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Report:Defuse Software License Time Bombs With Software Asset Management

How To Defuse The Software Asset Management Time Bomb In Your Basement

As large firms place ever more critical reliance on software apps and tools, restructure through mergers and acquisitions, and outsource elements of software development and delivery, they face...

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Report:Solvency II — What It Means To You

With the deadline fast approaching for Solvency II compliance, global insurance firms need to take urgent action to avoid being compelled to adopt a standard model for computing their capital...

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Report:Use Process Automation To Tame Your Financial Close And Consolidation Circus Act

The world's largest firms face mounting pressure to deliver more timely and transparent financial results that are subject to more exacting standards. As a result, they are increasingly concerned...

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Report:Forrester's Custom Versus Packaged Apps Opportunity Assessment

Firms need to capitalize on opportunities for digital differentiation by standardizing support for nondifferentiating processes on packages and applying their resources to the processes that offer...

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Report:Ground Applications Strategy In Business Imperatives

Business Strategy: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the role of business strategy in Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. Large firms are...

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Report:The Mobile Imperative In Retail And Consumer Goods

Using Mobile Technologies To Enrich Enterprise Interactions With Associates And Consumers

Retail and consumer goods firms face exciting opportunities to deploy mobile apps to fix their age-old problems with shelf availability and to empower their field employees to transcend their...

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Report:IBM To Acquire Sterling Commerce

A Move That Will Lead To Significant Change In The B2B Market

In an aggressive move, IBM has taken steps that will lead to major changes in the business-to-business (B2B) integration market. If approved, its proposed acquisition of Sterling Commerce will...

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Report:Software Innovation In India

How Firms Can Best Capitalize On Software Development And Configuration Opportunities In India

The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or "captive" business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and more on...

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Report:Assess Your Readiness For Application Strategy Transformation

Assessment: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines how application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros) working on business application strategy can determine their level of readiness for application transformation....

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Report:Use New Supply Chain Visibility Technologies To Improve Customer Service And Return On Assets

Firms in the traded goods sector struggle with fragile and complex extended supply chains that often bring over investment in inventory without improving disappointing customer service. Application...

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Report:Forrester's Software Asset Management RFP/RFI

Forrester developed the request for proposal/request for information (RFP/RFI) tool based on past experience and research into the widest range of possible environmental requirements. The tool...

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Report:Organize To Deliver And Manage Application Transformation

Organization: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the organizational component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business application strategy. Every firm faces a...

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Report:Optimize Business Processes And Govern Transformation

Processes: The Business Applications Playbook

Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals have a poor reputation among their line-of-business colleagues of being able to deliver timely, high-impact solutions. This research shows...

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Report:Balancing Custom And Packaged Apps In Your Application Portfolio Strategy

Conventional wisdom suggests buying before building software. However, as an increasing proportion of product and service value is digital — think of a naval vessel's operation system (Windows...

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Report:App Portfolio Development For Manufacturers: Balance Customer Service With Efficiency

Henry Ford's 1913 policy of offering consumers cars in any color they liked as long as it was black perfectly illustrates the problem for manufacturers trying to balance consumer service with...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Point Of Service, Q2 2012

Epicor, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Micros Retail-J, NCR, Oracle, And Wincor Nixdorf Lead, With JDA, Micros Xstore, Retalix, And SAP Close Behind

In Forrester's 70-criteria evaluation of point-of-service (POS) vendors, we identified the most significant solution providers in this category — Epicor Software, Fujitsu, NCR, JDA Software,...

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Report:Define The Road Map For Transforming Your App Landscape

Road Map: The Business Applications Playbook

Firms are often torn between forces driving application change or transformation and the overarching desire for cost management. At the same time, they often struggle to deliver projects on time and...

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Report:Hands-On Retail Pricing Execution

How To Streamline Retail Pricing Execution

As retailers adopt more-sophisticated price planning tools to contend with more-complex assortments and more merchandise with shorter life cycles, they face practical challenges in executing their...

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Report:Software Asset Management Risk Assessment Tool

In order to build a business case for a software asset management program, app development and delivery professionals will generally need to provide stakeholders with an assessment of risk....

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Report:Readiness Assessment For Application Strategy Transformation

This tool is a self-test to determine how ready a company is to transform its application strategy by moving away from providing cost-effective systems of record and toward driving compelling user...

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Report:ERP Data And Process Quality Assessment Tool

To ensure a solid foundation for implementing more-sophisticated demand management or supply chain functionality, application development and delivery professionals will generally need to assess the...

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Report:It's Time To Clarify Your Global ERP Strategy

As enterprise firms restructure through mergers and acquisitions and expand their global presence, they face huge IT and master data synchronization costs in supporting multiple legacy and disparate...

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Report:Increase Business Flexibility By Embracing Future Trends

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

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Report:Delivering Custom Apps For Competitive Advantage

Global Firms Assemble Custom Apps To Support Key Processes

Manufacturers in mature industries such as automotive or more recently aerospace have evolved from making every component to focusing on market requirements and designing and managing "bought in"...

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Report:Consumer Experience Continuity Opportunity Assessment

For considered purchases, consumers draw on Internet research and their social network for advice and expert guidance before they go to a store. Smart retailers try to keep consumers plugged into...

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