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New Forrester PowerRankings™ Crown Amazon.com The Best Online Seller Of Books
Offering unique features and first-rate service, Amazon.com continues to rule the Books category in the latest PowerRankings announced today by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester PowerRankings combine survey data from online consumers and unbiased shopping tests to provide objective rankings of the leading eCommerce sites. The companies following Amazon.com were Borders.com, barnesandnoble.com, and buy.com. [...]
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New Forrester PowerRankings™ Find Amazon.com Number One On The Online Music Charts
Superior features and ease-of-use enabled Amazon.com to capture first place in the Music category of the latest PowerRankings announced today by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester PowerRankings combine survey data from online consumers and unbiased shopping tests to provide objective rankings of leading eCommerce sites. Following Amazon.com in the Music category were barnesandnoble.com, buy.com, [...]
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New Forrester PowerRankings™ Name Amazon.com As The Best Online Movie Site
With leading performances in five out of six scoring brackets, Amazon.com won top honors in the Movies category of the latest PowerRankings announced today by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester PowerRankings combine survey data from online consumers and unbiased shopping tests to provide objective rankings of the leading eCommerce sites. The companies following Amazon.com [...]
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UK Consumers Will Spend £20 Billion Shopping Online By 2005, According To Fletcher
An increasing range of interactive devices such as interactive digital TV and mobile phones will drive tremendous growth in the online retail market over the next five years, according to Fletcher Research, the UK Research Centre of Forrester Research. Fletcher’s Report “UK Online Retail: From Minority to Mainstream” predicts that 7.5% of the UK’s retail [...]
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Customized Pricing To Temper Online Price Competition, Predicts Forrester Research
New online shopping agents, demanding consumers, and the reality of inconsistent pricing over the Internet are shrinking retail margins and diminishing the likelihood of profitability. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), retailers that adopt personalized pricing — the delivery of customized offers to consumers — will regain their equilibrium and [...]
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eCommerce Software Spending Skyrockets To $14.5 Billion In 2003, Predicts Forrester Research
Although the US market for packaged eCommerce software will reach $14.5 billion in 2003, user demand will force dramatic changes in how applications are built and purchased. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), firms will supplement an application-server-based commerce platform with complementary plug-in apps — an approach Forrester terms “platform [...]
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Forrester Technographics® Summit To Explore Strategies For Capturing The Clicks Of Web-Savvy Young Consumers
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced “The Net-Powered Generation,” a Technographics Summit, to be held Friday, May 5, 2000, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif. This one-day Summit will enable marketers to understand the Net-powered generation as well as to provide the tools for targeting this dynamic consumer group. Summit [...]
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As UK Web Businesses Move To Exploit eCommerce, Improving Customer Experience Becomes A Top Priority, Fletcher Research Reports
eCommerce has overtaken communication as the driving force behind Web developments in Britain according to the UK Internet Survey 2000 by Fletcher Research, the UK Research Centre of Forrester Research. In 1999, the majority of companies (59%) were using the Web primarily to communicate with consumers, employees, and investors. Today, almost half of all sites [...]
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Forrester Research Expands Coverage Of Telecommunications eBusiness
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) today announced the expansion of its analysis of the telecommunications industry. By focusing on eBusiness opportunities and challenges facing service providers, the expanded research offering will address industry-specific issues to aid providers as they build more powerful online relationships with customers and suppliers. “The telecom industry faces a daunting transition [...]
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Forrester Research Posts 72% Rise In Revenues And 82% First-Quarter Net Income Growth
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), a leading provider of research and analysis on the Internet and emerging technologies, today announced revenues of $30.8 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2000, an increase of 72% from $17.9 million in the first quarter of 1999. Net income for the quarter was $3.5 million, an 82% [...]
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Homegrown Apps Infrastructure Stalls Net Market Success, Predicts Forrester Research
Today’s custom-built eMarketplaces will fail to reach full potential while perched on a precarious software foundation. According to a new Report from Forrester Reseach, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), leading eMarketplaces will assemble a four-tiered architecture that supports the full trading life cycle, because today’s fail to meet new market profiles. Forrester found that 68% of sites [...]
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eCommerce Evolves Into Real-time, Resilient eBusiness Networks, According To Forrester Research
As the number of companies committed to eCommerce continues to grow, momentum is building toward a substantial shift in the way companies do business. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), the Net will give rise to a new market structure, “eBusiness networks,” in which firms will form relationships quickly, share [...]
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Forrester Research And eMarketWorld Announce Content Partnership For eBusiness Conferences
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) and eMarketWorld today announced a partnership in which the two companies will collaborate on the program content for six vertical conferences designed to provide Internet business solutions to senior-level decision-makers in a variety of industries. This partnership signifies Forrester and eMarketWorld’s commitment to developing unique eBusiness events that promote the [...]
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After A Slow Start, Latin American eCommerce Will Leap To $82 Billion In 2004, According To Forrester Research
Although Latin America is constrained today by its telecommunications infrastructure and limited Internet access, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) predicts that eCommerce in Latin America will grow to $82 billion in 2004. As in other geographies, Latin America’s Internet economy will be principally powered by business-to-business (B2B) trade. B2B online in Latin America will account [...]
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eCommerce In Asia-Pacific To Reach $1.6 Trillion In 2004, According To Forrester Research
Buoyed by a combination of regional strengths, Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), predicts that eCommerce in Asia-Pacific will surge to $1.6 trillion in 2004. The region’s countries will benefit from local eCommerce development efforts and tight links to international supply chains in a number of key industries. These factors will make Asia-Pacific an important player [...]
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Europe Will Deliver 22% Of The $6.8 Trillion Global Internet Economy In 2004, According To Forrester
Sustained eCommerce growth of more than 100% per year through 2003 will drive Europe to $1.5 trillion in online sales in 2004. This will make Europe a major contributor to the global Internet economy, which Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) estimates will reach $6.8 trillion in 2004. While Europe and Asia-Pacific both have comparable online [...]
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North America Will Lead Global eCommerce To $6.8 Trillion In 2004, According To Forrester
Internet commerce is making significant gains worldwide as countries collectively adopt online trade. A new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) estimates that global eCommerce will reach $6.8 trillion in 2004, capturing 8.6% of the world’s sales of goods and services. North America will continue to be the global eCommerce leader — contributing nearly [...]
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NRF/Forrester Research’s Online Retail Index Advances To Address Big-Ticket Items
The National Retail Federation and Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), in conjunction with Greenfield Online, announced today advances made in the NRF/Forrester Online Retail Index methodology. Survey data has expanded to include detailed analysis of big-ticket purchases. The improved Retail Index will provide greater insight into consumers’ spending patterns, which surpassed $3 billion. “As spending [...]
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Forrester Research To Expand European Research Fourfold In 2000
Forrester Research B.V. (Nasdaq: FORR), Europe’s foremost source of eCommerce research and analysis, today announced plans to further expand its European research offerings over the next six months. By expanding its continuous stream of research, Forrester will provide an in-depth understanding of how new technologies are affecting local markets as well as a Pan-European perspective [...]
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Online Business Travel Booking Soars To $20.3 Billion By 2004, According To Forrester Research
Starting now, the driver of US online business travel will be corporate policy, versus individual travel. According to a new Report from Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), companies eager to save travel and processing costs will mandate the use of Web-based corporate booking engines. The few remaining unmanaged business travelers will buy their business travel [...]