Back to the Future – Dusting Off the Old Playbook for Salesforce in Healthcare
If you’re a Healthcare provider, this may be the time to think strategically about where your Salesforce landscape may be headed.
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Applying 2020 Lessons Learned in Time for Microsoft’s 2025 Business Milestone
Microsoft has signaled that 2025 marks the end of its business transformation from a publisher of packaged software to a provider of subscription service offerings.
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Is Microsoft Playing Three-Cloud Monte?
Whether you love or hate Microsoft, the company has proven to be one of those providers that’s almost impossible to part with.
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The Future of Legacy Technology: Preparing for Escalating Software Costs
Though the distributed computing model dominates nearly all of today’s enterprise IT environments, it’s hard to find an organization that doesn’t rely at least in some way on mainframe systems that were put in place many years ago.
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Measuring Software Asset Management and Why It Matters
For many of the largest corporations in the world, the Software Asset Management (SAM) function is under-resourced and under-invested.
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Making IT Asset Management Work the Easy Way
When IT asset management (ITAM) projects succeed, it’s because they capture and integrate data, not because of a particular ITAM tool.
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The Fallacy of Discounts in Software Negotiations
One of the most common questions enterprises ask about software spend is whether they should benchmark the discounts they receive from software publishers.
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The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement: Is it Dynamic Enough for Today’s Enterprises?
Since the advent of Microsoft Online Services commercial offering, one of the benefits marketed by the software giant was an improvement in the way customers could pay for the service.
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Software Audits: Rules of Engagement
Did you know most major software publishers actually have revenue targets directly tied to auditing their own customers?
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The Calculus of Adding New Office 365 Functionality
If you are like most large Microsoft customers, you have either started or completed your journey to the Office 365 platform.
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Microsoft’s Transition from Premiere Support to Unified Support. Ouch!
Over the past three years, Microsoft has been stealthily transitioning its product support model from its legacy Premiere Support to a new “modern” support model called Unified Support.
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The Microsoft Predictability Problem
Microsoft, in recent years, has transformed itself from a software publisher to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, leaving its enterprise customers uncertain about product licensing and the company’s commercial sales model.
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Stretching Your IT Budget at Year-End
As we enter the fourth quarter, many IT organizations are facing the end of one budget year and planning for the next.
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Selecting a Cloud Platform that Meets Business Objectives
Organizations often switch to default mode when selecting their cloud platform, basing their decision on familiarity
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Microsoft Licensing Model Says I’m Too Big to Deal with You
Now that Microsoft has crossed over the $100 billion annual sales threshold, it feels confident enough to say goodbye to the stratum of enterprise customers that license 500-2,500 users.
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SAP on the Blockchain Bandwagon
At Sapphire 2018, SAP unveiled how it has woven blockchain – along with analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) – into its “intelligent enterprise” concept.
SAP Licensing Molds to Digital Business
It will be important for each organization that uses SAP to embark on a careful strategy review – including discovery, scenario modeling, financial analysis and risk/reward decisioning – before determining its licensing path.
Bye-Bye “Classic” Windows PC
The backbone of the Microsoft machine, PC-based Windows, is entering the twilight of its existence.
Does Your Software Buy/Sell Model Feel Like a Tenant/Landlord Relationship?
You must have noticed that most, if not all, of your enterprise software suppliers have moved aggressively away from traditional software licensing models to hosted, service-based subscriptions.
Software as a Key to Transformation
Join ISG’s Bill Huber to explore how today’s leading enterprises are enhancing their software licensing to drive digital transformation at substantially lower cost.
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