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Report:Sourcing Digital Disruption

Executives at leading-edge organizations drive growth, innovate, and disrupt industries with emerging technologies such as social, mobile, cloud, analytics, sensors, GIS, and others. Eighty-five...

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Report:Services Contract Review Checklist

This contract review checklist is designed to be used by clients who are entering into new contracts or refining existing contracts. It covers 10 major categories of contract terms and provides...

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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: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: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: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: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:Business Intelligence Services Pricing And Contracting

New Models Better Align BI Services Buyers And Sellers

Business intelligence (BI) is high on the list of technology investments as organizations try to make informed decisions with the growing masses of data available to them. But several significant...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Services Providers, Q4 2012

The 12 Market Leaders That Deserve To Be On Most Shortlists

In the past few years, the business intelligence (BI) services market has evolved significantly: advisory and management consulting firms have beefed up their implementation capabilities, while...

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Report:Navigate The SaaS Implementation Partner Landscape

SI Overview For Salesforce.com, Workday, Google, And Other SaaS Integration Options

Organizations use software-as-a-service (SaaS) across more and more areas of their enterprise applications landscape — from customer relationship management (CRM) to human capital management...

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Report:Selecting A Services Partner For Business Innovation

Key Criteria And Real-World Success Stories

Business innovation tops the agenda for IT services buyers in 2012, even surpassing cost-cutting as a key priority in some Forrester surveys. But many clients struggle to get business innovation from...

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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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Report:Selecting A Services Provider For Your Oracle Fusion Applications Project

Oracle's long-awaited Fusion Applications are still very much in their infancy, which means that buyers have many questions about how they can take advantage of this emerging Oracle product line and...

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Report:Streamline The IT Service Provider Selection Process

Outreach: The Services Sourcing Playbook

Clients issue requests for proposals (RFPs) for a wide range of IT services needs. RFPs are a critical part of evaluating suppliers and ensuring a fair selection process. In many cases, an RFP not...

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Report:Build A Foundation For IT Services Change

Change Management: The Services Sourcing Playbook

Implementing large enterprise IT services programs requires major internal changes, which can have a dramatic effect on longstanding technologies and organizational functions. From a technology...

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Report:Market Overview: Mobility Services

Fast-Growing Market Gives Buyers Lots Of Choices But Also Tradeoffs

The emerging mobility services market creates choices for buyers. Leading organizations are scrambling to create mobile experiences for employees, partners, and customers — both applications...

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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: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: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:SaaS Vendor Management Tools Gain Relevance

New Solutions Help Sourcing Professionals Understand The Full Value Of SaaS

With software-as-a-service (SaaS) spend on the rise and firms expanding SaaS usage across broader populations of users, many Forrester clients say they are centralizing procurement and vendor...

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Report:The Benefits Of Centralized SaaS Strategy

How Companies Are Preparing For The Unstoppable As-A-Service Offerings

Developing a centralized software-as-a-service (SaaS) strategy has become a bigger priority for sourcing and vendor management professionals over the past year. Firms are not only expanding their...

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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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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: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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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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