Rapid business change is transforming how application delivery professionals buy, deploy and manage business applications. Technology advancement such as cloud, mobility and analytics are fueling an increasing pace of change.

Beyond anecdotes and vendor pitches, what are best practices for adopting innovative technologies? Quest has assembled several of the best research reports available from Forrester Research in our Strategize and Act Business Technology Content Center. We have grouped this content according to key phases in your technology deployment journeys: strategize, implement, and optimize. This content center is an exclusive benefit for paid Quest members. Login to read — or learn more about joining Quest.

Strategize

What characterizes business technology strategies that deliver the best results? One major factor is aligning your organization’s applications roadmaps to top-value business innovation and technology initiatives.

• Gain Agility While Mitigating Risk Through Hybrid Cloud – learn how Cloud ROI leaders adjust staffing and business processes in this exclusive Quest-commissioned research
• Create a Business Application Roadmap for the Digital Age – map your applications deployments to stabilize costs while enabling business agility and prompt technology adoption
• Ten Key Strategies for Pivoting Business Applications to SaaS – modernize your applications adoption model to improve user and customer experiences and business outcomes
• Emerging Business Technology Priorities – prioritize in the age of the customer to accelerate use of new business technology capabilities while simplifying existing information technology
• People and Talent Technology – manage enterprise portfolios as technology disrupts HCM technology markets
• Align Applications to Cloud and Business Technology Imperatives – prepare your application portfolios for the next decade.

Implement

The value of agile deployment is well known. What is the role of agile deployment in your organization?

• Preparedness Assessment for Cloud Computing Adoption – assess whether your organization’s cloud adoption timeline is realistic and how to further accelerate your cloud journey.

Optimize

After training and application rollout, organizations gain greater returns on their investments by periodically optimization business processes and use of applications and related technologies.

• Business Applications’ Effectiveness Scorecard – measure enablement of top business priorities such as product innovation and customer experience
• The SaaS Customer Success Lifecycle – achieve greater success with SaaS vendors by adopting best practices throughout the SaaS adoption lifecycle