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Welcome to 2017: The year of #DevOps

Forrester IT

We are eager to announce a beacon of light to help penetrate the post-holiday fog: Forrester's DevOps Benchmark Survey for 2017 is officially live! Pivotal to many of our reports, this is your opportunity to shape our research, including our upcoming report "Six Trends That Shape DevOps Adoption In 2017 And Beyond.". All participants can receive an executive summary of the results of the survey after it closes on February 13, 2017.

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Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cyber crime stories of 2017

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Reflections from HPE Discover 2017

Forrester IT

From June 4 - 6, 2017, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise hosted an Analyst Summit in hot Las Vegas as part of their HPE Discover 2017 event. I have seen HP split into both HPE and HP Inc creating two powerhouses and then again spin-merge their services teams into CSC (now DXC) and HPE Software into Micro Focus finalized by September 1, 2017.

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Bosch Connected World 2017 – Lessons From IoT Practitioners

Forrester IT

In March 2017, Bosch hosted its annual internet-of-things (IoT) conference, Bosch Connected World (BCW), in Berlin. With Paul Miller. Since last year, the event has doubled in size, attracting 2,500 attendees from businesses and vendors. This jump reflects the growing interest in IoT. The number of attendees, however, also highlights the relative immaturity of IoT compared with bigger technology themes.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

report: 2017 State of Embedded Analytics 72%. MONETIZING ANALYTICS FEATURES: Why Data Visualizations. Will Never Be Enough. Go beyond basic embedded dashboards to diferentiate your. application and maximize the value of embedded analytics.

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Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017

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Top Trends For Customer Service In 2017: Operations Become Smarter And More Strategic

Forrester IT

Looking ahead, Forrester sees 10 trends for 2017 that customer service professionals should take into account as they move the needle on the quality of service that they deliver: Here are six of them: Customer service organizations address a smaller volume of simple voice-based customer contacts as they mature their self-service, automated engagement, and digital operations. In today's world, customers decide how customer-centric a company is.

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Forrester Predictions: Ten Key Developments In Cloud Computing Shape The Industry In 2017

Forrester IT

I'm pleased to announce that Forrester's cloud computing predictions for 2017 published this morning! Check out Predictions 2017: Customer-Obsessed Enterprises Launch Cloud's Second Decade. Our cloud team has gathered ten key developments in cloud computing that will shape this industry in 2017 -- and what you should do about them today. Starting in 2017, large enterprises will move to cloud in a big way, and that will super-charge the market.

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Mobile World Congress 2017: Observations Regarding The Main Enterprise Themes

Forrester IT

In my opinion, the biggest themes at MWC in 2017 that are relevant for enterprise customers were the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), platforms, collaboration, and connectivity. Recently, the largest annual get together of the mobile industry, Mobile World Congress (MWC) took place in Barcelona.

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Facebook vows to upskill 10,000 women in 2017

Computer Weekly

Social media giant Facebook has partnered with Enterprise Nation to provide digital skills training to more than 10,000 women by the end of 2017

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Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

Computer Weekly

Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced on Tuesday 12 September 2017

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Expectations And Suggestions For Mobile World Congress 2017 Visitors — From An Enterprise Angle

Forrester IT

Between February 27 and March 2, 2017, Mobile World Congress (MWC) will once again take place in Barcelona. From an enterprise perspective, I expect that during MWC 2017: Read more. Photo: Bergman Group. Last year , over 100,000 attendees visited the event in search of new insights about "everything mobile." This year's MWC theme is "The Next Element" and aims to underline how elemental mobile has become in our everyday lives.

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Voting open: vote now for the most influential woman in UK technology 2017

Computer Weekly

Who deserves the title of Most Influential Woman in UK Technology for 2017? Submit your vote here

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Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners

Computer Weekly

Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

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Asia-Pacific Tech Spending Forecasts: Lackluster in 2017, Acceleration in 2018

Forrester IT

CIOs in the Asia Pacific (AP) region will continue to face a business environment of high uncertainty and modest economic growth in 2017, with 3% growth in tech spending. Forrester just released our forecast for the Asia Pacific market for business and government purchases of technology goods and services. Better economies in 2018 will push growth closer to 6%. Customers in the region will grow and exert more power, creating challenges that require CIOs to do more -- and do it faster.

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Nominations open: Most influential women in UK technology 2017

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly’s 2017 awards for the most influential women in UK technology are now open for nominations

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Takeaways from the Forrester Wave For Customer Service Solutions For Enterprise Organizations, Q2 2017

Forrester IT

In our 2017 Forrester Wave evaluation of customer service technologies for enterprise organizations , we highlight nine vendors that have have embarked on this journey. Consumers have more information, more choices, more access, and more power. But they don't have more time. Customers want easy customer service experiences, that build emotional connections with the band - delivered as efficiently as possible.

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Top Trends For CRM In 2017 - It's All About Differentiated (Digital) Experiences

Forrester IT

Here are 4 of the 10 trends that we see in CRM in 2017. We're firmly in the age of the customer, where customers - not executives - decide how customer-centric their companies are. And while good customer experiences can help control costs, executives are more interested in their potential to fuel sustainable top-line growth.

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Ransomware expected to dominate in 2017

Computer Weekly

Ransomware and IoT-enabled attacks are expected to continue, while 2017 will see the rise of data integrity attacks, targeting of cloud infrastructure and the use of AI by attackers, experts predict

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Google Next 2017 Review: Google Cloud Is A Serious Contender In the Public Cloud Space

Forrester IT

At Next 2017, more than 11,000 customers, partners, developers, and analysts joined Google in San Francisco to learn more about Google Cloud's latest enterprise updates. With Dan Bieler and Glenn O'Donnell. In the past few years, Google has made concerted efforts to target the enterprise cloud computing space. We compiled this post following a review of the event with all the Forrester analysts who attended.

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Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly has announced the list for Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017, including this year’s winner Sherry Coutu

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NRF 2017 highlights the need for operations to support customer experience

Forrester IT

This is the first National Retail Federation Expo I've attended, and I must say it exceeded all of my expectations and reshaped my view of retail. Over three days in New York, I met with more than 30 vendors and had many wonderful discussions about the changes revolutionizing store operations, hardware and software developments, front-end and back-end integration, and retail analytics.

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OpenWorld 2017: Ellison declares autonomous database 'revolutionary'

Computer Weekly

Oracle’s Larry Ellison claims revolutionary cast for autonomous 18c database at the supplier’s 2017 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco

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Mobile World Congress 2017: As Mobile Is Morphing Into Digital, Use Cases Matter More

Forrester IT

In my view, the biggest themes at MWC in 2017 that are relevant for digital transformation relate to IoT, AI, platforms, collaboration, and connectivity. Mobile World Congress (MWC) which took place in Barcelona once again broke new records in terms of attendees, reaching 108,000. Yet, discussions with end-user businesses indicate that mobility is often no longer treated as a standalone focus area by CIOs and CTOs. Mobility has become part of the broader digital transformation initiative.

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2017 may be crisis year for DDoS attacks, warns Deloitte

Computer Weekly

The proliferation of IoT devices and IoT exploit kits may make 2017 a turning point in DDoS attacks requiring new defence tactics, warns Deloitte

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Not too late to catch Digital Transformation Forum, 2017

Forrester IT

Next week in Chicago, on May 9-10, Digital Transformation Forum 2017 will help you lay out the next steps in your digital strategy. The moment of truth for your digital re-invention has arrived. Digital technology has rendered your legacy systems obsolete, and has liberated your customers to adopt - and abandon - your offerings at a moment's notice. You already know it's time to change.

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Google Next 2017 Review: Google Cloud Is A Serious Contender In the Public Cloud Space

Forrester IT

At Next 2017, more than 11,000 customers, partners, developers, and analysts joined Google in San Francisco to learn more about Google Cloud's latest enterprise updates. With Nigel Fenwick and Glenn O'Donnell. In the past few years, Google has made concerted efforts to target the enterprise cloud computing space. We compiled this post following a review of the event with all the Forrester analysts who attended. Here's our quick assessment from a CIO and CTO perspective: Read more.

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Top 10 broadband stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 broadband stories from 2017

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Reflections On Huawei’s Analyst Summit 2017 — Past, Present, And Future

Forrester IT

In April 2017, Huawei hosted its annual Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China. At the Huawei Analyst Summit 2017, I picked up three key focus areas for Huawei in 2017: Read more Categories: AI. Huawei's financial year 2016 was remarkable as the group grew revenues by 32% to US$ 75 billion, making Huawei the largest global network solutions vendor by revenues, way ahead of its traditional competitors Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson.

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2017: A year in review (and a preview of 2018)

Eric D. Brown

2017 was an interesting year for me. months of 2017 traveling around the Southwest (we spent the time in Colorado and New Mexico). One thing I noticed that was a bit different in 2017 than in previous years: organizations are more ‘data smart’ than they used to be. Featured Writing 2017 2018 ReviewI bought a new house in February after being homeless for about 4 months. In October 2016, my wife and I sold our house and spent the 2.5

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Diversity in technology 2017: Joysy John, digital consultant and entrepreneur

Computer Weekly

In this video from Computer Weekly’s 2017 diversity in technology event, education and skills expert Joysy John talks about how to fuel a diverse tech pipeline

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FDM Everywoman in Tech: 2017 winners announced

Computer Weekly

Women’s network Everywoman announces the winners of its 2017 Everywoman in Technology awards, sponsored by FDM

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IoT, encryption, and AI lead top security trends for 2017

Tech Republic Security

A new Forrester report identified the top 14 cybersecurity trends for enterprises to watch in 2017

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Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2017

Computer Weekly

What are Nordic CIOs planning for 2017

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2016 Privacy Lessons Learned And Looking Ahead To 2017

Forrester IT

Each year at the end of summer, several members of Forrester's Security & Risk research team look back at publicly reported breach events and data privacy violations of the previous 12 months to spot trends and identify cases to feature where we feel there are lessons learned for S&R pros. In 2016, this was a joint effort alongside my colleague Fatemeh Khatibloo from Forrester's Customer Insights research team.

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The 2017 Enterprise Architecture Awards: Driving The Customer-obsessed Digital Business

Forrester IT

Just about every company Forrester works with tells us they are driving to become Digital Businesses. But not just 'digital' as a technology imperative - they are investing in digital to dramatically change how they serve their customers - with target benefits rippling over to customer retention and acquisition. We call this focus Customer-obsessed Digital Business. There are four critical success factors for customer-obsessed digital business: They are customer-led.

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JLab 2017 retail startups describe tackling retail’s biggest challenges

Computer Weekly

This year’s cohort of retail startups in the JLab accelerator describe the retail challenges their businesses face and how the 2017 JLab differs from the rest

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Accelerate Your Digital Momentum At Forrester’s Digital Transformation Mumbai 2017

Forrester IT

Forrester's annual flagship India event Digital Transformation Mumbai 2017 is almost here. In 2017, we plan to take that thinking further. This invite-only exclusive event has been growing over the years to become one of the most anticipated events for India's senior business leaders. At last year's event, we presented the right operating model for organizations to support their digital transformations: the customer obsessed operating model.

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Top 10 PC stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

From an end-user perspective, 2017 is also the year of new user interfacesIt has been a good year for the PC business, which is starting to show signs of growth.

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Top 10 storage and backup stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

In Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories of 2017, we tracked key trends such as the continued rise of hyper-converged infrastructure, the emergence of NVMe flash and object storage

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Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017: Rising Stars

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly reveals the judges’ choice for this year’s female Rising Stars of the UK technology industry

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Top fintech trends in Sweden in 2017

Computer Weekly

The Nordic region is a hotspot for IT startups and Sweden is a country punching above its weight in financial technology

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Traditional outsourcing boosts overall spending in first half of 2017

Computer Weekly

Spending on traditional IT services contracts by Emea organisations increases in the first six months of 2017

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