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Predictions 2025: A Year Of Reckoning For Enterprise Application Vendors

Kate Leggett 17 hours ago
After a challenging 2024, two themes will dominate the enterprise software market in 2025: trust and value. Learn more in our 2025 predictions for enterprise software.
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Predictions 2025: GenAI Reality Bites Back For Software Developers

Christopher Condo 17 hours ago
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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Predictions 2025 Webinar: Technology & Security

Find out where AI, cloud, and infrastructure are headed in 2025. Join our analysts on January 30 for a deep dive into our 2025 predictions for technology and security leaders. 
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Predictions 2025: Tech Leaders Chase High Performance

Frederic Giron 2 days ago
After a period of strong technology investment, the emphasis in 2025 will shift to making existing technologies work harder through improved adoption, integration, and optimization. Learn more in our 2025 predictions for technology leaders.
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Predictions 2025: Hard-Won Insights Drive Growth

Sharyn Leaver 2 days ago
Business focus is shifting from experimentation to bottom-line gains. Our Predictions 2025 resources reveal what’s next for your industry and role — and the moves that will set you up for competitive advantage.
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Forrester’s 2024 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner And Finalists For APAC

Ashutosh Sharma October 13, 2024
What does high-performance IT Iook like? Read about the technology strategy that won Macquarie’s Banking and Financial Services group this year’s Technology Strategy Impact Award for the APAC region.
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IBM Vies For Positioning As The De Facto FinOps Solution

Tracy Woo September 19, 2024
On Tuesday, IBM announced its acquisition of Kubernetes cost management solution Kubecost. This acquisition follows a series of FinOps-focused companies in recent years with Apptio (TBM/FinOps), Turbonomic (FinOps/resource automation), Nordcloud (FinOps services), and Instana (observability). Answers To Your Top Questions About The Kubecost Acquistion What should I know? Kubecost enhances an already market-leading solution. In […]

Jan. 30 Tech & Security Predictions Webinar

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Why Forrester’s SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important

Akshara Naik Lopez September 16, 2024
We recently completed The SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024. A lot has changed in the SAP ecosystem since the last edition of this Forrester landscape. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations are taking center stage for the vast majority of SAP clients. The RISE with SAP offering has undergone massive changes in the last […]
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Why Forrester’s Oracle Services Landscape, Q3 2024, Is So Important

Akshara Naik Lopez September 16, 2024
We recently completed The Oracle Services Landscape, Q3 2024. Since the last edition of this Forrester Landscape, Oracle customers have been eager to modernize their enterprise applications’ footprint and adopt software-as-a-service (SaaS) principles. Customers of heritage products, like E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, have been rapidly adopting Oracle Fusion Applications as Oracle is one of the […]
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The Rise Of Agentic Process Management

Craig Le Clair September 16, 2024
Learn the benefits and risks of agentic AI as well as the requirements for agentic process management.
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Q2 2024 Tech Service Provider Earnings: Four Forces Determine Their Future

Ted Schadler September 9, 2024
We analyzed the Q2 2024 earnings announcements of five large public technology service providers. Get the story behind the story in this post.
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European Leaders: Align Budget Planning To Accelerate Performance In 2025

Laura Koetzle September 9, 2024
Upbeat budget expectations for 2025 will serve European leaders well, but placing the right bets will be critical to securing a competitive edge. Read a few of our top recommendations.

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Step into 2025 with confidence! Explore our predictions for tech and security leaders, featuring key trends in AI, cloud, SDLC, and AIOps you need to know.

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From Pixels To Perception: The Impact Of Foundation Models For Vision

Indranil Bandyopadhyay September 6, 2024
Large-scale AI models trained on extensive datasets are shifting computer vision toward more adaptable and scalable solutions.
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Technology Leaders Deliver Significantly Stronger Business Outcomes With High-Performance IT

Chuck Gahun September 5, 2024
The data is clear: high-performance IT shops deliver better business outcomes and experience growth that is 1.8x faster than their peers. Find out why.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024

Naveen Chhabra September 4, 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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AI And The Green Market Revolution Will Intertwine

Thomas Husson September 2, 2024
While AI has huge potential to mitigate the environmental crisis, the technology that powers AI has a huge impact on climate change and water resources. Learn how the futures of AI and the green market revolution are intimately linked and how they will both become invisibly embedded into our daily lives.
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Digital Doubles Vs. Digital Twins: Unraveling The Distinctions

What It Means August 29, 2024
There are digital doubles and digital twins. How can you tell the two apart? And more importantly, are either (or both) right for your organization? Vice President and Principal Analyst Paul Miller and Senior Analyst Stephanie Liu provide clarity in this episode.
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Budget Planning Guide 2025 For APAC Tech Leaders: Where To Invest, Cut, And Experiment

Frederic Giron August 22, 2024
According to Forrester data, 95% of APAC technology decision-makers anticipate increased IT budgets next year. But macroeconomic uncertainty will force IT leaders to make tough decisions. Get insight into where to invest, where to cut, and where to experiment with your 2025 IT budget.
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HPE Seeks To Bolster Its Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities And Credibility With Morpheus Acquisition

Tracy Woo August 16, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced an agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a multicloud management solution. Find out what this means for the two firms and their customers in this blog.
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The 10 Most Important Cloud Trends For 2024

Tracy Woo August 15, 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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