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Report:Cloud Computing Offers Both Near-Term And Long-Term Benefits For SAP Customers

Emerging Options Spawn Interest — But The Landscape Is Still Forming

SAP consumes millions of dollars in implementation spend and millions more in ongoing support and operations for many organization's IT budgets. Now, newer cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS)...

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Report:SAP In The Cloud: Market Update And Lessons Learned From Early Adopters

The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: SaaS Pricing And Contracting, Q3 2011

Forrester Sees Spike In Inquiries On Pricing, SLAs, And Vendor Viability

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracting has become more important to organizations; firms are now scrutinizing deals before signing. Why the extra attention? SaaS agreements matter more than ever...

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Report:TechRadar™ For SVM Professionals: Software-As-A-Service, Q4 2011

Software-As-A-Service Still Growing, Taking Over In More Areas Of Technology

As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing,...

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Report:Cloud Orchestration Models

Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud

Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...

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Report:Five Trends That Will Change SaaS Sourcing

What Sourcing Professionals Need To Know About The Future Of SaaS

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has finally come of age and is now a staple of the technology landscape at most organizations. As organizations build on the basics of their SaaS sourcing and vendor...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Mobility Services, Q1 2013

Analysis Of 13 Global Leaders' Capabilities And How They Stack Up

Enterprise mobility is booming; organizations must connect with employees, customers, and partners in new ways and across new devices and applications. But many organizations don't know how to move...

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Report:SaaS Capabilities Assessment

This tool is a self-test to determine where a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution could be a fit and to assess organizational readiness for successfully adopting SaaS within a potential category....

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Report:Navigating The Microsoft Services Landscape

Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players

Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...

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Report:SaaS Capabilities Maturity Assessment

A Self-Test For Identifying Readiness To Gain Value From SaaS

Enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) usage is proliferating across categories as companies see benefits such as business agility, rapid time-to-value, and pay-as-you-go pricing models. But...

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Report:The ROI Of Cloud Apps

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Long-Term Value In Cloud Apps

Cloud applications continue to gain momentum in enterprise applications as buyers are attracted to fast deployment speeds, low upfront costs, and ongoing flexibility to scale up or down as needs...

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Report:Cloud Contracts Checklist

Clients are moving to cloud for more and more mission-critical areas of their business: CRM, HR, collaboration, even IT applications and ERP. But for many organizations, cloud sourcing and cloud...

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