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Report:Packaged Apps In The Cloud: Cost Of Ownership Models Evolve Toward The Transparency Of SaaS

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...

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Tool:Finance And ERP Lead Upgrade And Expansion Activity

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Report:Transform HRM Processes And Systems To Drive Business Excellence

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...

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Tool:Business Process Mobile App Adoption Lags Way Behind Email And Calendaring

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Report:Optimize Your Business Applications For Value And Flexibility

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...

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Tool:Half Of SAP Customers Have Fallen Behind On Upgrades

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Report:Microsoft Commits To ERP In The Cloud

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...

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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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Tool:The Vendor Selection Process Overview

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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Report:Assess Your HRM Process And Systems Capabilities

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...

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Report:Manage Master Data About Your People

Organizations Face Challenges With The Proliferation Of Employee Data

Although the notion of a global system of record for employee information is widely accepted, many organizations are unable to achieve this goal. The majority of organizations maintain complex and...

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Report:Embrace Future Trends To Deliver HRM Business Impact

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...

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Report:Align Financial Processes And Systems For Better Business Value And Compliance

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)....

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Tool:Mobile Apps Solutions Show A Mix Of Build And Buy

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Report:Forrester's HRM Process And Systems Capabilities Assessment Tool

This HRM assessment tool enables a self-evaluation of four key areas: strategic alignment between HR and the overall business, the current portfolio of HRM applications, the effectiveness and...

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Report:Consolidation And Innovation Transform The HRM Vendor Landscape

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...

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Report:Trends 2011: ERP Customers Demand Better Flexibility, Cost Transparency, And Mobility

Enterprise applications for running your business (i.e., ERP) are evolving rapidly to enable more flexibility, better user experiences, and new deployment options offering more predictable long-term...

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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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Report:Optimize Application Strategy To Generate Business Value

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...

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Tool:HRM Application Inventory Capability Assessment Questions

For Business Process Professionals

Blog:Oracle Wins $1.3 Billion Award Over SAP

The $1.3 billion verdict in the Oracle v. SAP case is surprising, given that the third-party support subsidiary of SAP, TomorrowNow, was fixing glitches and making compliance updates, not trying to...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Reinvent Your Applications Vendor Selection Process To Fit Cloud Deployment Models

Application vendor selection remains mired in a bureaucratic process that has lost relevance in today's quickly changing application market. In the world of cloud computing and software-as-a-service...

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Blog:Oracle Moves Solidly Into SaaS With Taleo Acquisition

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...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Human Resource Management Systems, Q1 2012

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...

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