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Report:Best Practices: Selecting And Implementing ePurchasing Products

Focus On Overcoming Likely Adoption Challenges

Forrester expects companies will spend more than $1 billion in 2013 on expanding, upgrading, or replacing their ePurchasing systems. While most will reap significant benefits from their investment,...

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Report:Measure Your Software Sourcing Maturity To Identify Improvement Priorities

Assessment: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

Does your organization already practice strategic software sourcing, or is it still relying on reactive procurement? This report explains how to assess your software sourcing team's current state so...

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Report:Align Your Commercial Approach With Your Software Category Sourcing Strategy

Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes Forrester's vision of strategic software sourcing for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives. It is more difficult than ever for software sourcing professionals to meet...

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Report:Get Better Software Deals By Aligning Your Sourcing Strategy And Commercial Approach

Executive Overview: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines how sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives can implement Forrester's strategic software sourcing model. Our research has shown us that transactional procurement is...

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Report:Demand Pricing That Matches Business Value — The Radical Sourcing Trend For 2013

Landscape: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes the software pricing and licensing landscape and explains why it makes it so important for sourcing and vendor management executives to implement Forrester's strategic software...

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Report:Good Software Deals Balance Price, Flexibility, And Risk Mitigation

Metrics: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes the metrics that form part of Forrester's solution for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives who are moving to strategic software sourcing. Too many sourcing...

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Report:Case Study: LOCOG Builds Partnerships To Deliver London 2012 Faster, Higher, Stronger

An Example Of Forrester's Best Practices For Strategic Relationships

The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius," and the business technology (BT) for the London 2012 Olympic Games lived up to it — faster results, higher-quality systems with stronger...

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Report:Accelerate Your Software License Optimization Program By Using Specialist Services Providers

Use Experts' Tools, Processes, And People To Replace Failing SAM

If you've recently had a bad software audit experience, are worried about license compliance, or want to cut wasteful software expenditure, you may need to replace traditional, but obsolete, software...

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Report:Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Licensing Changes — What You Need To Know

Repackaging And The Move From Per-Processor To Per-Core Licensing Will Affect The Way Your Organization Uses SQL Server

Microsoft's recent announcements will affect the way your organization licenses its SQL Server product and what you have to pay to use it. To prepare for these changes, sourcing and vendor management...

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Report:The SAP/Ariba Merger Will Not Be Frictionless

'Ariba, An SAP Company' Faces Many Challenges But Will Do Better Than SAP's Previous ePurchasing Acquisition

SAP's proposed $4.3 billion acquisition of Ariba has shaken the ePurchasing market. Customers of both companies want to know if their products face an uncertain future, since it's unlikely that SAP...

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Report:Understand Oracle Better To Marshal Maximum Software Negotiation Leverage

Savvier Buyers Can Get A Better Deal From This Powerful Supplier

Welcome to Oracle "May-nia," the final month of Oracle's financial year during which Forrester estimates the company will sell around $4 billion in software. If you're one of the many sourcing and...

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Report:Tiers Are Not Enough

One Software Supplier Classification System Is Insufficient To Drive Both Sourcing Strategy And Operational Monitoring

Inadequate tiering of your software suppliers can cause you many problems: It can make it harder to know where to focus your vendor management resources and difficult to differentiate between...

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Report:Transform Your Strategic Supplier Relationships From Duels Into Duets

Performance Management: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes performance management by sourcing and vendor management leaders as part of Forrester's strategic software sourcing approach. Our conversations with clients and surveys with...

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Report:A Buyer's Guide To Invoice-To-Pay Solutions

Twelve Invoice-To-Pay Technologies And Where They Fit In Forrester's Road Map To Accounts Payable Invoice Processing Excellence

Procurement and finance managers struggling with inefficient invoice-to-pay (I2P) processes are often confused by the plethora of diverse technology products and services that are available today,...

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Report:Updated Q4 2011: Forrester's Software Contract Review Checklist

Use This Tool To Identify And Fix Common Problems In Software License Agreements

You've been given a 30-page software contract, with no time to review it properly and an impossible deadline by which to issue a purchase order. Moreover, the contract includes URL links to various...

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Report:Three Key Tips To Optimizing Your Commercial Relationship With SAP

Encourage SAP To Adapt To Current Licensing Trends

Many sourcing and vendor management professionals are currently facing tough negotiations with SAP, which does over 40% of its license business in the fourth quarter. The challenge, however, is...

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Report:Introducing Software License Optimization

Continuous Improvement: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook

This report describes how sourcing and vendor management leaders can practice continuous improvement as part of Forrester's strategic software sourcing approach. Software asset management (SAM), as...

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Report:Supplier Risk And Performance Management Software: The Criteria To Look For In A System

In a climate of increased regulation and greater economic, political, and environmental risk, savvy sourcing professionals are investing in supplier risk and performance management (SRPM) software to...

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Report:FAQs About Supplier Risk And Performance Management Software

Forrester clients have many questions about supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), one of the newest, fastest growing ePurchasing software categories. These questions range from which...

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Report:Best Practices For Surviving Software Compliance Audits

Control Each Stage Of The Process To Minimize The Risks

Forrester clients continue to face increasing software audit activity as more publishers institute license compliance processes or expand their existing programs. This report will summarize the best...

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Report:Buyers Should Reject Unfair Licensing Rules

Align With Your Peers Against Five Unpopular Policies To Persuade Software Companies To Soften Their Approach

More than 150 clients voted in Forrester's survey of opinions on 15 controversial software licensing policies, and their responses give a damning indictment of these policies and the companies that...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Contract Life-Cycle Management, Q2 2011

Upside Software Leads The ePurchasing Suites And ERP Giants In Our Evaluation Of Specialist CLM Products

Contract life-cycle management (CLM) products are more than merely document repositories; they streamline the authoring process, aid compliance tracking, and reduce overall contract administration...

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Report:Consider These Five Criteria When Choosing A Microsoft Volume Licensing Program

Key Factors When Evaluating Enterprise Agreements Against Alternatives

Selecting the right Microsoft volume licensing program is a major decision for IT sourcing and vendor management executives and it gets more complicated every year. This report analyzes the key...

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Report:Five Tips For Negotiating With Oracle

How To Get The Most From Negotiations With This Powerful Supplier

Oracle is a successful, growing technology giant that generates many questions from sourcing and vendor management professionals. You ask us how you know if you've got a good deal — and how to...

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Report:Software Pricing And Licensing Trends 2011

Software Sourcing Leaders Should Create Sourcing Strategies That Take Advantage Of Profound Changes In The Software Market

In 2011, Forrester expects to see major changes in the pricing and licensing approaches of traditional software providers. Increasing tension between vendors' insatiable demands for revenue and...

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