Over the past six years, Aberdeen Group has been measuring organizations' willingness to consider a SaaS deployment model for their ERP implementations. This Analyst Insight examines trends in ERP deployment models and provides clues as to whether cloud ERP is the right fit for your organisation.
Published: Nov 05, 2013
The sheer volume of information associated with transactions—including data about both senders and receivers—is tremendous. Western Union strives to not only support this volume; the company aims to simplify transactions from different channels and devices, help protect transactions and better understand each...
Published: Sep 10, 2014
Activity on the Race for Life website is cyclical as publicity builds ahead of each summer’s events. As a result, the charity’s websites are faced with a spike in activity, placing pressure on a hosting resource that was coming to the end of life. “It became clear with the success of fundraising activities...
Published: May 22, 2014
Today's healthcare landscape is complex and constantly changing.
Collecting data is essential for analyzing practice revenue and determining what changes can be made to increase profitability. The secret is to collect the right data to successfully determine what needs to be changed.
Here are five key metrics...
Published: Oct 25, 2013
An office move is the perfect chance to embrace cloud-based services, which can deliver superior performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability relative to on-premises solutions.
Additionally, InformationWeek reports that 70 percent of companies have either switched or plan to switch to unified communications....
Published: Feb 19, 2016
ESG recently conducted an in-depth survey with IT professionals representing small, midmarket, and enterprise-class organizations to find out about their organizations’ usage of, interest in, and opinions regarding online file sharing and collaboration services and deployment model preferences.
The findings...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
In this Research Spotlight, LNS Research will share benchmark data from over 750 survey respondents demonstrating key approaches to closed-loop quality management to ensure automotive suppliers can meet the ever-increasing demands of customers and continue to differentiate in a highly competitive environment.
Published: Aug 15, 2014
Massive changes are occurring to how applications are built and how they are deployed and run. The benefits of these changes are dramatically increased responsiveness to the business (business agility), increased operational flexibility, and reduced operating costs.
The environments onto which these applications are...
Published: Oct 10, 2013
Adopting a zero trust security model — authenticating and authorizing every request, device, and user before delivering applications or data, and monitoring application access and network activity through logging and behavioral analytics — can quickly and safely deliver enterprise applications across your network....
Published: Nov 13, 2018
Head to head: ERP vs. SMB accounting software. As cloud-hosted, small business accounting apps have grown in scope, it’s become increasingly difficult to tell the difference between accounting software and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software.
During growth, most companies typically...
Published: Sep 11, 2017
The convergence of mobile technology, social media, big data, and the advent of cloud computing are driving a dramatic shift in the ways enterprises deploy and use IT. This shift requires new means and approaches for IT to help organizations accelerate progress towards solving their most pressing challenges—including...
Published: May 01, 2013
Download this new white paper now to: Understand the Cost Advantages of Using a Hosted Unified Communications Service
Published: Apr 26, 2013
In today’s competitive marketplace—where world-class computing power is more affordable than ever, and self-service, personalization and instant access to technology have become the norm—we are seeing a shift in expectations regarding cloud computing.
Yesterday, the cloud was about running IT more...
Published: Nov 12, 2013
As this document highlights, when firms move to reference architecture or integrated infrastructure system strategies, they gain material cost and time-to-market advantages over traditional IT. Reference architecture and integrated infrastructure system strategies offer advantages over a "build your own" approach. ...
Published: Feb 25, 2014