William McKeon-White

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Microsoft Paint Is Cool Again — Thanks To AI

William McKeon-White 19 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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The Customer Service Tech Landscape: What It Means For You

Kate Leggett December 17, 2024
To succeed, customer service organizations must curate a set of technologies that underpin their operations. To discover the most important ones, we surveyed technology decision-makers, suppliers, and other subject matter experts for their opinions about which ones really mattered.
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What We Saw At AWS re:Invent 2024

Lee Sustar December 12, 2024
AWS may have been caught off guard by the sudden rise of generative AI, but now it’s coming for the competition from every possible angle. Get our key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024.
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Building Tests For Conversational AI

William McKeon-White August 14, 2024
How do conversational AI systems stack up against real-life use? Use this simple test to evaluate the capability of your systems to accommodate real user language variance.
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Dive In: Attend Our Interactive AI Innovation Lab At The T&I NA Summit

William McKeon-White July 8, 2024
Join us at Forrester’s Technology & Innovation Summit North America for an innovation lab where you’ll get to work with other business and public sector leaders to not only try out cutting-edge genAI but also get hands-on practice with how discrete genAI models can be applied.
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Insights From Cisco Live 2024: Splunk Integration, Security (And More Security), And AI Pragmatism

Stephanie Balaouras June 7, 2024
At its recent Cisco Live event, the tech giant made a number of new announcements, detailed plans for its $28 billion Splunk acquisition, and walked through its vision for the future. Get a detailed review in this post.
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Microsoft Unbundling Teams From Microsoft 365 Is Just A Sneaky Price Hike

Leslie Joseph April 8, 2024
Microsoft announced recently that it was unbundling Teams from its various Microsoft 365 plans worldwide. Find out what is actually changing and what it means for customers, regulators, and Microsoft.
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High-Performance IT Means One Size Doesn’t Fit All

David Mooter February 17, 2024
Some organizations rely on technology to bring new products to market. Some need to embrace the latest cutting-edge technology and practices to disrupt and transform markets. Others just need to optimize business operations. Forrester’s high-performance IT tech vision recognizes that every organization is unique.
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A New Dawn For VMware EUC And Carbon Black, But Not Without Risk

Andrew Hewitt December 8, 2023
Find out how Broadcom's plan to divest VMware’s EUC And Carbon Black businesses could impact customers and the market overall.
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ChatGPT: Cybersecurity Ramifications Beyond Malware

Jeff Pollard January 26, 2023
Plenty of people had fun with ChatGPT when it released, but I’m not sure any industry had more fun than cybersecurity. When first released, it turned out that ChatGPT could write code, convert code from one programming language to another, and write malware. Sure, the coherent nonsense problem persisted, but overall, it produced solid stuff. […]
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Beware Of “Coherent Nonsense” When Implementing Generative AI

Rowan Curran December 8, 2022
Generative AI can make doing a lot of things easier, including the wrong things. Learn the risks of AI-generated content and how to avoid them.
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Identifying Your Critical Chat Integrations For Employee Enablement

William McKeon-White December 1, 2022
… Or, What We Should Plug Into Slack, Teams, And Other Chat Platforms Over the past decade, chat platforms have become a fixture of the workplace (yes, somehow it’s already been more than 10 years). This is due to them supporting rapid informal communication as well as their extensibility. For years, organizations have had success […]
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If You Can Say It, You Can See It: Dall-E And You

William McKeon-White June 22, 2022
Or, “How a natural language image generation AI used as a meme generator by social media may impact your business.” Welcome To The Future — It’s Got AI-Generated Art Let’s play a quick game. Which of the below images were made by an AI system generating images based on word prompts? Let’s pretend you guessed […]
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VMware Customers: Get Ready For Broadcom Disruption

Tracy Woo May 26, 2022
Late Sunday evening, Bloomberg reported rumors of advanced Broadcom talks to acquire VMware, which has since been confirmed this morning. In light of Broadcom’s investment activities in the past few years, this news is unsurprising. It made a string of massively expensive enterprise software company acquisitions: Brocade Communications Systems in 2016 ($5.9 billion), CA Technologies […]
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From Ad Hoc And Invisible To Predictable Business Outcomes With ESM

Julie Mohr April 26, 2022
Are you facing the dilemma of improving service work? Service outcomes depend upon knowledge workers getting things done. Whether you’re servicing a laptop or a train, it’s all just operations. Service improvements require insight into what work needs to be done, who is doing the work, and where the work in progress is. But often, […]
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Observations On The Atlassian Outage

William McKeon-White April 13, 2022
What Is Going On? One of our less pleasant responsibilities here at Forrester is commenting on serious business, security, or technical failures in the digital and IT industry. Due to its duration and the implications for a subset of the user base, the current Atlassian outage rises to that level. Atlassian is staking its future […]
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Despite IT Heroics, Technology Is Systematically Failing Employees

William McKeon-White February 11, 2022
Your IT service desk is working harder than ever, but your employee user experience is still lacking. Learn the impact resource limitations and lack of visibility can have on your user experience.
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Citrix’s Acquisition Is Big News But Hardly Surprising

Andrew Hewitt February 1, 2022
Once Again, Citrix Is In The News For An Acquisition If you’re like many of us, you might have first wondered, “another acquisition by Citrix!?” The perennial desktop and app virtualization provider has been on an acquisition tear over the past few years, having bought Sapho in 2018 and Wrike in 2020, in an effort […]
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Presenting The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021

Charles Betz December 16, 2021
In 2017, Forrester expanded upon the IT service management market (ITSM) to establish enterprise service management (ESM) as a chosen area of coverage, continuing this research with a 2019 Forrester Wave™ evaluation. Now, we are pleased to announce The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021. In 2018, ITSM vendors were still completing the transition […]
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Ask The Analysts — The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021

Andrew Hewitt November 30, 2021
On Monday, December 6, join us for an interactive session covering highlights from the recently published The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2021. Unified endpoint management (UEM) helps enterprises better manage employee devices and applications, resulting in improved employee experience, customer trust, and business agility. Want to understand how UEM can address your top […]
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