analytics requests is overwhelming insights teams. Not all are equal. In a recent Forrester inquiry, a client asked, "Is a...
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Report Research Overview: Machine Learning For Information Platforms
Landscape: The Data Management Playbook
It's not just data that's growing — the ecosystem landscape and use cases are also growing and increasing in sophistication. Manual administration, management, and engineering of data create...
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Report Your Business Is Only As Fast As Your Data
Executive Overview: The Data Management Playbook
November 13, 2019 | Michele GoetzWhat you know — and how well you use that knowledge — fuels your competitiveness and growth. To keep up with empowered customers and nimble competitors, you must change how your firm provisions and...
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Report The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2019
The 14 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In our 24-criterion evaluation of translytical data platform providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — Actian, Aerospike, GigaSpaces, GridGain Systems, IBM, InterSystems, MemSQL,...
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Playbook The Data Management Playbook For 2019
Your Business Is Only As Fast As Your Data
What you know — and how well you use that knowledge — fuels your competitiveness and growth. To keep up with empowered customers and nimble competitors, you must change how your firm provisions and...
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Report New Tech: Data Marketplaces, Q3 2019
Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 21 Providers
September 30, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.With the data economy booming, data buyers and sellers need a place to meet. A new crop of data marketplaces stands poised to provide that hub to enable data transactions. This report presents an...
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Report The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q3 2019
The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
September 23, 2019 | Mike GualtieriIn our 26-criterion evaluation of streaming analytics providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, EsperTech, Google, IBM, Impetus, Microsoft,...
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Report Forrester Infographic: Top Performers Appoint Data Insights Leaders
September 13, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Today's insights-driven organizations need strong leadership. Good news: After hovering around 50% for the past few years, chief data officer (CDO) appointments jumped to 58% in 2019 — and were...
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Report Now Tech: Translytical Data Platforms, Q3 2019
Forrester's Overview Of 18 Translytical Data Platform Providers
You can use translytical data platforms to reduce architectural complexity, infuse transactional applications with real-time insights, and accelerate new insights by leveraging a common data...
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Report Research Overview: Text Analytics Technology
A Guide To General-Purpose And Domain-Specific Platforms For Text Analytics
July 18, 2019 | Boris EvelsonTo become an insights-driven business, organizations must strive to turn all data at their disposal into actionable insights. This is especially challenging when both structured and unstructured...
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Webinar Think You're Doing Data Sourcing Right? Think Again
June 11, 2019 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.Decision makers know they need to be insights-driven to create differentiation and competitive advantage. They know their own internal data isn’t enough. In today's competitive environment,...
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Report Now Tech: IoT Data Management Solutions, Q2 2019
Forrester's Overview Of 22 IoT Data Management Solution Providers
You can use internet-of-things (IoT) data management solutions to deliver a comprehensive view of IoT data, become significantly more productive, and accelerate IoT initiatives. But to realize...
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Report Forrester Infographic: AI Experiences A Reality Check
Three Challenges Hold Firms Back From Achieving Enterprise AI Aspirations
AI's potential has given companies lofty expectations of transforming their business and dominating their market. But data quality, talent scarcity, and a trust gap serve as a reality check. Most...
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Report The Four Essential Steps To Transform Into An Insights-Driven Business
The Strategy Report In The Insights-Driven Business Playbook
May 14, 2019 | Cinny LittleBeing insights driven is not just new terminology for big data; it's an operational transformation that firms must pivot to now or risk losing out to competitors old and new. But enterprise-level...
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Report Big Data Fabric 2.0 Drives Data Democratization
Advanced Level: Data Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses
May 9, 2019 | Noel YuhannaBusiness users want faster and easier access to trusted data to make accurate business decisions, while technology organizations want to simplify data management. Three years ago, Forrester...
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Forum CX Sydney 2019
Change the Game: Driving Radical CX Innovation
Good news. CX leaders have successfully elevated and transformed the practice of CX over the past decade. We’ve become more professional, more analytical, and more focused on business impact....
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Report Best Practices: Cloud Database Migrations
Leverage Tools To Minimize Risks And Accelerate Migrations
March 22, 2019 | Noel YuhannaCloud databases have exploded on the scene as organizations look at faster and more scalable deployments and lower their costs. However, cloud database migrations are not simple lift-and-shift;...
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Report Here's What You Missed At Forrester's 2018 Data Strategy & Insights Forum
The Best Advice From Data And Insights Leaders On How To Build An Insights-Driven Business
Being a data, analytics, and insights leader is not an easy job. Forrester's inaugural Data Strategy & Insights Forum brought business and technology leaders together to share best practices and...
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Report The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019
The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
March 14, 2019 | Noel YuhannaNoSQL has become critical for all businesses to support modern business applications. In our 26-criterion evaluation of NoSQL providers, we identified the 15 most significant ones — Aerospike,...
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Report Future-Proof Your Data Management Architecture
Seven Strategies To Consider In Keeping Your Architectures Current
March 13, 2019 | Noel YuhannaChanging business requirements and new technologies drive constant change in data management architectures. Without an effective data management strategy, organizations won't meet the growing...
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Webinar Upgrade Your Enterprise Business Intelligence To Systems Of Insight With The Latest Technologies And Best Practices
March 12, 2019 | Boris EvelsonMost modern enterprises are data-driven — they get signals derived from data. The next generation of maturity — insights-driven business — requires that enterprises also turn...
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Report Evaluate Your Data And Information Management Maturity
Assessment: The Data Management Playbook
January 16, 2019 | Michele GoetzStrong data management enables insights into customer needs and optimal business operations. It also is a prerequisite for competing with the coming wave of AI-powered systems. Enterprise...
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Report Now Tech: Master Data Management, Q1 2019
Forrester's Overview Of 20 Master Data Management Providers
January 15, 2019 | Henry PeyretYou can use master data management (MDM) to get a 360-degree view of your customers, to improve data quality and produce more accurate reports, and to prepare for sharing product data with partners...