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	November 10, 2005 Enterprise Applications Software Licensing Scorecard Summary: IFS Key Findings From "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Applications Software Licensing, Q4 2005" by R "Ray" Wang with John Ragsdale, Ian Schuler

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Executive Summary

The Forrester Wave™ evaluation of enterprise applications software licensing rates vendors in two paradigms: simple licensing metrics with flexible licensing policies and advanced licensing metrics with flexible licensing policies. IFS targets the upper midmarket and some large enterprises. With a wide range of user-based licensing metrics, it earns top honors in licensing metrics and flexible delivery and financing mechanisms. Yet despite these distinctions, a lack of usage-based metrics and market presence hampered IFS from entering the Leader category in our evaluation. As one of the first ERP vendors to host on IBM's OnDemand network, IFS is a trailblazer in hosted ERP solutions. Overall, the company should be considered on industry-focused shortlists for meeting complex licensing metrics and delivering flexible software life-cycle policies.

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