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Forrester helps business and technology leaders make confident decisions and drive measurable growth through research, expert guidance, and advisory services.

Overview

Forrester is a research and advisory firm serving business and technology leaders. It combines proprietary research, data, expert guidance, consulting, frameworks, and events to help organizations make informed decisions, align teams, navigate change, and turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Mission statement

Forrester helps business and technology leaders use customer obsession to accelerate growth.

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What we offer

Forrester Decisions

Service

Helps leaders and teams align priorities, make confident decisions, accelerate strategic initiatives, and improve business outcomes.

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Forrester Market Insights

Service

Helps organizations understand markets, buyers, and competitors to identify opportunities, differentiate offerings, and make confident decisions.

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Forrester AI Access

Service

Helps organizations access trusted research-backed advice quickly, make informed decisions, and bring insights into everyday workflows.

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Forrester Signature Research

Service

Helps leaders anticipate change, evaluate investments, understand markets, and turn research-backed insights into business action.

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Forrester Consulting

Service

Helps organizations advance initiatives, align teams, address market challenges, and create research-backed content that supports buyer trust and demonstrates value.

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Forrester Events

Service

Helps attendees gain research-backed insights, connect with experts and peers, and apply practical strategies to business priorities.

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Forrester Certification

Service

Helps individuals and teams build practical skills and shared understanding to apply research and advance strategic priorities.

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More information about our offering

Forrester Decisions

Forrester Decisions is a role-specific research service for senior leaders and their teams. It combines research and insights, practical tools, and continuous expert guidance tailored to functional priorities. Flexible team solutions support shared access to research, data, frameworks, and guidance, helping organizations align teams, advance strategic initiatives, and make decisions with confidence. Forrester AI is available to clients to provide fast answers grounded in Forrester research.

  • Inform Decisions With Trusted Research
    Use research and insights to shape strategy, understand changing customer and market dynamics, plan for the future, and support decisions with relevant information.
  • Apply Expertise To Your Priorities
    Work with Forrester experts who get to know your business and provide timely guidance to help make decisions, advance initiatives, and reduce decision risk.
  • Turn Strategy Into Action
    Apply practical resources to plan initiatives, assess progress, and move priorities forward.
  • Align Teams Around Shared Priorities
    Give team members shared resources and expert guidance, support direct engagement with Forrester, and coordinate efforts around common goals.
  • Center Decisions On Customer Value
    Use customer obsession research and tools to place customer value at the center of business decisions and support outcomes such as revenue growth, customer retention, and employee engagement.
  • Get Research-Based Answers Faster
    Use generative AI grounded in Forrester research to get fast responses, explore trends, consider next steps, and validate direction.
  • Match Support To Team Needs
    Choose options that support executives, leaders, teams, or broader groups with different combinations of partnership, guidance, research, tools, and data access.
  • Learn From Peers And Experts
    Engage with peers and participate in events and client webinars to gain perspectives and support decisions and initiatives.

Forrester Market Insights

Forrester Market Insights is a research service for high-tech and service provider leaders, their teams, and organizations. It provides forward-looking insights and objective advice on markets, buyers, and competitors to help clients identify opportunities, differentiate offerings, and make an impact in changing markets. The service combines market research and forecasts, buyer insights, Forrester Wave evaluations, analyst resources, and research for Technology, B2B, and Consumer and Digital markets. Its insights draw on global surveys, objective research methodologies, and client perspectives.

  • Anticipate Market Change
    Use forward-looking research and market intelligence to understand changing dynamics and plan for future opportunities.
  • Understand Buyer Priorities
    Learn what target buyers want, what challenges they face, and how their priorities can inform offerings and roadmaps.
  • Identify Differentiation Opportunities
    Understand competitors and their relative strengths to identify ways to differentiate offerings and make an impact in the market.
  • Ground Decisions In Objective Research
    Use insights informed by large-scale annual surveys, objective methodologies, and client perspectives to support market and buyer understanding.
  • Get Expert Guidance
    Use analyst inquiry sessions, research, frameworks, webinars, and events to explore market questions and apply objective advice.
  • Focus Research By Market
    Choose relevant markets to access research on the audiences and buyer priorities most pertinent to your organization.
  • Align Teams Around Market Facts
    Give leaders and team members a common set of facts and forecasts to support an outside-in perspective and tactical planning.

Forrester AI Access

Forrester AI Access is a self-service research and decision-support service that extends Forrester’s proprietary research, vetted data, insights, and advice across an organization through AI. It includes Forrester AI capabilities on the Forrester platform and through supported workplace integrations. Users can get traceable answers, interact with reports, and access research and data resources. AI Access Plus includes everything in AI Access, along with four 30-minute analyst inquiry sessions annually for additional context and decision validation.

  • Get Trusted Advice Fast
    Access succinct AI-powered insights and advice based on Forrester’s proprietary research and data to support faster, more informed decisions and reduce time spent searching for relevant material.
  • Explore Research And Data
    Use a broad collection of Forrester research, insights, data, and tools to inform initiatives and support decision-making.
  • Verify Advice Against Its Sources
    Trace responses to Forrester research and data to review the evidence, context, and original material behind an answer.
  • Explore Reports And Find Key Takeaways
    Get report takeaways quickly, ask questions about specific content, and navigate to the source material used in an answer.
  • Access Insights In Everyday Tools
    Get Forrester AI-powered insights and advice through supported workplace tools without leaving the workflow.
  • Validate Decisions With Analysts
    Use four annual analyst inquiry sessions to ask focused questions, gain context, and validate key decisions.
  • Explore Topics Through Follow-Up Questions
    Continue from earlier questions, refine prompts, and explore topics further in a language of choice without query caps.
  • Turn Insights Into PowerPoint Slides
    Convert research-backed responses into a structured, downloadable slide deck, refine the content, and retain links to Forrester sources.
  • Stay Informed About New Research
    Receive alerts about new research included as part of the service.

Forrester Signature Research

Forrester Signature Research provides actionable research and data to help leaders anticipate change, evaluate investments, plan execution, grow customer value, and understand the forces shaping their markets. Coverage includes predictions, budget planning guides, market forecasts, vendor evaluations, customer and market insights, emerging technologies, and business volatility. Vendor evaluation research includes The Forrester Wave™, which compares providers using a transparent, data-driven methodology and offers interactive tools in many reports to tailor findings and build a shortlist. Clients use research, data, and frameworks to inform decisions and advance business priorities. Forrester describes its research as objective and grounded in data-informed methodologies.

  • Compare Providers And Build Shortlists
    Assess provider options using transparent evaluation approaches, side-by-side analysis, customer feedback, and interactive tools to narrow choices according to business needs.
  • Ground Decisions In Objective Research
    Inform decisions with research based on data and structured methodologies. Forrester states that clients and vendors cannot influence its research conclusions and that its opinions cannot be bought.
  • Anticipate Trends And Risks
    Use research on expected business, technology, customer, and market developments to consider potential opportunities and risks while planning ahead.
  • Plan Investments With Forecasts
    Use market outlooks and insights on economic indicators, technology spending, vendor performance, and consumer trends to identify growth opportunities and align investments with business outcomes.
  • Center Decisions On Customer Value
    Apply research on customer obsession to consider how customer value can inform business decisions and support stronger customer relationships and long-term business value.
  • Understand Buyer Decisions
    Use research on buyer behavior and purchase decisions to inform go-to-market choices and identify how to better address buyers’ needs.
  • Prioritize Spending And Investment
    Benchmark spending plans and identify areas for investment, optimization, and experimentation to support future growth.
  • Align B2B Teams And Outcomes
    Use research to adapt go-to-market strategy to changing buyer behavior and coordinate teams around shared customer and business outcomes.
  • Align Brand And Customer Experiences
    Use Total Experience research to connect brand, customer, and employee experiences in support of loyalty, retention, and growth.
  • Assess Emerging Technology Opportunities
    Evaluate emerging technologies in relation to their business value, readiness for adoption, and potential market impact.
  • Prepare For Disruption
    Use research on business volatility to identify risks, prepare for disruption, and consider ways to strengthen organizational resilience.
  • Access Research Across Your Workflow
    Search reports, data, and frameworks through the client platform, with additional access to research and insights in supported workplace tools for licensed users.

Forrester Consulting

Forrester Consulting pairs leaders with seasoned analysts and experts to advance initiatives, navigate competitive challenges, and support pipeline growth. Tailored engagements include interactive initiative workshops, advisory strategy sessions, demand generation support, and custom research-based content such as thought leadership studies and Total Economic Impact™ studies. Demand generation offerings include research reprints, analyst speaking engagements, event sponsorships, and campaign content and activation assets. Consulting teams apply rigorous objectivity and integrity standards, and engagement formats and durations vary to meet organizational needs.

Category: Management Consulting

  • Align Teams And Kick-Start Initiatives
    Bring internal collaborators together with an analyst to explore industry trends and best practices, support an initiative, and work toward shared outcomes.
  • Sharpen Strategy With Expert Advice
    Get expert feedback and an external perspective on market conditions, customers, competitors, product direction, go-to-market plans, and messaging.
  • Create Credible, Research-Backed Content
    Develop independent, third-party studies that educate buyers on market trends and customer needs, support solution fit, and help clients build credibility and trust.
  • Demonstrate Economic Value And ROI
    Use economic analysis to help buyers understand an offering’s financial impact and justify investment. Dynamic studies can be configured by buyers to explore expected ROI based on their business needs.
  • Engage Buyers Across Their Journey
    Use content designed to inform buyers throughout their journey, support lead generation, and communicate offering impact across campaign channels.
  • Use Trusted Research In Campaigns
    Support campaigns with an objective third-party perspective that can educate buyers, reinforce solution positioning, and build brand credibility. Flexible licensing and customization options help adapt reprints to campaign needs.
  • Protect Research Independence And Credibility
    Maintain a clear separation between commissioned consulting work and Forrester research, with standards intended to support credible, reliable, and impartial content.
  • Bring Expert Insights To Campaigns
    Use analyst presentations and contributed content to capture buyer attention, educate audiences, and support event participation.
  • Reach Decision-Makers At Events
    Use sponsorship opportunities, demonstrations, and exhibit space to reach event audiences and support lead generation and relationship-building.

Forrester Events

Forrester Events are curated experiences that bring business and technology leaders together with Forrester experts and peers. In-person and virtual events cover B2B, customer experience, security and risk, and technology and innovation. Attendees gain research-based insights, analyst advice, practical frameworks, and opportunities for networking and hands-on learning. Organizations can sponsor events to reach decision-makers through speaking opportunities, product demonstrations, exhibit spaces, conference passes, and other options that support brand awareness, demand generation, thought leadership, executive networking, and live-market validation.

Category: Industry Conferences

  • Gain Trusted Expert Insights
    Hear perspectives from Forrester experts and analysts through research-based keynotes and sessions to build understanding and confidence around business and technology priorities.
  • Connect With Experts And Peers
    Use facilitated analyst conversations and peer networking to discuss shared challenges, validate perspectives, and build relationships with leaders and sponsors.
  • Generate Qualified Leads
    Use event interactions to support qualified lead generation, follow-ups, and sales opportunities.
  • Apply Proven Frameworks
    Take away practical models and frameworks that can help prioritize challenges, guide decisions, and put event insights to work.
  • Turn Insights Into Action
    Participate in practical sessions and discussions to work through priorities, apply strategies, and leave with approaches or action plans to advance your work.
  • Find Events For Your Priorities
    Explore events focused on B2B, customer experience, technology and innovation, or security and risk to engage with content and leaders relevant to your role.
  • Increase Brand Visibility At Events
    Put your brand and offerings in front of event audiences through sponsorships, speaking sessions, demonstrations, exhibit space, and conference passes.
  • Build Executive Relationships
    Connect with decision-makers and other attendees to develop strategic relationships and partnerships.
  • Choose How You Participate
    Select from in-person and virtual event elements to engage with Forrester content in a format that suits your needs.
  • Test Market Positioning
    Gather live-audience reactions to messaging, products, and positioning.
  • Match Events To Your Audience
    Choose from event portfolios to find a fit for your target audience.

Forrester Certification

Forrester Certification offers online learning programs that build skills in research-based practices for strategic leadership, customer experience, B2B marketing, technology, and related topics. Courses use self-paced lessons, videos, case studies, and interactive exercises to help learners apply concepts to real-world challenges. Individuals can enroll in monthly public or private cohorts, while eligible Forrester Decisions and Forrester Market Insights license holders can access selected courses on demand. Forrester also offers short, non-certifying Essentials Courses for foundational workforce learning.

  • Apply Learning At Your Own Pace
    Work through lessons and exercises on your schedule while applying material to real-world challenges. Certification requires completion of the courses and exams.
  • Align Teams Around Shared Practices
    Build a common understanding of key definitions, frameworks, and ways of working to support collaboration and execution on a shared strategic vision.
  • Build Skills Across Strategic Topics
    Develop skills in areas including customer obsession, customer experience, B2B marketing, technology, and Zero Trust using Forrester’s research-based approaches.
  • Learn In Short, Flexible Sessions
    Bite-sized online sessions and mobile-ready access make it possible to fit learning into busy schedules and put concepts into practice.
  • Choose A Cohort That Fits Your Team
    Public and private cohorts give teams options for learning together. Private cohorts offer flexible start dates, company branding, and exclusive onboarding.
  • Access Selected Courses On Demand
    Eligible research license holders can access selected courses during their license period and complete certification requirements on demand.
  • Revisit Learning Materials
    Forrester Decisions subscribers can return to certification modules and materials after completing a certification.
  • Showcase Certification Achievements
    A signed digital certificate and badge recognize verified completion and can be shared on professional social networking sites.
  • Build Foundational Workforce Awareness
    Essentials Courses help organizations build foundational literacy and shared understanding at scale and prepare employees for deeper enablement.
  • Learn Through Select In-Person Events
    Eligible event attendees can take part in limited in-person certification programs that include live presentations, workshops, and peer discussions.

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