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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Role Frequency In EA Groups

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Spend On New Initiatives Represents Up To 50% Of Firms' Total Software Budget In 2011

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Most Initiatives In 2011 Will Focus On Updating Existing Software Solutions

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Service Pricing Models Are The Key To Outsourcing Flexibility

With the right pricing models, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals can build the foundation for flexibility in infrastructure outsourcing contracts. Flexibility has different flavors,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Software Priorities Are Shifting After The Recent Recession

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Cost Analysis Tool: Cloud Versus Internal Storage Deployment

A customizable Forrester companion tool to the Economics of IT series docs.

• Downloads: 71

For CIO Professionals

Tool:Email On-Premises Is More Expensive Than Cloud Email For Most Firms

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Software Priorities Are Shifting To Apps With Greater Business Value

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:Only 7% Of Companies Prefer Single-Vendor, Preintegrated Software/Hardware Solutions

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Negotiating Desktop Outsourcing Deals

Impact Factors Help You Decide When To Accept Standard Offers And When To Require Custom Solutions

Many companies are unprepared when they start their outsourcing initiatives, lacking a structured way to consider the major factors that will affect their outsourcing needs. This lapse leads to...

• Downloads: 518

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Tool:It's Easy To Get An Incomplete And Incorrect Comparison Of Cloud And Internal Storage

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Updated Q4 2010: Market Overview: Backup Software-As-A-Service

The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings

It's been almost two years since we last produced this report, and during that time the vendor landscape has changed considerably; however, one constant remains true: Backup is a struggle for both...

• Downloads: 856

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Enterprise Negotiation Tactics For Buying iPads And Other Tablets

Tablets ascend to the executive agenda this year as enterprise organizations hear the chorus of calls from the C-level suites — and the demand for tablets will only grow throughout 2011. As...

• Downloads: 392

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Client Inquiry:Rates For SAP Resources

What are the rates for SAP resources?

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Client Inquiry:Motivating Suppliers To Agree To A Relationship

In this economic environment, do you have suggestions on how to motivate suppliers to agree to a relationship that will shrink and not grow over time? Can you suggest best practices in a situation...

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Tool:New Products Give Microsoft's Revenue A Short-Term Boost

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Tool:More Than One-Third Of Respondents Are Planning To Use SaaS In 2011

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrsights: The Software Market In Transformation, 2011 And Beyond

Shifting Buying Preferences Lead To New Software Priorities

As the global information and communications technology market recovers from recession, the software market — the largest IT subsegment — is fueling the growth. More importantly, for the...

• Downloads: 1226

For CIO Professionals

Report:Which Software Markets Will SaaS Disrupt?

Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Products And Business Models Will Have Selective Impact

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is an important new set of capabilities and engagement models in the IT industry, particularly in the emerging world of cloud computing. We project that SaaS offerings...

• Downloads: 2047

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Tool:A Gateway Can Make Cloud Storage More Viable, But Also More Expensive

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:How To Negotiate A Better Microsoft Office 365 Deal

Concentrate On Who You Are Buying For And How You Want To Buy

As many businesses are now evaluating moving their Microsoft Office applications online and into the cloud as a way of reducing infrastructure and staffing costs, sourcing and vendor management (SVM)...

• Downloads: 250

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Tool:Traditional File Storage Systems Are Expensive To Buy And Run

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Software Pricing And Licensing Trends 2011

Software Sourcing Leaders Should Create Sourcing Strategies That Take Advantage Of Profound Changes In The Software Market

In 2011, Forrester expects to see major changes in the pricing and licensing approaches of traditional software providers. Increasing tension between vendors' insatiable demands for revenue and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Talent Management Customers Show Solid Business Results And A Preference For SaaS

Organizations thinking about purchasing a talent management solution want to know what to expect from the selection process through deployment and beyond. To aid in this, Forrester surveyed 63 users...

• Downloads: 361