Chris Coy, Vice President of HR Reporting and Data Management at Macy's, discussed a two-year project they are in called HR Reinvent. Macy's is reorganizing and reinventing their entire HR structure, Chris shared their plan of attack, noting that they are minimizing expenses long-term, providing refreshed and new functionality and that the system is flexible and intuitive to the user's need.

by Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager | Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a business model. In order for the business to succeed, the vendor must succeed. Forrester’s report outlines a life-cycle approach for customers to achieve success with SaaS vendors. While customers love SaaS, they do encounter challenges as they adopt SaaS. SaaS requires frequent and automatic…

Ready or not, here comes the cloud. This is one of the key takeaways of this report, with a close second being, no two cloud experiences are alike. Even more pertinent though, this article will help you use Forrester’s Preparedness Assessment to gauge your organization’s cloud timeline. First, let’s identify the key factors for creating…

If there’s one phrase that strikes fear in business people and developers alike, it’s "the Cloud." No one knows exactly what it is and how it operates, but we know how powerful it is. Cloud connects all of us -- giving us a platform to protect mission-critical information while creating a scalable, automated environment to share…

Business applications’ effectiveness is crucial to an enterprise. It is important to understand the effectiveness of an application to determine whether to upgrade or replace the application. By using Forrester’s Balanced Scorecard, Application Development and Delivery (AD&D) professionals can assess the applications and improve customer experience and product innovation. Forrester’s survey in 2016 found that…

Forrester’s Ten Key Strategies for Pivoting Business Applications to SaaS discusses ten key strategies, the traditional approach of the strategy and the SaaS applications approach of the strategy. The ten key strategies fall under several different categories – positioning of SaaS within the organization’s technology strategy, focusing on SaaS buyer behaviors and SaaS deployment and…