The launch of any new research report is exciting, but I’m especially happy to see the publication of the The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q3 2009.

The evaluation speaks for itself. Forrester goes through great pains to assure a fair, detailed process that looks into the strengths and weaknesses customers care about most — and this Wave is no exception. But considering the amount of time and effort we spent putting this report together, I wanted to provide some additional thoughts on what I learned during the process: