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• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: Warning Signs Inside The SaaS Vendors’ Recent Earnings Reports

  June 25, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  How much will software spending fall during the pandemic recession? The answer to that question has major implications for the US and global tech markets. Software is the second-largest category in...

• Report Australia Tech Market Outlook, 2020 To 2021

  The COVID-19 Recession Will Wipe Out Already Slowing Growth

  June 22, 2020 | Sam Higgins, Andrew Bartels

  In mid-2019, CIOs prepared budgets and tech vendors set marketing plans for the future — but the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Forecasting has become increasingly difficult, but...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: The US Jobs Report Does Not Mean A Quick End To The Pandemic Recession

  June 12, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Last Friday’s news of a drop in the unemployment rate to 13.3% and an increase of 2.5 million in employment was unexpected good news (see the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) recent...

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  Webinar Retailers: Where And How To Adjust Tech Budgets In The Pandemic Recession

  June 10, 2020 | Emily Pfeiffer, Andrew Bartels

  Retailers should tune their spending on tech to help them weather the pandemic recession. In this webinar, we help retailers understand how scenarios will play out and how to adjust as a...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: What If Stores Reopen And No One Comes?

  May 26, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  A key forecasting question in this pandemic recession is whether and when consumers will resume their buying activities. Consumer spending represents over two-thirds of US GDP and similar...

• Report Where To Adjust Tech Budgets In The Pandemic Recession

  Our Checklist For Where Companies With Different Degrees Of Stress Should Look For Tech Savings And Investment Opportunities

  May 19, 2020 | Andrew Bartels, Bobby Cameron

  Businesses around the world are facing the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. CIOs and their business partners will be expected to make bigger cuts to tech budgets...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: What The US Jobs Market Report Tells Us About The Tech Market Outlook

  May 16, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  The US Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released its Employment Situation Summary for April 2020. That report has implications for the US tech market outlook in the pandemic-driven recession...

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  Webinar Where And How To Adjust Tech Budgets In The Pandemic Recession

  May 11, 2020 | Andrew Bartels, Bobby Cameron

  Most businesses and governments face the prospect of revenues dropping by 10%, 20%, 30%, or more. CIOs will come under unprecedented pressure to cut tech budgets. To help them, Forrester analysts...

• Report Supplier Value Management Software Supports Suppliers As Business Partners

  Our New Label For Buy-Side Apps Emphasizes Collaboration, Performance, Innovation, And Risk Management

  May 7, 2020 | Andrew Bartels, Duncan Jones

  Companies need software applications to manage their sourcing, contracting, purchasing, invoicing, and supplier management processes. To date, there has not been a standard label for these software...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: What Q1 2020 Vendor Earnings Tell Us About The Tech Market Outlook

  May 1, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Tech vendors have begun reporting Q1 2020 earnings. IBM, Manhattan Associates, and SAP reported last week, as did Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro. This week, we have earnings...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: US Q1 2020 Data Shows 4.8% Drop In GDP, 7.1% Fall In Tech Investment

  April 29, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  US economic growth slowed more sharply in Q1 2020 than we had anticipated, down 4.8% at an annualized rate, as did tech investment. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis’ Q1 2020 GDP report...

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  Webinar The Future Of SAP I: Key Directions And What It Means For SAP Customers

  April 23, 2020 | Liz Herbert, Bobby Cameron, Andrew Bartels

  This is the first of a two-part series on the future of SAP and what it means for customers. The vast majority of Forrester clients use SAP — with some running it for specific functions...

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  Webinar The 2020 To 2021 Tech Market Outlook At A Time Of Global Pandemic And Economic Recession

  April 22, 2020 | Andrew Bartels, Charlie Dai, Frederic Giron

  This webinar discusses Forrester’s updates to our forecasts for business and government purchases of tech goods and services in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and globally for 2020 and 2021,...

• Webinar The 2020 To 2021 Tech Market Outlook At A Time Of Global Pandemic And Economic Recession

  April 22, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  This webinar discusses Forrester’s updates to our forecasts for business and government purchases of tech goods and services in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and globally for 2020 and 2021,...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: Why Scenario A Is Looking More Likely For Some Countries And Scenario B More Likely For Others

  April 21, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its April World Economic Outlook report. The headline was that the world’s real GDP would fall by 3% in 2020, which is a much steeper...

• Blog Forecasting In Uncertainty: US Tech Market Forecast Shows A Best-Case 5% Drop In 2020

  April 14, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Forrester has just released its updated forecasts for the US tech market in 2020, factoring in the impacts of COVID-19 and the efforts to contain its spread: “US Tech Budget Outlooks In A...

• Report US Tech Budget Outlooks In A COVID-19 Recession

  A Best-Case Scenario Of A 5% Drop In Tech Spending In 2020 And An Alternative Scenario With Declines Of 9% In 2020 And 5% In 2021

  April 9, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  CIOs and tech vendors in the US are facing an uncertain and rapidly deteriorating economic outlook as a result of efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus and its life- and health-threatening impacts....

• Blog Forecasting In A Time Of Uncertainty: Some Guidance On The Outlook For Tech Markets In Different Countries In The Pandemic

  April 7, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  The outlook for tech markets remains uncertain, with a wide range of scenarios. We at Forrester continue to operate with three scenarios for tech market growth in the pandemic: 1) Best-case...

• Blog There’s Still Time For SaaS Clients To Ask For And SaaS Vendors To Offer A Recession Clause In SaaS Contracts

  March 24, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Cloud software has become more common, whether in the form of multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) or single-instance hosted software. Companies in many cases have signed on to multi-year...

• Blog Forecasting In A Time Of Rapid Change: Tips For CIOs And Tech Vendor CEOs In Charting The COVID-19 Outlook

  March 23, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Every CIO operates budget plans, and every tech vendor prepares revenue projections. One of my primary jobs at Forrester is to prepare our tech market sizing and forecasts, which I hope they use as...

• Blog The Odds Of A Tech Market Decline In 2020 Have Just Gone Up To 50%

  March 16, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Based on recent events, we are revising our tech market forecast for 2020 downward. In the best case, we are now looking at US and global tech market growth slowing to around 2% in 2020. That...

• Report How To Maximize Value From S2C Solutions

  Factors To Consider In Choosing And Implementing A Source-To-Contract Suite

  March 12, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  In our recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of source-to-contract (S2C) suites, we analyzed the 11 leading vendors. In this report, we provide guidance on the factors to consider in choosing and...

• Blog Slowing Growth For US Tech Budgets In 2020 And 2021, Varying By Industry

  March 5, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  Even before the threat of coronavirus, the US economy was poised for a slowdown in 2020. Slowing real GDP growth of 2% or less in turn will lead to slower growth of US tech budgets: from 4.5% in...

• 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...

• Blog Coronavirus’ Impact On Tech Markets Is Likely To Be Limited In Time And By Country — For Now

  February 17, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  It is still too early to map out the full impact of the coronavirus (or COVID-19, as it is now called) on the global economy or on global tech markets. The disease has not yet run its course or...