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AI-powered enterprises will “build” software instead of “buy” it – and many applications in enterprise portfolios will consolidate onto low-code AppGen platforms.
While API discovery and policy enforcement have gained traction, it's time for companies to elevate their approach to API security maturity. Learn how to get started in this preview of a new report.
Every week, I get inquiries about technical debt, whether from enterprise architects, CIOs, CTOs, offices of the CIO, or strategic portfolio managers. It’s a broad concern in IT and digital management, as well as in the minds and operating models of Forrester clients.
AI assistants are only the beginning of the generative AI software development revolution. Find out what’s in store for software developers in our 2025 predictions for software development.
New research within the Data, AI & Analytics service at Forrester will focus on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence. Get a preview of an upcoming report on AI investment strategies, aimed at helping organizations navigate the complexities of AI to drive real, measurable value.
Tech leaders often grapple with finding a measurement approach that drives alignment. Learn the three most common misalignments in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit APAC.
Learn the benefits and risks of agentic AI as well as the requirements for agentic process management.
Open-source licenses give you rights to copy, and in some cases, they define patent rights and responsibilities, but when they mention trademarks at all, most of them exclude rights rather than include them.
Modern Application Development Services Defined Clients want more autonomy to better control their own innovation and development capabilities to build modern and up-to-date custom applications. In Forrester’s Priorities Survey, 2024, 64% of business and technology professionals said that bringing more development in-house would be a high or critical priority for their IT organization over the […]
Technology shifts have continually reshaped software development. But generative AI is completely disrupting it. Learn how the software development lifecycle is being accelerated and reimagined as a real-time process thanks to genAI.
SAP announced it is losing two more members of its executive board, Julia White and Scott Russell. Get Forrester's take on the ongoing disruption to SAP's leadership.
Salesforce and Workday announced a strategic partnership to blend customer, financial and employee data in a shared data foundation that negates the need to duplicate data or build custom integration. The result? Optimized employee and customer experiences that up-level business outcomes for joint Salesforce-Workday customers. The strategic objective? Salesforce extends its power into back-office workflows […]
Let’s face it: A lot of what developers do is routine. I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard a developer declare, “Hooray, I get to set up a SQL database!” (Well… maybe I’ve heard that once or twice — I know a lot of developers who are connoisseurs of sarcasm). However, when it comes to the […]
For many organizations, SaaS and commercial off-the-shelf software are at best an 80% solution to the business need. Find out how cloud-native development can help close the gap in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit North America.
We fielded Forrester’s Q1 2024 Developer Experience Survey to learn about developers and their experiences at work. We asked developers themselves, their leaders, vendors, and developer experience advocates to tell us about the developer experience. We wanted to identify where everyone aligned, and where opinions differed. Many organizations lack a strategy to improve developer experience. […]
Generative AI (GenAI) is an enabler for more automation – and is now getting embedded in many software vendors’ platforms with different names and labels such as AI agents, AI-led micro-automations, and autonomous workplace assistants (AWA). All of these are somewhat overlapping terms for agentic automation that is starting to sprout as generative AI promises […]
Despite the uncertain economic climate and continued layoffs, competition for skilled software developers will remain high. Get three key insights from our latest TIER report to help attract the best developers.
Navigate the choppy and always exciting waters of artificial intelligence (AI) with Forrester’s analysts. Forrester’s multi-episode webinar series on AI delves into the profound impact AI has – and will continue to have – both on how data scientists and software engineers approach their work and how other job functions will have to adapt to […]
Technology and data leaders are at a pivotal moment, being pressed to chart a path that capitalizes on new and emerging technology to drive meaningful business results. Learn how Forrester's annual Technology and Innovation Summit North America can help you get there.
In our inaugural evaluation, The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models For Language, Q2 2024, we break down large language model (LLM) model offering, strategy, and market presence across 21 criteria for 10 providers. Get a preview of the report including four things you should be looking for in a model here.
The vision of an invisible and real-time SDLC facilitated by TuringBots is not a distant dream but an impending reality. Find out why TuringBots will become an indispensable ally, ensuring that developers can keep pace with the rapid rate of technological change.
Thinking about submitting an entry for Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Awards this year? Good news, the deadline has been extended. Learn the major benefits you could gain from winning the award in this post.
AppGen platforms will integrate the steps of software analysis, development, security, testing, and delivery by providing TuringBots for both low-code and high-code development spanning every step — all while incorporating the principles of agile and DevOps along the way.
Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Award submissions are in full swing, but the deadline for the the North American award is less than a month away. As you finalize your submissions, learn what makes a strong entry.
Google recently held its Google Cloud Next conference four months early to unveil new AI offerings and upstage its rivals. Get a detailed review of all of the announcements at the event in this post.
To start your journey to high-performance IT, you must assess your business needs, your current technology styles, and your organization’s execution readiness. Get started by learning the four key steps in assessing your readiness for high-performance IT in this post.
The US Navy is revising its modern service delivery framework using investment horizons. Learn how those changes could benefit your organization.
Over the course of late 2023 and early 2024, we conducted a Forrester Landscape report on the available feature management and experimentation solutions in the marketplace. Get three key takeaways from our comparison of vendors across geography, industry, use case, and size to learn what benefits you can expect from FM&E.
Research and technology firm G-Research has successfully introduced TuringBots into its software development lifecycle. Check out this review the firm’s approach and results to learn how you can better leverage AI in your development processes.
Learn who the six leaders are in Forrester's new Wave report on Application Modernization And Migration Services what they do to set themselves apart.
No matter what stage you’re at with your SAP S/4HANA migration planning, take these five steps now to help mitigate some risks.
According to a recent survey, 87% of enterprise developers use low-code development platforms for at least some of their work. Find out what’s driving the growth in the low-code market in this preview of a new report and forecast.
Get a detailed look at the services provided by 42 continuous automation testing services providers in this new landscape report.
I often get client inquiries about latency requirements to support real-time analytics and operational workloads. The challenge is “real-time” can vary from milliseconds to minutes depending on the use case. At its core, real-time data refers to data made available immediately (or almost immediately) to support operational and analytical workloads. These data may come from […]
The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.
Not every emerging technology succeeds. Read more on how you can cut through the noise, to work out when and where to commit your company’s finite resources.
It’s been happening for a while. There’s been a trend in the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and release automation (RA) world: DevOps tools merging into a unified platform. CI companies like JFrog and CloudBees have acquired CDRA companies like Shippable and ElectricCloud. CD companies such as Harness are buying CI tools like Drone. […]
TuringBots will disrupt the software development approach forever. Here is how. We just published Forrester’s Top Ten Emerging Technologies for 2023 and TuringBots not only are in the top 10 technology trends, but they are expected to deliver ROI much earlier than predicted in earlier research we published for clients, all thanks to Generative AI. […]
We looked at the top 50 undergraduate computer science programs in the US, and found that none require a secure coding or secure application design class. Although 18% did offer electives in secure coding or application security, it’s fair to say that teaching undergrads to develop secure code is not a top priority. Static application […]
CI + CDRA = ISDP Last year, we announced the emergence of the Integrated Software Delivery Platform (ISDP) market. At the time, we argued that DevOps and DevOps-adjacent practices had reshaped the development and delivery landscape such that the boundaries between our continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery release automation (CDRA) coverage felt arbitrary and […]
As has been the trend in recent years, the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2023) keynote has kept its focus centered on consumers — read about that here. Announcements for enterprise were thin — watchOS 10 gets mobile device management support, Safari gets passkeys and profiles to keep work and home tabs separate… and […]
Google I/O, Google’s annual product showcase, displayed a very strong AI focus this year. We saw little new hardware, and even with Google’s “add AI to all the things” strategy, most improvements were incremental, not groundbreaking. If you haven’t already, read Google I/O 2023: As Far As The AI Can See to get up to speed […]
Uncover how to reduce tech debt in your CRM operations by understanding your CRM footprint, the CRM vendor landscape, and mapping a strategy to business outcomes.
Technology and sustainability leaders can use the insights in this report to benchmark their own state of IT environmental sustainability.
If you’re using low-code application development to support marketing, we want to hear from you.
On March 27, Apple announced the features that will be in the GA of Safari 16.4, after two beta releases. This is a significant release bringing a number of changes. In particular, Apple has increased its investment in Safari, presumably to address concerns about fair competition. Apple Hinted At Push Last Year Apple had released […]
Imagine spending most of your time during the peak of a New England winter researching for a Forrester Wave™ evaluation on a topic (infrastructure automation) that is hotter than ever. Is it a coincidence, or did we time it precisely to publish the report at the onset of spring? I think the latter. 😊 The […]
Read on for a look at Forrester’s evaluation of the 13 most significant open banking intermediaries: The Forrester Wave™: Open Banking Intermediaries, Q1 2023.
The 2023 Application Development Benchmarks, Europe report is now available. This document mirrors the global 2022 Application Development Benchmarks so that European tech execs can read both in conjunction and get an even better picture of application development costs and practices around the world. In this blog, we give some recommendations to consider after reading […]
Value Stream Management Works Our research is clear: Value stream management (VSM) delivers real results. We’ve spent the last year learning how organizations have applied VSM to their business, mapping the solution landscape, assessing the impact of mergers and acquisitions, and evaluating the vendors that define the market. We Want To Help You Get Started […]
More Low-Code Development Requires More Low-Code Developers As low-code platform adoption and use rises, the need for low-code developers continues to grow. While Forrester recently argued that embracing low-code can mitigate the general shortage of developer talent, hiring a low-code developer remains tricky. On one hand, the relative newness of low-code development and the continued […]
Forrester unpacked the nine most important software trends in 2023 and what they mean for technology executives. Here is a preview.
Truly digital firms have business models with technology at the core, and this technology is software. For such firms, software is an expression of the business. To become truly digital, complementary approaches to people, process, and technology are needed. The unresolved need for more developers (people) is well and painfully understood. The need for agile […]
In the face of economic uncertainty, are AI models too costly? Increased ML deployment means higher cloud costs. But price alone or as a primary metric should not be a key determinant of the machine-learning lifecycle. Put a strategy and audit program in place to continuously optimize AI outcomes across outcomes and cost.
Manufacturers in China use low-code development platforms to support their digital initiatives. Many adopt low-code platforms to build form-based web apps for broad use cases, but that’s just the beginning. Advanced companies support more sophisticated data-centric applications with improved data management and integration capabilities. Four case studies show how manufacturers in China leverage low-code platforms […]
Find out how players evaluated in The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Automation Testing Platforms, Q4 2022, lined up as Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders, and Challengers.
Only 7% of Indian firms qualify as future fit. Learn five critical aspects Indian CIOs should review to ensure a successful digital transformation.
What Topics Will You Be Covering At Forrester? I am part of the Forrester Decisions for Technology Architecture & Delivery service. I will be authoring research for the “Lead A High-Performing Enterprise Architecture Practice” priority. Briefly said, I will help clients be more proficient in the enterprise architecture (EA) discipline from a digital, sustainable, and […]
What are TuringBots? Hint: They will not replace you — not in the near future nor in the medium term. But they will augment your capabilities and make you look and work smarter.
Value stream management (VSM) is not value stream mapping and it’s not a DevOps tool, but it plays a crucial role in helping teams optimize software delivery and track value across their software delivery lifecycle, even when a team is not operating in a “DevOps” mode. VSM tools “connect” into your software delivery process, ingest […]
We reviewed 115 retailer and brand home pages during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Read our takeaways.
The year ahead will be a tumultuous one for software developers. Read Forrester’s top three predictions for software development in 2023.
Secure systems deliberately hide details and access points to fly under the radar. Poorly designed systems and poor tooling & instrumentation unknowingly expose sensitive details or hide vital operating telemetry. Be deliberate in your observability design and tooling.
Functionality in retail and corporate banking is not highly differentiating anymore. In the future, only those that can support partner solutions in their ecosystem seamlessly can fully cope with banking industry's expanding requirements.
Developer Demand Continues To Outgrow Available Talent The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 22.2% growth in application development and quality assurance testing demand in the next 10 years. Unfortunately, we are struggling to meet current demand to fill development needs. As tech companies continue to modernize through digitization, they are using unorthodox […]
Wasm Day Highlights Docker commits to helping cloud-native developers learn and adopt Wasm as the future of cloud computing and as a complementary technology to containers. Read Docker’s press release here. Fermyon announces open beta of Fermyon Cloud. Growth of the WASI component model to make Wasm more consumable: POSIX support in development via parametric […]
Congratulations to Enel for being named the EMEA region winner of Forrester’s inaugural Technology Strategy Impact award. In a keynote session at our recent Technology & Innovation EMEA event, Laura Koetzle, VP and group research director with Forrester, sat down with Alberto Cossu, head of digital strategy with Enel Group, to discuss the company’s transformation […]
New Principal Analyst joins Forrester in the areas of financial service, focusing on insurance and data, AI, and ML.
Ready to give up on your CRM deployment? Before you do, you should know: CRM is a huge market. It is valued at $63.91 billion today and projected to grow to $145.79 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 12.5%. Eighty-two percent of enterprises use CRM. Yet when I surveyed hundreds of business and IT […]
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors are pushing client organizations to replace their on-premises ERP solutions with cloud-based digital operations platforms (DOPs). As a result, ERP discussions are filling up the agendas of CTOs and procurement officers. The increasing number of inquiries that we at Forrester receive is a clear signal that the market is moving, […]
I was able to attend the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) and focused on the extended reality (XR) track. If nothing else, it was clear that the attendees were enthusiastic about the use of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) format as an interchange format for the metaverse and XR in general. There’s A Huge Need […]
A truly digital business quickly implements and continuously improves all its policies, processes, and procedures in software. There are many new practices and technologies that can help organizations innovate and deal with constant change.
In 2020, Forrester’s Now Tech: Value Stream Management Tools, Q2 2020, report featured 12 vendors with a stand-alone or integrated VSM solution. Two years later, this market has nearly doubled: The Value Stream Management Landscape, Q3 2022, covers 22 fully featured VSM vendors. More vendors means more competition and more innovation, which is good for […]
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