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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Tame The ERP Integration Beast

Meeting ERP Integration Needs Inside And Outside The Enterprise

Integration challenges are often the foremost obstacle to getting the full value from packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Strategies for overcoming this obstacle vary considerably...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: SAP Users In Search Of Value

SAP-Related Inquiries To Forrester And Advice For Users

Forrester clients have long grumbled about SAP's exploitation of its leadership position providing apps to the world's largest firms, but recent changes in leadership, strategy, and services at SAP...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Initiate Enterprise App Consolidation To Outmaneuver Your Competition!

IT professionals in global firms face a bewildering range of challenges around enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment and consolidation. They have to plot a passage through the reefs of...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Plan Effectiveness Review To Squeeze More Value From ERP Investments

Most CIOs have inherited mature enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations. As the years pass, the original implementation team disbands, retires, or dies, and the old use cases and best...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Retail Enterprise Apps Evolution

Should Retailers Prolong Their Best-Of-Breed Strategy Or Adopt An Enterprise Suite?

Retailer process and applications professionals face mounting costs for adapting their portfolios of legacy point solutions to support interactions with consumers across channels and manage more...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Insights On Oracle's Strategy From Charles Phillips

Forrester's Take On Its Recent Meetings With Oracle's President

Forrester met recently with Oracle President Charles E. Phillips to discuss the firm's direction and overall product strategy, with particular focus on its now broad collection of business...

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