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Executive Overview: The Human Resource Management Playbook
As businesses strive to achieve competitive differentiation, growth, and global expansion while carefully managing costs, people strategies play a big factor in successful outcomes. In shaping these...
Future Look: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report outlines the future outlook for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working with human resources executives on their applications and business process optimization...
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...

Oracle Corporation announced its purchase of Taleo for $1.9 billion on Feb. 9, 2012, signaling a major shift in its stance on software-as-a-service (SaaS) and talent management applications. The...
Assessment: The Human Resource Management Playbook
Most companies struggle to integrate a collection of human resource management (HRM) systems that can include payroll, core HR, learning, recruitment, and talent management. The proliferation of...

An Empowered Report: Harnessing Mobile Technology For Process Acceleration
Mobile applications for business use are receiving a great deal of attention from package application software vendors and considerable interest from business process professionals. But other than...
The three key activities of corporate financial management take place on a continuum of the past (reporting and compliance), present (analysis and measurement), and future (planning and forecasting)....

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...

Microsoft Dynamics AX Leads Microsoft's App Innovation Agenda
The 2011 Convergence event demonstrated that Microsoft continues to advance its ERP products and offer additional deployment options — specifically, software-as-a-service (SaaS). The event...

Human resource management (HRM) processes and applications remain vital for organizations to enhance talent retention and workforce productivity; yet, Forrester survey data indicates the level of IT...
These data charts detail the results of the August 2011 Global Employee Master Data Management Online Survey.
Business process professionals responsible for packaged applications often have difficulty in getting their arms around the total costs of ownership of their business solutions. SaaS simplifies the...
Business Case: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the business case component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. If you're debating...

Market Landscape: Financial Performance Management
This report enables application development and delivery professionals and their finance stakeholders to understand the changing vendor landscape for financial performance management (FPM). Complex...

Executive Overview: The Business Applications Playbook
Constant business change, coupled with ongoing technology advances (e.g., mobile, cloud, social collaboration, and big data) will fundamentally change how we buy, deploy, and manage business...
At Forrester's Business Process And Application Delivery Forum, October 7 and 8 in National Harbor, MD , we are holding a session called an "unconference" in the Business Process content track...
Strategic Plan: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the strategic planning process for business applications managed by application development and delivery professionals. This report is designed to help you maintain a viable set...

Landscape: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the landscape component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will enable application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros) and their HR business partners to...

Workday Leads, Followed By Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, And SAP
Forrester's 69-criteria evaluation of human resource management system (HRMS) vendors found that Workday, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), and SAP lead the pack; each has its own...
What are the latest industry trends related to the adoption of HR portals to provide employee decision support tools and self-service for career and benefits programs? Which are the top HR portal...
SAP is a paying a substantial premium to acquire SuccessFactors, a leading SaaS performance and talent management vendor. The press release of December 3, 2011 states that the deal price of $40 per...
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...
