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1 week ago | 
forrester.com | Devin Dickerson |Christopher Condo |David Mooter
Google Cloud Next 2025’s (full takeaway blog here) developer keynote offered a detailed look at the company’s latest AI innovations, with a particular focus on agent technology and developer tools.
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1 week ago | 
forrester.com | Christopher Condo |David Mooter
Feature management and experimentation is a broad set of capabilities that spans both software delivery and product management. With feature management, engineering teams can engage in the practice of progressive delivery wherein 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
forrester.com | David Mooter |Kate Leggett |Biswajeet Mahapatra
About seven years ago, I was on an initiative to explore low code. I saw Salesforce’s low-code product in demos. My impression was that the product was only suitable for buyers with a strong Salesforce CRM focus – a feeder to drive more revenue into Salesforce’s flagship product. When Salesforce acquired MuleSoft, many worried that it would turn MuleSoft into a similar appendage of Salesforce CRM.
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1 month ago | 
forrester.com | David Mooter |George Lawrie
I’ve enjoyed watching GraphQL’s evolution during my time as a Forrester analyst. While I can’t say it is a super popular topic in my client calls, I have seen a noticeable uptick in interest. This has happened while objections to GraphQL adoption are being alleviated: monolithic graphs, poor developer experience, and performance issues. Let’s review how each of these barriers is being addressed.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
forrester.com | David Mooter |Brian Hopkins
API enablement programs nearly always begin as IT initiatives. Back in the day, it was usually to support your first mobile application. Today it may be more about IT agility to keep pace with business change or to support a massive modernization program like an ERP migration. In sum: These programs are initially about developer enablement. An IT focus is a fine place to start: You must build the IT competency first before it can be leveraged for advancing business outcomes.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Meng Liu |David Mooter |Dan Bieler
Japanese organizations are facing a pivotal shift in their business and technology priorities. The country is grappling with a significant aging population, economic uncertainty, and digital transformation challenges. Forrester’s latest research finds that Japanese organizations are prioritizing financial growth and customer experience (CX) while improving IT resilience. Here’s a look at some trends and insights from our latest report:Business priorities focus on costs and CX.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
forrester.com | David Mooter |Maxie Schmidt |Dan Bieler |Diego Giudice
Schneider Electric is a multinational digital automation and energy management company with roots as an electrical equipment manufacturer. Several years ago, Schneider Electric recognized the need to pivot its product strategy beyond just an equipment manufacturer. It did this via an open API-based platform grounded in its data, which they determined was the ideal way to transform itself and achieve its goals.
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May 30, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Naveen Chhabra |Diego Giudice |David Mooter
VMware Licensing Shift: Renew Smarter, Not HarderMany Forrester clients who depend on VMWare’s virtualization software are complaining about the vendor’s overall price hikes. Some clients have told us their costs have increased by 400%. The price increases have many tech leaders exploring how to migrate away from VMware stack, and competitors amping up their marketing and services to help them.
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May 21, 2024 | 
forrester.com | David Mooter |Carlos Rivera |Charles Betz
As integrations and APIs scale, the traditional central integration delivery team quickly becomes the central bottleneck team. Overwhelmed by demand, it becomes overworked while the pace and scale of delivery slows for IT organizations dependent on it. Tech debt also increases: To work around the bottleneck, development teams may leverage their own integration products or build on whatever product’s support team has the shortest backlog rather than the product that is the best architectural fit.
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May 8, 2024 | 
forrester.com | David Mooter |Dan Bieler
Today, Boomi announced two acquisitions. The first is federated API management startup APIIDA. The other is TIBCO’s Mashery API management. This should come as no surprise to those who follow Boomi. Last year, its CEO made it clear he wants the company to become a leader in API management. Given its long neglect and lack of investment in its API management product, an acquisition was necessary for Boomi to catch up.
