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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Sandy Carielli |Enza Iannopollo |Carlos Casanova
Last week, Forrester hosted our Predictions 2025 Webinar: Technology & Security. We had a great time bantering about some of the most impactful security and technology predictions that our analyst teams called out, including around the ROI for AI initiatives, private cloud and VMware, plans for agentic AI, and enforcing the EU AI Act in 2025.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Carlos Casanova
As reported by several media outlets and confirmed by SAP CEO, Christian Klein, during its Q4 2024 earnings call, SAP will offer an additional 3 years of support for some on-premises ERP customers beyond the existing extended maintenance support of 2030. This news came as a surprise for many ERP customers globally who have been struggling to plan and complete their ECC to S/4HANA migrations under the RISE with SAP offering before end of 2027, which is the current mainstream maintenance end date.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Carlos Casanova |Naveen Chhabra
SAP reported better-than-expected Q4 2024 financial results and raised its full-year operating profit forecast as demand for artificial-intelligence systems continues. On top of beating expectations, SAP said it now expects 2025 operating profit to be between €10.3 billion to €10.6 billion, above previous estimates of approximately €10 billion. Its current cloud backlog of €18.08 billion is up 32%. Cloud revenue is up 27% to €4.71 billion and Cloud ERP Suite revenue is up 35% to €3.95 billion.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Jeff Pollard |Erik Nost |Carlos Casanova
It’s a fast and furious week in the world of generative AI and AI security.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Enza Iannopollo |Carlos Casanova |Jinan Budge
While the world and (the financial markets!) was taken by surprise by the raise of DeepSeek’s open-source model, DeepThink (R1), the Italian privacy regulator – Il Garante – didn’t waste time and sent a formal request to the Chinese company to disclose information about their practices with personal data.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Carlos Casanova |Michele Pelino |Michele Goetz |Srividya Sridharan
Exciting developments, such as DeepSeek’s R1 announcement are extending opportunities to run large language models (LLMs) on edge devices. These advancements could have profound implications for edge computing, particularly in the realms of AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) and observability. By enabling real-time insights and faster automations at the edge, enterprises can enhance their operational posture, drive down costs, and improve operational efficiency and resilience.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mdpi.com | Carlos Casanova
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Michele Goetz |Carlos Casanova
Edge intelligence marks a pivotal shift in AI, bringing processing and decision-making closer to where it matters most: the point of value creation. By moving AI and analytics to the edge, businesses enhance responsiveness, reduce latency, and enable applications to function independently—even when cloud connectivity is limited or non-existent. As businesses adopt edge intelligence, they push AI and analytics capabilities to devices, sensors, and localized systems.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Paul Miller |Mike Gualtieri |Carlos Casanova
German industrial conglomerate Siemens continued its evolution from hardware maker to technology provider this week, announcing the company’s intention to acquire Altair Engineering for around US$10 billion. Industrial giants like Siemens rose to dominance by making high-quality physical objects. Lower-cost competition and increasingly complex multi-stakeholder ecosystems mean this old route to success is no longer sufficient.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Peter Wannemacher |Pete Jacques |Carlos Casanova
Forrester recently evaluated mobile banking apps in Canada and the US in our latest Digital Experience Review™ (DXR). It shows that:Banks’ apps are barely keeping up with customers’ needs and expectations. Mobile banking usage is rising and evolving, and the pace of change has been accelerating since 2020. Yet few customers feel their primary bank’s app is markedly better than other brands’ (fewer than one in three feel this way in both the US and Canada).
