Big Data

Learn how to balance your need for a hybrid environment with the benefits of an elastic cloud-based BI platform.

Digital transformation is coming to corporate banking. Corporate banking today is antiquated due to its highly customized and complex product offerings; lack of challengers to drive innovation; and strong barriers to switching for clients. Enterprise clients have lived with a subpar experience for far too long. Now these clients are starting to demand change. They […]

Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.

We recently published “The Forrester Wave™: Graph Data Platforms, Q4 2020” evaluation to help organizations make the appropriate decision when choosing a vendor. Although Forrester has been covering graph databases for more than a decade, this is the first vendor comparison report. While we have long contemplated doing a Wave in this space, it was […]

Insanity is sometimes defined as repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result. The future of data breaks this cycle to be your vaccine for chaos.

Get a detailed preview of the data strategy track at the upcoming Forrester Data Strategy & Insights live virtual event.

Enterprise BI is not dead, It's alive and thriving. But there are changes ahead. Learn about five of them here.

What exactly is an "insight"? Analyst Brandon Purcell previews Forrester's new Periodic Table of Insights which will be unveiled at the upcoming Data Strategy & Insights live virtual event.

Our analysts address the five most pressing questions in the facial recognition debate.

Companies have short attention spans when it comes to data governance. Even for organizations with sustained programs, the continuous push and pull of new regulations, projects, or data and analytics investments create constant disruption. To address these expansions, data owners either search for the simple approach or reeducate on data governance 101. Here is the […]

A defining factor for enterprises and governments throughout the pandemic has been the extent to which they've embraced and been led by data.

If you set out to build a “boil the ocean” business case for why to invest in data, analytics, and insights initiatives — stop. Use your precious time to instead focus on prioritizing the investment categories across where you are in your business-insights maturity, because they will yield tangible benefits — both top- and bottom-line […]

Quite a lot has happened since 2020 started. As Australian banking leaders roll out initiatives to help consumers and small business owners cope with the fallout from the coronavirus, they also face an impending deadline: to make consumer data available by July this year. Although open banking was announced two years ago, most Australian banks […]

A unique public/private consortium organized by IBM and the Department of Energy is bringing high-performance computing to the COVID-19 fight. Analyst Tracy Woo provides details.

Learn how to build a broader data and analytics community in your organization by identifying "friendlies.” 

Learn the topics that data professionals want to hear about most at the upcoming Data Strategy & Insights Forum.

Data and analytics expertise of all kinds is getting tougher to find and retain. Get advice for recruiting and retaining data and analytics professionals.

Activating The Holding Company The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) announced the creation of Kinesso, a martech company that will build products and software solutions to scale precision marketing. This move gives IPG the opportunity to power both media and creative with technology and data-driven solutions that use Acxiom as the data management layer and […]

Forrester has just published 2019 refreshes of our enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform Wave™ evaluations. As the BI market and the technology continue to evolve, so does our research. This year, we emphasized: New market segmentation by both vendor-managed and client-managed platforms, which roughly equate to on-premises and cloud-based platforms, respectively, but not quite. Since […]