Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

artificial intelligence (AI) B2C marketing chief marketing officer (CMO) ebusiness strategy Holiday 2018 online retail retailSingles’ Day, the world’s largest online shopping festival, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. There’s no doubt that we will see another record-smashing year, although gross merchandise volume (GMV) will no longer be the highlight. Singles’ Day has always been Alibaba’s testbed for new business models and technologies, and this year is no exception.

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CEB IT

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Smarter With Gartner added five new categories in 2018. Below are most-read articles for 2018: 5 Trends Emerge in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018. Gartner Top 10 Security Projects for 2018. Gartner Top 8 Supply Chain Technology Trends for 2018.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area. Uber was racking up […]. CTO News

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I didn’t want to leave 2018 without noting a milestone for all of us here at Forrester who cover customer experience. It was 20 years ago, all the way back in September of 1998, when we inaugurated our customer experience research by publishing our first report about CX.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. Holiday 2018Online holiday shopping in the US is set to grow to $151 billion this year, up 14% from $133 billion in 2017. Total holiday sales will grow at a more conservative 1.7%. All told, we see approximately one-fifth of all US holiday shopping this […].

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Web Summit took place for the third time in Lisbon earlier in November. Over the years, Web Summit has become one of the leading global conferences to discuss everything technology.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It is hard to digest all the innovations coming out of Amazon’s cloud computing business. There are 1000’s of capabilities already available and each continue to evolve, and major new capabilities are being announced at a rapid pace. The annual re:Invent is a great time to take stock of things, but even this is just […]. Artificial Intelligence Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Cloud Computing CTO Cyber Security News Robots Amazon

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Computer Weekly

JANUARY 9, 2018

At CES 2018, underway in Las Vegas, Pizza Hut and Toyota announce a partnership to develop an autonomous pizza delivery service

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Thanks to Constellation Research and the People-Centered Internet coalition, a historic meeting is being convened 10 December 2018 to help ensure humanity is in charge of our own destiny. This event includes key Internet pioneers and next generation change agents coming together to share lessons learned and chart a course for the future. CTOvision will […]. CTO Cyber War Events News

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CEB IT

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The post Must-Read Editors’ Picks from 2018 appeared first on Smarter With Gartner. At Smarter With Gartner, our editorial team publishes hundreds of articles on dozens of topics throughout the year. But, that doesn’t mean we don’t have our favorites that we think executives across the business should read. In the spirit of education and a new year, we gathered those articles from across all the categories to create a must-read list. .

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 31, 2018

2018 has already seen companies hit with sizable fines and settlements due to data breaches. Uber’s handling of its 2016 breach has cost it close to $150 million. Weakly protected and heavy-regulated health data has cost medical facilities big, resulting in the US Department of Health and Human Services collecting increasingly large fines. There could be […]. Cyber Security News

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Forrester’s 2018 Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) results continue to show that companies are struggling to create and sustain a human connection with their customers.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

CX Europe 2018 is just 10 days from now — Tuesday […].

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management, Q3 2018, is live! Take IT service management, add the age of the customer, stir in some employee experience (EX) and a healthy dose of low/no-code platform, and voilà! Enterprise service management (ESM)! Or if you prefer a more traditional description, we define ESM as: Extending IT service management […]. age of the customer IT process automation IT service management (ITSM) IT services

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. Kiran Mani, Google’s managing director of retail, speaking at the National Retail Federation’s September 2018 conference, said that 33% of consumers expect personalized recommendations.[i] B2C marketing Holiday 2018

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

While public cloud is undoubtedly an outsized piece of the conversation, news headlines of the latest data breach can make this move a very frightening proposition.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Join us in Orlando on December 4, 2018 for Forrester’s first-ever Data Strategy & Insights 2018 Forum. We are super excited to bring you razor-sharp focus to the power of data, analytics, and machine learning. Back to dancing, because that is our conference theme — “Insights To Action: For Real This Time.” ” Data is too often […

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. Holiday 2018 social marketing digital retail retail social media

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Digital banks are not eating the incumbent banks’ lunch (yet!) but they’re certainly demonstrating voracious appetite. In the UK, Monzo recently hit the one million customer mark, whilst Revolut has almost tripled its customers to 2.8 million in a year.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 16, 2019

Welcome to Ascent’s 2018 recap blog post. 2018 was filled with lunchtime laughter, personal and professional growth, and plenty of new projects. Here is a list of 2018 highlights: 1 – We led investments in three new portfolio companies: Connected2Fiber , gr8 People , and empow.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Huawei held its flagship Connect 2018 conference in Shanghai from October 10 to 12. The event, which featured more than 200 sessions, attracted over 25,000 visitors and more than 1,500 partners from around the world. By the end of 2017, Huawei’s annual revenue had exceeded US$92 billion — half of which comes from global markets […]. artificial intelligence (AI) Asia Pacific cloud computing containers digital business microservices

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

On November 5, in line with tradition, a huge array of sparkling displays took place across the UK to celebrate Guy Fawkes night (“Remember, remember, the fifth of November. ”).

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Forrester IT

MAY 7, 2018

age of the customer digital transformation DT Forum 2018 Forrester India MumbaiWhile the idea of digital has been around for years now, Indian firms are still at the beginner stage of digital maturity.

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David Linthicum

JANUARY 2, 2018

So, I’ve put together four cloud predictions for 2018 that you won’t see coming but that should help shape your cloud strategy for the new year. 2018 cloud prediction No. First of all, I hate doing yearly predictions. Also, this is the time of year that every PR firm in the country asks me to read the cloud computing predictions of their clients, which are all pretty much wrong and self-serving.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Do you know Bro? If you work in the network security world you most likely do. Bro is an open-source network security monitor. While focusing on network security monitoring, Bro provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Bro has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. […]. CTO Cyber Security Events News

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Forrester IT

JUNE 26, 2018

Forrester’s 2018 Guide To Cyber Insurance Today, no one is 100% secure – believing otherwise is hubris of Icarian proportions. This reality is a core reason why more organizations are turning to cyber insurance.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 26, 2018

DoDIIS Stands for DoD Intelligence Information Systems. The yearly DoDIIS conference is sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency. It is always a great opportunity for intelligence community technologists to come together and learn from another. For those of us in industry or academia it is a chance to learn the mission needs of government organizations […]. CTO Cyber War News

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Holiday 2018During the Black Friday and Cyber Monday week travel specials tend to get lost in the flurry of deals on smart speakers, tablets and HD TVs. Over the past few years the travel industry has quietly stolen a share of the consumers’ wallet spend between Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now what the industry is […].

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I published my first Forrester Wave™ today, covering the managed security services provider (MSSP) market in Europe.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 2, 2018

The following are my “top ten” predictions about how these will change in 2018. And while 2018 will not be “the year the org chart died,” some progressive organizations will begin to phase out traditional org charts for more modern, digital approaches.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. Holiday 2018 digital retail S&R pros Security & RiskBy now, you have laid out plans for your holiday sales season in hopes of exceeding customer expectations and sales targets. This includes updates to your websites and mobile apps, reward programs for your loyal customers, and adjustments to ads and sale prices as the […].

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As I listened to Google’s Q3 2018 earnings conference call, the Taylor Swift song “Out Of The Woods” kept playing in my head. This is the part where I pretend I tried to fight it. But let’s be honest, I didn’t mind.) As with the relationship in the song, I wondered if we were indeed […].

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Our recently released evaluation, “The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2018,” uses 28 criteria to evaluate the top 12 unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions on the market today. This was the first year that Forrester evaluated the UEM market, which is an evolution of enterprise mobility management (EMM). Organizations looking to improve employee experience and simplify management can […

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 26, 2018

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. Holiday 2018 loyaltyWith Black Friday less than a month away, it’s only a matter of time before holiday promotional activity reaches a fever pitch. But for many consumers, the holiday shopping season brings with it an intense mix of emotions. For some, it’s their favorite time […].

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Retail 120

CTOvision

OCTOBER 7, 2018

We have written before about the Security Innovation Network (SINET). SINET is an organization laser focused on advancing cybersecurity innovation through public-private collaboration. Every year SINET oversees a process designed to find and highlight innovative companies. The process includes soliciting nominations for innovative firms, leveraging volunteer judges from across the technology executive community, and then […]. CTO Cyber Security Events News

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