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- Forrester Strategies for Assessing IT Business Satisfaction
- If you aren't assessing customer satisfaction you are overlooking a potential goldmine. This valuable data is crucial to creating a successful IT strategy. But where do you start? This new Forrester Research white paper explores the importance of assessing IT business satisfaction. It includes best practices...
- Tags: Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Business Satisfaction, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-10-29
- What's on your watch list? Forrester identifies 15 key technologies for enterprise architects
- Enterprise 2.0 is here todayThanks for sharing Forrester's 15 Key Technologies. Though they represent discrete capabilities, collectively they nicely sum up Enterprise 2.0.Global adoption will take awhile, not for a lack of interest, but rather due to the slow up take of the underlying architecture, database, and coding methodologies.Forward...
- Tags: Development tools, Key Technologies, Forrester Research Inc., Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business
- Microsoft providing services gives me the WilliesMicrosoft providing services gives me the Willies, because what will the rest of us do?So my questions around SharePoint would be, will MS provide anything inhouse as a service that will not be an included feature in the software licensed for externally hosting?
- Tags: Collaboration, Content management, Groupware, Willy, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business
- I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- What's on your watch list? Forrester identifies 15 key technologies for enterprise architects
- Forrester Research has tried to sort things out with a new report, “The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch.†And, if even limiting the selection to 15 sounds like a lot to keep your eye on. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Massive But Agile: Best Practices for Scaling the Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse - Forrester Report
- Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to expand the scale, scope, and deployment roles for their enterprise data warehouse EDW investments. Information managers are adopting EDW best practices that push the scalability and performance envelope without sacrificing the agility to optimize this critical infrastructure to ever-changing analytic workloads. This...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Best Practice, Forrester Research Inc., Aster Data, Information Manager, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-10-02
- Forrester: Much larger than expected decline in 2009 US IT buys
- 2009 US IT purchases will be much lower than expected but the worst of the decline seems to be over... by Tom Foremski
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Forrester's Randy Heffner: only one percent turned off by SOA so far
- Nailed ItGreat article, providing reassurance that SOA is very much alive and kicking and underscoring the notion that SOA exists at a strategic business level. With regard to approaching SOA from a "service portfolio management" perspective, I'd like to add that ITIL can really help set a nice foundation for...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, ITIL, Middleware, Enterprise software, IT Services, Forrester Research Inc., SOA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Forrester's Randy Heffner: only one percent turned off by SOA so far
- View SOA from a business design perspective, not from a technology perspective by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Forrester Research Inc., Perspective, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
- According to Forrester, "Google is setting a new price floor on email and archiving costs." (Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis, Forrester Research, Inc., January 2009). Download the independent research report comparing the costs of email from Google and other providers.
- Tags: Google Inc., Archiving, Analysis, Forrester Research Inc., E-mail, Business Intelligence, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Forrester - Competition Intensifies For the SMB ERP Customer
- Oracle has been a quiet but significant player in the SMB space, with more than 19,000 SMB apps customers for Oracle E-Business Suite EBS, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards. As Fusion Middleware represents Oracle's integration strategy, Oracle Accelerate represents the centerpiece of the vendor's go-to-market SMB strategy.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Small And Medium Business, Forrester Research Inc., Smb/Sme
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time
- Xen.org, the open source community behind the leading IaaS cloud computing hypervisor finally made a bold move today by stepping up to the plate of delivering a complete open source virtual infrastructure for cloud platforms. Prior to this release, Xen.org had been content to manage and maintain the core Xen...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Xen, About Time Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Xen.org, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Jeremiah Owyang quits Forrester
- Great article!Thanks for covering this. But also thanks for adding your insights and perspectives. Really a fascinating look at part of what goes on in the big analyst firms.
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Jeremiah Owyang quits Forrester
- Some will parse this as an exodus but following on from Ray Wang's departure from Forrester, we now learn Jeremiah Owyang is on his way to pastures new. From the Interactive Marketing Professionals Forrester blog: Nearly two years ago, I heard that an influential blogger was interested in an...
- Tags: Analyst, Forrester Research Inc., Jeremiah Owyang, Ray Wang, Blogging, Benefits, Internet, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Ray Wang departing Forrester
- Ray Wang departing ForresterThanksI appreciate your kind words and your insight. Look forward to working with you more closely in future roles and keeping the vendors honest and the end users more educated.
- Tags: Wang, Ray, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Ray Wang departing Forrester
- When the CEO of a well known company leaves it's often big news. In my world, Ray Wang leaving Forrester is humungous. I heard about it on the web - where else? He smiles a lot â€" every meeting with him leaves you energized though not sure if vendors...
- Tags: Forrester Research Inc., Flash Memory, Channel Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- EMC Live Webcast Featuring Forrester Analyst Craig Le Clair and the 2009 Forrester Wave: Document Output for Customer Communications Management
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about Forrester's latest findings in document output for customer communications management. The presenter of this webcast throws light on Document Output for Customer Communications Management DOCCM. The attendee will hear key findings and highlights from Forrester's recent research study, and attendee will learn...
- Tags: Webcast, EMC Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-07-23
- Forrester: 2.2 billion people online globally by 2013 (43% in Asia)
- Forrester: 2.2 billion people online globally by 2013 (43% in Asia)However...According to the stats at the site below, Asia already makes up 41.2% of global Internet users. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htmIf economic prosperity continues to blossom in China and India, they'll easily dominate the Internet population by the end of the next decade....
- Tags: INTERNET, Forrester Research Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Forrester: 2.2 billion people online globally by 2013 (43% in Asia)
- Forrester Research on Tuesday projected that the Internet population will hit 2.2 billion people by 2013. Of that tally, 43 percent of the Internet population will be in Asia. In a report, Forrester paints a picture of Internet growth in emerging markets and stagnation in the developing...
- Tags: Population, Forrester Research Inc., Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Microsoft Office 2010: The odyssey continues
- Sequels never can match the thrill of the original. But the good ones offer a compelling story of their own, develop familiar characters, and introduce something new and exciting. Last week Microsoft gave developers a backstage pass to preview Office 2010, due out in the first half of next year....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Sheri McLeish
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
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