The document discusses key criteria for strategically sourcing software as a service (SaaS). It finds that while functionality and cost are still important SaaS criteria, SaaS differs in its dependence on a large customer base, inability to easily run on-premise, and central security risks. The document outlines concerns about total cost of ownership, security, and immaturity of SaaS vendors. It recommends evaluating SaaS vendors based on their finances, security practices, and product roadmaps to ensure ongoing support and innovation.
Embracing SaaS: Strategies of Winning OrganizationsArmen Najarian
Find out how forward-thinking enterprises are leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to propel their businesses forward. Hear the results of new research from the IBM Center for Applied Insights and a global survey of over 800 Business and IT decision-makers driving SaaS and cloud adoption decisions. The study reveals that over 80% of respondents embrace SaaS to enhance the customer experience, enable more strategic business decisions, and accelerate internal and external collaboration. Learn how leading companies are using SaaS as a competitive advantage across the enterprise.
By aligning technology with business strategy and understanding how the organization must adapt, companies can optimize the impact of their cloud investments. Companies can use four criteria to determine where the cloud can deliver the most value.
Learn more from our Cloud resource center - http://gt-us.co/1BQYYqp
We have developed a four-part framework to help companies determine organizational areas that could be best served by the cloud. By aligning technology with business strategy and understanding how the organization must adapt, companies can optimize the impact of their cloud investments.
- Forrester evaluated 18 leading CRM suite solutions against over 500 criteria to assess their suitability for large organizations. The solutions were grouped into leaders, strong performers, and a single contender.
- Oracle Siebel and SAP were found to still offer the most complete solutions for large enterprises, though other leaders like Salesforce.com and Microsoft are gaining ground with more flexible, quicker to implement solutions.
- While the leaders are challenged by strong performers like Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft CRM suited for ERP customers, as well as BPM-focused solutions from Chordiant, Pegasystems and Sword Ciboodle, the crowded market provides many choices for buyers to consider.
How the WAN is driving digital transformationMonkeyscratcher
This IDC Info Brief presents the findings of the survey responses from 300 network experts and decision makers (across Europe). The survey responses have been scored to group organizations into 3 levels of WAN maturity, based on their approach to infrastructure, intelligence and operations.
A hybrid ERP solution combines on-premise and cloud-based ERP systems. There are benefits to each approach, so a hybrid model allows companies to choose the best option for different business functions. However, hybrid systems also present challenges around integration, security, and contractual responsibilities. When evaluating hybrid ERP solutions, companies should consider the vendor's architecture, partners, pricing model, and the ability to move systems between delivery methods.
The document discusses how investing in data quality can provide a significant return on investment for companies. It outlines five tenets that leading companies embrace to realize this ROI from quality data: 1) view data quality as a business issue, not just an IT issue, 2) establish an explicit data governance strategy, especially at the point of data entry, 3) use a third-party data provider to consolidate and cleanse data, 4) address the challenge of maintaining accurate data given the rapid rate of data changes, and 5) strive for a 360-degree view of customers and suppliers across the organization.
Embracing SaaS: Strategies of Winning OrganizationsArmen Najarian
Find out how forward-thinking enterprises are leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to propel their businesses forward. Hear the results of new research from the IBM Center for Applied Insights and a global survey of over 800 Business and IT decision-makers driving SaaS and cloud adoption decisions. The study reveals that over 80% of respondents embrace SaaS to enhance the customer experience, enable more strategic business decisions, and accelerate internal and external collaboration. Learn how leading companies are using SaaS as a competitive advantage across the enterprise.
By aligning technology with business strategy and understanding how the organization must adapt, companies can optimize the impact of their cloud investments. Companies can use four criteria to determine where the cloud can deliver the most value.
Learn more from our Cloud resource center - http://gt-us.co/1BQYYqp
We have developed a four-part framework to help companies determine organizational areas that could be best served by the cloud. By aligning technology with business strategy and understanding how the organization must adapt, companies can optimize the impact of their cloud investments.
- Forrester evaluated 18 leading CRM suite solutions against over 500 criteria to assess their suitability for large organizations. The solutions were grouped into leaders, strong performers, and a single contender.
- Oracle Siebel and SAP were found to still offer the most complete solutions for large enterprises, though other leaders like Salesforce.com and Microsoft are gaining ground with more flexible, quicker to implement solutions.
- While the leaders are challenged by strong performers like Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft CRM suited for ERP customers, as well as BPM-focused solutions from Chordiant, Pegasystems and Sword Ciboodle, the crowded market provides many choices for buyers to consider.
How the WAN is driving digital transformationMonkeyscratcher
This IDC Info Brief presents the findings of the survey responses from 300 network experts and decision makers (across Europe). The survey responses have been scored to group organizations into 3 levels of WAN maturity, based on their approach to infrastructure, intelligence and operations.
A hybrid ERP solution combines on-premise and cloud-based ERP systems. There are benefits to each approach, so a hybrid model allows companies to choose the best option for different business functions. However, hybrid systems also present challenges around integration, security, and contractual responsibilities. When evaluating hybrid ERP solutions, companies should consider the vendor's architecture, partners, pricing model, and the ability to move systems between delivery methods.
The document discusses how investing in data quality can provide a significant return on investment for companies. It outlines five tenets that leading companies embrace to realize this ROI from quality data: 1) view data quality as a business issue, not just an IT issue, 2) establish an explicit data governance strategy, especially at the point of data entry, 3) use a third-party data provider to consolidate and cleanse data, 4) address the challenge of maintaining accurate data given the rapid rate of data changes, and 5) strive for a 360-degree view of customers and suppliers across the organization.
This document provides an introduction to Master Data Services and discusses why organizations need master data management. It explains that Master Data Services addresses the challenges of managing common business data across different systems by providing a centralized platform for modeling, accessing, versioning, and organizing master data through hierarchies. Key features highlighted include flexible modeling, ubiquitous web access, managing multiple data versions, and supporting various organizational hierarchies.
Analyst field reports on top 20 MDM and Data Governance implementation partne...Aaron Zornes
(1) Determining the evaluation criteria for selecting implementation partners for MDM, RDM and Data Governance projects
(2) Identifying which partners are market leaders in your industry & your chosen software technologies
(3) Managing the partner relationship – esp. avoiding “brain drain” & inflationary “blended rates”
Slow Data Kills Business eBook - Improve the Customer ExperienceInterSystems
We live in an era where customer experience trumps product features and functions. How do you exceed customer’s expectations every time they interact with your organization? By leveraging more information and applying insights you have learned over time. Turning data-driven power into delightful experiences will give you the advantages required to succeed in today’s climate of one-click shopping and crowd-sourced feedback. Whether you are a retailer, a banker, a care provider, or a policy maker, your organization must harness the power of growing data volumes, data types, and data sources to foster experiences that matter.
It seems that industry, media and events companies are all focusing on business continuity management and disaster recovery in the later part of this year. There are several BCM and DR events and conferences taking place in September and October, not forgetting the BCI World Conference in November, so be sure not to miss out on these strategic events. The document discusses various topics related to business continuity management including work area recovery, new good practice guidelines, migration and data sharing solutions, the value of BCM for business interruption, absenteeism in the workplace, and upcoming ContinuitySA training dates.
Navigating Through Post-Merger Integration of CRM Systems: A Salesforce Persp...Cognizant
To execute a successful post-merger integration of customer relationship management (CRM) system Saleforce.com (SFDC), organizations must understand and address specific critical considerations. These include IT asset consolidation, unifying and streamlining the post-merger architecture and organizational structure, change management execution, data migration processes, and regulation and compliance requirements.
Small businesses face pressures to reduce costs while managing growth expectations. Many use outdated systems like spreadsheets that cannot adequately support business needs. ERP provides capabilities to standardize processes, increase efficiency, improve collaboration, and provide visibility across the organization. The best-performing small businesses are more likely to modernize applications including ERP to address challenges and take advantage of these capabilities.
Initiate - Presentation to Salesforce CIO CouncilScott Carruth
Initiate Systems provides a master data management solution to help organizations improve data quality across enterprise systems in the cloud. The solution helps consolidate, standardize, and synchronize user, account, contact, and other data across applications like Salesforce, QuickArrow, and other SaaS and on-premise systems. Initiate has integrated its solution with Salesforce to enable search, reporting, merging of duplicate records, and future synchronization of additional data across Force.com applications as part of the customer's IT roadmap for 2010. The solution helps resolve issues with provisioning and managing users, roles, and permissions across different departmental systems.
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
Creating an Effective MDM Strategy for SalesforcePerficient, Inc.
As Salesforce has grown from a simple, standalone tool to a platform that touches every customer interaction, the data has grown more complex. This problem happens for many reasons including user error, adding other cloud apps requiring data integration, and business mergers and acquisitions that create multiple instances of Salesforce within an organization.
A master data management (MDM) strategy is critical to helping companies solve challenges like providing enterprise analytics and creating a 360-degree view of the customer. With Informatica Cloud, companies are learning to address the challenges and explore alternatives including a cost-effective cloud MDM versus a full-blown MDM solution.
During this webinar, our experts demonstrated the Informatica cloud MDM solution in action and showed how with an effective strategy, you can:
-Support the business case for MDM consolidation of multiple instances
-Create a customer 360-degree view in the cloud
-Understand the use case, reference architecture, and why companies are choosing cloud-based MDM
This document discusses how IT organizations are evolving from reactive operations models focused on maintaining existing systems, to more proactive models that drive business goals through strategic technology investments. It describes a three phase process where virtualization initially provides server consolidation benefits, then automation and management efficiencies, and finally a fully virtualized, software-defined data center enabling an IT-as-a-service model. This allows IT to shift resources from operations to new initiatives that generate revenue and growth for the business. The evolution transforms the CIO's role from functional manager to business strategist focused on innovation.
This document discusses the business case for advanced data visualization (ADV). It argues that ADV provides benefits like enabling users to process larger amounts of data more efficiently and detect trends more easily. ADV enhances the computer-human interface by increasing user awareness and focus. It allows enterprises to optimize human capital and performance. The document outlines best practices for implementing ADV, including making solutions agile, interactive, collaborative, and relevant to specific business needs.
Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible ...FindWhitePapers
This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
The document summarizes a Forrester report evaluating 11 leading business process management (BPM) suite vendors. The report finds that Pegasystems and Appian lead in offering the best combination of features for business and technical roles driving process improvement. IBM, Software AG, and Savvion are also leaders. Oracle, Global 360, HandySoft, and Fujitsu are strong performers. The economic downturn increased demand for BPM suites to boost productivity and efficiency. Recent consolidation in the BPM market has pushed suites to a new level of maturity, giving businesses more options while combining process, rules, and events capabilities.
Microsoft India - SharePoint Online Services Business Value WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document summarizes the business value of Microsoft Online Services. It highlights how these services can help businesses reduce costs through a predictable monthly expense model compared to on-premises IT investments. It also discusses how Microsoft Online Services improve processes through highly secure and available enterprise-class services. The summary provides an overview of the key benefits these services provide related to finance, processes, technology, and people.
- Customer data management is important to understand customers better and improve service, but traditional data management tools create siloed and inconsistent data.
- NexJ Customer Data Management provides an "Enterprise Customer View" that integrates customer data from multiple sources to create a holistic understanding of each customer.
- This unified view of customer data can be used across an organization to drive digital transformation initiatives, enhance customer insights, and meet compliance requirements.
This document describes Links, a Capgemini solution that provides CIOs with a performance dashboard and tools to help transform their IT organizations. It allows CIOs to access key performance data through dynamic visualizations, benchmark reports, and detailed analyses. These help identify areas for improvement, track the effectiveness of transformation actions, and align IT with business priorities. The dashboard is accessed through a cloud-based software and comes with predefined KPIs, benchmarks, and best practices. Capgemini can help set it up and use it to develop an IT transformation plan.
The document summarizes Oriflame, a European beauty company, and its business opportunity for individuals. It describes how Oriflame started from the brothers' dream to create a great company. It then outlines the three ways individuals can transform their life through Oriflame: look great with their natural cosmetic products, make money by saving on purchases or building a team to earn commissions, and have fun through social activities and travel rewards.
Este documento resume los conceptos básicos de un circuito eléctrico, incluyendo los elementos de un receptor, conductor, generador e interruptor. Explica que la Ley de Ohm establece que la intensidad de corriente es directamente proporcional a la tensión y en forma inversa a la resistencia, representado por la fórmula I=E/R.
The document discusses key criteria for strategically sourcing software as a service (SaaS). It finds that while functionality and cost are still important SaaS criteria, SaaS differs in its dependence on a large customer base, inability to easily run on-premise, and central security risks. The document outlines concerns about total cost of ownership, security, and immaturity of SaaS vendors. It recommends evaluating SaaS vendors based on their finances, security practices, and product roadmaps to ensure ongoing support and innovation.
Nadir John is an Oriflame consultant and network marketing professional based in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. His consultant code is 4814 and can be contacted at 03155571578 or through his website www.my.oriflame.pk/lookgreat for Oriflame products and services.
This document provides an introduction to Master Data Services and discusses why organizations need master data management. It explains that Master Data Services addresses the challenges of managing common business data across different systems by providing a centralized platform for modeling, accessing, versioning, and organizing master data through hierarchies. Key features highlighted include flexible modeling, ubiquitous web access, managing multiple data versions, and supporting various organizational hierarchies.
Analyst field reports on top 20 MDM and Data Governance implementation partne...Aaron Zornes
(1) Determining the evaluation criteria for selecting implementation partners for MDM, RDM and Data Governance projects
(2) Identifying which partners are market leaders in your industry & your chosen software technologies
(3) Managing the partner relationship – esp. avoiding “brain drain” & inflationary “blended rates”
Slow Data Kills Business eBook - Improve the Customer ExperienceInterSystems
We live in an era where customer experience trumps product features and functions. How do you exceed customer’s expectations every time they interact with your organization? By leveraging more information and applying insights you have learned over time. Turning data-driven power into delightful experiences will give you the advantages required to succeed in today’s climate of one-click shopping and crowd-sourced feedback. Whether you are a retailer, a banker, a care provider, or a policy maker, your organization must harness the power of growing data volumes, data types, and data sources to foster experiences that matter.
It seems that industry, media and events companies are all focusing on business continuity management and disaster recovery in the later part of this year. There are several BCM and DR events and conferences taking place in September and October, not forgetting the BCI World Conference in November, so be sure not to miss out on these strategic events. The document discusses various topics related to business continuity management including work area recovery, new good practice guidelines, migration and data sharing solutions, the value of BCM for business interruption, absenteeism in the workplace, and upcoming ContinuitySA training dates.
Navigating Through Post-Merger Integration of CRM Systems: A Salesforce Persp...Cognizant
To execute a successful post-merger integration of customer relationship management (CRM) system Saleforce.com (SFDC), organizations must understand and address specific critical considerations. These include IT asset consolidation, unifying and streamlining the post-merger architecture and organizational structure, change management execution, data migration processes, and regulation and compliance requirements.
Small businesses face pressures to reduce costs while managing growth expectations. Many use outdated systems like spreadsheets that cannot adequately support business needs. ERP provides capabilities to standardize processes, increase efficiency, improve collaboration, and provide visibility across the organization. The best-performing small businesses are more likely to modernize applications including ERP to address challenges and take advantage of these capabilities.
Initiate - Presentation to Salesforce CIO CouncilScott Carruth
Initiate Systems provides a master data management solution to help organizations improve data quality across enterprise systems in the cloud. The solution helps consolidate, standardize, and synchronize user, account, contact, and other data across applications like Salesforce, QuickArrow, and other SaaS and on-premise systems. Initiate has integrated its solution with Salesforce to enable search, reporting, merging of duplicate records, and future synchronization of additional data across Force.com applications as part of the customer's IT roadmap for 2010. The solution helps resolve issues with provisioning and managing users, roles, and permissions across different departmental systems.
Cloud computing is now a viable option for businesses seeking to outsource part or all of their IT operations. But in this new era — where the power of the Internet is harnessed for IT tasks — outsourcing to the cloud can be a strategic maneuver, not just a cost-cutting measure.
Creating an Effective MDM Strategy for SalesforcePerficient, Inc.
As Salesforce has grown from a simple, standalone tool to a platform that touches every customer interaction, the data has grown more complex. This problem happens for many reasons including user error, adding other cloud apps requiring data integration, and business mergers and acquisitions that create multiple instances of Salesforce within an organization.
A master data management (MDM) strategy is critical to helping companies solve challenges like providing enterprise analytics and creating a 360-degree view of the customer. With Informatica Cloud, companies are learning to address the challenges and explore alternatives including a cost-effective cloud MDM versus a full-blown MDM solution.
During this webinar, our experts demonstrated the Informatica cloud MDM solution in action and showed how with an effective strategy, you can:
-Support the business case for MDM consolidation of multiple instances
-Create a customer 360-degree view in the cloud
-Understand the use case, reference architecture, and why companies are choosing cloud-based MDM
This document discusses how IT organizations are evolving from reactive operations models focused on maintaining existing systems, to more proactive models that drive business goals through strategic technology investments. It describes a three phase process where virtualization initially provides server consolidation benefits, then automation and management efficiencies, and finally a fully virtualized, software-defined data center enabling an IT-as-a-service model. This allows IT to shift resources from operations to new initiatives that generate revenue and growth for the business. The evolution transforms the CIO's role from functional manager to business strategist focused on innovation.
This document discusses the business case for advanced data visualization (ADV). It argues that ADV provides benefits like enabling users to process larger amounts of data more efficiently and detect trends more easily. ADV enhances the computer-human interface by increasing user awareness and focus. It allows enterprises to optimize human capital and performance. The document outlines best practices for implementing ADV, including making solutions agile, interactive, collaborative, and relevant to specific business needs.
Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible ...FindWhitePapers
This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.
The document summarizes a Forrester report evaluating 11 leading business process management (BPM) suite vendors. The report finds that Pegasystems and Appian lead in offering the best combination of features for business and technical roles driving process improvement. IBM, Software AG, and Savvion are also leaders. Oracle, Global 360, HandySoft, and Fujitsu are strong performers. The economic downturn increased demand for BPM suites to boost productivity and efficiency. Recent consolidation in the BPM market has pushed suites to a new level of maturity, giving businesses more options while combining process, rules, and events capabilities.
Microsoft India - SharePoint Online Services Business Value WhitepaperMicrosoft Private Cloud
This document summarizes the business value of Microsoft Online Services. It highlights how these services can help businesses reduce costs through a predictable monthly expense model compared to on-premises IT investments. It also discusses how Microsoft Online Services improve processes through highly secure and available enterprise-class services. The summary provides an overview of the key benefits these services provide related to finance, processes, technology, and people.
- Customer data management is important to understand customers better and improve service, but traditional data management tools create siloed and inconsistent data.
- NexJ Customer Data Management provides an "Enterprise Customer View" that integrates customer data from multiple sources to create a holistic understanding of each customer.
- This unified view of customer data can be used across an organization to drive digital transformation initiatives, enhance customer insights, and meet compliance requirements.
This document describes Links, a Capgemini solution that provides CIOs with a performance dashboard and tools to help transform their IT organizations. It allows CIOs to access key performance data through dynamic visualizations, benchmark reports, and detailed analyses. These help identify areas for improvement, track the effectiveness of transformation actions, and align IT with business priorities. The dashboard is accessed through a cloud-based software and comes with predefined KPIs, benchmarks, and best practices. Capgemini can help set it up and use it to develop an IT transformation plan.
The document summarizes Oriflame, a European beauty company, and its business opportunity for individuals. It describes how Oriflame started from the brothers' dream to create a great company. It then outlines the three ways individuals can transform their life through Oriflame: look great with their natural cosmetic products, make money by saving on purchases or building a team to earn commissions, and have fun through social activities and travel rewards.
Este documento resume los conceptos básicos de un circuito eléctrico, incluyendo los elementos de un receptor, conductor, generador e interruptor. Explica que la Ley de Ohm establece que la intensidad de corriente es directamente proporcional a la tensión y en forma inversa a la resistencia, representado por la fórmula I=E/R.
The document discusses key criteria for strategically sourcing software as a service (SaaS). It finds that while functionality and cost are still important SaaS criteria, SaaS differs in its dependence on a large customer base, inability to easily run on-premise, and central security risks. The document outlines concerns about total cost of ownership, security, and immaturity of SaaS vendors. It recommends evaluating SaaS vendors based on their finances, security practices, and product roadmaps to ensure ongoing support and innovation.
Nadir John is an Oriflame consultant and network marketing professional based in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. His consultant code is 4814 and can be contacted at 03155571578 or through his website www.my.oriflame.pk/lookgreat for Oriflame products and services.
This document discusses an individual named Raphaëlle who is feeling nervous about obtaining their CAPES this year. It touches on their reason for wanting to teach English, their hopes and fears, and their mixed feelings about using ICT/technology to teach English, seeing both benefits but also drawbacks and their own discomfort with technology.
This document presents the background and methodology for a study investigating reading strategies and metacognitive awareness among ESL students. The study aims to examine the relationship between reading strategies, metacognitive awareness, and reading performance. It will survey students before and after a reading exam to understand strategy use and awareness. Interviews will also provide qualitative data on students' knowledge of strategies. The results could help improve reading instruction for ESL students.
Simply put, SaaS businesses are traded on a multiple of Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR). All the other drivers of valuation are tied back to this benchmark in order to support a higher or lower multiple.
This is a summary of these drivers pulled from a series of white papers published by SaaS Capital.
read more at www.saas-capital.com
This document discusses Software as a Service (SaaS) and when it may be preferable to traditional on-premise software for finance technologies. It finds that SaaS offers lower upfront costs, faster implementation, and easier upgrades than on-premise options. However, concerns include data security, customization limitations, and reliance on internet connectivity. SaaS maturity varies by application, with ERP becoming more cloud-based and specialized finance functions often having proven SaaS solutions. Companies should consider SaaS when requirements can be met, costs are lower over time, and legal/security issues are addressed by the vendor.
This document provides an overview of software as a service (SaaS). It discusses the evolution of SaaS from early hosted/ASP models (SaaS 1.0) to more sophisticated pure SaaS applications (SaaS 2.0) to current hybrid SaaS solutions (SaaS 3.0). Factors driving increased adoption of SaaS include the trend of IT outsourcing, cost savings compared to traditional software licensing, and SaaS vendors taking on security and infrastructure risks. The document also describes how SaaS works by providing on-demand access to applications from any internet-connected device and handling all hosting, maintenance, and support at the vendor level.
Software as a Service — Things to Know Before you Build a SaaS ProductAlaina Carter
This document provides guidance on key considerations for building a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) product. It discusses what SaaS is, examples of popular SaaS tools, and differences between SaaS and other cloud models like PaaS and IaaS. The document then outlines potential methods for coming up with a viable SaaS idea, common reasons why SaaS products fail and how to avoid them, and an 11-point checklist to ensure SaaS success. Key recommendations include conducting market research, validating product-market fit with an MVP, prioritizing effective marketing, responding quickly to feedback, and focusing on customer experience and support.
Nowadays the technological progress allows us to have highly flexible solutions, easily accessible with
lower levels of investment, which leads to many companies adopting SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) to
support their business processes. Associated with this movement and considering the advantages of SaaS, it
is important to understand whether work is being developed that is underutilized because companies are
not taking advantage of it, and in this case it is necessary to understand the reasons thereof. This
knowledge is important even for people who do not use or do not develop/provide SaaS, since sooner or
later it will be unavoidable due to current trends. In the near future, nearly all decision-makers of IT
strategies will be forced to consider adopting SaaS as an IT solution for the convenience benefits
associated with technology or market competition. At that time they will have to know how to evaluate
impacts and decide. What are the real needs in the Portuguese market? What fears and what is being done
to mitigate them? What are the implications of the adoption of SaaS? Where should we focus attention on
SaaS offerings in order to create greater value? These are questions we must answer to actually be able to
assess and decide. Often, decision-makers of business strategies consider only the attractive incentives of
using SaaS ignoring the impacts associated with new technologies. The need for tools and processes to
assess these impacts before adopting a SaaS solution is crucial to ensure the sustainability of the
information system, reduce uncertainty and facilitate decision making. This article presents a framework
for evaluating impacts of SaaS called SIE (SaaS Impact Evaluation) which in addition to guidance for the
present research, aims to provide guidelines for the collection, data analysis, impact assessment and
decision making about including SaaS on the organizations strategic plans.
Cloud computing provides IT resources and services over the Internet. There are three main service models - Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS provides applications to users while the provider manages the infrastructure. PaaS provides platforms for developers to create applications without worrying about infrastructure. IaaS provides basic computing and storage infrastructure for users to deploy and run software.
SaaS (Software as a Service) offers potential cost savings over traditional on-premise software by reducing upfront costs, ongoing maintenance and support costs, and providing more flexibility. However, organizations need to carefully calculate the TCO (total cost of ownership) and ROI (return on investment) of moving applications to SaaS. This requires considering various costs like subscriptions, setup, customization, as well as potential benefits like scalability, reduced IT workload, and vendor accountability. Performing a thorough analysis can help organizations determine if and how SaaS makes economic sense for their needs.
IIA4: Open Source and the Enterprise ( Predix Transform 2016)Predix
https://predixtransform.com
Today, software innovation costs are down about 90% from past expense, mostly due to elastic infrastructure, services that we can call upon, managed APIs, and open source software. In fact, Open Source is one of the driving forces of modern application development. Learn why Open Source is also good for the Industrial IoT.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is presently one of the best services serve by Cloud computing. It is software archetype in which applications are hosted, regulate, and stored in the service provider database. The recognition of SaaS has grown at speed over the last decade and shows no signs of slowing down. In this article, we have recorded the pros of SaaS for your business operations.
Saa s tenant helps isv to build multi-tenant application in dayspooja deshmukh
Current software business models and economic conditions are speeding up the adoption of SaaS (Software as a Service) for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to beat the market pace, as organizations of all sizes seek more cost-effective methods to operate their businesses.
The document discusses how the enterprise software buying cycle is changing from perpetual licenses to subscription-based software as a service (SaaS) models. It notes that SaaS has led to more distributed purchasing decisions, shorter sales cycles, and easier implementation and support compared to traditional software. The rest of the document consists of presentations from various SaaS company executives on how their companies' products enable these new software buying and usage trends.
Forrester evaluated eight large contact center interaction management software vendors: Aspect Software, Avaya, Cisco Systems, Enghouse Interactive, Genesys, Interactive Intelligence, SAP, and Unify. Genesys, Aspect Software, Cisco Systems, and Avaya led in the evaluation based on strengths in their current offerings, strategies, and market presence. Forrester's research found that large contact centers need CCIM software that facilitates integration, customization, and diverse deployment models including on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid options. Vendors differentiated themselves based on their tools for customization, APIs, deployment flexibility, and partnerships.
IBM Center for Applied Insights Study.
Presented by Susanne Hupfer and Armen Najarian, IBM Pulse, Las Vegas, Feb. 2014.
Find out how forward-thinking enterprises are leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to propel their businesses forward. Hear the results of new research from the IBM Center for Applied Insights and a global survey of over 800 Business and IT decision-makers driving SaaS and cloud adoption decisions. The study reveals that over 80% of respondents embrace SaaS to enhance the customer experience, enable more strategic business decisions, and accelerate internal and external collaboration. Learn how leading companies are using SaaS as a competitive advantage across the enterprise.
The document discusses Software as a Service (SaaS) and its benefits and challenges. SaaS promises lower costs, easier maintenance, and faster deployment compared to traditional on-premise software. However, SaaS also faces challenges around technical readiness, generating demand, scaling effectively, and staying ahead of competition. The transition to SaaS requires changes to business models, technology, and marketing strategies.
enterprise cloud computing adoption accelerated in 2016 and will do so again in 2017. are you ahead of your competitors or lagging behind the average enterprise? Infrastructure and operations (I&o) leaders must answer this question to chart their companies’ cloud futures. this report gathers important adoption metrics for public, private, and hybrid cloud and explores enterprise cloud priorities and policies to help you benchmark your progress against the broader market. use these benchmarks to inform your cloud strategic plan.
this is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and revises it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy. We’re updating it now to include new data from Forrester’s Business technographics surveys.
enterprise cloud computing adoption accelerated in 2016 and will do so again in 2017. are you ahead of your competitors or lagging behind the average enterprise? Infrastructure and operations (I&o) leaders must answer this question to chart their companies’ cloud futures. this report gathers important adoption metrics for public, private, and hybrid cloud and explores enterprise cloud priorities and policies to help you benchmark your progress against the broader market. use these benchmarks to inform your cloud strategic plan.
this is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and revises it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy. We’re updating it now to include new data from Forrester’s Business technographics surveys.
The document discusses the growing adoption of cloud computing and SaaS models. It notes that while 71% of organizations are still in the education phase of cloud computing, the number planning or implementing initiatives is growing. It also outlines some of the key benefits of SaaS models like reduced costs, faster implementation, scalability, and recurring revenue opportunities. Established software companies are encouraged to develop SaaS offerings to capitalize on these advantages and increase their business valuations.
The document discusses how the SaaS model is becoming an increasingly important trend and viable business model, especially during economic downturns when businesses seek to maximize technology ROI and efficiency with existing resources at lower costs. It notes that SaaS adoption will continue to rapidly grow over the next five years and change traditional business metrics and thinking. Key benefits of SaaS include reducing capital and IT labor costs through shared infrastructure and resources, rapid provisioning, centralized operations, and elastic scaling to improve service levels.
The document discusses how the SaaS model is becoming an increasingly important trend and viable business model, especially during economic downturns when businesses seek to maximize technology ROI and efficiency with existing resources at lower costs. It notes that SaaS adoption will continue growing rapidly due to benefits like reduced costs, rapid deployment, centralized operations, and elastic scaling. Over the next five years, SaaS is expected to explode in prominence and change traditional business metrics and thinking, with the market evolving to include more niche providers and a blurring between SaaS and platform-as-a-service offerings.
The document evaluates 18 leading CRM suite solutions for large organizations based on 516 criteria related to the vendors' current offerings, strategies, and market presence. It finds that Oracle Siebel and SAP still offer the most complete solutions for large enterprises, though other Leaders like Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and RightNow are gaining ground with more flexible options. The evaluation also identifies Strong Performers like Oracle E-Business Suite, Pegasystems, and Sword Ciboodle that bring specific strengths in areas like analytics, customer service, and business process management. The report aims to help business professionals choose between the various options for meeting their organizations' CRM needs.
This document discusses the advantages of HR automation software delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS). It notes that nearly 90% of organizations plan to maintain or increase their usage of SaaS solutions due to lower total cost of ownership compared to on-premise software, easier deployment, and lack of in-house IT resources. The document outlines key benefits of SaaS for HR automation such as 24/7 access, lower costs, automatic upgrades, and scalability. It also discusses factors that differentiate true multi-tenant SaaS solutions from those that are not fully cloud-based.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
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