The View from Forrester Research

Policy-based SOA will enable increased business value and agility

Randy Heffner — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:36:33 +0000

Policy-based SOA is one of Forrester's top 15 enterprise technologies to watch.

Client virtualization will help you create your next generation desktop

Natalie Lambert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:27:32 +0000

Client virtualization is one of Forrester's top 15 technology trends to watch.

Why mobility will - and does already - matter to IT

Chris Silva — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:56:14 +0000

While much talk about mobile has a tone of "impending trend" to it, there are currently many mobility initiatives afoot in your organization, some of which IT knows about, some which it may not.

A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business

Matthew Brown — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 +0000

I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long evolution from a basic document [...]

SharePoint rolls on, gathers no MOSS

Tim Walters — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:54:07 +0000

Next week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas is officially sold out, just another sign of the insatiable appetite for Microsoft’s still-imperfect suite. Cold calling sales reps at lesser companies will look on with envy as each attending prospect or customer shells out a list-price $1,199 for the pleasure of hearing a three-day sales pitch about the [...]

Cloud computing belongs on your three-year roadmap

James Staten — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:18:13 +0000

Cloud platforms is one of the technologies included in Forrester's recent report on the top 15 enterprise technologies.

Identifying the technologies that will matter

Alex Cullen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:17:47 +0000

Forrester Research identifies the top 15 technologies that will impact your business over the next three years.

The state of US workforce technology adoption

Ted Schadler — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:54:41 +0000

Did you know that among US information workers that: 35% use laptops and 76% use desktop computers? Only 11% use smartphones? 57% are optimistic about technology, but 43% are pessimistic? We know because we surveyed 2,001 US information workers that use computers in their jobs at firms with 100 or more employees. Here are a few highlights from a [...]

Assessing the maturity of cloud computing services

James Staten — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:55:02 +0000

The number one challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is, what categories of services exist within the definition and business model and how ready these options are for enterprise consumption.

Cisco Buys Tandberg on its way to be your B2B video conferencing partner

Ted Schadler — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:30:52 +0000

I spent a day with Tandberg management last week and came away very impressed with some things I can’t share and also some things that I can share. Tandberg has: Great HD videoconferencing solutions in room-sized all the way down to Webcam. Yep, a Webcam image looks great in a telepresence room. These guys get telepresence [...]