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Twelve Days Of Loc[alization] Mess — In The Age Of AI

Kathleen Pierce December 16, 2024
❄ 🥂 🎇 🎀 🎄 🥳 Last year, I wrote a pastiche called the Twelve Days Of Loc[alization] Mess after a client asked about the root causes of localization problems. This week, I wondered if I should repost the blog, perhaps with a few updates — and was amazed to realize that, after one short […]
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Building Tests For Conversational AI

William McKeon-White August 14, 2024
How do conversational AI systems stack up against real-life use? Use this simple test to evaluate the capability of your systems to accommodate real user language variance.

2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide

From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.

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AI Is Now A Core Capability Of BI Platforms

Boris Evelson August 7, 2024
AI capabilities are showing up in nearly all business intelligence platforms. Read this blog to learn seven things AI is now responsible for within most BI platforms and get a preview of our upcoming research on BI platforms.
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Wasn’t Generative AI Supposed To Disrupt Business Intelligence?

Boris Evelson July 25, 2024
Generative AI was supposed to disrupt how we analyze data using BI tools. Find out why that hasn't happened yet.
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024

What It Means June 27, 2024
The pace of technology innovation can make it hard to keep an eye on the tech horizon. In this episode, Vice President of Emerging Tech Portfolio Brian Hopkins walks through this year’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies, describing when each technology will bring value to users.
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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2024: As AI Dominates, Security Becomes Paramount

Brian Hopkins June 25, 2024
Forrester’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies for 2024 reflects the continued dominance of AI but also emphasizes the growing importance of security in our increasingly connected world. Get a deep dive on the top 10 list in this blog post.
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GenAI’s World-Changing Power Is Putting Knowledge To Work

Brian Hopkins December 14, 2023
Generative AI will not just disrupt — it will shatter markets, industries, and economies in waves over the next 10 to 15 years. We sense this, but why and how will this happen? We think that generative AI drives the cost of knowledge activation to zero and creates a virtual knowledge loop that increases what is known in the world by more people. We are launching deep research into this topic and invite you to join us.

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People Avoid Chatbots — Here’s How Your Company Can Make Its Bot Better

David Truog November 14, 2023
Creating an effective chatbot is hard. To get it right, you need to master conversation design, a new discipline for creating experiences that are based on conversational AI, and you need to know where and when to use new technologies like generative AI.
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Building An Insights-Driven Strategy: Where Do You Start?

Kim Herrington April 19, 2023
“Follow the yellow brick road!” Silly Dorothy. She had it so easy. Dorothy had a magical guide that popped up when she needed help the most. For many executives getting started with forming a data team and an insights strategy, the road forward is not so clear. Executives find themselves bewildered and disoriented in a […]
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Q&A: Two Core Questions To Understanding ChatGPT

Guannan Lu March 10, 2023
There may be a revolution coming on the heels of generative AI — but tech leaders should maintain a realistic perspective and understand its potential and limitations.
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Will AI Reinvent Software Development?

What It Means March 2, 2023
Will TuringBots revolutionize the way software is developed? Or will they open developers up to new risks? Vice Presidents and Principal Analysts Diego Lo Giudice and Mike Gualtieri debate the pros and cons of AI for software development in this episode of What It Means.
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How To Navigate The Generative AI Hype In Customer Service

Christina McAllister February 16, 2023
Here's what you need to consider as you evaluate solutions for your organization.
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Announcing Updates To The Forrester Wave™ Evaluations Covering Automation Services

Leslie Joseph February 16, 2023
We are announcing changes to our Forrester Wave™ evaluations focused on the automation services market to better represent the rise of automation fabrics and the changing role of systems integrators, consultancies, advisory firms, and specialist services vendors in this space.
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The Future Of Localization Is Here: Are You Ready?

Kathleen Pierce January 26, 2023
Here’s a thought experiment to test if your organization is ready for the future of localization. When you think about your customer and employee experience (CX and EX), do you think about what it’s like in each of their languages? Or do you unconsciously assume a monolingual experience? If we’re honest, many of us, especially […]
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Predictions 2023: Bold Shifts In Retail Models Will Be The Salve For Uncertain Times

Brendan Witcher October 26, 2022
In 2023, retail models will need to adapt to tap into new sources of profitability, which will become more critical amid economic headwinds.
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Meet The New Analyst Covering AI And Insurance: Indranil Bandyopadhyay

Indranil Bandyopadhyay October 5, 2022
New Principal Analyst joins Forrester in the areas of financial service, focusing on insurance and data, AI, and ML.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2022

Rowan Curran July 12, 2022
Artificial intelligence applications are beginning to hit their stride, delivering end-to-end experiences for customers and employees that match or exceed human capacities. To help enterprises decide which AI/machine-learning (ML) platform to invest in, Forrester evaluated vendor platforms offered by Amazon Web Services, C3 AI, Cloudera, Databricks, Dataiku, DataRobot, Google, H2O.ai, IBM, Microsoft, Palantir, RapidMiner, RStudio, […]
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Apple iOS 16: My Takeaways

Julie Ask June 9, 2022
Apple continues to strive to make experiences easy, secure, and private for its customers. Here, I’ll focus on the aspects of “easy” here, and what popped for me in Apple's keynote at WWDC 2022.
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Long-Form Natural Language Generation Is In Play This Week

Boris Evelson November 16, 2021
A Forrester recommendation in a recent report is coming to fruition. In our Augmented BI Holds New Promises, But It’s Still Early Days report, we recommended to “find the right balance between customization and automation in NLG.” We also described two forms of natural language generation (NLG) for analytics: short-form NLG — automated but limited […]
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Most Chatbots Disappoint — Here’s How To Make Them Better

David Truog November 9, 2021
To create an effective chatbot you need to master conversation design, a new discipline for experiences based on conversational AI.
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