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News Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research said Generation Y is the audience companies are most struggling to understand - a key issue due to their importance for future revenue growth. The research is part of Forrester's 2008 North... [25 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open source... [24 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News But Forrester Research projects the US market will grow to more than 4.5 million households by 2012, while the Diffusion Group predicts it surging to as high as 21.5 million in all of North America by 2015. [21 Jul 2008]
UK trails in open source race
News But according to Forrester Research, the UK is joint top (with Germany and the US) for businesses currently piloting open source technology - with five per cent. According to Forrester, organisations using or planning to use open source software... [14 Jul 2008]
Microsoft unveils licensing plan for business
News In a recent report, analysis firm Forrester advised its clients to plan months ahead to figure out which Microsoft licensing option made the most financial sense. Forrester said in the report: "Microsoft's software maintenance agreement is among... [01 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
News Forrester analyst George F Colony says the ruthless way in which Microsoft achieved its dominant position under Gates wasn't as detrimental as others would argue. During his career Gates has made Microsoft into one of the biggest companies in the... [25 Jun 2008]
Tech failing to meet business expectations
News Although four out of five (81 per cent) of businesses adopt formal SLAs, these are only met 74 per cent of the time, according to research carried out by Forrester Consulting. According to Forrester, the failure of these SLAs demonstrates many... [23 Jun 2008]
Oracle takes on SAP with retail apps
News Forrester Research principal analyst George Lawrie told silicon.com that many retailers are still wedded to their best of breed applications but that the suite could impact positively on the trading performance of any retailer opting for the suite. [18 Jun 2008]
Apple: The future of home tech
News That's according to a report from analyst house Forrester Research, which predicts Apple's product strategy will promote the linking up of digital content, PCs, TV and stereo. Existing Apple products such as the Mac, Apple TV, Apple Store and... [22 May 2008]
Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace
News And according to research by Forrester Research, most upgrades were from users of Windows 2000 - which lost around six per cent of users - rather than XP, which Vista is intended to replace. Around a quarter of enterprises plan to upgrade to Vista... [02 Apr 2008]
'Counsellors' to keep vendor-client marriages sweet
News An increasing number of companies buying IT products and services are hoping to avoid contract problems or even a messy divorce by setting up a 'vendor management office' (VMO) to keep tighter control of suppliers, according to a report by... [27 Mar 2008]
Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?
News Forrester Research on Monday released a report written by James Staten, an IT operations and infrastructure analyst, saying that cloud computing does not meet the needs of large businesses. Forrester identified a wide range of companies as "cloud... [11 Mar 2008]
2008 - worse than predicted for IT spending
News Analyst house Forrester Research has downgraded its 2008 forecast for global IT purchasing, projecting that US spending on IT goods and services will grow 2.8 per cent year-on-year - down from its previous forecast of 4.6 per cent - while global... [12 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 security risks being ignored
News Tom Rashke, senior analyst at Forrester, said 25 per cent of US CIOs in a recent survey admitted adoption of web 2.0 tools would be a priority in 2008, even though the strategy would potentially increase potential areas of attack, increase the... [31 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News Customer reviews and photographic images were two of the improvements most cited in this piece of research from Forrester. In the face of all that economic gloom however, many retail and leisure organisations lit the green light on innovative... [19 Dec 2007]
