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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:The Road Ahead For SAP's Business ByDesign

The Midmarket SaaS ERP App Suite Is Well Positioned For A Variety Of Use Cases

It's been four years since SAP first unveiled Business ByDesign (ByD), its software-as-a-service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite aimed at medium-size companies. Forrester...

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Report:Market Overview: Project-Based ERP For Service Delivery Professionals

A growing number of organizations delivering project-based services to customers seek business apps that more fully reflect that project focus and apply it to business-processes-powering project...

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Report:Five Prevailing Trends In ERP

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise And SMB Networks And Telecommunications Survey, North America And Europe, Q1 2010; Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe,...

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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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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:Put Process At The Heart Of ERP

Users Are Set To Benefit As Business Process Flexibility Improves In Applications

Today's ERP applications are still too complex and inflexible. Organizations continue to be plagued with customization and upgrade headaches as a direct result of the software's rigidity and poor...

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Report:Measure The Business Impact Of Improved App Strategy

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...

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Report:Emerging Trends: Social Collaboration Is Poised To Accelerate ERP Business Processes

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...

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Report:App Stores: A New Way To Try And Buy ERP

Business process professionals are starting to see more choices in how they and their organizations can investigate and buy enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps, add-ons, and complementary...

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Report:ERP Adoption: The Year Ahead

From: Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010; Enterprise and SMB Software Survey, North America and Europe, Q4 2009

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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:Inquiry Spotlight: Top-Of-Mind Issues For ERP Customers, Q4 2010 To Q2 2011

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps power companywide financial, human resources, and manufacturing business processes at medium-size and enterprise companies. Embarking on a new ERP...

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Report:ERP Workflow: A New Option To Treat Business Process Pain

Business Process Pros Now Have An Additional BPM Tool At Their Disposal

Business process professionals often struggle with how to bridge the gap between the functionality of the inflexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications they're using to run their...

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Report:Global, Industry, And Technology Forces Shape The ERP Landscape

Three key forces are reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market: the growing demands of global businesses; the increasing need for industry-specific functionality; and the expanding use...

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Report:Optimize Business Processes And Govern Transformation

Processes: The Business Applications Playbook

Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals have a poor reputation among their line-of-business colleagues of being able to deliver timely, high-impact solutions. This research shows...

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Report:The State Of ERP In 2011: Customers Have More Options In Spite Of Market Consolidation

Now is the perfect time for business process professionals to revisit their current enterprise resource planning (ERP) application commitments and future ERP plans. As the global economy gradually...

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Report:Organize To Deliver And Manage Application Transformation

Organization: The Business Applications Playbook

This report outlines the organizational component of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business application strategy. Every firm faces a...

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