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• Report Smart City Leaders Need Better Governance Tools

  Smart City Governance Brings New Opportunities For Tech Providers

  May 13, 2011 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.

  Interest in smart cities has taken off like wildfire. Cities of all sizes navigate the challenge — growing demand for new constituent services within increasingly constrained budgets — and try to...

• Report Getting Clever About Smart Cities: New Opportunities Require New Business Models

  November 2, 2010 | Jennifer Belissent, Ph.D.

  Population growth and urbanization are stretching many cities' infrastructure and resources to breaking point. Policymakers and public leaders are increasingly looking to ICT solutions to...

• Report SVM Is Uniquely Positioned To Connect Innovation Leadership To Innovation Services

  August 3, 2010 | Christopher Andrews

  Amid the ups and downs of the global economy, the interest in innovation among senior business leadership has only increased. Most CEOs recognize that in a business environment characterized by...

• Report Market Update: The State Of Green IT Adoption, Q2 2010

  Barriers To Adoption Are Evident, As Are Opportunities To Integrate Green IT With Corporate Sustainability Initiatives

  July 12, 2010 | Daniel Krauss

  Forrester's seventh green IT survey of enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) indicates that green IT adoption has remained steady during the past year; it still forms a vital part...

• Report The Evolution Of Cloud Computing Markets

  July 6, 2010 | Stefan Ried, Ph.D., Holger Kisker, Ph.D., Pascal Matzke

  Looking past the current industry hype surrounding all things cloud, Forrester believes that cloud computing is a sustainable, long-term IT paradigm, and the successor to previous mainframe,...

• Report Predictions 2010: ePurchasing Market

  Growth Will Accelerate After A So-So 2009

  March 24, 2010 | Andrew Bartels

  The ePurchasing market will post a very good growth rate of 12% in 2010, rising to $4 billion. This market for software products like eProcurement, eSourcing, contract life-cycle management (CLM),...

• Report How To Foster Software Innovation To Exploit The Economic Recovery

  Best Practices In Software Innovation From Leading Software Developers

  January 29, 2010 | Mike Gilpin

  Software innovation plays an increasingly vital role in enterprise success as a key part of more and more products and services, whether on the Web, a phone, a desktop PC, a car, or in your home....

• Report Market Momentum: Corporate Strategy Services Market, H2 2009

  Demand For Business Intelligence, Performance, And Risk Management As Well As Sustainability Consulting Is Driving New Services

  January 27, 2010 | Daniel Krauss

  In H2 2009, we found fewer merger and acquisition (M&A) as well as partnership activities among the core providers of the corporate strategy services market. While providers continued to strengthen...

• Report Vendor Strategists: Time To Revisit Your Corporate Strategy And Your Management Portfolio

  October 29, 2009 | Thomas Mendel, Ph.D., Daniel Krauss

  The current recession clearly showed at many companies how fundamental issues with corporate strategy can lead to a savage reality, affecting corporate stability in a big way. Strategists have...

• Report Market Overview: PLM Deployment Support

  New Offerings From Vendors And Service Providers Lower Implementation Hurdles

  October 21, 2009 | Roy C. Wildeman

  As companies pursue a more ambitious agenda for product life-cycle management (PLM), the complexity of their application deployments is on the rise, creating a host of new integration, data...

• Report Capgemini Consulting Is Moving To Become A Global Transformation Partner For M&A

  M&A Services SWOT Analysis: Capgemini Consulting, Q4 2009

  October 21, 2009 | Daniel Krauss, Pascal Matzke

  Capgemini Consulting, the newly formed global consulting business unit of Capgemini, provides a well-defined portfolio for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) services. This step of globalizing its...

• Report Market Momentum: Enterprise Mobility Year In Review

  Analysis Of Mobility Press Announcements Identify Key Vendor Opportunities

  October 7, 2009 | Michele Pelino

  An analysis of publicly available enterprise mobility announcements between mid-2008 through mid-2009 highlight opportunities for vendors in the mobility ecosystem, including device manufacturers,...

• Report Market Momentum: Corporate Strategy Services Market, H1 2009

  August 7, 2009 | Daniel Krauss

  How will a market that competes primarily on intellectual property (IP) be affected by the economic downturn? Service providers have been undoubtedly deeply affected by the recession in one way or...

• Report Market Overview: The Corporate Strategy Services Market In 2009

  The Recession Fundamentally Accelerates Changes In Corporate Strategy Services

  July 17, 2009 | Daniel Krauss

  The corporate strategy services market is undergoing fundamental changes induced and accelerated by the recession. While elementary issues with corporate strategy are quite immune from the current...

• Report Client Firms Scrutinize Green IT Services Providers

  Providers: Polish Your Value Proposition To Differentiate

  July 2, 2009 | Christopher Mines

  Data from Forrester's Business Data Services surveys show continued interest in green IT services. One-third of the surveyed enterprises plan for a green IT services engagement in the coming year....

• Report Lower Prices, Better Devices, And The Democratization Of The TV Market

  June 30, 2009 | Abe Garon, Nathan Safran

  Forget the 1950s: Consumers are living in the golden era of television, whatever the problems of the broadcast TV industry. Not only do consumers have more control over when and where they watch...

• Report SWOT: The Evolution Of IT Service Providers To Business Technology Competitors

  The Business Technology Offerings Of Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, And IBM

  June 22, 2009 | Christopher Andrews

  The market for traditional IT services will change dramatically over the next five years as more vendors realize the benefits of aligning their technology solutions with the needs of business...