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The Rise Of Digital Coworkers: Moveworks Bets Big On AI Agents

Julie Mohr 7 days ago
Moveworks’ global event in San Jose marked a major inflection point in enterprise AI with the announcement of Agent Studio, Plugin Workspace, and an AI Agent Marketplace — all part of its strategy to become the go-to platform for building business-ready AI agents. Analysts Julie Mohr and Rowan Curran provide their insights on the announcements. […]
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Government Leaders: Prioritize Cyber Efficiency Amid Federal Volatility

Cody Scott April 17, 2025
Government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels must prepare for a future where they experience uncertainty, headcount reductions, contract cancellations, and budget cuts. This is gut-wrenchingly difficult to process, yet remaining leaders must figure out how to move forward to serve the mission. For public sector cybersecurity leaders, this is even more paramount. […]
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Atlassian’s AI Offensive Is Changing Work Forever

Julie Mohr April 16, 2025
Atlassian has launched a sweeping upgrade to its platform, and the message is crystal-clear: AI isn’t just a feature; it’s the foundation. If you’re working in tech, managing teams, or even just part of a business using Jira or Confluence, this isn’t a subtle shift; it’s a tectonic one. Atlassian dropped a full suite of […]
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XR Steps Back, AI Steps Up: The Shake-Up In Our 2025 Emerging Technologies

Brian Hopkins April 14, 2025
Forrester’s 2025 top 10 emerging technologies report reveals a major shift in the tech landscape, driven by AI acceleration and changing market dynamics. Longtime list members extended reality and Zero Trust edge are stepping back, making room for two fast-moving innovations — one of which was virtually unknown just a year ago. The earlier release gives tech leaders more time to strategize and align with upcoming breakthroughs in AI and beyond.
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Feature Management And Experimentation — An Evolving Market

Christopher Condo April 11, 2025
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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Accessibility Is Getting Its GDPR Moment

Christopher Condo March 31, 2025
Software that is not written with the needs of people with visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive disabilities in mind blocks potential and current customers from using your products and services. Imagine what you would do to get 1.3 billion more customers.
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Call For Entries: The 2025 Enterprise Architecture Awards

Charles Betz March 24, 2025
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?

Diego Lo Giudice March 11, 2025
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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How I Apply Third-Party Lab Results In My Security Operations Research

Allie Mellen March 3, 2025
Last week, I attended the AV-Comparatives conference in Innsbruck, Austria. This conference brought together many cybersecurity vendors, particularly those with a European focus, as well as a few nonprofits, academic institutions, and analyst firms.
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A Developer At An I&O Vendor Conference

Christopher Condo February 11, 2025
Get a detailed look at the capabilities of Dynatrace's new Observability for Developers direct from the Dynatrace Perform event.
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Amid The AI Hype, Agile Still Remains Relevant In 2025

Diego Lo Giudice January 23, 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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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Modern Application Development Services, Q1 2025

Diego Lo Giudice January 15, 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

Devin Dickerson January 7, 2025
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

Andrew Cornwall January 6, 2025
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

Christopher Condo December 9, 2024
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

Janet Worthington November 25, 2024
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

Andrew Cornwall November 18, 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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Embracing AIOps: Revolutionizing DevOps And Agile Methodologies

Carlos Casanova October 30, 2024
Learn how AIOps can significantly enhance the efficiency, speed, and reliability of software development and deployment processes.
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Predictions 2025: GenAI Reality Bites Back For Software Developers

Christopher Condo October 23, 2024
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.
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Key Insights And Recommendations From VMware Explore 2024

Naveen Chhabra September 4, 2024
Get six key takeaways from the annual VMware Explore 2024 conference and find out what they mean for technology leaders.
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