Historically, upgrading your contact center solution was a costly endeavor. The Genesys® PureCloud™ solution breaks the mold with a three-year 571% ROI and payback in less than three months.

SAP Jam is a cloud-based social software platform that transforms the way people work by bringing together people, data, and decision-making capabilities when and where workers need them. In this Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study commissioned by SAP, learn about the potential return on investment you can realize by deploying SAP Jam.

Cloud computing is transforming IT in terms of how services are delivered, how infrastructure is deployed and managed, and how IT organizations structure themselves. For the purposes of this study, Forrester is defining a cloud solution as having three major characteristics: “self-service access, full automation of processes and policies, and metering and tracking of usage.”1 It then becomes a question of whether you manage your cloud(s) yourself, outsource it, or use a hybrid combination of private and public cloud resources.

In order to appeal today’s empowered audiences, you have to deliver highly personalised marketing experiences that respond to their needs and behaviour. Read this report for actionable insight into customer-centric marketing.

This study provides a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of an on-premises private cloud deployment. Download this study (commissioned by Dell and delivered by Forrester Consulting) to better understand the benefits on your organization and to understand how leveraging private cloud can help your organization win, serve and retain customers. Costs, flexibility, risks and ROI associated with a private cloud deployment.

In this Forrester report: How the infrastructure/operations (I&O) role changes in a hybrid cloud world. How they accelerate the cloud application delivery life cycle to exceed business expectations of cloud & which management capabilities must be mastered to take on the role of hybrid cloud manager.

Don’t miss out on the perspective provided in the latest Forrester Thought Leader Cloud Survey. In-depth responses provided by 300 cloud decision makers show you: • Why users go around IT for cloud services • Why you should embrace hybrid cloud – for yourself and the business • A best-practices checklist to help build and run a cloud that fits your business needs • Four key recommendations from Forrester to reach Cloud success Compliments of BMC Software.

With companies embracing mobility to maintain competitive advantage in the digital era, information security threats have increased exponentially. Userfriendly technologies such as mobile devices, mobile apps, and cloud storage are often hacker-friendly too, creating opportunities for cybercriminals to covertly infiltrate company data. This opens the door to data loss, reputational damage, loss of proprietary information – not to mention the associated regulatory penalties and potential legal fees. IT bears the brunt of responsibility for information security, yet according to Forrester, internal incidents top the list of security breach causes in 2014.

IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to rethink how they design, deploy, and manage IT services in a way that seamlessly combines internal resources and public cloud platforms into a single platform.

In The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q4 2014, Forrester evaluates the 16 most significant Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms and details how each vendor fulfills the 19 evaluation criteria points.

It’s all too easy for CIOs and technology management to build a strategy around any new technology area that is focused on delivering lower technology costs and greater operational efficiency. However, to get your cloud strategy right, you have to learn to move away from measuring the success of change against technology management care-abouts and focus on the priorities of the business. Forrester’s Business Technographics® surveys show a stark disconnect between technology management’s and the business’ desired outcomes from cloud computing; embracing the shift to cloud services means driving and measuring its success against metrics defined by the business before those of IT. This report outlines the strategic plan of Forrester’s solution for CIOs working on cloud computing. This report is designed to help you onboard the business to your cloud strategy.

This report focuses on commercial-software-only private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud solutions and serves as a refresh to Forrester’s “Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011” report.

This report focuses on commercial-software-only private infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud solutions and serves as a refresh to Forrester’s “Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions, Q2 2011” report.

From the cloud or hosted, outsourced or as a managed service—what is the best way to deploy collaboration services? In this report, Forrester helps IT pros identify key priorities and create an optimal strategy for implementation.

This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help customer insights (CI) professionals select the right partner for their RTIM needs.

Learn how businesses in all industries are adapting to the connected economy with new cloud-enabled offerings. Download Forrester's report now.

Cloud is no longer a tactical solution but rather a strategic enabler of connected economies. Technology leaders will orchestrate cloud ecosystems that connect employees, customers, partners, vendors, and devices to serve rising customer expectations. Firms will shift from being mere cloud adopters to becoming cloud companies themselves—stewards of their own ecosystems. This Forrester report—presented by Epicor—highlights the transformation taking place as we move to a world of connected cloud ecosystems, and it describes how: • The cloud economy disrupts business models • Rightsourcing is a key challenge to cloud success • You will orchestrate the cloud, and it will orchestrate you Download the report to learn more and discover why you should change the way you think about cloud.

Forrester, a leading independent research firm, analysed and scored the most significant cloud HR management systems on the market. Its findings? Workday is a leader in SaaS HRMS. In fact, we received the highest possible score in 16 criteria, including business vision, technology innovation, usability, mobile—and more. “Workday articulates a clear vision for the transformational value of the HR function and an innovative technology vision based on business flexibility, advanced analytics and user experiences, and a unified platform.” —Forrester Research, Inc., “The Forrester Wave™: SaaS Human Resource Management Systems, Q3 2017”; 22 August 2017. Get your complimentary report to learn: •Forrester’s objective review of each provider •How each provider measures up against Forrester’s rigorous criteria •Why Workday is a leader in SaaS HRMS

An imperative for many enterprises is to undergo a digital transformation to develop new business models, engage better with customers and employees, and remain competitive. Underpinning this transformation is the use of cloud services, which support the rapid innovation and responsiveness required in the digital age. Unfortunately, current enterprise networks tasked with delivering these innovative services are complex, rigid, costly, and were not built for the speed and flexibility needed in the cloud and digital era. As a result, many organizations are challenging the status quo of traditional networking by taking a software-defined approach. Watch this webinar featuring research from Forrester to discover: * Trends that are compelling 90% of organizations to evolve their networks * Why SD-WAN is a critical enabler of digital transformation * Key capabilities companies look for in an SD-WAN solution

The enterprise social software market is exploding thanks to converging trends of consumerization, cloud, and mobile. In this must-read report, "The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams, Q2 2012", Forrester Research Inc. evaluated five social software vendors with core strengths in the stream based on the overall strength of vendors' current offerings, a clear product strategy, and vendor market presence. In a detailed look at the space, Forrester named Yammer as a leader.

This Gilbane Group Beacon examines how large-­scale trends are changing enterprise collaboration and content sharing expectations. It defines Cloud Content Management, an emerging set of content management practices.

Consumer preference for customer service channels is changing across all ages and demographics. Adoption of digital customer service channels, with an emphasis on self-service channels such as web and mobile, is exploding as consumers expect relevant and seamless omnichannel customer service. However, firms’ technology and staffing plans are not keeping up with consumer demand for digital customer service. This report outlines communication channel customer use and major gaps in contact center technology and operations. It also provides data that will help application development and delivery (AD&D) pros align operations with customer expectations to garner their satisfaction and long-term loyalty.

If your company is using cloud computing services today, it’s highly likely you are already in a hybrid cloud configuration. The key question is whether you are actively managing this reality. In January 2014, HP commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the state of enterprise hybrid cloud environments and how they are being managed. Forrester developed a hypothesis that tested the assertion that enterprise IT operations teams struggle to recognize and manage this hybrid state — a hypothesis that was proven out.

Organizations of all types are attracted by the promises of private cloud computing, but few actually have the virtual maturity to be successful. This Forrester report reveals the latest virtualization trends so you can see how far your peers are in their journey to the private cloud. Read on and discover best practices for improving virtualization in order to prepare for the cloud. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Four Stages to Successful Cloud Adoption Forrester Research predicts 81% of companies expect to leverage the cloud for business-critical applications and services in the next two years. If you’re planning to move applications to the cloud, watch this webinar to learn how Asurion, an insurance provider with 280 million customers worldwide, undertook their cloud migration.