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How The Top 18 Solutions Stack Up
During the past five years, the customer service capabilities of customer relationship management (CRM) suite solutions have greatly matured as vendors have focused on solidifying the foundational...
The 18 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
During the past five years, the customer relationship management (CRM) solutions market has experienced considerable growth and turmoil, including significant vendor consolidation and a rapid rise in...
The 17 Solutions That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
During the past five years, the customer relationship management (CRM) solutions market has experienced considerable growth and turmoil, including significant vendor consolidation and a rapid rise in...
Fujitsu, Oracle, and Wincor Nixdorf Lead, With Epicor, Micros, Microsoft, NCR, SAP, And Torex Close Behind
In Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of point-of-service (POS) vendors, we identified the 10 significant solution providers in this category — Epicor Software, Fujitsu, NCR, Microsoft, Micros...
Six Leaders And Six Strong Performers Compete For A Share Of The End User BI Market
In Forrester's 31-criteria evaluation of self-service business intelligence (BI) vendors, we found that IBM, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, Tibco Software, and MicroStrategy led the pack due to the breadth of...
Stevens Institute of Technology, BPMInstitute.org, and BPTrends Associates Lead, Queensland University of Technology Close Behind
Lack of sufficient business process skills continues to dog progress and momentum for enterprisewide business process management (BPM) initiatives. And when business process professionals turn to the...
The Five Top-Of-Mind Streams And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's first 19-criteria evaluation of activities streams vendors, Forrester identified the five significant players — Neudesic Pulse, Salesforce Chatter, Socialcast by VMware...
Symantec And CA Technologies Lead, With LANDesk Software, IBM, And Microsoft Close Behind
In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of client management suite vendors, we identified the 10 significant solution providers in this category — BMC Software, CA, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,...
Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
While many offices look modern, unplanned and unmanaged use of printers, fax machines, copiers, and scanners leads to significant waste. Managed print services (MPS) are designed to help a business...
OpenText And Autonomy Lead The Rich Media Management Pack, With ADAM Software And Adobe Close Behind
The digital asset management (DAM) market is fragmented and in flux. With a myriad of vendors offering anything and everything under the name "DAM," application development and delivery (AD&D;)...
Visual IQ, Adometry, And ClearSaleing Lead The Category
In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of interactive attribution vendors, we identified and analyzed the eight significant providers in this category — Adobe, Adometry, C3 Metrics,...
Visual IQ Surfaces At The Top Of A Relatively Immature Market
In Forrester's 67-criteria evaluation of cross-channel attribution vendors, we found that Visual IQ led the pack because of its expertise in cross-channel attribution methodology, reporting, and...
How Nine Vendors Stack Up In A Constantly Changing Market
In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of enterprise listening platforms vendors, we found that Radian6 and Visible Technologies lead the pack because of their variably functional dashboards and...
The Nine Service Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of the North American managed security services market, we identified the nine significant service providers in this category — AT&T;, CSC, Dell...
Informatica, IBM, Oracle, SAP, SAS, Ab Initio, And Talend Lead, With Pervasive, Microsoft, And iWay Close Behind
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Oracle, and SAP maintain leadership positions thanks to their ability...
SapientNitro, Deloitte, And IBM GBS Lead, With A Strong Pack Of Contenders Close Behind
In Forrester's 72-criteria evaluation of the top 12 global commerce service providers (GCSPs), we found that SapientNitro, Deloitte, and IBM Global Business Services (GBS) led the pack with their...
Epsilon And Kobie Marketing Lead, With Brierley+Partners And Aimia Close Behind
Companies turn to loyalty program service providers for support across the loyalty value chain — from program strategy, technology, and program management to creative, fulfillment, and...
The Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 16-criteria evaluation of risk-based authentication vendors, we identified the six significant vendors in this category — CA Technologies, Entrust, iovation, RSA, Symantec, and...
Amazon Web Services, IBM, EMC Greenplum, MapR, Cloudera, And Hortonworks Lead This Emerging Market, With Seven Others Serving Key Niches Close Behind
In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of enterprise Hadoop solution providers, we found that in the Leaders category, Amazon Web Services led the pack due to its proven, feature-rich Elastic...
How Eleven Vendors Tackle A Mature, Yet Rapidly Evolving, Category
In Forrester's 81-criteria evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) vendors, we identified, researched, and scored 12 products from 11 providers: Alterian, Aprimo, ExactTarget, IBM,...
The Nine Agencies That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 37-criteria evaluation of US digital agencies with mobile marketing services, we identified the nine significant agencies in this category — AKQA, iCrossing, Ogilvy, Possible...
Responsys, ExactTarget, And Experian CheetahMail Lead The Market
In Forrester's 37-criteria evaluation of email marketing vendors, we identified the six significant providers in this category — Epsilon, ExactTarget, Experian CheetahMail, Responsys,...
Software AG, Progress Software, IBM, And SOA Software Lead; Oracle, WSO2, And Tibco Software Have Strong Solutions
In Forrester's 121-criteria evaluation of integrated service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance vendors, we found that Software AG, Progress Software (Progress), IBM, and SOA Software lead the...
Software AG, Progress Software, And SOA Software Lead; IBM, Oracle, HP, And WSO2 Have Strong Solutions
In Forrester's 55-criteria evaluation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) service life-cycle management (SLM) vendors, we found that Software AG, Progress Software, and SOA Software lead the pack....
Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, And Denodo Technologies Lead, With SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Stone Bond, And Red Hat Close Behind
In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of data virtualization — also known as information-as-a-service (IaaS) — vendors, we found that Informatica, IBM, Composite Software, and Denodo...