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Introducing Forrester’s Brand Experience Index — Drive Growth With Both Brand And Customer Experience

Dipanjan Chatterjee January 16, 2025
Enhancing brand and customer experience in tandem has a multiplicative revenue impact. Learn about our new approach for measuring and analyzing the two — and how it can point you toward avenues for growth.
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DeepSeek-R1: Why So Startled?

Leslie Joseph 1 day ago
Incremental improvements and sudden breakthroughs in price-to-performance ratios are natural parts of any emerging technology’s evolution. Get a detailed breakdown of nine innovations that make DeepSeek’s R1 a leap forward in cost efficiency.
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Technology And Security Predictions: Your Questions Answered

Sandy Carielli 2 days ago
Couldn’t make the recent webinar covering our 2025 technology and security predictions? Check out the webinar replay and read our analysts’ responses to some of the most pressing attendee questions about the year ahead.

Gain B2B Marketing Insights At Forrester’s Phoenix Summit!

Do more, see more, and learn more at B2B Summit North America, with new hands-on opportunities to connect with analysts, new research, and new frameworks to manage buyer chaos and align go-to-market teams.

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Deepfakes: The Hidden Threat CMOs Can’t Ignore

Karen Tran 5 days ago
Deepfakes are not just a distant threat; they are a present danger with the potential for long-lasting repercussions. Marketing leaders must understand how to mitigate the risks.
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The Return Of Infrastructure: Building An AI Base

What It Means 6 days ago
How important are your tech infrastructure decisions in the age of AI? Principal Analysts Michele Pelino and Naveen Chhabra review some of the latest tech infrastructure trends and predictions tech leaders should know as they build out their AI strategies.
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DeepSeek Just “Opened” The Path To AI ROI

Srividya Sridharan January 28, 2025
DeepSeek’s open-source model, DeepThink (R1), has sent shock waves across the tech world. But there are far-reaching implications to this important AI development.

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The AI Action Summit In France: Maintaining The Dialogue On Global AI Regulation

Thomas Husson 1 hour ago
I look forward attending the AI Action Summit in Paris, France, next week. After the two previous summits hosted respectively at Bletchley Park in the UK (November 2023) and in Seoul  the Republic of Korea (May 2024), French President Macron has decided to host a new AI Summit co-chaired with India in on February 10th […]
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How Generative AI Is Changing The Game In Commerce Search

Emily Pfeiffer 2 hours ago
Read key insights from our research on how genAI is transforming commerce search solutions.

2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide

From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.

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Choose Your Own MDR Adventure: Avoid The Free-For-All Of “New” MDR Services

Jeff Pollard 17 hours ago
Managed detection and response (MDR) — without a doubt — has successfully claimed the crown of all managed security services for making and keeping clients happy. Clients are far happier with MDR services than they ever were with legacy managed security service provider (MSSP)-style security services. MDR vendors have higher customer retention, wallet retention, growth, […]
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Customer Success Teams: Let’s Get Strategic

Shari Srebnick 19 hours ago
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest path to victory. Tactics without strategy is that noise you hear right before defeat.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War  Customer success (CS) practitioners often talk to me about postsale strategy and tactics. What I’ve noticed from those conversations is that those terms are being used interchangeably despite […]
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Microsoft Paint Is Cool Again — Thanks To AI

William McKeon-White 20 hours ago
Yes, really! Paint is downright useful now. Like many, I’ve been using generative AI (genAI) systems for about two years. Nothing has quite triggered my imagination like Microsoft Paint’s Cocreator capability. The concept is straightforward: You can doodle using Paint, describe what you want, and genAI will create an image to your specifications. I can’t […]
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Great Digital Banking Experiences Create A Data-For-Value Flywheel

Peter Wannemacher 23 hours ago
Driving engagement is top of mind for most digital banking leaders. Forrester’s research reveals the immense value — for both customers and banks — of useful, convenient digital banking experiences. The right mobile banking offerings, for example, can unlock new value for a customer and differentiate a bank’s brand. And our broader customer experience research […]
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You’re Overlooking The Key To Customer Service Automation: Tacit Knowledge

Christina McAllister 1 day ago
Learn the changes that your customer service organization needs to make in order to capture tacit knowledge and begin putting it to work through AI models.

Ready For 2025? Discover Key B2B Marketing And Sales Predictions!

Check out our 2025 predictions for B2B CMOs and CSOs! Discover the groundbreaking shifts in AI, product-led growth, buying groups, and digital sales headed your way.

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Episode 390: Forrester Predictions 2025: Healthcare

The CX Cast 1 day ago
Every year, Forrester looks to the future to predict what we think will happen across industries, geographies, and technologies. In this episode, Forrester analysts Arielle Trzcinski and Shannon Germain Farraher team up with host Martin Gill to dive into Forrester’s 2025 healthcare predictions.  
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Pixels Unbound: The State Of GenAI For Visual Content

Indranil Bandyopadhyay 1 day ago
Generative AI isn’t just creating captivating visuals; it’s changing how businesses scale creativity, engage audiences, and develop entirely new products. Learn the benefits and risks of using genAI for visual content.
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Is CTV B2B Advertising’s Next Frontier?

John Arnold 2 days ago
Spending on connected television (CTV) advertising is forecast to increase 13.8% in 2025. But is CTV a good fit for B2B advertising? Learn the advantages and disadvantages to CTV advertising in this post.
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Accessibility Is Still Vital For Businesses

Gina Bhawalkar 2 days ago
Accessibility is still vital for businesses despite recent federal actions.
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Health Insurers: It’s Time For Better

Arielle Trzcinski 2 days ago
In 2024, trust in health insurers hit a three-year low, with just 56% of consumers saying that they trust their health insurer to do what's in their best interest. Regain consumer trust by taking these actions.

How Will 2025 B2C Trends Shape Your Strategy?

Prepare for the future with our 2025 predictions for B2C marketing and CX leaders. Learn how to refine your strategies for AI, tech stacks, loyalty programs, frontline agents, TikTok, and more.

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IBM Grows Oracle Consulting Capabilities With Two Major Acquisitions

Akshara Naik Lopez 2 days ago
IBM has had a very busy and prolific acquisition season. It acquired two Oracle consulting firms within the last five months. Applications Software Technology LLC (AST) On January 16, IBM announced its intent to acquire AST, a global Oracle consultancy. This strengthens its state, local, and education (SLED) presence, as AST specializes in delivering Oracle […]
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Supercharge The IT Circular Economy With The CARFAX Approach

Alvin Nguyen 4 days ago
The Challenge With The Circular Economy In 2025, Forrester predicted that more than a third of Global Fortune 100 firms will commit to circular economy goals. We recommended that, this year, enterprise leaders perform infrastructure lifecycle assessments to understand the environmental impact of their choices. Further for manufacturing, Forrester’s report, Embrace The Circular Economy To […]
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Is Google’s Meridian The Right Open-Source MMM Solution For You?

Brad Haag 5 days ago
On January 29, Google announced the wide launch of its Meridian open-source marketing mix modeling (MMM) solution, available through GitHub. Cue a flurry of LinkedIn takes speculating about the future of the marketing measurement and optimization (MMO) solutions market. By providing an open-source Bayesian option, Google brings the industry-standard methodology to the masses (Meta’s Robyn […]
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SAP Offers On-Prem ERP Customers Additional Three-Year Support Until 2033 — With Conditions

Akshara Naik Lopez 5 days ago
As reported by several media outlets and confirmed by SAP CEO Christian Klein during its Q4 2024 earnings call, SAP will offer an additional three years of support for some on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) customers beyond the existing extended maintenance support of 2030. This news came as a surprise for many ERP customers globally […]
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SAP Makes Significant Leadership Changes Along With Strong FY 2024 Results

Akshara Naik Lopez 5 days ago
SAP reported better-than-expected Q4 2024 financial results and raised its full-year operating profit forecast as demand for artificial intelligence systems continues. On top of beating expectations, SAP said that it now expects 2025 operating profit to be between €10.3 billion and €10.6 billion, above previous estimates of approximately €10 billion. Its current cloud backlog of […]
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Europe-5 Retail E-Commerce Growth Drivers, 2025

Jitender Miglani 5 days ago
Forrester’s Jitender Miglani summarizes key takeaways from the latest Europe-5 retail forecast.
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Highlights From The Forrester Wave™: Content Platforms, Q1 2025

Cheryl McKinnon 6 days ago
The enterprise content management market has undergone a significant transformation driven by new AI and cloud capabilities. Learn three key trends about the market in this preview of our latest Forrester Wave™ evaluation.
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Five Ingredients To Win The Recurring Revenue B2B Bake-Off And Avoid Getting Chopped

Nick Buck 6 days ago
The secret to recurring revenue marketing success is to reimagine marketing’s work through the lens of its interactions with five key stakeholder groups. Learn what those groups are and how to get started in this preview of a new report.
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