Forrester Research - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• CIOs still in control of most IT spending, Forrester says

  CIOs still have the last word over most IT spending but over time they will work more closely with business units on buying decisions, a Forrester Research survey finds.

• Are Rival Partnerships the Future of IT Outsourcing?

  HCL and CSC, companies that have often competed for customers, have teamed to focus on legacy application modernization and cloud hosting. Could partnerships formed by rivals prove more valuable than mega-acquisitions as IT outsourcing providers respond to changing market dynamics?

• CIOs and CMOs Must Work Together to Satisfy Customers

  According to a new Forrester Research report, this is the 'age of the customer' and there's no time or room for turf wars, competing agendas and distrust between technology and marketing departments.

• How to survive an IBM software licence audit

  While many software vendors run software license audits on customers, there are some key differences customers should be mindful of when it comes to IBM, according to a new report from advisory firm Miro Consulting.

• Wall Street Beat: Forecasts call for tech to trend upward this year

  After a year in which tech stocks boomed but overall IT spending barely eked out single-digit growth, market forecasters are adopting an air of cautious optimism for 2014.

• Gartner: Global IT spending will grow slightly in 2014

  Global spending on IT and telecom products and services will grow 3.1 percent between 2013 and 2014, compared to just 0.4 percent a year earlier, with enterprise software spending driving much of the growth, according to Gartner projections.

• Global IT spending outlook 'better but subpar' for 2014, Forrester says

  Global spending on technology will rise 6.2 percent in U.S. dollars to US$2.22 trillion in 2014, helped by an improving economy and growing interest in areas such as mobility and cloud computing, according to new data from Forrester Research.

• Is Data Complexity Blinding Your IT Decision-Making?

  The ever-increasing complexity of data about IT environments is making it increasingly difficult for organizations to make effective IT decisions.

• Where did that data come from? And do you want fries with it?

  He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts -- for support rather than illumination -- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

• How to balance maintenance and IT innovation

  Many IT leaders admit their spending is too heavily weighted toward keep-the-lights-on projects. Here's how to tip the balance.

• VM-based storage platform scales out to multiple sites

  Enterprises that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage.

• Forrester: Survey data dispels 'myths' about software industry trends in 2013

  Enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications may run the core operations of companies around the world, but enterprises are placing a higher priority in 2013 on other types of software, in particular business intelligence (BI), according to a new Forrester Research survey.

• Software to be biggest tech spend in 2013: Forrester

  The biggest investment CIOs are making this year is on custom-built software, applications and middleware, which will reach US$542 billion globally, according to Forrester Research’s latest forecast.

• Has business intelligence failed?

  To help businesses get smarter and stronger, business intelligence (BI) systems analyse and synthesise huge pools of corporate data to create terabytes of performance-enhancing information for enterprises of all sizes.

• Forrester's iPad Security Tips

  Market researcher Forrester has some unpleasant news for those of you running iPad apps in your enterprise. Forrester's iPad take: Chances are good that commercial apps don't protect sensitive data on an iPad or iPhone.