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Enterprise application vendors face pressure to deliver simplified licensing metrics while modeling the complexity of business around usage. In addition, vendors are striving to enforce consistency in licensing policies while accommodating flexibility throughout the software life cycle. However, enterprises seek two paradigms: simple licensing metrics with flexible licensing policies and sophisticated licensing metrics with flexible licensing policies. To assess the state of the enterprise applications software licensing market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top ERP vendors across 65 criteria that examine how these vendors address simplicity versus complexity and consistency versus flexibility. The results: Vendors like Epicor Software, Oracle, and QAD scored higher in accommodating complex license metrics and flexible licensing policies, while vendors like Epicor, Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), and SAP scored higher in delivering simplified license metrics and flexible licensing policies.

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