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TDX 2025: MuleSoft And The Salesforce Platform Pivot

David Mooter 1 day ago
About seven years ago, I was on an initiative to explore low-code. When I saw Salesforce’s low-code product in demos, my impression was that the product was only suitable for buyers with a strong Salesforce CRM focus — a feeder to drive more revenue into Salesforce’s flagship product. When Salesforce acquired MuleSoft, many worried that […]
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AI Catapults The CRM Market To A Moment of Reckoning

Kate Leggett 5 days ago
CRM software has become overengineered, and complexity is killing its value, but AI has the potential to simplify CRM.
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Visualize, Control, And Optimize Your Spend With Software Asset Management Tools

Biswajeet Mahapatra March 25, 2025
In a climate of economic and political uncertainty, tech budgets are under pressure. According to Forrester’s Industry- And Customer-Supporting Software Survey, 2025, 23% of organizations cite budget as their number one software challenge.
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Call For Entries: The 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards

Charles Betz March 24, 2025
Forrester is thrilled to announce the opening of nominations for the 2025 global Enterprise Architecture Awards. Learn more about this year’s awards and how to apply here.
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The Question Is No Longer “If” But “How” AI Is Radically Transforming Software Development

Diego Lo Giudice March 11, 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, one month can be enough to create a trend that makes big waves.
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Firefox Goes Off Brand

Andrew Cornwall March 6, 2025
Mozilla’s recent change to the Firefox terms of use has led to concerns within the open-source, privacy, and web communities. Firefox now finds itself in a difficult spot.
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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025

Bill Martorelli March 5, 2025
Application modernization remains a critical priority for enterprises as they continue their journey to the cloud and beyond. While the “lift and shift” era of cloud migration has ended, the modernization journey continues.
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Highlights From The Forrester Wave™: Content Platforms, Q1 2025

Cheryl McKinnon January 30, 2025
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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Amid The AI Hype, Agile Still Remains Relevant In 2025

Diego Lo Giudice January 23, 2025
After over 12 years of leading Forrester’s research on agile and, from 2011, publishing a biennial Forrester report on the global state of agile adoption, we have just published The State Of Agile Development, 2025: It’s Still Relevant, With Benefits And Challenges.
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The AI Coding Honeymoon (And What Comes After)

Devin Dickerson January 21, 2025
The best way to maximize the use of AI-assisted software development is to make sure your fundamentals are solid. Find out why in this post.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Modern Application Development Services, Q1 2025

Diego Lo Giudice January 15, 2025
MAD Services Deliver Cool New Products While Transforming Your Development Capabilities Modern application development (MAD) services represent the next wave in custom application development services. Emerging from the convergence of current and past services such as application development management services (ADMS), digital transformation services (DTS), digital product engineering services (DPES), and broader application modernization services […]
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Accelerating US Government Modernization With Open-Source And Agile Development

Devin Dickerson January 7, 2025
The US government doesn’t have an innovation problem, it has an adoption problem. Find out what makes open-source and agile adoption a unique proposition for government organizations.
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Engineering Metrics: The Elephant In The Room

Andrew Cornwall January 6, 2025
With the growth of generative AI, developer productivity is on everyone’s mind these days. But measuring developer productivity is challenging. Learn how focusing on alignment can help eliminate the elephant in the room.
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The Quest To Measure Developer Productivity Is Fueling The Market For Value Stream Management And Software Engineering Intelligence Tools

Christopher Condo December 9, 2024
Using SEI tools, dev leaders can optimize their software development processes while improving the developer experience. The market growth in SEI tools directly corresponds to the explosive use of genAI TuringBots, commonly referred to as copilots for software development.
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Are You Making These DevSecOps Mistakes? The Four Phases You Need To Know Before Your Code Becomes Your Vulnerability

Janet Worthington November 25, 2024
Learn the four key phases of DevSecOps as well as some key best practices to jump-start your transformation in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.
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Introducing The Forrester Tech Tide™: Software Development, Q4 2024

Andrew Cornwall November 18, 2024
Struggling to determine which software development technologies have staying power and which will be just a flash in the pan? Get some insight in this preview of our latest Forrester Tech Tide™ for software development technology.
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AppGen Is An Existential Threat To The Enterprise App Business

John Bratincevic November 13, 2024
AI-powered enterprises will “build” software instead of “buy” it — and many applications in enterprise portfolios will consolidate onto low-code AppGen platforms.
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The API Security Software Landscape, Q3 2024

Madelein van der Hout November 1, 2024
While API discovery and policy enforcement have gained traction, it's time for companies to elevate their approach to API security maturity. Learn how to get started in this preview of a new report.
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Technical Debt By A Thousand Cuts

Charles Betz October 23, 2024
Every week, I get inquiries about technical debt, whether from enterprise architects, CIOs, CTOs, offices of the CIO, or strategic portfolio managers. It’s a broad concern in IT and digital management, as well as in the minds and operating models of Forrester clients.
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Predictions 2025: GenAI Reality Bites Back For Software Developers

Christopher Condo October 23, 2024
AI assistants are only the beginning of the generative AI software development revolution. Find out what’s in store for software developers in our 2025 predictions for software development.
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