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- Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects
- Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...
- Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debateSAP MaintenanceSAP is a large company that feels they are bulletproof. They make their money on large accounts, and increasing maintenance is just a money grab in lue of increasing market share in SMB where thay have no clue how to penetrate.RE: Forrester...
- Tags: SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Converged Service Delivery: The missing link in achieving business flexibility - Forrester Report
- Converged Service Delivery is one of the emerging trends in Service Delivery. Understand from leading industry analysts, Forrester Research, how this model can benefit your business by reading their latest "big idea" report.
- Tags: Siemens AG, Business Flexibility, Forrester Research Inc., Converged Service Delivery
- White papers 2008-10-08
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"Green IT or Cost Accounting...I don't believe that there is truly anything like accurate cost-center accounting either. What you propose looks good on paper, but is even more absurd than efforts to bill each employee's cost center for the paper used...
- Tags: Green IT, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing
- Corporate America has hopped on the crowd sourcing bandwagon, but they may want to start considering another option: Expert sourcing. That's one of the big takeaways from a report by Forrester Research. Forrester analyst Chris Townsend writes: Corporate use of Innovation Networks is rapidly expanding as...
- Tags: Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, Forrester Research Inc., Expert Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
- News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been...
- Tags: Asset, Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Energy Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?
- The economic downturn will see an increase in demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations. The economic downturn will see an increase in demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations. According to analyst...
- Tags: Job, Economic Downturn, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, IT, employment, Forrester, skills, Tim Ferguson, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-29
- Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projections
- Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projectionsIn further news, the sun will rise in the east*splutter* Yeah, that was a hard one to predict. The biggest IT spenders, the financial markets, are in a tailspin. Just the old kit from Lehman Brothers going on sale will flood the market. Probably not...
- Tags: Financial accounting, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Forrester cuts 2009 IT spending projections
- Forrester Research said Tuesday that it is cutting its technology spending forecast for 2009, but raising estimates for 2008. In a nutshell, Forrester now projects 2008 technology spending growth of 5.4 percent, up from 3.4 percent. In 2009, Forrester is projecting growth of 6.1 percent, down from...
- Tags: IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- IT services rates under pressure over economy
- Technology services suppliers may be getting squeezed by customers demanding better rates amid a weak U.S. economy, according to a report from Forrester. In a report gauging IT services spending Forrester found 70 percent of firms are negotiating lower rates with suppliers and 57 percent are cutting...
- Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Outsource, Forrester Research Inc., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Actions speak louder than words and the message is disheartening
- Here's a rhetorical question: If you're holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame! But, as Forrester Research points out in a new...
- Tags: Global Warming, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-30
- The enterprise: All fun and 'serious games'?
- Will video games becoming to an enterprise near you? Forrester Research seems to think so as companies cook up new ways to train employees--especially those so-called millennial. I can hear the laughter now. Video games? We're about serious business, you'll say. What's the ROI you'll ask? Video...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Data architects: You're "hot"
- Yes you are.Information and data architects and information security experts, here's some good news: You're the hottest. Fear not, data and content-oriented business analysts, business and enterprise architects and vendor management experts: You're extremely hot as well. Enterprise application strategists, IT planners, network architects and enterprise project...
- Tags: Role, Forrester Research Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Operational Planning, Training And Certification, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Business Operations, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Forrester: The X Internet is coming (for real this time)
- Forrester: The X Internet is coming for real this timeSounds promisingAs long as there are measures taken to ensure the security of a company's assets cannot be compromised by this type of technology, it will be widely adopted in the near future.
- Tags: Asset management, X-Internet, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Forrester: The X Internet is coming (for real this time)
- Forrester Research is pitching an "IT everywhere" vision that's comprised of existing technologies as well as some emerging trends--including the X Internet where physical objects are networked to the Web. In a report, Forrester analyst Bobby Cameron concludes: Today's technology trends may appear like only incremental...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Extended Internet, Internet, RFID, Operational Planning, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Forrester to acquire JupiterResearch for $23 million
- Forrester to acquire JupiterResearch for $23 millionMath problem.So they made 12 million of the past 2 years and are going to spend 23 million + to get this company.Math doesnt quite add up.
- Tags: Jupiter Research, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- Forrester to acquire JupiterResearch for $23 million
- Forrester Research said today that it will acquire the smaller but well-recognized firm Jupiter Research for $23 million in cash, plus assumed liabilities. Jupiter, which has 82 employees and had revenues last year of about $14 million, will be wrapped into Forrester's Marketing & Strategy Client Group. Last year, Forrester...
- Tags: Jupiter Research, Forrester Research Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008
- In Forrester's 151-criteria evaluation of enterprise Business Intelligence BI platform vendors, the paper found that IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects maintain their leadership positions, while Oracle and SAS Institute move into leadership positions in enterprise BI thanks to the richness of their functionality, ability to scale, and the completeness...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-07-31
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- The same day that Forrester Research is touting yet another of a growing number of studies claiming Vista is failing to gain traction in the enterprise, Microsoft is claiming just the opposite. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer.
We need to get back to freethinking and innovation that is core to our roots. Companies like Intel were founded on thoughts like the famous quote from Robert Noyce - "Don't be encumbered by the past, go out and do something wonderful."
