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					<description><![CDATA[For years, B2B organizations have expanded their partner ecosystems by adding new partner types, routes to market, and strategic relationships. The result has been greater market reach, new growth opportunities, and increasingly complex partner ecosystems. A growing challenge for suppliers is establishing a clear, consistent, and effective definition of the partners within their partner ecosystem. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andras Cser]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2026 installment of the Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) Landscape has just published. The report identified three primary drivers currently driving the CIAM landscape. AI agents are a new identity type in CIAM. In our research, we found that CIAM solutions are increasingly enabling organizations to: Properly manage inbound access of customers’ AI [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>IBM Validates OpenAI’s Push-Pull-Partner Enterprise Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OpenAI is on a quest, chasing down Anthropic’s Claude toolkit to be seen as the enterprise frontier model. Here’s the push-pull-partner strategy we see unfolding at OpenAI: Push. CEO Sam Altman pushed a vision for an AI-powered world out into the global dialog. Investors, boards, and the media loved it. This strategy is alive and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Quantum computing has transitioned from theoretical curiosity into a phase of engineering reality. Vendors are showing real progress in solving scaling and error correction challenges. There are realistic roadmaps for shipping quantum computers that could deliver commercial value. But that value will be uneven, emerging in specific high-value problem classes and over different time horizons. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moccia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are one of those tech leaders in a company that already has an agentic architecture with swarms of agents delivering some value and your challenge is how to optimize the cost and/or stitch these agents together across complex workflows, this blog may not be for you. But please read it if you have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abhijit Sunil]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Outcome‑based pricing links a portion of provider fees to clearly defined measurable results rather than effort or time spent. For IT sustainability services, those outcomes are typically financial (cost reduction, efficiency gains) or environmental (carbon reduction, energy savings, audit‑ready compliance outputs). Unlike time‑and‑materials or fixed‑fee models, this approach shifts delivery risk to the provider and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last year, Forrester introduced the concept of the AI-native cloud, as we observed that the cloud industry was moving beyond commodity infrastructure toward platforms that are purpose-built for generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI. We also identified two emerging paths in this transformation: AI infrastructure cloud platforms (neoclouds) and AI-centric neo-platform as a service (neoPaaS).  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jitin Shabadu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Q4 2025 Forrester Wave™ evaluation for network analysis and visibility (NAV) solutions was the first iteration of the research to evaluate vendors on their post-quantum cryptography (PQC) capabilities, a decision that has become more pronounced in 2026. The rationale was compelling then; it is unavoidable now. Most notably, the US federal government has moved [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Betz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI is creating real value, but the biggest opportunities will go to organizations that build the right foundations first. Explore five no-regrets investments that can help technology leaders govern, scale, and realize value from AI regardless of how the technology evolves.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthropic’s Pricing Shift Puts AI Consumption Risk Back On Customers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tracy Woo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in May of this year, Anthropic announced changes to its pricing model. Its original fixed-fee, per-seat subscription model was replaced with one that separates platform access from AI consumption. Customers still pay for access, but usage is now metered and billed separately based on token consumption. Under the previous model, customers were split into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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