Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 18, 2024

Last week, we issued our analysis of the Q4 2023 earnings announcements of large public technology service providers. First, tech service providers grew much slower in 2023 than in 2022 signaling a belt tightening in technology spend. Our takeaways? While […]

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Despite diminishing pandemic-related excess savings, rising interest rates, and the resumption of student loan payments, US retail sales will continue their growth in the 2023 holiday season. Read more of Forrester Principal Forecast Analyst, Jitender Miglani's insight in this blog.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In Forrester’s Q2 2023 Digital Process Automation Survey, three primary trends came into focus: 1) Organizations hit the pause button on digital transformation (DT) in the wake of economic uncertainty and tightening budgets; 2) process intelligence has gained […]

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 28, 2023

In my latest report, The State Of Data Security, 2023, we reviewed and analyzed Forrester survey data to identify the key data security trends of the year. Data is everywhere. What constitutes sensitive data for organizations today has greatly expanded in type and format.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I’ve been prepping for a detailed evaluation of this technology market for some time, and I’m excited to announce that The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2023, is now live!

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Forrester predicted a metaverse winter for 2023. Absent was the term “metaverse,” which was referenced just a couple of times at best. There were no updates about Horizon Worlds. It’s not unexpected. And […]

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The wait is over: The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platform Providers, Q3 2023, is live! In 2020, Forrester published The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. Three years later, many of the capabilities that were once considered “extended” are now core to Zero Trust.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

After a retrospective review of the largest publicly reported breaches and privacy violations in 2023, here's what you need to know for 2024.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

In July 2023, we attended the Esri User Conference in San Diego, which with 20,000 attendees is the world’s largest geographic information systems (GIS) conference. The conference allowed consumers of GIS like National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Exxon Mobil to demonstrate use cases where they applied those solutions.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I attended the first day of the Intel Innovation 2023 developer’s conference to see how this venerable Silicon Valley giant was responding to AI and competitive pressure. What I found was a comeback story in progress, wrapped in a very heavy dose of AI, led by its dynamic CEO Pat Gelsinger. Intel hopes that AI […]

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Forrester reviews its 2023 sustainability predictions by scoring each individual prediction in depth. This year, one of our five predictions received an A score, three received a B score, and one received a C score.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

LeanIX, a privately held enterprise architecture (EA) management solution, is set to be acquired by SAP, as announced on September 7, 2023 (click here). SAP has made this strategic acquisition to offer SAP clients access to a complete suite of tools essential for continuous business transformation.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 21, 2023

Black Hat USA 2023: Insights From Our Short Vegas Residency Black Hat has gone from being RSAC’s smaller tech and practitioner-focused cousin to being a commercial showcase for cybersecurity vendors.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

ASIS International, the largest membership organization for security management professionals, brought the 2023 Global Security Exchange (GSX) to my hometown of Dallas, Texas. The main attraction of this premier physical security event was the keynote delivered by the 43rd President of the United States, George W.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our first-time evaluation of this dynamic market, The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Intelligence For Customer Service, Q3 2023, is now live! We looked at the top 11 vendors in this market today and evaluated them across 32 criteria.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Indian parliament passed the much-awaited DPDP bill on August 10th, 2023. This has come six years after the Supreme court of India declared the right to privacy as a fundamental right. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) had introduced the first draft of the bill in 2022.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In recent years, VMware has faced major headwinds: It migrated its clients from on-premises to public cloud, changed to a cloud-native application development paradigm, shifted to subscription licensing, had frequent cycles of M&A activities, and experienced unfavorable macroeconomic environments.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Walmart leads Forrester’s 2023 US retailer ranking, with Amazon in second. The top 10, representing 38% of total retail sales, remain unchanged from 2022.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Has The Economy Got You Down? Inflation is rampant, and beleaguered consumers are reeling from high prices.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 25, 2024

Die Ergebnisse der Forrester-Umfrage „2023 State of VoC and CX Measurement Practices“ liegen vor. Sie zeigen einige anhaltende Trends - und einige interessante Verschiebungen.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

For 2023, we published the results in the report How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth, 2023. Each year, we calculate the business impact of improving CX Index by one point.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A few weeks ago, I spoke on a podcast with some of my former colleagues about my experiences in the security industry as a young woman. TL;DR: It’s not always great, and that’s true for many women in the industry. We showed that in our research on Best Practices: Recruiting, Retaining, And Advancing Women In […]

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2018, Forrester has been tracking how Singaporean customers rate their experience with some of the biggest brands in banking and auto and home insurance. This year’s Singapore Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) study reveals several important findings: CX quality among Singapore’s banks slightly dipped.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our APAC Enterprise Architecture Award winner and finalists show how great EA organizations drive internal and external value. Learn more.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cyber insurance is a common tool for risk transfer today. It’s also a key driver for cybersecurity program investment today. But who has cyber insurance and what benefits do organizations see from it?

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Shareholders demand profitable, responsible revenue growth. Buyers expect you to deliver value at every step of the sales process. And sellers expect to be prompted to the best actions and steps to take to achieve quota. It’s really hard to deliver on all these expectations. Buying motions are complicated.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Amid all of the buzz around Copilot at Microsoft Ignite last week, SharePoint Premium was revealed. While this is partially a branding and licensing streamlining effort, SharePoint Premium will continue to evolve into an AI-powered content platform with document automation, metadata enrichment, and other intelligent content services.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I led Forrester’s recent update of the Forrester Wave evaluation of the HCM market after three years in which the market rapidly evolved. Given the challenges that the pandemic and talent constraints posed to the basic role of HR, HCM vendors have worked hard to inject intelligent innovation into what otherwise might have seemed a […]

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Technology Alignment: The Key To Powering Customer-Obsessed Growth You’ve likely suspected it and maybe have even said it out loud: Aligning technology with customer objectives can ignite significant growth. The data backs this up decisively.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In 2023 global cloud vendors all came up with their own digital sovereignty solution to address rising concerns from their customers. However, when I ask customers and vendors to define what digital sovereignty means for them, silence is the most common response.

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