AI Insights

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how organizations operate, offering unprecedented opportunities to boost efficiency and drive innovation. Yet, alongside this immense potential comes a layer of complexity that requires deliberate strategy. AI is doing more than just enhancing systems; it’s reshaping how organizations allocate resources, advance capabilities, and achieve growth. Its influence touches every corner of an operating model, challenging leaders to not only capture the power of AI but to create meaningful value with it. The path forward is both exciting and intricate, filled with the promise of transformation and the need for thoughtful navigation. Get the latest AI insights and strategic perspectives from Forrester analysts and experts.

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Resilience Pros! Answer Our Questions And Get A Report

Amy DeMartine 9 minutes ago
Each year, Forrester and the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) team up to launch a study examining resilience. We survey on different topics in resilience such as disaster recovery, but this time, the focus is solely on business resilience, including business continuity and operational resilience. No matter whether your program’s goals are to create business continuity […]
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Questioning Your AI ROI? Start With Your AI Strategy

Brian Hopkins 3 hours ago
“How do we measure the ROI of AI?” “AI costs are going up, how do we prove the ROI?” These questions – coming mostly from IT – start more of my client engagements than any other. As usage of AI credits ramps up and token costs roll in, it’s IT that foots the bill and […]
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Cresta Fills An Important Gap In Salesforce’s Customer Service AI Story 

Christina McAllister 3 hours ago
Salesforce has agreed to acquire Cresta, adding voice agents, real-time agent assistance, and conversation intelligence to its customer service portfolio. Salesforce already owns much of the customer context and many of the systems where customer service work gets done. What it lacked was a credible conversation intelligence offering to understand what happens within those interactions […]
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Your Application Vendors Control The Meter, The Gate, And The Referee

Faram Medhora 5 hours ago
Tech executives keep asking, "Should we slow down AI adoption?" It is the wrong question. Your application vendors have already answered a more consequential one: how much autonomy your agents will get, what that autonomy will cost, and who will control it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are AI insights?​

AI insights are the meaningful patterns and learnings generated by applying artificial intelligence to data. They help organizations uncover trends, predict outcomes, and make more informed decisions by turning large volumes of information into actionable business intelligence.​

Why is an AI strategy critical for businesses today?​

An AI strategy ensures that investments in data, models, and talent support business goals rather than isolated experiments. It helps organizations prioritize use cases, manage risk, and focus resources on initiatives that deliver measurable value and competitive advantage.​

What challenges do organizations face when adopting artificial intelligence?​

Organizations often face challenges with data quality, talent shortages, and integrating AI into existing systems and workflows. Governance, ethics, and trust are also major concerns. Successfully adopting AI requires both technical capabilities and effective organizational change management.​

How do companies measure AI adoption success?​

Companies measure AI success by outcomes and adoption. Common metrics include time to value, ROI, model performance, and how widely AI tools are used across teams. Ongoing measurement ensures that AI initiatives deliver sustained impact, not just technical results.​

How does Forrester help clients with AI insights and strategy?​

Forrester helps leaders turn AI insights into decisions and action. Through research, frameworks, and advisory support, Forrester guides organizations in assessing maturity, selecting technology, aligning teams, and reducing risk to achieve real business outcomes from AI.​

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PHP2Shell Had Teeth, But The Real Story Is The Eclectic Mayhem

Erik Nost 6 hours ago
The week of October 20 was unusually chaotic, even without the PHP news. Not only did teams need to scramble to identify and understand the impact of emergency PHP vulnerabilities, but there were also critical vulnerabilities in Node.js, cryptographically weak keys issues by a certificate authority, exploited vulns in network security equipment, and potentially accidental […]
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AI Capacity Scarcity Shifts The Goals Of FinOps

Tracy Woo 8 hours ago
AI capacity is the new FinOps challenge. Learn why securing and governing scarce AI infrastructure is becoming a business priority.
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AI Browsers Are A Successful Failure

Joe Stanhope 1 day ago
AI browsers, such as Perplexity’s Comet and OpenAI’s (already sunsetted) Atlas, promised to reinvent how consumers navigate the internet, yet these dedicated AI browsers have struggled to achieve mainstream adoption. Forrester’s July 2026 survey of its ConsumerVoices Market Research Online Community found that only 8% of respondents use AI browsers often while 61% never use […]

Scale Your AI Strategy To Maximize ROI

Unlock the blueprint for AI success. Discover how to align strategy, prioritize impactful use cases, and close the talent gap — everything you need to expedite ROI and achieve tangible success through AI.

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Predictions 2027: Cloud’s AI Race Gets Messier

Lauren Nelson 1 day ago
AI is reshaping the cloud market as providers face intensifying global competition, industry consolidation, and growing infrastructure constraints. In 2027, cloud leaders will need to balance rapid innovation with portability, resilience, and cost discipline.
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“It Wasn’t Me” Is Not An AI Risk Management Strategy

Alla Valente 1 day ago
I never expected Shaggy to show up in a law firm’s analysis of AI risk, yet here we are. Shaggy’s memorable defense was “it wasn’t me.” Meta is giving it a contractual upgrade: It was our technology, but it’s your responsibility. The update to Meta’s commercial terms puts broad responsibility for its AI features and […]
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AI Search Is Growing Faster Than Its Business Model

Emily Collins 4 days ago
Big Tech earnings this week put a spotlight on the monetization dilemma at the heart of AI-integrated search. The growth of Google’s AI Mode is proving to be a double-edged sword: Investments in conversational search are fueling Google’s fastest year-over-year search query growth in five years, but the company’s advertising revenue growth slowed to 12%, […]
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Your Customers’ AI Agents Will Never Give Up

Christina McAllister 4 days ago
Personal AI agents will increase service volume — and will expose unresolved demand that customer effort used to keep out of sight. Use that unresolved demand to find problems now that customers shouldn’t need to chase you about in the first place.
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Google Public Sector Summit 2026: AI Moves From Possibility To Mission

Sam Higgins 4 days ago
When Forrester wrote about the creation of Google Public Sector in 2022, the question was whether Google could build the industry credentials to compete more seriously for government business. Four years later, the conversation has changed. At the Google Public Sector Summit 2026 on October 20 in Washington, DC, there wasn’t one major announcement that […]

Who Controls AI In 2027?

As AI transforms B2B go-to-market strategy, technology, security, and customer experience leaders must balance control with adaptation. Forrester’s Predictions 2027 guides, blogs, and webinars reveal what that requires.

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Predictions 2027: Human Connection Will Be The Next Battleground For Customer Success And Service

Kate Leggett 4 days ago
AI will reshape how customers engage with brands in 2027, but automation alone won’t create differentiation. Human expertise, empathy, and trust will become increasingly important to delivering standout experiences.
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Predictions 2027: Humans Reclaim Content Creation; Machines Dominate Content Consumption

Chuck Gahun 4 days ago
AI is changing not just how content gets created, but who, or what, consumes it. In 2027, brands will prioritize authentic human expertise while adapting content strategies for a world increasingly mediated by machines.
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Couchbase Converges The Agent Data Stack Around Operational Data

Indranil Bandyopadhyay 5 days ago
AI agents executing complex workflows may need to combine operational and analytical data, persistent memory, semantic retrieval, and access to tools within a single reasoning loop. Together, these services make up the agent data stack. When teams build that stack from separate services, they have to integrate each service and keep copied data in sync, […]
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Anthropic’s Founders’ Letter Has The Right Ideals, But Reality Will Decide

Mike Gualtieri 5 days ago
Here we go. Anthropic filed its S-1 on October 26, the formal start of its IPO. The financials will get the headlines, but read the founders’ letter at the beginning of the S-1. It describes how AI should be brought into the world as if from the AI company you would design from scratch: intelligence […]
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Don’t Block All The Bots — They Might Be Shopping For Your Customers

Emily Pfeiffer 6 days ago
Bot and agent management is crucial for preventing attacks from unwanted bots. But in retail, blocking all agents can block shoppers, too.

A Third Of Consumers Will Reject Content They Can't Verify

Explore Forrester's 2027 Predictions guide for B2C, CX, and digital leaders to uncover the five shifts putting new pressure on brands to earn trust and regain control.

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Predictions 2027: The Outcome Economy Hits Enterprise Software, And Reality Hits Back

Kate Leggett 6 days ago
The enterprise application is no longer the center of value creation. In 2027, AI, digital sovereignty, and changing software economics will push technology leaders to rethink how they govern enterprise outcomes.
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Basware Unveils Governed Agentic AP Automation

Meng Liu 6 days ago
At Basware’s VIP customer event in Dublin last week, the company set out an ambitious direction for invoice lifecycle management. Its roadmap brings together agentic AI, invoice data, payment fraud prevention, and e-invoicing compliance. The strategy reflects how the accounts payable (AP) automation market is changing. Touchless invoice processing remains important, but it’s becoming a […]
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Tokenomics: The Economics Of AI Value Realization

Tracy Woo October 27, 2026
What is tokenomics? How do I manage token costs? Does tokenomics matter if I only purchase AI copilot subscriptions? Questions like these dominate the bulk of my client conversations. Tech leaders believe tokenomics is simply a token cost management exercise — it isn’t. Tokenomics may be one of the most misleading terms in the AI […]
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