Enterprise Applications

The ERP pivot tables contains information on ERP implementations across North America. The data offers insight into implementation status of ERP projects, modules implemented and licensing charges. Also contained in this pivot table is information of services obtained to support the implementation, purchase triggers for the project and how organizations put together the business case for ERP.

The SharePoint pivot tables contains information on how organizations address SharePoint implementations. The data offers insight into the business motivation behind SharePoint, the benefits realized from the implementation, the costs associated with it and the level of customization required.

On-demand delivery of software, or Software as a Service, is set to become an important part of the software budget of corporate North America. Small companies expect to spend more than 25% of their software budgets on SaaS in the next two years. This represents a significant opportunity that software vendors cannot afford to ignore, and that service providers can use to increase share-of-wallet.

Info-Tech’s second annual forecast on IT spending in the US indicates that four industries dominate the landscape: Business Services, Financial Services, Government and Manufacturing account for more than 60% of spending on IT products and services. The ITAMTM provides a market opportunity perspective that is based on the IT budgets of more than 1,700 organizations in the US.

To what extent can technology transform a business? Info-Tech’s Global Solution Perspective study provides unique insight into the attitudes IT and business leaders – in both established and emerging economies – have towards technology. The research surveyed more than 1,100 IT specialists, business decision makers and managers that have both IT and business responsibilities to better understand their views IT’s ability to transform business, how effective the IT function is in translating the promise of IT into business benefits and the current status of IT-enabled solutions around the globe.

Info-Tech’s first Canadian forecast provides a framework to help IT product and service companies better understand the commercial market opportunity. The ITAM™ provides market sizing -- by major technology product/services areas -- based on extensive demand-side data. Key opportunities are identified, both by both size of account and by vertical market. The authors give specific guidance as to the product/service areas poised for growth and the types of accounts that are the best prospects in those areas.

About 35% of the organizations Info-Tech surveyed said they are currently using business intelligence solutions, with another 32% of firms evaluating or planning to deploy BI. This report evaluates the success of BI projects across five measurements: the cost of the solution versus budget; the timeframe for implementation versus plans; benefits versus expectations; overall success of the project versus expectations; and, success of the project in delivering competitive advantage to the organization.

This report provides guidance to organizations with respect to the individuals responsible for the five stages in the productivity software acquisition process. Despite the toehold in this area by Microsoft, opportunities exist for other suppliers to make inroads if they target the appropriate job title at the right stage of the sales process.

This report provides guidance to vendors looking to make inroads into the market for business support applications. The three categories covered in the Business Support Solution module – financial/administrative applications, industry-specific applications and content/data management applications – have unique decision-maker attributes relative to the software market as a whole. The market for financial/administrative applications, for example, is more heavily shaped by executive management than any other software market. The market for industry-specific applications, meanwhile, is more heavily shaped primarily by line of business management than is the norm.

Are you looking to have access to end user and buyer behavior data so you can cut and customize the information to derive the conclusions you need? All the data we used to create the Indaba series of Market Advisor Reports is available to you in Pivot Table format, giving you the flexibility to change the views and the presentation of the data.