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  Report Grow Your Revenue Stream With Customer-Centric Finance Technology

  Recalibrate Your Finance Technology Strategy To Grow Revenue, Increase Customer Value, And Transform Your Business

  May 19, 2017 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Costs, controls, and compliance — the three C's of finance — are essential but do not strategically align to growth and innovation in your business. A fourth C — the customer — is a strategic key...

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  Report Brief: Early Customer Adoption Of SAP S/4Hana Finance Shows Promise

  S/4Hana Finance Seeks To Enable Finance Transformation For The Digital Economy

  July 6, 2016 | George Lawrie

  SAP S/4Hana Finance is a collection of business applications that uses SAP Hana in-memory computing architecture and targets the CFO's line of business. S/4Hana Finance's core accounting component...

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  Report Ground Applications Strategy In Business Imperatives

  July 15, 2015 | George Lawrie

  This report outlines the role of business strategy in Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. Large firms are...

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  Report Brief: SAP To Acquire Concur For $8.3 Billion

  With Its Largest SaaS Acquisition To Date, SAP Looks To Dominate Corporate Travel And Expense

  September 23, 2014 | Paul D. Hamerman, Andrew Bartels

  SAP made a bold move on September 18, 2014 to acquire travel and expense (T&E) market leader Concur for $8.3 billion, its largest software-as-a-service (SaaS) acquisition to date. This deal...

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  Report Selecting A Services Provider For Your Oracle Fusion Applications Project

  June 8, 2012 | Liz Herbert

  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...

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  Report ERP Adoption: The Year Ahead

  May 18, 2011 | China Martens

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

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  Report Trends 2011: Financial Processes And Applications

  Planning, Reporting, And Compliance Drive Financial Apps Strategies

  February 18, 2011 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Investment in financial management applications — including accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting — will improve along with the economy in 2011. Compliance...

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  Report CRM Solutions For The Utilities And Telecommunications Industries

  Solutions To Support Key Customer-Facing Business Processes

  January 21, 2011 | William Band

  Forrester reviewed 24 CRM suite solutions to understand their strengths and weaknesses to support eight key cross-functional processes in the utilities and telecommunications industries: 1)...

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  Report Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

  May 17, 2010 | Tim DeGennaro, Sharyn Leaver

  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...

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  Report Align Your Enterprise Apps Investment Plans With Industry Trends

  Business Data Survey Results Show That Activity Persists, Despite Recession

  April 21, 2010 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Business process and applications professionals can use our survey-based enterprise applications investment planning data and adoption patterns to help rationalize their 2010/2011 investment...

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  Report Trends 2010: Financial Processes And Applications

  Economic Prospects Appear Brighter, But More Regulatory Oversight Looms

  December 29, 2009 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Macroeconomic forces and ongoing regulatory changes will have significant impacts on how the office of the CFO carries out its mission-critical responsibilities. Lingering effects of the recession...

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  Report Untamed Business Processes: When Even The Best Of Intentions Go Awry

  August 21, 2009 | Craig Le Clair

  A business process — at its highest level — is any activity that helps an enterprise achieve its goals. Packaged and industry-specific applications form the transactional backbone for...

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  Report Market Momentum: Business Application Software, H2 2008

  Software Supermajors Set The Trend For Integrated Solutions

  July 7, 2009 | Holger Kisker, Ph.D.

  Various prominent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in early 2008 significantly changed the face of the business application software market, leading to the rise of the software supermajors. In the...

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  Report TechRadar™ For BP&A Professionals: Financial Management Applications, Q2 2009

  Essential Business Needs Drive High Levels Of Value And Adoption

  June 30, 2009 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Financial management applications range from essential and ubiquitous tools for accounting and financial reporting to specialized solutions for optimizing process efficiency and cash flow....

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  Report Vendor Snapshot: Boardwalktech Applies Collaboration And Controls To Spreadsheets

  February 12, 2009 | Sheri McLeish

  As collaboration and enterprise 2.0 vendors promote the latest must-have innovations to improve information worker productivity, Silicon Valley startup Boardwalktech turned its focus to something a...

• For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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  Report Topic Overview: ERP Applications 2008

  Forrester's Reference Guide For Navigating The Ever-Expanding World Of ERP

  June 24, 2008 | R "Ray" Wang, Paul D. Hamerman

  Enterprise applications suites, commonly known as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, represent the transactional backbone for most enterprises and comprise a variety of applications for...

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  Report The EIPP Market Is Ripe For Consolidation

  Demand For Applications To Streamline Buy-Side Invoice-To-Pay Processes Will Continue To Grow Rapidly

  October 22, 2007 | Duncan Jones

  Most invoices start life in order management applications and end up in accounts payable (AP) products, yet almost all must first become paper, processed by expensive, slow, and error-prone human...

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  Report Clarity Systems Excels In Planning And Budgeting

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Clarity Systems is a Strong Performer in business performance solutions (BPS) largely on the strength of its best-in-class planning and budgeting solution functionality. As a pure-play specialist,...

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  Report Cognos Leads In Business Performance Solutions With Breadth And Maturity

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Cognos is a leader in Business Performance Solutions (BPS) with a sophisticated vision and thought leadership programs as well as maturity and depth in scorecarding, planning, and consolidations....

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  Report Infor Brings A Solid Track Record In Business Performance Solutions

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Infor is looking to breathe new life into a well-integrated business performance solution that has a lineage tracing back to Geac and Comshare. Although Infor ranks third among enterprise resource...

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  Report Applix Has Strong Appeal As A Flexible Business Performance Platform

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Applix is a Strong Performer in Business Performance Solutions (BPS) on the strength of its modeling flexibility, integrated analytics platform, and customer reference ability. Over the past few...

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  Report Longview Solutions Is A Strong Performer In Business Performance Solutions

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Longview Solutions is a relatively small, Canadian vendor that has a good track record among large customers with complex planning needs. Although below average in prepackaged content for strategy...

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  Report Oracle Leads In Business Performance Solutions Following Its Hyperion Acquisition

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Oracle is a Leader in our Business Performance Solutions (BPS) evaluation based primarily on its strength in the financial process solutions of planning and financial reporting. Its acquisition of...

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Business Performance Solutions, Q4 2007

  Oracle, Cognos, And SAS Institute Lead, Business Objects And SAP In Hot Pursuit

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Forrester assessed 10 leading business performance solutions (BPS) vendors across 83 criteria in a product evaluation. Cognos, Oracle, and SAS Institute were found to lead the category with overall...

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  Report Business Objects Assembles A Leading Product Set In Business Performance Solutions

  The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

  October 10, 2007 | Paul D. Hamerman

  Business Objects has demonstrated its commitment to be a leading player in business performance solutions (BPS) with two significant acquisitions within the past year, ALG Software and Cartesis....