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Align Budget Planning To Accelerate Performance In 2025

Sharyn Leaver August 1, 2024
Business and technology leaders are gearing up to spend in the coming year. Making the most of modest budget hikes will take cross-functional collaboration, a willingness to part with outdated tech, and strategic experimentation with (and beyond) AI.
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How Should Business And Tech Leaders Spend In 2025?

What It Means 4 days ago
Business and tech leaders expect (slightly) bigger budgets next year. How should they use them? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Group Research Directors Stephanie Balaouras, Keith Johnston, and Srividya Sridharan dive into Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides’ recommendations for tech, marketing and sales, and customer experience (CX) leaders.
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For Demand And ABM Teams, 2025 Won’t Be About Doing The Same With Less But Rather Doing Better With Less

Naomi Marr 5 days ago
Forrester’s Budget Planning Survey, 2024, uncovers a dual narrative for marketers in the coming year: The challenge lies in managing tight budgets but also in the dichotomy of needing to invest in recent technology- and process-related advancements to stay relevant. Strategic budget divestment is required in this environment.

Get More From Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget

Synergy and collaboration will be key to making marketing investments go further. Download our 2025 B2B marketing Planning Guide to learn more.

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Falcon Fallout: What’s Next For CrowdStrike, Competitors, And CISOs

Jeff Pollard 6 days ago
The July 19 CrowdStrike Falcon outage created major trust issues for the company and the broader security market. What's next for CrowdStrike? Find out as we make several predictions on where the company will go next.
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Paris Olympics: Luxury Democratized, Ads Lose The Plot, And Women Shine

Dipanjan Chatterjee 7 days ago
Every Olympics brings insights into the current cultural zeitgeist. Here are five observations from this year's big event.
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Invest, Experiment, And Scale Back: Budget Priorities For CISOs In 2025

Jeff Pollard August 1, 2024
The majority of security technology decision-makers anticipate further budget increases in 2025. Learn three key areas for CISOs to focus on in the year ahead in this preview of our 2025 Budget Planning Guide for security leaders.

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A Recent Issue Highlights The Importance Of Securing The Hypervisor

Paddy Harrington 4 days ago
Learn how applying Zero Trust, identity and access management, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) can help protect VMware’s ESXi hypervisor from a newly exploited vulnerability.
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Generative AI Consumer Outlook, Q2 2024: How Will Consumers Engage With GenAI In The Future?

Audrey Chee-Read 4 days ago
As awareness of generative AI peaks and usage creeps upward, how will consumers engage with genAI in the future? Find out in this preview of a new report.

Focus 2025 Security Budgets On Risk Mitigation And Tech Sprawl

Security leaders, explore our 2025 Planning Guide for benchmarks on where to invest, divest, and experiment with your budget.

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AI Is Now A Core Capability Of BI Platforms

Boris Evelson 5 days ago
AI capabilities are showing up in nearly all business intelligence platforms. Read this blog to learn seven things AI is now responsible for within most BI platforms and get a preview of our upcoming research on BI platforms.
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Level Up Your AI Data Maturity At Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summit North America

Zeid Khater 5 days ago
Struggling to effectively process, analyze, and utilize constantly changing data spread across various systems? Learn three key competencies to help develop a data maturity plan of action in this preview of an upcoming workshop.
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2024 Could Be A Good Year For B2B Agencies

Karen Tran 6 days ago
B2B companies are forecasting healthy increases in agency investments this year according to Forrester’s 2024 B2B Brand And Communications Survey, which surveyed 205 B2B marketing leaders to understand their expectations for agency budgets over the next 12 months. The results generally reveal plans for a net increase in agency spending across all industries and company […]
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B2B Marketers Prioritize Digital Brand And Communications Budget Investments

Karen Tran 6 days ago
In Forrester’s 2024 B2B Brand And Communications Survey, we asked B2B marketing leaders to share their perspective on anticipated budget changes in 12 program and personnel categories. This year’s responses show expected increases are up in most categories over last year and expected decreases have dropped in most categories. Several notable trends emerged, shedding light […]
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366: CX Case Studies Overview

The CX Cast 6 days ago
Culture work underpins every successful customer experience (CX) transformation. Martin and Angelina discuss Forrester’s collection of case studies that capture diverse efforts to build a customer-focused culture change to ultimately improve the customer experience.

Drive High Performance With Your 2025 Tech Budget

2025 tech budgets are on the rise. Get our 2025 Planning Guide to learn where to invest your tech spend to boost performance, drive growth, and deliver competitive advantage.

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Map Your B2C Marketing Operations Destiny With A Formal Charter

Jessica Liu 6 days ago
Source: Office Space, GIPHY “What would you say … your marketing operations function does here?” If you can’t quickly and easily answer that question, you need a formal marketing operations charter, STAT! It’s imperative that marketing operations functions codify their existence, remit, and who they serve – for themselves, the broader marketing department, and senior […]
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Why Is Demand Marketing An Obstacle To Its Own Success?

Naomi Marr 7 days ago
Organizations must stop working in silos and align their marketing, sales, and customer success strategies to one thing: buyer needs. A unified frontline marketing approach will enhance customer experiences, drive growth, and ensure that marketing efforts contribute meaningfully to the revenue process.
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Apple Posts Strong Results, But Wait For What’s Coming Next

Dipanjan Chatterjee August 2, 2024
Apple posted strong Q3 numbers on the back of a reinvigorated iPad and ongoing growth in its high-margin services business. But what happens next?
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How To Prove The Business Value of CX Efforts

Discover how to connect CX contributions to financial performance with a 5-step approach, showcasing the measurable business value and ROI that CX delivers to business.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Adobe Services, Q3 2024

Xiaofeng Wang August 1, 2024
Time flies. For the third time, I’ve published a global Forrester Wave™ evaluation covering Adobe services. We began covering this important market in 2020 and witnessed a surge in demand for digital experience services in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic peak. Now, in 2024, we’ve evaluated the 12 prominent Adobe services providers, considering the impact […]

From AI To Cloud: Where To Invest In 2025

Tech infrastructure budgets are rising, but businesses want outcomes from every dollar spent. Optimize your 2025 budget using insights from our tech infrastructure Planning Guide.

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Popular Wisdom About CMO Representation And Tenure Is Wrong

Ian Bruce August 1, 2024
CMOs have very different experiences depending on where they work, their company’s business model, and their gender. Read a few of the key findings from our recent analysis.
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Two Bipartisan (Yet Controversial) Bills To Protect Children Online Pass The US Senate

Kelsey Chickering August 1, 2024
In overwhelming (and very rare) bipartisan agreement, the United States Senate passed two bills that tackle children’s online safety: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). This is a big deal because the Senate hasn’t passed internet protections for kids in decades. But the two bills still […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: End-User Experience Management Solutions, Q3 2024

Andrew Hewitt August 1, 2024
Get a preview of Forrester's latest analysis of the digital employee experience landscape, also known as end-user experience management.
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Leverage Synergy To Stretch Your 2025 B2B Marketing Budget

Matthew Selheimer August 1, 2024
Today, Forrester released our 2025 Budget Planning Guides. It’s always an exciting time when we gather survey data and insights from our client conversations to produce a set of collective recommendations that B2B marketing executives should consider for the year ahead. Read below for this year’s key planning guide highlights. Benchmark your current spending While […]
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2025 Budget Planning LIVE: Customer Experience

Join us Sept. 17 for our LIVE webinar where we will dive into the latest data-driven guidance for CX leaders on how to strategically allocate budget for 2025.

Overhaul Core Competencies With Your 2025 CX Budget

Download our 2025 Planning Guide for CX leaders to learn how to allocate your 2025 budget to reverse CX declines and boost quality.

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2025 Budget Planning LIVE: B2B Marketing

Join us Sept. 10 for 2025 Budget Planning Guides LIVE: B2B Marketing. Explore benchmarks and advice on where to increase, decrease, and experiment with your marketing budget.
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2025 Budget Planning LIVE: Technology And Security

Attend our LIVE webinar on Sept. 24! Hear analyst insights on where to invest, divest, and experiment with 2025 tech and security budgets for maximum business impact. 
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Automation Builders, Achtung! Vermeiden Sie bei der Automatisierung durch Agents die RPA-Fehler

Bernhard Schaffrik 1 August 2024
Wenn Roboter für die Prozessautomatisierung durch KI-Agents ersetzt werden, führt dies dann zu einer unüberschaubaren Anzahl von KI-Agents mit sich überschneidenden Funktionalitäten? Erhalten Sie vier Tipps, um dieses Problem zu vermeiden.
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