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Six Months In: What 2025 Taught Me And Why I’m Fired Up For 2026
2025 has been a year of learning, listening, and building momentum. From packed workshops to powerful storytelling, our events sparked connection and action across industries. Now, we’re raising the bar for 2026 with a bold promise: ideas into action. Here’s what we learned — and what’s next.
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Emerging Tech Innovation Days Don’t Work — Host A Partner Co-Innovation Summit Instead
Inviting your vendors to showcase their latest stuff and inspire your teams rarely delivers results. You need an approach that focuses on active collaboration among your partners and teams. Find out how a partner co-innovation summit can help.
2026 APAC Predictions: The Blind Spots You Can’t Afford to Miss
Missed the live reveal? The blind spots haven’t gone anywhere. Watch the webinar replay to uncover what APAC tech and security leaders didn’t see coming — and why your 2026 roadmap may need a reset.
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The Only Path To Autonomous Operations Is Built On Trust
Businesses are under pressure to modernize their operations. From cloud-native architectures to AI-driven automation, the future of IT is autonomous. It may not happen in six months or even six years, but with recent technological advancements, we can predict that the future path is built on systems with AI capabilities that make decisions with and without the human in the loop.
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KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Digital Experience Platforms, Q4 2025
You’re already feeling it. Each vendor’s site is a live demonstration of its platform’s capabilities. Optimizely leans into experimentation-led personalization; Adobe’s Experience Platform is orchestrated with precision; Salesforce blends CRM depth with conversational interfaces; Sitecore showcases agentic flows that guide content and conversion. These aren’t static pages. They’re dynamic systems that anticipate your needs, route […]
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AI Is Rewriting Software Work: What It Means For Your Team
Over the past 6–9 months, our team has been working on one of the most ambitious research efforts I’ve led at Forrester: a dual-track program combining dozens of qualitative interviews with development leaders and practitioners and a rigorous quantitative analysis of AI’s employment impact across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
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Predictions 2026: AI Agents, Changing Business Models, And Workplace Culture Impact Enterprise Software
In 2026, enterprise applications will move beyond the traditional role of enabling employees with digital tools to accommodating a digital workforce of AI agents. Tech leaders will be forced to decide how far to go in digitizing business processes and orchestrating workflows independent of human workers.
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From Developers To Services: The Impact Of Atlassian’s Latest AI Innovations
Discover the latest AI breakthroughs and announcements from Atlassian in this review of its recent Team '25 Europe event.
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LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be The Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back
For decades, B2B companies have viewed localization as an operational necessity to translate words, keep websites up to date, and support global product launches. That outdated view doesn’t hold up anymore. Businesses today need to evolve localization in the age of AI. Find out how in this review of the recent LocWorld54 conference.
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The Hard Truths: Tech Leadership Lessons From The Trenches
Welcome to the tech leader practitioner series! This new blog series will bring you insights from the professionals here at Forrester who have enjoyed careers in roles like yours or spend their days helping tech leaders tackle their thorniest challenges. Here, we will share our lessons learned through countless failures (some of them epic) and […]
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Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner And Finalists For North America
Congratulations to the United States Department of the Navy, this year’s winner of the Technology Strategy Impact Award for North America. Learn more about their winning strategy as well those of finalists CBRE and Verizon.
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From Insight To Impact: Why Value Stream Planning Demands Strong Governance
Despite increasing pressure to deliver business value, many technology organizations still struggle to connect strategic intent with execution. Learn how value stream planning can provide the structure to evaluate which initiatives deliver the most value the fastest.
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Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winner And Runners-Up For EMEA
Forrester is proud to announce mBank as the winner of the 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award for EMEA, with TBC Bank and Philip Morris International as runners-up.
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Today’s Leaders Must Heed AI Advice For Future Disruptors
Startup founders, investors, technologists, and operators are all working frantically to get an early jump onto the AI train. Find out why and get more of the key takeaways from the recent Startup Boston Week event.
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Solving Tech Debt With AI + Graph
Is this the end of the configuration management database? Learn the value of AI and the IT knowledge graph as a solution to the biggest tech challenges, including technical debt.
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Is Your IT Organization A Ponzi Scheme?
Is your IT organization funding yesterday’s technology shortcuts with today’s headcount? Learn how to identify technical debt “doom loops” that keep organizations trapped and how to break the cycle in this preview of our upcoming Technology & Innovation Summits.
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Commercial Software Spend Will Reach $1.7 Trillion By 2029 And See Double-Digit Growth
As the global economy braces for slower trade growth and geopolitical tensions, the software industry continues to defy economic headwinds with robust expansion. Software infrastructure is set to grow 13.4% through 2029 while application software grows at a more subdued 9.5%. Learn more in our newly released commercial software forecast.
2026 Predictions: What Tech And Security Leaders Must Know
Our 2026 tech and security predictions are out — now it’s time to go deeper. Join Forrester’s analysts to uncover what you must do to lead with trust and value.
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GenAI Offers The Digital Employee Experience Opportunity Of A Lifetime
Demand for new AI-driven capabilities is surging, creating unique problems for technology leaders. Find out how an AI-enabled digital employee experience strategy can help in this preview of Forrester’s upcoming Technology & Innovation Summit North America.
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New Research: Top Emerging Technologies In Healthcare
Healthcare organizations face constant pressure to improve clinical outcomes and workforce retention amid budget constraints and market volatility. Our new research aims to help them prioritize the technologies that will have the most impact today.
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Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award Winners And Runner-Up For APAC
Congratulations to FWD Group and YCH Group, our winners this year, and to AIA Group, our runner-up. Learn more about the technology strategies each of these firms developed and how they executed them with precision and agility.
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