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Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating 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...

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...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

Landscape: The CRM Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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...

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...

Oracle's long-awaited Fusion Applications are still very much in their infancy, which means that buyers have many questions about how they can take advantage of this emerging Oracle product line and...
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...
Software-As-A-Service Still Growing, Taking Over In More Areas Of Technology
As software-as-a-service (SaaS) becomes increasingly important to firms' application strategies, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals are taking ownership of the research, purchasing,...
It's Early Days For Adoption, But Use Cases Are Starting To Take Shape
Application development and delivery professionals will benefit from new technologies that will both help them engage at a deeper level with their peers as well as enable them to access a wider set...
HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning
Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...
These data charts detail the results of the August 2011 Global Employee Master Data Management Online Survey.
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...
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...
Plateau Leads In Learning; Cornerstone OnDemand Leads In Performance
In Forrester's 108-criteria evaluation of talent management vendors that offer suites for both learning and performance, we found that Plateau Systems edged out Cornerstone OnDemand, Saba Software,...
From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009
A Mature Market Is Evolving Toward Broader HRM Offerings
Business leaders know that recruiting top talent is a corporative imperative. After hiring, new talent must be skillfully managed through onboarding, performance goals and evaluation, learning,...
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...
Human resource management (HRM) applications — consisting of six categories of solutions ranging from core transactions to strategic talent management — represent a market in transition....
Small And Medium-Size Businesses Are Defying Gravity
Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), like their enterprise brethren, are shifting their technology focus from IT to business technology (BT). As their focus on business solutions — as...
How Biometrics Enable Smart Computing Solutions
Biometrics is already a growing market today in a variety of applications. Smart Computing will help to fuel biometrics growth as smart applications call for a greater level of security and...
CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...
These are the data tables for the report, Japan SaaS Market Forecast And Update: 2009 To 2014." The report provides an overview of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in order to enable vendor strategists...