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Report:Global, Industry, And Technology Forces Shape The ERP Landscape

Three key forces are reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market: the growing demands of global businesses; the increasing need for industry-specific functionality; and the expanding use...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview: IT Services In China, 2013

Businesses Now Have More Options To Drive Competitive Differentiation In China

China has entered a new phase of economic development, driven by government focus on expanding the domestic market. This transition will have a significant impact on private and public organizations...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Oracle Customers Are Hesitant To Embrace Fusion Applications

Slow Adoption Of Newer Product Means Changes Likely In Oracle's Strategy

This report, originally written for CIOs, includes content relevant to application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. With Oracle's strong footprint in the enterprise business apps...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Oracle's Dilemma: Applications Unlimited Versus Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Customers Face A Choice: Stay With Apps They Have And Miss Out On Innovation Or Make The Painful Switch To Fusion

Oracle faces a strategic dilemma, and how it responds to this dilemma will present the CIOs at its clients with some tough choices. Oracle Fusion Applications — Oracle's new generation of...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Selecting The Right Sourcing Models For Large ERP Services Deals

Best Practices To Decide When And How To Use Multiple Providers

Single-source versus multisource in large enterprise resource planning (ERP) services deals? This is an ongoing, yet critical, question for ERP clients. The question has no single right answer but,...

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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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For CIO Professionals

Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business And IT Impact Of BPM Excellence

A business process, at its highest level, is any activity that helps an enterprise achieves its goals. Packaged and industry-specific applications form the transactional backbone of most critical...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:China's SAP Services Market Is In Flux

Sales To SMBs And Expansion In Tier Three And Tier Four Cities Are The Market's Key Growth Engines

The major SAP services customer base in China is evolving from large enterprises to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) — an evolution that parallels SAP China's business transformation....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Project-Based ERP For Service Delivery Professionals

A growing number of organizations delivering project-based services to customers seek business apps that more fully reflect that project focus and apply it to business-processes-powering project...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Emerging Trends: Social Collaboration Is Poised To Accelerate ERP Business Processes

It's Early Days For Adoption, But Use Cases Are Starting To Take Shape

Application development and delivery professionals will benefit from new technologies that will both help them engage at a deeper level with their peers as well as enable them to access a wider set...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

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: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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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Demand Insights: The SMB Software Market 2011

SMBs Exhibit A Broad Adoption Profile, But Growth Is Being Stunted By The Credit Crunch

For most software categories, tech marketers once considered the small to medium-size business (SMB) market to be "software non grata." Their assumption was that most SMBs supported their operations...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Road Ahead For SAP's Business ByDesign

The Midmarket SaaS ERP App Suite Is Well Positioned For A Variety Of Use Cases

It's been four years since SAP first unveiled Business ByDesign (ByD), its software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite aimed at medium-size companies. Forrester...

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Report:Market Overview: Tier Two Oracle SIs

Smaller Oracle Partners Provide Industry Expertise And Niche Skills

Most Oracle clients have heard of the major global systems integrators (SIs) — like Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, Infosys, and TCS. But many of our clients ask Forrester for information about...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Provider Resourcing Models In SAP Projects

Analysis Of Resourcing Models Across 186 SAP Customers

Forrester clients investing in SAP solutions frequently ask us questions about how many resources they should expect to need for SAP projects and ongoing SAP support. These SAP shops want to know how...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:App Stores: A New Way To Try And Buy ERP

Business process professionals are starting to see more choices in how they and their organizations can investigate and buy enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps, add-ons, and complementary...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Top-Of-Mind Issues For ERP Customers, Q4 2010 To Q2 2011

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps power companywide financial, human resources, and manufacturing business processes at medium-size and enterprise companies. Embarking on a new ERP...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Tier Two SAP Services Providers

Smaller SAP Partners Provide Flexible, High-Value Alternatives To Larger SIs

Most SAP clients have heard of the major global systems integrators (SIs) — like Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Infosys, and TCS. But many of our clients ask Forrester for information about...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:SAP Shows Progress On Its Cloud, Mobile, And In-Memory Innovation Agenda

At its recent Sapphire Now user conference, SAP confidently extolled the virtues of in-memory computing, mobility, and on-demand applications as key innovation pillars, with social collaboration as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Innovative Technologies Will Drive Enterprise Applications And ERP To A Bright New Future

In the next five years, enterprise apps will be transformed by technologies that disrupt preconceived notions about ownership and support costs, process flexibility, insight, and speed of delivery....

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