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At Forrester we are tightening up our previous definition of an industrial IoT software platform, to focus on connecting, securing, and managing physical devices. We are introducing a new term, the digital industrial platform, to address the broader requirements and use cases around advanced analytics, customer-facing applications, etc.

Let’s get straight to the point: There’s no quick fix for making your digital experiences accessible. That’s true even if your approach to accessibility is narrowly focused on being compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the laws in your region of the world. Many companies I speak with these days are tempted […]

As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 unfolds in a virtual setting during the first week of May, users will be sorting through the usual blizzard of announcements to determine just what matters to them — and when and how they could incorporate it into their environments. The conference schedule is packed with Kubernetes at the […]

Demandbase’s recent announcement that it has acquired the data providers InsideView (profiled in the recent “The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021“) and DemandMatrix (included in our “Now Tech: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q1 2021“) and expanded its solution portfolio is significant news for the company, for account-based marketing (ABM), and for the […]

I recently attended the Config 2021 design conference, and my big takeaway from its opening keynote is the introduction of branches and version control capabilities that will allow design teams to benefit from all the comfort that version control systems such as GitHub, Subversion, CVS, or Bitbucket have been offering to software engineers for decades. […]

Today, Verizon announced it is selling AOL and Yahoo to private equity group Apollo for a hefty $5 billion, backing off its foray into media and advertising technology (adtech) and retrenching to its core competence as a mobile telco. This news should come as no surprise. When Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 and then Yahoo […]

Marketers are obsessed with data. But when that obsession turns into tunnel vision on customer data only, it becomes impossible to achieve personalization at scale. Instead, brands need to know both their customer and their content, and Adobe took the wraps off a prototype that aims to do just that. At the company’s fully virtual […]

Inside sales and field sales activities and roles have blurred, as both sellers and buyers enabled with digital tools have confirmed the physical and virtual boundaries that separate “outside” and “inside” sellers don’t matter anymore. Inside sales reps can close big deals — often more efficiently and at a lower cost than traditional field sellers, […]

Photo by Abhinav Sunil In my research pursuit of technology sustainability, I speak with many technology and business leaders around the world about their sustainability initiatives. Occasionally, I encounter someone doing something special in this important business quest. I hope to interview as many of them as I can and share their insights with you. […]

What customer experience (CX) leaders care about and what CEOs care about don’t usually line up, and that’s a problem. It impacts budgets, staffing, and the overall clout of the CX function. As a former CX leader and as an executive in charge of growth strategies, I know we can do better! At CX APAC and CX […]

The concept of “right audience, right content, right place, right time” has been around the B2B world for ages. For many organizations, however, these four R’s are still more philosophy than reality. According to the 2021 Business Technographics Marketing Survey, 75% of all B2B marketing respondents agreed that “buyers expect an immediate response to their […]

Join Forrester’s experts, along with guest speakers from Akamai Technologies, as they explore the ever-growing importance of sustainability for Future Fit Technology Leaders.

Most companies know they need to innovate in their products, services, and customer experience (CX) but struggle to do it well. To find out what they’re doing to overcome that challenge, we surveyed organizations about their business priorities — including specifically whether improving their ability to innovate is a priority. Read our findings.

Retail Media Is Booming I’ve taken more questions on retail media in the past 12 months than any other digital marketing topic that I cover. And it shouldn’t be any surprise, as consumer purchasing and behavior has significantly shifted online during the pandemic. We had already noted growth in retail media in the middle of […]

Changing buyer preferences and remote work have forced sales organizations to rethink how and where they sell. An insights-driven, team-oriented approach is needed to succeed. Learn more at next week's B2B Summit North America.

Done right, CCCM delivers more than outbound campaigns. In this Forrester Wave™, we compare CCCM solutions from enterprise marketing software suite vendors.

Here's how to create empathetic content that’s actually useful 1) Target an audience 2) Select a goal 3) Forget about your product.

Are app stores at risk? Get a detailed analysis of the broader implications of Epic's lawsuit against Apple.

2020 was the year that every digital business fell in love with their order management system (OMS). With the pandemic exacerbating the need for diverse and effective fulfillment options, retailers and vendors were forced to innovate — and innovate quickly. As a sign of the times: A year ago, there were a handful of little-known […]