Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology

Understanding The Impact Of Technology On Business

Name of survey:	Enterprise Software Survey
Product:	Forrester's Forrsights For Business Technology
Date of survey:	September 2006
Region:	North America and Europe
Respondents:	1,078

The purpose of this study was to analyze trends in software technology adoption in North America and Europe. The survey looks at software budgets, application software, infrastructure and platform software, application development, and professional software services. Further attention is paid to service-oriented architecture (SOA), open source software, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Forrester surveyed 1,078 software decision-makers at North American and European enterprises. Of these, 737 are from North American enterprises and 341 are from European enterprises. The sample was composed of 23% senior-most IT decision-makers, 30% executives reporting directly to the senior-most IT decision-maker, and 48% managers in IT reporting directly to an executive. Forty-eight percent of respondents were from companies with 1,000 to 4,999 employees, 27% were from companies with 5,000 to 19,999 employees, and the remaining 25% were from companies with 20,000 or more employees. We screened all respondents for significant involvement in the purchasing process of software technologies. Fifty-four percent of respondents were also significantly involved with software services decision-making. Evalueserve fielded the telephone-based survey in July and August 2006 and motivated the respondents by offering them a summary of the results.

The documents and figures below summarize the findings from this research

Ab Initio: Get To Know High-End Transaction Processing's Mysterious Leader
Rob Karel, Merv Adrian, November 2007

SaaS Economics Will Change ISVs' SI And VAR Channels
Michael Speyer, October 2007

What Are The Preferred OSes For Critical Apps?
Frank E. Gillett, September 2007

Enterprise Agile Adoption In 2006
Carey Schwaber, June 2007

SRM Is Knocking; Open The Door
Andrew Reichman, May 2007

You've Got Encrypted Email
Paul Stamp, April 2007

SCM SaaS Adoption: Slow But Steady
Patrick M. Connaughton, April 2007

European Software Services Survey, 2006 To 2007
Richard Peynot, March 2007

Planned SOA Usage Grows Faster Than Actual SOA Usage
Randy Heffner, February 2007

The State Of Application Development In Enterprises And SMBs
Carey Schwaber, February 2007

Software-As-A-Service Adoption
Liz Herbert, February 2007