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Why Is Europe’s Automation Adoption Different From The Rest Of The World?
Automation benefits, such as efficiency and productivity gains and improved customer and employee experience at lower cost, are globally valid and understood. But there are significant differences in adoption speed and intensity of software-based automation technologies across Europe compared to the Americas and Asia Pacific. Software-based automation technologies include robotic process automation, digital process automation […]
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Drive Your Digital Business With Data — The Data Strategy Track At Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights Forum
Get a detailed preview of the data strategy track at the upcoming Forrester Data Strategy & Insights live virtual event.
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The 2020 Forrester And InfoWorld EA Awards Contest Winners Focus On Business Architecture, Digital Transformation, And Governance
In the Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture (EA) Awards competition, we look for the most dramatic stories of EA’s strategic leadership and concrete business impact. The winners of the 2020 Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards show the value of a close relationship with the business, a solid vision for enabling digital transformation, and effective governance practices — not […]
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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance
NVIDIA just announced that it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank for $40 billion. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and, thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie […]
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Banking Software Vendors Won’t Differentiate With Just Functionality For Long
A few days ago, Forrester published two Forrester Wave™ reports, one focusing on retail banking, the other on corporate banking. With these Forrester Wave evaluations, we separated off-the-shelf banking back ends for retail and corporate banking for the first time. However, this was not the only first: We also introduced a new banking software category: […]
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Hyland Accelerates Its Path To Cloud By Acquiring Alfresco Software
Today, Hyland Software, best known for its OnBase and Perceptive content management portfolios, announced it will acquire Alfresco Software. Both vendors were named as “Leaders” in The Forrester Wave™: ECM Content Platforms, Q3 2019 (subscription required). This is a natural next step in Hyland’s recent rejuvenation strategy. Hyland’s investments over the last year include the […]
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Troubled Times Test Traditional Tech Titans
Spending on core infrastructure is dropping and the large technology firms will have to rise to the challenge. Find out how long the impact of the pandemic will be.
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Lean Isn’t Always Lean: There Are Lean Cores And Lean Cores In Banking
Understanding the lean-core concept is key to easing digital transformation challenges. Vice President Jost Hopperman clears up some of the confusion surrounding the concept.
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Open Banking Implementation Issues Give Rise To A New Breed Of Intermediaries
The challenges associated with open banking have brought about a new segment of intermediaries. Find out how these vendors can help inform your technology strategy.
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COVID-19 Didn’t Break Your Business — Data Did
A defining factor for enterprises and governments throughout the pandemic has been the extent to which they've embraced and been led by data.
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Schrödinger’s SOAR: Feature Or Abstraction?
Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) could become the biggest link between people and technology in your security strategy. Learn why.
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Dependability Demands Of Your VDI Infrastructure Are Skyrocketing
The rush to scale up virtual desktop infrastructure doesn't mean you should abandon risk management. Get three tips for IT continuity risk planning.
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Further Down The Rabbit Hole With MITRE’s ATT&CK Eval Data
Analyst Josh Zelonis provides a new metric for prioritizing security alerts and avoiding alert fatigue.
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In A Crisis, People Want Dependable Technology
If there’s one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has taught businesses, it’s how vital core infrastructure and operations are to an organization’s resiliency and dependability. But where does innovation fit into the new normal?
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Micro UIs: Microservices Are Visual, Too
Stop Conflating Microservices With APIs Too often in client conversations, Forrester hears the terms “microservice” and “API” used interchangeably. To make your architecture and design patterns stronger, separate the two. Draw a hard line of distinction between them. Specifically: “Microservice” is a packaging and deployment concept. At its core, microservice strategy aims to create technical […]
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Lessons From Enterprise Collaboration Experiments In China In The Wake Of COVID-19
The journey to enabling remote work in China has been “no walk in the park.” Here’s what other regions can learn from it.
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Call For Entries: The 2020 Enterprise Architecture Awards
Digital transformation, innovation, and customer obsession top businesses’ strategic agendas. Enterprise architecture (EA) teams must enable these goals with the right technology roadmap and with internal operating models that can help enterprises attain their goals. EA programs have left behind their old role of centralized and largely disengaged planning and have moved pragmatically into making […]
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How To Derisk Your Commerce Replatform
Viewing your new eCommerce platform as a container to lift and shift legacy customizations is a mistake. Analyst Joe Cicman provides best practices.
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BC And DR Pros, We Need Your Help!
Each year, Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining the state of business resiliency. Each year, we focus on a resiliency domain: IT disaster recovery (DR), business continuity (BC), or overall enterprise risk management (ERM). The studies provide BC pros, DR pros, and other risk managers an […]
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