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Use 2027 Budget Optimism To Drive An AI Reset

Sharyn Leaver July 14, 2026
Budget optimism is rising as 2027 approaches — but more spend alone won’t improve outcomes. Use this moment to reset your AI investments. Prioritize the readiness, governance, and context required to make it truly work.
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US Federal Government Customer Experience Suffers Its First-Ever Significant Decline

Colleen Fazio 2 days ago
The US federal government experienced its first significant customer experience decline since Forrester began measuring federal CX in 2016. Learn what drove the drop, which agencies led and lagged, and the key factors shaping CX performance across federal agencies.
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An AI Security Facepalm: OpenAI’s Evaluation Became Hugging Face’s Incident

Jeff Pollard July 22, 2026
When an AI evaluation becomes a real-world security incident, leaders can no longer view model testing as a low-risk exercise. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident reveals how agentic AI can cross trust boundaries, exploit vulnerabilities, and create business risk long before deployment.

Your Buyers Use AI Search — Here’s How To Stay Visible

Ninety-four percent of B2B buyers now use AI in purchasing, making traditional SEO outdated. Discover how answer engine optimization (AEO) can help your content stand out in a zero-click, AI-driven world.

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Microsoft Makes Passkeys Default: What Identity And Security Leaders Need To Do

Geoff Cairns July 16, 2026
Microsoft’s decision to make passkeys the default authentication method in Entra ID signals a broader industry shift: phishing-resistant authentication is no longer optional. Identity and security leaders should use this moment to accelerate passkey adoption, reduce reliance on vulnerable MFA methods, and align authentication strategies with Zero Trust principles.
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Europe Builds The Blueprint For Social Platform Accountability

Jess Lloyd July 16, 2026
Europe is moving platform accountability upstream, placing new scrutiny on the algorithms and design choices that shape social media experiences. For marketers, the bigger story isn't regulation itself — it's what growing consumer distrust means for the future of audience insights and targeting.
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AI Cost Management: How Prepared Are You?

Tracy Woo July 10, 2026
As AI adoption accelerates, many organizations are discovering that spending is rising faster than their ability to control it. Building the right cost management capabilities is becoming essential to scaling AI without sacrificing financial discipline.

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AI Is Accelerating The Great GTM Reset For Partner Ecosystems 

Maria Chien 30 seconds ago
B2B leaders have spent the past few years asking how AI can make their teams more productive. That internal focus must transition to a bigger question that demands more urgent attention: How do we respond to AI changing how buyers discover, evaluate, and choose providers?  That question sits at the center of what I call the Great GTM Reset for partner ecosystems. Changing buyer behavior, AI, and growing ecosystem complexity are converging. […]
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Sovereign AI Is About Control, Not Localization

Dario Maisto 6 hours ago
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to enterprisewide deployment, sovereignty concerns now touch every layer of the AI stack. Organizations are no longer evaluating AI based solely on model performance, innovation speed, or cost. They are increasingly asking whether they can control how AI systems are built, governed, operated, and evolved. This shift is transforming […]

Secure AI Agents Before You Scale

Scaling AI agents shouldn’t mean scaling exposure. Download Forrester’s AEGIS playbook to set guardrails on intent, authority, and access so that adoption stays accountable, auditable, and defensible.

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How To Maximize Value — And Minimize Risks — Of AI Assistants In Commerce Software

Emily Pfeiffer 6 hours ago
As commerce vendors embed genAI assistants into their platforms, digital leaders must balance productivity gains against growing governance risks to ensure that AI-generated work remains visible, auditable, explainable, and aligned with organizational policies.
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The Quiet Fix For Silos — Frontline Marketing’s Biggest Self-Inflicted Problem

Naomi Marr 7 hours ago
When every marketing team plans independently, buyers experience the consequences: overlapping communications, competing priorities, and inconsistent journeys. The solution isn’t a new org chart. It’s a new approach to planning.
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Architect For Evolution, Not Perfection, In Agentic AI

Rowan Curran 8 hours ago
Enterprise teams are moving agentic AI projects toward production faster than they are developing the architectural disciplines needed to build, govern, secure, and operate them. At the same time, many organizations are searching for a target-state agentic architecture that will stand the test of time. That, unfortunately, is a fool’s errand in the rapidly evolving […]
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The Future Of AppSec May Be Autonomous, But The Present Is Surprisingly Practical

Janet Worthington 9 hours ago
AI is no longer a future feature in application security; it is rapidly becoming a core part of how application security (AppSec) tools identify, prioritize, and remediate risk. Yet despite aggressive vendor investment, adoption remains constrained by trust concerns, questions about value, and uncertainty about pricing models. In our new report, The State Of Artificial […]
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Farnborough Airshow: Autonomy, AI, And Some Planes

Paul Miller 16 hours ago
Paul Miller discusses his physical AI and autonomy highlights from this year’s Farnborough International Airshow.

Your AI Reset Starts Here — Turn Spend Into Customer Value

AI urgency is high, but customer experience is falling. Join B2B marketing, tech, and security leaders to rebalance AI spend toward measurable revenue and customer value.

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AI Is Redefining BPO: Trends (Re-)Shaping The Industry

Jeffrey Rajamani 16 hours ago
For years, business process outsourcing (BPO) ran on a familiar playbook: labor arbitrage, process standardization, and global delivery. That era is rapidly slipping into oblivion. Our latest research on the BPO market points to a deeper shift — AI isn’t just changing how efficiently providers deliver but how they create value, how clients consume services, […]
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Microsoft’s Project Perception Announcement And How To Implement It Right

Allie Mellen 2 days ago
Today, Microsoft announced Project Perception: a series of red, blue, and green team agents designed to be coordinated together in an agentic architecture to evaluate infrastructure and close gaps as close to autonomously as possible. The red team agents find potential paths to compromise, the blue team agents prioritize and evaluate them, and the green […]
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Look Up: Your AI Voyage Depends On It

Srividya Sridharan 2 days ago
AI adoption is accelerating, but too many organizations remain focused on deployments and efficiencies rather than customer value. Learn why the most successful AI adopters build customer-focused strategies that drive trust, differentiation, and business outcomes.
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The Content Bottleneck Has Shifted: Why Enterprise AI Isn’t Enough

Lisa Gately 5 days ago
The constraint marketing leaders are running into is no longer about content generation. It’s scaling marketing without losing trust, quality, or control.
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B2B Marketing Has A Purpose Problem

Matthew Selheimer 6 days ago
According to our recent research, most B2B marketing leaders (96%) see their function as a strategic partner or the primary driver of growth for the business. Yet they believe (47%) that many of their peers see marketing as a support or promotion function that handles sales requests, promotes news, and executes launches. This disconnect, for […]

Watch: The Missing Link Between CX Improvements And Growth

On demand, Forrester breaks down how the brand and customer experience work together — and how the Total Experience Score helps you prioritize the experience drivers with the biggest revenue lift.

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Five Lessons From The Forrester Wave™: Conversational AI Platforms For Employee Services, Q3 2026

William McKeon-White 6 days ago
The AI market has finally come back around to the (correct) conclusion that people are important. Thank goodness. And on that note, The Forrester Wave™: Conversational AI Platforms For Employee Services, Q3 2026 (aka AI to help employees) is finally live! To put it bluntly, the market has progressed further than I thought possible since […]
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Why Interactive Experiences Accelerate CX Transformation Faster Than Training

Martin Gill 6 days ago
Modern video games don’t make you read a manual before you start to play. They drop players into a simulated world, give them simple objectives, and let them learn by doing. Even board games take the same approach, with cut-down quick-start versions and even free downloadable content to hook you in. That same principle explains why interactive experiences often […]
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Hands On: Building Interactive Experiences

The CX Cast 6 days ago
Most CX leaders know stakeholder alignment is hard. Strategy workshops stall. Teams focus on blockers. Momentum fades before transformation begins. In this episode, Angelina Gennis and Martin Gill share lessons from a season of CX forums and immersive experiences. From stakeholder management workshops to AI-powered game shows and full-scale transformation simulations, they explore how interactive […]
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Multimodal, Semantic, And Agentic Enterprise Data Consumption Is The Future

Boris Evelson 6 days ago
The core question that has consumed analytics and business intelligence leaders for years is, “What is the one best way for business users to consume data?” The answer has at times been reports, dashboards, or low-code GUI-based self-service analytics. The latest answer is generative AI-based natural language prompts. Maybe we have the question wrong. Perhaps […]
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Conversational Banking Won’t Scale Without Strong Foundations

Aurelie L'Hostis 6 days ago
Discover the data, architecture, and governance foundations that banks need to scale conversational banking safely and effectively.
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Never Too Small, Part 2: The Rise Of The Cyber Ambulance Chasers

Jess Burn 6 days ago
Two years ago, several of us wrote that Arlington, Massachusetts wasn’t “too small for cybercriminals” after a business email compromise diverted nearly half a million dollars from a town construction project. The criminals didn’t target a major enterprise or a household brand. They found a small municipality with finite staff and resources and even less […]
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Five Key Findings From The Forrester Wave™: Workday Services, Q2 2026

Akshara Naik Lopez July 22, 2026
The Workday services market has entered a new phase. Buyers are no longer looking solely for implementation partners that can deliver projects on time and on budget. Increasingly, they want strategic partners that can help them drive continuous transformation, operationalize AI, and maximize platform value long after go-live. In The Forrester Wave™ Workday Services, Q2 […]
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SAP’s EU Settlement Shifts ERP Customer Leverage

Akshara Naik Lopez July 22, 2026
On July 9, SAP reached a settlement with the European Commission that closes an antitrust investigation into SAP’s maintenance and support practices for on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Importantly, this was resolved through binding commitments rather than a finding of wrongdoing or a financial penalty, but customers should not mistake the absence of a […]
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