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Few Workers Embrace Desktop Video Conferencing: Forrester

January 28th, 2011 | No Comments

While vendors and business executives alike are excited about the promise of desktop video collaboration, interest is low among workers, few of whom have access to the technology, Forrester says. – Video conferencing is becoming increasingly popular as businesses
look for ways to improve employee productivity while driving down
costs, and desktop video is gaining attention from technology vendors
and businesses alike.
Companies such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard,
Microsoft and IBM are…

Business Intelligence, Processes Converge to Drive Business Decision-Making: Report

January 21st, 2011 | No Comments

A Forrester study from October 2010 identifies and outlines the state of the art in BI best practices. – Recent advancements in software capabilities, technologies and deployments
are shifting business intelligence paradigms and are changing the way companies
do business, according to a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by
geographic BI software developer Alteryx. Industries such as retail, re…

Forrester, Gartner Forecast Higher IT Spending but Lower PC Sales in 2011

January 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Global IT spending is due to increase in 2011, even as hardware sales decline because of a strong growth in software and mobile devices, according to Forrester Research and Gartner. – Global IT spending is expected to grow overall in 2011,
according to two different analyst reports. However, both Gartner and Forrester
analysts said spending in the PC segment will be impacted the increasing
popularity of tablets and smartphones.
Global IT spending will grow 7.1 percent to $1.7…

iPad to Lead Android in 2011 Tablet Sales: Forrester

January 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Apple’s iPad will lead Android in a 2011 tablet market that should hit 24.1 million, according to Forrester Research. The note comes as the Consumer Electronics Shows gets underway. – While many expect the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show to be a big coming-out
party for the Android tablet, Forrester Research has revised its previous
conservative estimates and now expects the 2011 tablet market to be 2.5 times
what it was in 2010.
Forrester analyst Sara Rotman Epps said
Jan. 4…

Microsoft Lync 2010 Offers Collaboration, VOIP, Video Conferencing

November 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft Lync 2010, a rebranding of the company’s Office Communications software suite, offers business users an end-user platform for enterprise VOIP (voice over IP), instant messaging, video and audio conferencing, and application and desktop sharing. In keeping with Microsoft’s drive toward interoperability, Lync will operate in conjunction with other software platforms such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Exchange. Research firm Forrester estimates that the overall unified communications market will be worth $14.5 billion by 2015, a ripe target for any software platform supple and sophisticated enough to appeal to businesses. During a recent demo in New York City, Microsoft executives demonstrated how Lync can allow groups of users to interface via voice or video, all while collaborating on a PowerPoint document. Because Lync integrates multiple services such as instant messaging, video and voice into a single client experience, experienced users can simultaneously juggle multiple tasks and calling partners. New York is also the site of Lync’s Nov. 17 launch, and Microsoft hopes that businesses interested in an integrated communications experience will choose the platform over others on the market.Â Â Â – …

Windows 7 Will See Greater Business Adoption: Forrester

November 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Windows 7 will see greater uptake by businesses in coming years, according to a new research report from Forrester. – Microsoft can expect businesses to adopt Windows 7 in
greater numbers over the next few years, as those firms undergo an inevitable
tech refresh. Thats the conclusion drawn from a Nov. 2 report by research firm
Forrester Research, which also suggests those firms will use the tech-refresh
opportu…

Cloud Computing to Fuel Security Market, Forrester Says

October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Forrester predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5 billion in five years. Among the main areas of focus will be identity and access management, data security, and cloud governance. – A new report from Forrester Research projects that the cloud security market
will grow to $1.5 billion by 2015 a shift that will disrupt what Forrester
calls the quot;security solution ecosystem. quot;
In a report entitled quot;Security and the Cloud, quot; Forrester analyst
Jonathan Penn pre…

Forrester Reforecasts IT Market Outlook

October 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Software sales and systems integration projects are expected to be robust in the remainder of 2010, but the overall outlook is headed a tad downward based on overall global economic caution and meager U.S. GDP growth. – Technology
research analyst Forrester has revised the global information technology
market outlook forecast to 8.1 percent for the remainder of 2010 from a
previous forecast of 9.9 percent. The trending is downward as the U.S. economy grows Â“at a
snails pace,Â” yet it is characterized as Â“still r…

Is Trust Dead in Enterprise Security?

October 4th, 2010 | No Comments

A report by Forrester Research is pushing the concept of the zero-trust security model, where packets are not trusted and the emphasis is on traffic inspection and access controls. – Between insider threats and malware attacks, the idea of trust-but-verify is
dead as a security model, according to a new report by Forrester Research.
In its place, Forrester analyst John Kindervag contends enterprises should
embrace the concept of zero trust, a model where insiders and outside…

Competition Is Mounting for Systems Engineering Skill Sets

August 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Enterprise and network architects, listen up: Your skills are a hot commodity as companies mount new initiatives in automating and virtualizing the data center and desktop. – Increases
to project funding and investment in new technology initiatives are driving
demand for technology skills this quarter, according to reports from IT
staffing firms such as TEKsystems and analyses on IT spending from
Forrester.

An early August
report from Hanover, Md.-based TEKsys…

Apple iPhone, iPad in Enterprise Needs Security Policies: Forrester

August 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple’s iPhone and iPad have seen increased adoption by the enterprise, but IT pros integrating the devices could need to institute additional security policies, according to a new Forrester report. – Apple has enjoyed increased enterprise adoption of the
iPhone and iPad but a new Forrester Research report makes it clear that, if
companies are to accept the devices into their fold, certain security policies
need to be implemented first.
The Aug. 2 report authored by Forrester analyst Andrew
…

Foursquare Users Are Mobile Male Geeks, Forrester Finds

August 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite are highly hyped but have yet to reach their potential for Web marketers. Though just a few million users are consuming such applications each month, the ceiling is high, especially for Facebook and Twitter. – Location-based social networks such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite
are buoyed by a lot of hype that has yet to reach its potential for Web
marketers, but some 84 percent of users surveyed are not familiar with these
applications at all.
That’s the gist of a market research report from Fo…

Apple iPad Success Forces Revision in Forrester Estimates

July 26th, 2010 | No Comments

In selling 3.27 million iPads in just over three weeks, Apple’s iPad has forced Forrester Research to revise its earlier estimates for tablet computer sales in the United States. This paves the way for great opportunity for tablets based on Google’s Android and Microsoft Windows. – Apple’s smash-hit iPad tablet computer is forcing analysts to break free from their conservative estimates.
Days after Apple officials claimed they had sold 3.27
million iPads in the quarter ending June 26, Forrester Research analyst
Sara Rotman Epps called her previous forecast for tablet com…

IT Spending to Rise in 2010, Forrester Says

July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Forrester expects IT spending in the United States to ramp up in the second half of 2010. Overall, Forrester predicts that spending will be 9.9 percent more than in 2009, an increase from the 8.4 percent it predicted in April. – Forrester Research analysts are increasingly optimistic about the growth of
IT spending in the United States and around the world in the second half of
2010, despite the economic problems in Europe that have caused other analyst
companies to reduce their expectations for the rest of the year.
In…

Microsoft Office 2010 Will See Consumer Success, Forrester Says

June 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Office 2010 will prove successful among consumers, a Forrester analyst insists, reasoning that consumers’ longstanding relationship with Office, as well as the introduction of Office Web Apps, will help Office 2010′s sales despite a general decline in demand for packaged software. The same analyst says it’s a mistake to compare Office Web Apps and Google Docs as if they should be equivalent, mostly because Office Web Apps is more a feature of Office 2010 than a stand-alone offering. – Microsoft’s Office 2010 suite will succeed with consumers, insists a Forrester
analyst, despite a general decline in consumer interest in packaged software.
Office 2010 is scheduled to become available to consumers June 15, although the
software has been available to business customers along with…

Microsoft Needs Partners to Fight Apple iPad: Analysts

June 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft needs to follow several steps if it wants to compete against Apple’s iPad for share of the growing tablet PC market, according to a new Forrester research report. Among those steps: engaging with the right manufacturing partners, settling on appropriate price point and sales channels, and integrating the tablet with other Microsoft products such as the Xbox. Any Microsoft-produced tablet will also need a version of Windows 7 optimized for the form factor, the analysts added. A number of IT giants, ranging from Hewlett-Packard to Google, are in their own ways attempting to gain in the tablet market. – Microsoft could claim substantial market share from Apple in the growing
tablet PC arena, but will need to both engage its manufacturing partners and
create software that allows a tablet to interact with products such as the
Xbox, according to a research report produced by analyst firm Forrester….

Google Doesn’t Need to Buy Salesforce.com, Experts Say

May 30th, 2010 | No Comments

An entrepreneur argued Google should buy Salesforce.com because it can’t compete with Microsoft now that the software giant has launched Microsoft Office 2010 to peck away at Google’s cloud computing collaboration software market. Raju Vegesna, technology evangelist for Zoho, said a Google-Salesforce.com marriage is not a good idea because their technology and cultures will clash. Analysts from Forrester and Gartner also believe Google doesn’t need Salesforce.com. – Analysis: Google has $26.5 billion in its coffers, so it’s become
fashionable to wonder what big vendor Google could buy next, what statement it
can make to shake the foundations of technology.
With a market cap of $11 billion, enterprise application
maker Salesforce.com would be such a buy.
…

May 11, 1951: RAM Is Born

May 11th, 2010 | No Comments

1951: Jay Forrester files a patent application for the matrix core memory.
Back when computers still weighed hundreds of pounds and were primarily used by the military, computer memory relied on cathode rays to retrieve information. But the Navy needed a faster computer that could run flight simulations in real time.
In stepped a team at the [...]

Analysts Mull the Meaning of the Google Tablet Rumor

April 13th, 2010 | No Comments

The New York Times said April 12 that Google is mulling the notion of building a tablet based on its Android operating system. The company has been reportedly talking with
publishers about putting books, magazine and other content on the device. The device could run Google’s Chrome Web browser and would support Adobe’s popular Flash software. Google declined to comment, so eWEEK polled industry analysts from IDC, Forrester and independents about this news and, not surprisingly, learned that none were surprised.
– With Apple shipping more than 450,000 unit of its iPad
tablet in less than a week, the way has been cleared for platform providers
such as Google and Microsoft and computer makers such as HP to begin offering
their wares in earnest.
The New York Times
reported April 12 that Google is mulling th…

Windows 7 Users Are Satisfied, Forrester Reports

March 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system scored high satisfaction numbers from users in a recent survey. However, only 10 percent of Windows XP and Windows Vista users also reported they would upgrade to Windows 7 within the next six months. A Forrester analyst suggests that Windows 7 has broken the usual pattern of users primarily acquiring the new Windows OS when purchasing fresh hardware. Windows 7 has sold 90 million copies since its release in October 2009, according to Microsoft.
– About 86 percent of surveyed Windows 7 users said they were satisfied with
the operating system, according to a recent report by analyst company Forrester
Research, but only 10 percent of Windows XP and Windows Vista users said they planned
to upgrade to Windows 7 within the next six months.
Tha…