Your future fit technology strategy is powered by technology suppliers and partners, and your enterprise software partners compose a significant part of the tech stack. These partners — many of which deliver software primarily through the cloud — give you out-of-the-box best practices, vendor-delivered innovation, and connection to communities of peers like you. You will likely have many enterprise software vendors in your tech stack but only a small handful of strategic ones. This report helps tech execs understand how to think about the optimal role of enterprise software vendors in a modern tech stack.