Government Services

Forrester empowers organizations with expert-driven frameworks, assessments, and tools to transform strategy into tangible success. Our proven methodologies help leaders navigate complexity, drive mission success, and achieve meaningful outcomes.

• Assessments: Identify gaps and fast-track execution with targeted assessments.
• Best practices: Gain actionable insights to enhance decision-making and optimize performance.
• Strengthen business cases: Build compelling, data-backed justifications for strategic investments.
• Models and frameworks: Leverage industry-leading tools to implement and scale successful strategies.
• Enhance procurement efficiency: Streamline vendor negotiations and drive cost-effective decisions with procurement templates.

Forrester equips organizations with expert-driven resources to anticipate change, benchmark success, and make informed decisions with confidence. Our strategic insights help leaders navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and drive long-term success.

• Analyst-led webinars: Gain exclusive access to expert perspectives, emerging trends, and industry best practices to inform your strategy.
• Custom benchmarks: Compare your organization’s performance against industry leaders to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
• Modifiable templates: Accelerate execution with ready-to-use, customizable templates that align with your strategic goals.
• Predictions reports: Stay ahead of market shifts with data-driven forecasts that help you anticipate risks and opportunities.
• “Quick take” reports: Get concise, actionable insights on timely issues to drive faster, more informed decision-making.
• Trends reports: Identify and capitalize on key market movements to ensure that your strategies remain relevant and future-proof.

Leading change demands vision, strategy, and seamless execution. Forrester’s certification programs equip leaders and teams with the tools, skills, and confidence needed to deliver on their most critical initiatives. Designed for flexibility and impact, these dynamic programs are self-paced and on-demand, led by Forrester subject-matter experts through recorded video sessions. With Forrester Decisions, participants gain access to certification courses with an extensive on demand course library, which can also be purchased as standalone offerings for individuals or teams.

Forrester Summits bring together analysts, industry leaders, and peers to explore key trends, insights, and innovations. These events build upon Forrester’s research, data products, and services, creating a forum where professionals can connect with others in similar roles while expanding their network beyond their industry.

Peer discussions are interactive virtual meetings centered on relevant topics, where professionals facing similar challenges collaborate, validate ideas, and strategize solutions. Facilitated by Forrester experts, these discussions encourage active participation and knowledge-sharing to help mitigate risks and navigate complex decisions.

Additionally, Forrester hosts smaller, ad hoc events worldwide, designed to address real-time challenges based on client needs. Whether through large-scale summits, focused peer discussions, or dynamic real-time engagements, Forrester events provide the insights and connections necessary to drive meaningful outcomes.

When it comes to making confident decisions about vendors and technology solutions, Forrester provides unmatched resources to guide your strategy.

• Forrester Wave™ evaluations: Gain a comprehensive, side-by-side comparison of leading vendors in key markets, backed by objective, transparent research to identify the best-fit solutions for your needs.
• Vendor landscape reports: Explore detailed assessments of industry vendors to understand their strengths, capabilities, and alignment with your specific priorities.
• Tech Tide™ reports: Assess over 480 technology categories and plot them in a technology space according to their ecosystem maturity, business value-add, and future trajectory.

• Seamless onboarding and implementation: Forrester will work closely with your team to onboard users efficiently, ensuring that they are equipped to access research, reports, and advisory tools tailored to government challenges. A custom engagement plan will be created to align with your agency’s goals and priorities.
• Proactive, ongoing support: Our experts will deliver timely and relevant research, tools, and webinars focused on government initiatives, enabling your team to address challenges with confidence. Personalized analyst sessions will provide actionable advice to tackle specific issues as they arise.
• Quarterly business reviews (QBRs): We facilitate structured QBRs to assess progress, measure impact, and refine engagement strategies. These sessions ensure continuous alignment with your agency’s evolving priorities while maximizing the value of Forrester’s insights and advisory services.

• Customized insights and collaboration: Regular check-ins will keep your agency’s goals on track while we tailor resources — such as reports, data, and insights — to fit your objectives. This ensures that every deliverable aligns with your unique mission needs.
• Adaptability and responsiveness: Government priorities evolve, and so do we. Whether it’s switching focus areas, adding team members, or refining our engagement strategy, Forrester’s services are flexible and designed to adapt to your agency’s changing demands.

Applying Forrester’s decades of expertise in government-focused research, actionable insights, and proven frameworks, our consultants collaborate with agency leaders to design and implement strategies that enhance mission delivery, improve operational efficiency, and optimize resources.

Our experts partner with you to establish a unified vision, develop a strategic roadmap that adapts to evolving public-sector needs, select the right technologies, secure stakeholder alignment, engage employees, measure progress, and demonstrate impactful results that advance your agency’s mission.

Leveraging Forrester’s objective insights, trusted reputation in the public sector, and proven Total Economic Impact™ ROI methodology, our consultants collaborate with government leaders to develop data-driven, impactful strategies that engage stakeholders and drive mission success.

Partner with our experts to enhance your outreach and education initiatives, effectively communicate critical trends and priorities, build trust and credibility with constituents, and provide the data and insights needed to justify investments in programs and technologies that advance your agency’s goals.

Unlock Access For Every Member

You can license your entire team, regardless of role, to access Forrester research and a common set of key resources. Our tiered access model ensures that while access levels vary, every team member can stay aligned with consistent insights, bring clarity to conversations, and make informed decisions—ensuring that everyone benefits from critical insights.

ZT Training And Certification With CPE Credits

Forrester is the only company offering Zero Trust training and certification programs that empower your team with the skills to implement Zero Trust frameworks while also providing continuing professional education (CPE) credits.

Pioneers In Zero Trust And Customer Experience

Forrester is the originator of Zero Trust and the Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), setting the global standard for security and customer experience transformation.

Izola: GenAI-Powered Research Insights

Forrester’s secure genAI research assistant enables you to query our extensive research library and receive synthesized, actionable answers in seconds. Izola accelerates decision-making and reduces time to insight, with no government data ingestion.

Exceptional Customer Intimacy

We provide direct access to Forrester’s subject-matter experts and analysts, delivering tailored, one-on-one guidance. Importantly, we don’t exclude nonmembers from participating in essential sessions.

Dedicated Service Delivery Team

A dedicated team works closely with your agency to understand its unique priorities and challenges, providing guidance to streamline efforts and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Forrester is proud to partner with Carahsoft Technology Corp. to make our research, advisory, consulting, and events more accessible across the U.S. and Canada. Through Carahsoft’s extensive reseller network and contract vehicles, including OMNIA Partners (R240303), TIPS (220105), E&I (E100063-2021MA), and ITES-SW2 (W52P1J-20-D-0042), government leaders gain more pathways to trusted resources that accelerate transformation and enable them to lead with confidence.

About Carahsoft:
Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government and Education and Healthcare. As the Master Government Aggregator® for our vendor partners, we deliver solutions for Cybersecurity, MultiCloud, DevSecOps, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Customer Experience and Engagement, and more. Working with our reseller partners, our sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles.

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L’Union des groupements d’achats publics

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The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ)