While Workday Solutions Marketplace is not a new concept to Workday customers, what is new is the soon to arrive Workday AI Marketplace. At the recent Workday Rising conference, the company’s annual customer conference, Workday announced a new marketplace for their customers to find and deploy Workday trusted AI solutions. This offers Workday customers the ..read more

The short answer: no. Our bet: AI will quickly evolve the low-code toolset and make the market grow faster.    The Impact of TuringBots  TuringBots (AI and Generative AI to assist in software development tasks) are a major trend, and tools like GitHub Copilot (a Coder TuringBot for pair programming in common languages such as ..read more

Each year, we gauge the state of the DPA market in our comprehensive survey. In our 2023 survey, three primary trends came into focus:  1) Organizations hit the pause button on digital transformation, in the wake of economic uncertainty and tightening budgets, 2) process intelligence gains momentum as the need for process insights and data-driven ..read more

Enterprise business intelligence (BI) continues to be the last mile to insights-driven business (IDB) capabilities. No matter what technology foundation you’re using – a data lake, a data warehouse, data fabric, data mesh, etc. – BI applications are where business users consume data and turn it into actionable insights and decisions. The BI market has ..read more

More Low-Code Development Requires More Low-Code Developers As low-code platform adoption and use rises, the need for low-code developers continues to grow. While Forrester recently argued that embracing low-code can mitigate the general shortage of developer talent, hiring a low-code developer remains tricky. On one hand, the relative newness of low-code development and the continued ..read more

We are announcing changes to our Forrester Wave™ evaluations focused on the automation services market to better represent the rise of automation fabrics and the changing role of systems integrators, consultancies, advisory firms, and specialist services vendors in this space ..read more

Truly digital firms have business models with technology at the core, and this technology is software. For such firms, software is an expression of the business. To become truly digital, complementary approaches to people, process, and technology are needed. The unresolved need for more developers (people) is well and painfully understood. The need for agile ..read more

Manufacturers in China use low-code development platforms to support their digital initiatives. Many adopt low-code platforms to build form-based web apps for broad use cases, but that’s just the beginning. Advanced companies support more sophisticated data-centric applications with improved data management and integration capabilities. Four case studies show how manufacturers in China leverage low-code platforms ..read more

How to establish, govern, and scale a citizen developer strategy is the most common low-code inquiry topic from Forrester clients — and Forrester data shows that at least two-thirds of firms currently have a citizen developer strategy or plan to have one in the next 12 months. In 2021, Forrester identified three common structures for ..read more

On November 7, OutSystems announced that they’d acquired Ionic. A few years ago, that would have shaken the mobile development industry, and even today it will cause vibrations in parts of it. We see three major dynamics in application development that are shaping the future of software development and this market: The scarcity of quality ..read more