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Meet The New Principal Analyst For Cloud-Native Development, Devin Dickerson
Tell Us About Yourself I’m a native New Orleanian passionate about old-world architecture, gaming, and weight lifting. I love to travel with family, and I keep in touch with the same friends I’ve had since middle school and college. I was always interested in computers and fascinated by the magic of software and games. Still, […]
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Aiming For Innovation: Cloud In The US Today
Cloud is no longer simply a path to greater efficiency. Today, it's a strategy for IT modernization. Get a preview of Forrester's new report, The State Of The Cloud In The US, in this blog post.
Is Your Data Ready For AI?
Learn the 8 phases of shifting to an AI-first data strategy.
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Energize Your Agile Transformation
Learn five key points to guide your journey toward development and delivery modernization.
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Why Headless Commerce Is A Pain In The Neck
It’s not your fault you don’t understand “headless commerce.” Great products have great names that express what they are and why they’re good. Like “doghouse” or “sugar-free gum.” But headless commerce … that’s confusing, and it’s poorly messaged. Let’s run two tests to illustrate this. (Full disclosure: This is a roast of headless commerce.) Round […]
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The Top Three Solutions In B2C Commerce In 2022 — Each Holds A Unique Position In The Market
The Forrester Wave™ for B2C Commerce Solutions surfaced a significant shift in the market, which we predicted but did not expect to see so quickly or so clearly.
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The Top Three Solutions For B2B Commerce In 2022
The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Solutions, Q2 2022 surfaced a significant shift in the market, which we predicted but did not expect to see so quickly or so clearly. So What Did The Results Reveal About The Market? Three solutions scored higher than more broadly adopted solutions. In all three cases, these solutions take a […]
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The Three Myths Of IT Change Management Are Holding You Back
IT change management has been a significant source of debate over the years. I can say that change management is the number one source of the most uncomfortable, stressful, and irritating moments throughout my career. On one side, we have the IT service management (ITSM) thinking, which primarily focuses on a well-defined manual process, with […]
Predictions 2022 Live
Chart a bold path to success in 2022. Hear our predictions for the year ahead.
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What “Cobra Kai” Can Teach Us About DevSecOps
Learn what valuable lessons the popular TV series can provide about striking the right balance between speed and data protection.
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Our List Of Kubernetes Best Practices — From The Real World
Kubernetes is conquering IT infrastructure. But despite its notorious complexity, some people are doing it right. Get examples of some best practices here.
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Presenting The First Forrester Wave™ Evaluation On Public Cloud Container Platforms
The Forrester Public Cloud Container Platform Wave results are in -- the standouts offer the broadest automation and ecosystems while embracing open source software.
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Avoid An Open Source Security Nightmare
We’ve had a few high-profile security problems with open source software. A disgruntled developer recently delivered intentionally modified releases of his faker.js and colors.js packages, which broke “thousands of projects” that relied on them. Some are wondering if it’s safe to use open source software at all. The White House certainly is — they’ve asked […]
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Presenting The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021
In 2017, Forrester expanded upon the IT service management market (ITSM) to establish enterprise service management (ESM) as a chosen area of coverage, continuing this research with a 2019 Forrester Wave™ evaluation. Now, we are pleased to announce The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2021. In 2018, ITSM vendors were still completing the transition […]
European Predictions 2022
Visit our resource hub to discover the key trends impacting European businesses in 2022.
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Predictions 2022: Software Development Adapts To A New Normal
New expectations call for new processes and tools. Learn how software development will adapt to the new normal in 2022.
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Practices Deliver What Processes Can’t
Struggling to move beyond agile and scale innovation across your organization? Learn how establishing new practices can help.
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Feature Management Is Hot — Feature Experimentation Is Just Warming Up
Feature management and experimentation tools assist agile-plus-DevOps teams in achieving progressive delivery. Read more about our recent evaluation of these tools.
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Expertise And The Shared Services Problem: A Conversation With Don Reinertsen
One of the biggest hurdles for DevOps is meeting the need for both specialists and generalists. Principal Analyst Charles Betz talks with DevOps expert Don Reinertsen about striking the right balance.
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Reflecting On KubeCon 2021
Kubernetes has made a huge impact on how businesses deploy applications and how they adopt cloud. This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 virtual agenda was very broad, touching almost every aspect of both developer and operations journeys. As Lee Sustar noted in his blog earlier this week, Kubernetes is being used in a variety […]
See the future and gain a competitive advantage for 2022
Discover 12 trends our research reveals will matter most this year. Download our Predictions 2022 Guide.
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Make Agile A Stepping Stone Toward Future Fit Adaptability
Being adaptive is one of three core competencies of what Forrester calls a future fit organization. Let’s explore how to reach adaptability and help you deal with the unknown, drive organizational flexibility, and react to rapid change.
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Just In Time, The SAST Market Has Embraced The Developer
The classical challenge with static application security testing (SAST) was bridging the gap between security and development. In SAST’s early days, it was a tool for security pros, who threw the results of prerelease scans over the wall to developers to fix. Developers had to contend with large numbers of unclear findings and false positives, […]
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The New Change Management: Automated And Decentralized
Principal analyst Charles Betz provides key recommendations for modernizing IT change management in the wake of agile transformation.
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