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How Accurate Were Our Predictions For 2025?

Sharyn Leaver October 1, 2025
Predictions season is here, and our research teams have been hard at work formulating and fine-tuning their calls for 2026. But before we release our 2026 predictions, here’s a review of some of the “hits” and “misses” from our 2025 predictions.
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The AWS US-East Outage: A Wake-Up Call For Cloud Resilience

Brent Ellis 19 hours ago
The fourth outage in five years for AWS’s US-East region was traced to DNS resolution failures that affected many core services. Find out what you should do from both the technology and the supplier risk management side to improve your cloud resilience.
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Forrester’s 2025 Enterprise Architecture Award Winner And Finalists For North America

Charles Betz 1 day ago
Congratulations to Takeda Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year’s Enterprise Architecture Award for North America. Learn more about Takeda’s winning strategy as well as the strategies of our two finalists.

The Countdown To 2026 Predictions Has Begun

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Celebrating Excellence: Bank Of America Wins Forrester’s 2025 Data & AI Impact Award

Sudha Maheshwari 1 day ago
Get a detailed look at Bank of America’s winning strategy and find out who our finalists were in this post.
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Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner And Finalists For North America

Devin Dickerson 1 day ago
Congratulations to the United States Department of the Navy, this year’s winner of the Technology Strategy Impact Award for North America. Learn more about their winning strategy as well those of finalists CBRE and Verizon.
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Lessons From Building Izola: A Second-Anniversary Look Back

Forrester 5 days ago
As Izola — the first generative AI tool built specifically for clients by a leading research firm — turns two, we look back on the mission to build it, what we’ve learned, and how it paved the way for our new AI-led research service.

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Field Marketing in 2025: Time to Break the Cycle of Misalignment

Daryl Wright 14 minutes ago
The findings from our 2025 State of B2B Field Marketing Report are both illuminating and alarming. Field marketing is undergoing a shift, but not necessarily in the right direction. Strategic responsibilities are expanding, yet performance metrics remain stubbornly anchored in outdated demand-generation models. If field marketing leaders don’t act now, they risk being trapped in […]
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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Human Capital Management Solutions, Q4 2025

Akshara Naik Lopez 56 minutes ago
The HCM Market Is Undergoing a Seismic Shift—Here’s What You Need to Know The Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions market is experiencing one of its most transformative cycles in decades. What was once a back-office system of record is now evolving into a strategic, intelligent platform that powers workforce productivity and organizational health. In the […]

Lead A Security Org That Performs, Scales, And Thrives

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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Stop Optimizing, Start Reinventing: Three Imperatives For Marketing Leaders in 2026

Lisa Gately 1 hour ago
Last week I attended the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON) in Cleveland, Ohio, and the technology took a back seat to something more powerful: the people. Despite the event’s growth, it continues to attract people who show up with curiosity, kindness, openness, and a true sense of community that’s rare at any event, let alone one […]
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Oracle AI World 2025: The First Look Under New Command

Lauren Nelson 1 hour ago
Oracle hosted its premier annual conference in Las Vegas, renamed in 2025, as “Oracle AI World”. This marked the first annual conference with new CEOs at the helm: Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia. The big questions top of mind for attendees are the priorities of these new leaders , how they will meet their stated growth goals for OCI, the details behind Oracle’s AI […]
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Four Big Themes Of Forrester’s 2026 B2C Marketing Predictions

Mike Proulx 3 hours ago

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What Factors Are Driving B2B Marketing’s AI Adoption?

Ian Bruce 18 hours ago
Beneath all the sound and fury, what is driving AI adoption across B2B marketing? How are marketers using AI productively today, and what can early adopters teach us about using AI technologies successfully? Most organizations have advanced significantly beyond the initial stages of education and experimentation and are now actively implementing AI-powered technologies across various use cases.
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Developer-Led Growth Meets Enterprise-Grade Security And Distributed Infrastructure At Cloudflare Connect 2025

Devin Dickerson 20 hours ago
Cloudflare Connect 2025 had a distinctly optimistic vibe as the vendor positions itself as the connective tissue for modern digital operations in the enterprise and showcases its AI security abilities. Learn more in this event review.

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The Hard Truths: Tech Leadership Lessons From The Trenches

Mark Moccia 21 hours ago
Welcome to the tech leader practitioner series! This new blog series will bring you insights from the professionals here at Forrester who have enjoyed careers in roles like yours or spend their days helping tech leaders tackle their thorniest challenges. Here, we will share our lessons learned through countless failures (some of them epic) and […]
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TwitchCon 2025 Revealed The Power Of Community

Kelsey Chickering 21 hours ago
As I walked into my first TwitchCon at the San Diego Convention Center this past weekend, I didn’t know what to expect. Maybe I would see hordes of young men playing games on their phone or participating in e-sports competitions. Maybe I would see everyone doing cosplay. Yes, there was some of that. What I […]
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Declaring Zero Trust Without Testing Is A Lie

Tope Olufon 1 day ago
Zero Trust without real-world testing is a false sense of security. Learn how MITRE ATT&CK-driven adversarial trials turn Zero Trust from theory into proof.
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VMware Explore Paris 2025: Our Take On Private AI And Private Cloud Sovereignty

Dario Maisto 1 day ago
VMware Explore’s 2025 Paris event showcased the future of VMware Private AI and cloud sovereignty with the launch of VCF 9.0. From sovereign AI use cases to disconnected cloud operations, the event highlighted VMware’s evolving role in enabling secure, compliant infrastructure across Europe.
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Announcing The Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms Landscape, Q4 2025

Paul McKay 2 days ago
Despite a somewhat frustrating past, the CRRP market is truly at an inflection point — with the realization that there’s value in the data collected to produce ratings, not just the ratings themselves.

Gain Stakeholder Buy-In For Your Tech Strategy In 4 Steps

Build consensus with our tech strategy guide! Use our 4-step framework and customizable strategy-on-a-page template to align stakeholders, define your vision, and map your IT strategy.

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How F5 And SonicWall Revealed The Fragility Of The Software Supply Chain

Carlos Rivera 4 days ago
The recent breaches at F5 and SonicWall illustrate how attackers are targeting the very infrastructure that enterprises rely on to secure and deliver digital services.
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Five Themes From The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025

Gina Bhawalkar 5 days ago
While the DAP market is surging around the promise of using AI to boost accessibility, some core challenges prevent organizations from scaling accessibility best practices. Learn five key themes that emerged from The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025.
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The Next Wave: DSPs Become Omnichannel Ad Platforms

Nikhil Lai 5 days ago
The conditions that sustained demand-side platforms (DSPs) are no more. Learn what's changed, and how we evaluated vendors in our recent Landscape report.
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UK Government Plans To Mandate Digital eID For All Legal UK Residents

Andras Cser 5 days ago
The UK government plans to mandate an electronic digital identity scheme and credential to all legal residents and employees of the UK to prove immigration and employment eligibility status. Read our assessment of the benefits, challenges, and concerns.
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Is Agentic Commerce A Thing?

Emily Pfeiffer 5 days ago
Learn what agentic commerce means and how it impacts commerce experiences for customers today.
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Banking’s New Power Role: The Chief Digital, Data, And AI Officer

Zhi Ying Barry 5 days ago
Banks are appointing chief data, digital, and AI officers, signaling a strategic shift in leadership — and operating models.
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Want To Communicate More Effectively? Try Using Metaphors To Make Your Point

AJ Joplin 5 days ago
Learn how to identify a metaphor that appropriately represents the information you need to communicate when stakes are high.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Consulting Services In Europe, Q4 2025

Madelein van der Hout 5 days ago
European CISOs face rising regulatory demands, geopolitical instability, and rapid technological shifts. The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Consulting Services In Europe, Q4 2025, captures a market in motion. Resilience now drives trust, AI amplifies capabilities, and data governance defines credibility. Our latest evaluation reveals the following market trends that European CISOs should consider when choosing their […]
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