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Everything Is Getting More Expensive, And BI Is No Exception
When clients inquire about enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform pricing, I always advise them to simply divide the annual contract price by the number of expected users. If the resulting number is around $10 per user per month, I tell the client they are in a good spot.
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The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024
Curious about the top cloud trends in 2024? Learn three of the top 10 cloud trends for 2024 in this preview of a new report.
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Four Takeaways From The Esri User Conference For Enterprises Leveraging Location Intelligence
In today's world, the availability of more data than ever plays a crucial role to quench our thirst for a more sustainable future and makes location intelligence even more important. Learn more in this review of the Esri User Conference in San Diego.
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AI Is Now A Core Capability Of BI Platforms
AI capabilities are showing up in nearly all business intelligence platforms. Read this blog to learn seven things AI is now responsible for within most BI platforms and get a preview of our upcoming research on BI platforms.
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Wasn’t Generative AI Supposed To Disrupt Business Intelligence?
Generative AI was supposed to disrupt how we analyze data using BI tools. Find out why that hasn't happened yet.
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Bring Data To The Other 80% Of Business Intelligence Users
Self-service capabilities have raised the percentage of non-IT professionals fulfilling their own business intelligence (BI) requirements to around 20%. Three techniques can help you serve the rest.
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Forrester’s AI Webinar Series: Navigate The Choppy And Exciting Waters Of Enterprise AI
AI is having — and will continue to have — a profound impact on how data scientists, software engineers, and other job functions perform their roles. Get tips on how to define, build, and implement your enterprise AI strategy with the help of Forrester's AI Advantage client webinar series.
Join Us Live: Key 2025 Tech & Security Predictions
Get ahead with insights from Forrester analysts. Join us on Jan. 30 for a webinar on our 2025 predictions covering the future of technology and security, from rising cyberthreats to the impact of AI and automation.
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Announcing Our Inaugural AI Foundation Models For Language Forrester Wave™ — 21 Criteria To Consider, Beyond Benchmarks
In our inaugural evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models For Language, Q2 2024, we break down large language model (LLM) model offering, strategy, and market presence across 21 criteria for 10 providers. Get a preview of the report including four things you should be looking for in a model here.
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With Selipsky Out, What’s Next For AWS?
AWS announced this week that Adam Selipsky will depart as CEO and Matt Garman, AWS senior VP of sales and marketing, would replace him in June. Find out what the implications of this move could be at a critical time for AWS and the broader cloud market overall.
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Balancing Personalization & Optimization In Commerce Search
Learn how to balance customer expectations and business needs with commerce search.
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Avoid Customer Dismay! Benchmark Your Store Fulfillment Initiatives.
Despite increased investment, businesses fall short of consumer fulfilment expectations for in-store order pickup. Analyst Lauren Cevallos explains what’s happening.
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Three Takeaways From Forrester’s 2024 Evaluation Of AI Infrastructure Solutions
Forrester's new Wave report evaluates and ranks the top AI infrastructure solutions. Get three key insights from our analysis in this preview of the report.
2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide
From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.
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Data Governance: Your Key To Unlocking An Insights-Driven Business
The key to turning data into meaningful and actionable insights across the organization lies in a frequently overlooked area — establishing a strong foundation of data governance.
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GenAI’s World-Changing Power Is Putting Knowledge To Work
Generative AI will not just disrupt — it will shatter markets, industries, and economies in waves over the next 10 to 15 years. We sense this, but why and how will this happen? We think that generative AI drives the cost of knowledge activation to zero and creates a virtual knowledge loop that increases what is known in the world by more people. We are launching deep research into this topic and invite you to join us.
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GenAI Will Shatter And Reconstruct Every Company And Industry
How will generative AI reconstruct companies, industries, countries, and roles? Our analysts try to answer one of the biggest questions in business today.
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Predictions 2024: GenAI And Partners Help B2B Marketing, Sales, And Product Endure A Wild Ride Ahead
B2B marketing, sales, and product functions in 2024 will face disruption and opportunity from generative AI, making alignment more critical than ever. Learn more about what’s coming in 2024.
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BI Governance Lets You Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too
Learn how BI governance can help you achieve true data democratization at your organization.
Plan Your IT & Security Budgets For 2025 Success
Watch our on-demand technology budget planning webinar. Get benchmarks for strategic investments, divestments, and experiments to maximize business value from 2025 tech and security spending.
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GIS Innovations Flooded ESRI’s 2023 User Conference
With extreme heat waves, wildfires, and floods facing populations everywhere, Esri sees the opportunity as well as the danger. Learn more in this review of the Esri user conference.
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How Data Pros Can Help Build The Future Of Customer Experience Insights
Join us at Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights event to learn about how customer experience and data professionals can work more closely to ensure that they collectively provide the analytics and insights their organizations need to improve experiences.
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ThoughtSpot Acquires Mode Analytics, Goes After Data Pros
In the recently published report, The Forrester Wave™: Augmented Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2023, we wrote that “ThoughtSpot’s continued focus on conversational user experience (UX) is no longer differentiating.” ThoughtSpot’s announced acquisition of Mode Analytics on June 26 is perhaps a means for ThoughtSpot to grow beyond its historical business user-focused strength in UX. Mode […]
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