Application Development & Delivery
Application development & delivery is a complex and crucial competency in today’s digitized business world. Read insights on trends, best practices, emerging technologies, and more for application development & delivery professionals.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! The US Government Applies The Concept To Software Coding
The US government’s SHARE IT Act became law in December 2024, requiring that all custom-developed software be accessed, shared, used, and modified governmentwide. By allowing any federal agency to access and use the code, the SHARE IT Act ensures that the investments in custom-developed software ($12 billion spent annually) are maximized, reducing the need for […]
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Google Cloud Next 2025’s Developer Keynote: Agents Take Center Stage
Google Cloud Next 2025’s (full takeaway blog here) developer keynote offered a detailed look at the company’s latest AI innovations, with a particular focus on agent technology and developer tools. Cohosts Richard Seroter and Stephanie Wong brought both technical insight and their signature energy to the stage, keeping the audience engaged with well-timed humor as […]
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Feature Management And Experimentation — An Evolving Market
With feature management, engineering teams can engage in the practice of progressive delivery, where features are deployed with flags turned off, tested in production, and then gradually turned on to a progressively larger audience of users until the new feature is completely released. This mechanism can be used for new features, but the most common use case is safely managing continuous updates.
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TDX 2025: MuleSoft And The Salesforce Platform Pivot
About seven years ago, I was on an initiative to explore low-code. When I saw Salesforce’s low-code product in demos, my impression was that the product was only suitable for buyers with a strong Salesforce CRM focus — a feeder to drive more revenue into Salesforce’s flagship product. When Salesforce acquired MuleSoft, many worried that […]
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AI Catapults The CRM Market To A Moment of Reckoning
CRM software has become overengineered, and complexity is killing its value, but AI has the potential to simplify CRM.
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Visualize, Control, And Optimize Your Spend With Software Asset Management Tools
In a climate of economic and political uncertainty, tech budgets are under pressure. According to Forrester’s Industry- And Customer-Supporting Software Survey, 2025, 23% of organizations cite budget as their number one software challenge.
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Call For Entries: The 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards
Forrester is thrilled to announce the opening of nominations for the 2025 global Enterprise Architecture Awards. Learn more about this year’s awards and how to apply here.
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Vibe Coding: Innovation Or Chaos?
In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, one month can be enough to create a trend that makes big waves.
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Firefox Goes Off Brand
Mozilla’s recent change to the Firefox terms of use has led to concerns within the open-source, privacy, and web communities. Firefox now finds itself in a difficult spot.
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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025
Application modernization remains a critical priority for enterprises as they continue their journey to the cloud and beyond. While the “lift and shift” era of cloud migration has ended, the modernization journey continues.
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Highlights From The Forrester Wave™: Content Platforms, Q1 2025
The enterprise content management market has undergone a significant transformation driven by new AI and cloud capabilities. Learn three key trends about the market in this preview of our latest Forrester Wave™ evaluation.
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Amid The AI Hype, Agile Still Remains Relevant In 2025
After over 12 years of leading Forrester’s research on agile and, from 2011, publishing a biennial Forrester report on the global state of agile adoption, we have just published The State Of Agile Development, 2025: It’s Still Relevant, With Benefits And Challenges.
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The AI Coding Honeymoon (And What Comes After)
The best way to maximize the use of AI-assisted software development is to make sure your fundamentals are solid. Find out why in this post.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Modern Application Development Services, Q1 2025
MAD Services Deliver Cool New Products While Transforming Your Development Capabilities Modern application development (MAD) services represent the next wave in custom application development services. Emerging from the convergence of current and past services such as application development management services (ADMS), digital transformation services (DTS), digital product engineering services (DPES), and broader application modernization services […]
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Accelerating US Government Modernization With Open-Source And Agile Development
The US government doesn’t have an innovation problem, it has an adoption problem. Find out what makes open-source and agile adoption a unique proposition for government organizations.
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Engineering Metrics: The Elephant In The Room
With the growth of generative AI, developer productivity is on everyone’s mind these days. But measuring developer productivity is challenging. Learn how focusing on alignment can help eliminate the elephant in the room.
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The Quest To Measure Developer Productivity Is Fueling The Market For Value Stream Management And Software Engineering Intelligence Tools
Using SEI tools, dev leaders can optimize their software development processes while improving the developer experience. The market growth in SEI tools directly corresponds to the explosive use of genAI TuringBots, commonly referred to as copilots for software development.
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Are You Making These DevSecOps Mistakes? The Four Phases You Need To Know Before Your Code Becomes Your Vulnerability
Learn the four key phases of DevSecOps as well as some key best practices to jump-start your transformation in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit.
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Introducing The Forrester Tech Tide™: Software Development, Q4 2024
Struggling to determine which software development technologies have staying power and which will be just a flash in the pan? Get some insight in this preview of our latest Forrester Tech Tide™ for software development technology.
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AppGen Is An Existential Threat To The Enterprise App Business
AI-powered enterprises will “build” software instead of “buy” it — and many applications in enterprise portfolios will consolidate onto low-code AppGen platforms.
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