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How Do You Redefine Research Delivery For The AI Era? Start With Trust.

Michael Facemire November 13, 2025
As AI reshapes how research is delivered and consumed, trust isn’t just important — it’s everything. In a world where speed and scale matter, the winners will be those who build AI on a foundation of integrity.
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Six Months In: What 2025 Taught Me And Why I’m Fired Up For 2026

Tavar James 6 hours ago
2025 has been a year of learning, listening, and building momentum. From packed workshops to powerful storytelling, our events sparked connection and action across industries. Now, we’re raising the bar for 2026 with a bold promise: ideas into action. Here’s what we learned — and what’s next.
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Netflix To Acquire Warner Bros.: Questions Abound

Mike Proulx 4 days ago
The biggest of which is: Will the deal actually go through? We look at the potential regulatory hurdles and what the deal would mean in the larger media industry context.

Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here

2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.

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Forrester’s Evaluative Research: A Matter Of Trust

Stephen Powers 5 days ago
Our evaluative research — just like our business — is built on integrity, honesty, fairness, and the courage to tell it how it is. Our methodologies are unbiased, transparent, and publicly available, ensuring consistent quality across markets and technologies.
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Tidings Of Comfort And Trust: Holiday-Season Security That Bolsters Your Brand

Jess Burn December 2, 2025
Make safe, reliable digital experiences as part of the value you deliver — and help keep customers coming back yearround.
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It’s Time To Rethink Service Desk Success

Julie Mohr December 1, 2025
Traditional service desk KPIs no longer reflect success in an AI-driven world. Learn how IT leaders can rethink performance measurement to align with automation, experience, and business impact.

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Clarifying The Digital Workplace, DEX, And The Rise of DEXOps

Christy Punch 43 minutes ago
For years, organizations have poured money into collaboration tools, intranets, devices, workflow platforms, and automation – all under the banner of “improving the digital employee experience.” Yet employee frustration with digital friction remains. This isn’t a technology problem. It’s an operational one. Ownership of the digital employee experience (DEX) has lived everywhere and nowhere: spread […]
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Top 10 Ways To Avoid Earning Coal In Your Stocking (For Commerce Search And Product Discovery)

Emily Pfeiffer 1 hour ago
Read this blog to understand the holiday e-commerce faux pas that can quickly sour your customers' experience on your site.

2026 Predictions: 5 Shifts That Will Reshape B2B Strategy

AI agents. Influencer strategy. Pricing disruption. What’s next for B2B growth? Download the guide to uncover five bold predictions impacting marketing, sales, and product leaders in 2026.

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Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025

John Pedini 4 hours ago
The latest edition of our Loyalty Platform vendor evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025, reveals how the loyalty platform market continues to evolve to meet the growing demand to profitably retain best customers with personalization at every touch point, relevant engagements, and differentiated experiences.
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Netflix + Warner Bros. Benefits Consumers

Mike Proulx 16 hours ago
With Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery now joining Netflix’s previously announced definitive agreement to acquire Warner Bros., the streaming wars have spawned a real-life political drama of its own. Get a pulse check on consumer sentiment from Forrester's ConsumerVoices Market Research Online Community.
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Paramount’s Hostile Bid Turns Streaming Into A Political Drama

Mike Proulx 22 hours ago
Will Paramount’s hostile bid for WBD trump Netflix’s acquisition plans? The streaming wars just got more political.
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Emerging Tech Innovation Days Don’t Work — Host A Partner Co-Innovation Summit Instead

Ted Schadler 1 day ago
Inviting your vendors to showcase their latest stuff and inspire your teams rarely delivers results. You need an approach that focuses on active collaboration among your partners and teams. Find out how a partner co-innovation summit can help.
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The Only Path To Autonomous Operations Is Built On Trust

Julie Mohr 1 day ago
Businesses are under pressure to modernize their operations. From cloud-native architectures to AI-driven automation, the future of IT is autonomous. It may not happen in six months or even six years, but with recent technological advancements, we can predict that the future path is built on systems with AI capabilities that make decisions with and without the human in the loop.

2026 Tech & Security Predictions You Can’t Afford To Miss

AI cleanup, budget shifts, neocloud, and quantum threats — what’s ahead could reshape your strategy. Get Forrester’s guide with five bold predictions to stay ahead and lead with trust and value.

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Your Secret Weapon For Your Win/Loss Program: Three Ways To Get Buyer Feedback And Make It Actionable

Beth Caplow 4 days ago
Most B2B firms track win rates but rarely uncover the real reasons behind wins and losses. Learn three ways to capture buyer feedback that can be used to boost win rates and drive growth.
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Creator Strategy Is A Core Strategy This Season

Kelsey Chickering 4 days ago
Gen Zers Break From Millennials On Holiday Social Shopping Gen Z has long led in browsing, discovery, and shopping on social media — and our recent pulse check with our online community shows that social media’s influence is stronger than ever. We surveyed 554 members of our Market Research Online Community and asked which media […]
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Introducing The New Customer Feedback Management And Analytics Solutions Market Category

Colleen Fazio 5 days ago
If you’ve talked to Forrester about customer feedback management (CFM) solutions in the past year or so, it’s likely you got a two-for-one deal. Boris Evelson and I have increasingly found ourselves co-advising both buyers and vendors about how customer experience (CX) leaders can more effectively analyze customer feedback from a variety of channels. Advanced […]
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Sales Onboarding Vs. Orientation: Set New Reps Up For Success

Peter Ostrow 5 days ago
Sales onboarding works best when HR and revenue enablement remain distinct. HR handles compliance, culture, and employee provisioning, while enablement equips sellers with knowledge of buyer personas, sales processes, and product fundamentals. Clear separation ensures that new sellers know where to turn for support and accelerates their path to productivity.
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Announcing Our Evaluation Of The Agent Control Plane Market

Leslie Joseph 6 days ago
The choice of agentic AI technology for enterprise leaders is best understood as an ecosystem of tech vendors that align with three functional planes, based on the need to: 1) build agents; 2) embed them into business workflows; and 3) manage and govern them at scale. These needs represent functional planes rather than strict layers […]

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Download our guide to help CISOs prove business value, win budget, and reduce burnout. Use our actionable framework to align security with enterprise goals, justify funding, and lead a high-performing team.

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Bolster Your B2C Marketing Operations Function With This Step-By-Step Blueprint

Jessica Liu 6 days ago
As consumer marketing grows more complex in the age of AI, B2C marketing operations must evolve to provide structure, efficiency, and governance. Our new initiative blueprint offers a step‑by‑step framework to help marketing leaders establish purpose, define remit, and leverage technology to strengthen their operations function.
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KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

Brent Ellis 6 days ago
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.
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Will The New Federal Government Employee Survey Meet Agency Needs?

Angelina Gennis 6 days ago
The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has been canceled for 2025, leaving a data gap for agencies that rely on it to understand workforce sentiment and engagement.
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Black Friday And Cyber Monday: Spending Breaks Records And Exceeds Expectations

Sucharita Kodali 6 days ago
Tap into the insights from Forrester’s annual review of 116 brands during 2025’s record-breaking Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
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Introducing Forrester’s ServiceNow Services Landscape: Partner Selection Becomes More Complex With Enterprise Workflows And Agentic Transformation

Bill Martorelli 7 days ago
It used to be that you could think of ServiceNow services almost exclusively in the context of IT service management (ITSM) implementations, but the ServiceNow services market has decisively moved beyond those traditional confines.
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The Real Deal: A Black Friday-Inspired RFP Template For Vetting AI SaaS Vendors

Alla Valente December 2, 2025
For those of us of a certain generation, “Black Friday” invokes memories of the Cabbage Patch Kid riots of 1983.
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GRC Platforms Enter Their Grad School Era

Cody Scott December 2, 2025
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms are officially old enough to be in grad school. In our 2023 market evaluation, GRC technology turned 20 years old but was still figuring out what it wanted to be when it grew up.
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431: Metrics Obsession – Fixing Dysfunctional CX Measurement

The CX Cast December 2, 2025
Angelina is joined by VP, principal analyst Maxie Schmidt to dive deep into the phenomenon of metrics obsession in organizations, exploring why it happens, its symptoms, and how CX leaders can move from dysfunctional measurement practices to a culture of measurement mastery. Drawing on their keynote experiences and research, they discuss the impact of metrics on employee experience, organizational culture, and customer outcomes.
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