This IDC Web conference provides an overview of current enterprise cloud content collaboration (eC3) market dynamics. Businesses are under increasing pressure to find new ways of operating to meet changing user expectations and take adva ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for SAP from September 2012 to December 2012. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acquisitions sets the stage for a detailed examination of select products and d ...

This IDC Presentation examines key issues driving changes in vendor cloud strategies. Growth in worldwide IT cloud services will be peaking over the next several years as public cloud services become widely available and private clouds b ...

This IDC study defines and presents IDC's worldwide applications software analyst team's 2013 top 10 predictions for the applications software market, including enterprise applications (EA), customer relationship management (CRM) and cus ...

This IDC Insight summarizes our analysis of the key themes presented at IBM Connect 2013, IBM's worldwide customer and partner event held January 27–31, 2013, in Orlando, Florida.

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This IDC Presentation — IDC Market in a Minute — combines an infographic on SaaS and cloud software, along with some relevant, top-level considerations for IT organizations.

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In a year of rapid-fire acquisitions by Oracle in the CRM applications market, and despite Larry Ellison's assertion that there would be no more, the company has gotten one more in under the wire with the agreement to acquire marketing plat ...

This IDC Market Analysis Perspective Presentation discusses the worldwide market for SaaS and cloud services. Virtually, all software vendors are at various stages in a seminal transition in how they build, sell, and deliver their produc ...

This IDC Presentation discusses cloud strategies for the CIO. Building smart strategies for how to incorporate cloud services into the CIO portfolio requires context — How do we move from the 2^nd Platform of client/server tech ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for salesforce.com, covering the third calendar quarter of 2012, with historical reference points included throughout. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acquis ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Microsoft, with a focus on the Microsoft Business Solutions Dynamics product group for the period from July 2012 to September 2012. Data includes financial performance and sales hig ...

This IDC Insight takes a look at the Oracle OpenWorld user and partner conference held September 30–October 5, 2012, in San Francisco, California. This year's annual event drew over 50,000 registered as well as over 1 million online part ...

Box held its second annual user conference, BoxWorks, in San Francisco on October 7–9. According to Box, this year's conference drew 1,500 registered attendees, up from 500 in 2011. The event kicked off in high gear with an opening keynote ...

This IDC Insight reviews the key announcements at the salesforce.com Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, held September 18–21, 2012. Highlights of announcements at Dreamforce 2012 are::

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This IDC study forecasts revenue growth for public IT cloud services through 2016, segmented by five functional categories within eight regions/countries. The forecast data, driven by IDC's key forecast assumptions for public IT cloud se ...

This IDC study presents IDC's view of worldwide SaaS and cloud software performance, by vendor in 2011, and anticipated performance through 2016. The cloud software market reached $22.9 billion in revenue in 2011, a 30.9% YoY growth rate ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Microsoft, with a focus on the Microsoft Business Solutions Dynamics product group for the period from April 2012 to June 2012. Data includes financial performance and sales highlig ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Oracle's FY 4Q12. Detailed descriptions of select products and the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) are also included.: "According to Oracle President Mark Hurd, the company is prep ...

Adds to Cloud Portfolio, Builds Out Commerce Platform StrategyOn May 22, SAP announced its intent to acquire Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) for approximately $4.3 billion. At $45 per share, a 20% premium over the closing price of May 21, the deal rep ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for SAP from January to March 2012. Data on financial performance, sales highlights, and recent acquisitions sets the stage for a detailed examination of select products and distributio ...

This IDC study provides market intelligence details for Oracle's FY 3Q12. Detailed descriptions of select products and the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) are also included.

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This IDC Insight supplements the IDC 2012 SMB predictions Webcast of January 2012. It examines expected changes in the SMB IT market overall, with additional detail on each of the five major regions: North America; Western Europe; Centra ...

The following was presented at the IDC Directions conferences in San Jose and Boston in March 2012.

On December 14, 2011, SAP and Google reached an agreement to form a partnership that effectively aligns Google Apps with SAP's Business ByDesign (ByD) suite. The partnership at the base level will enable SAP ByD customers to use things like ...

This IDC Insight summarizes our analysis of key themes presented at Lotusphere 2012, IBM's worldwide customer and partner event held in Orlando, Florida, in January 2012.

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In a move that surprised no one, Oracle announced that it is acquiring cloud-based talent management solutions provider Taleo for $46 per share or roughly $1.9 billion, 5x the estimated revenue, net of Taleo’s cash and debt. The transaction ...

This IDC study defines and presents IDC's top 10 predictions for the Software Business Solutions group, which includes software in the enterprise applications (EA), customer relationship management (CRM), project-based solutions (PBS), h ...

This IDC study provides the market sizing and vendor shares for the worldwide SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) software market in 2010 and forecast for the 2011–2015 time periods. Market trends are provided, along with the fut ...

This presentation was given at CloudSlam's Up conference in San Francisco, on December 7 2011.: Cloud computing is not just a matter of servers in the sky - it is a new business model for IT providers, a new reality for traditional ...

This IDC Buyer Case Study is designed to capture the business challenges being faced, metrics, implementation and adoption, outcome, next steps, lessons learned, and advice for other buyers considering a SaaS investment.

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The Citrix Online division of Citrix Systems announced November 9 that it took the wraps off its new GoTo Developer Center, which had been disclosed earlier in the year. This offering is targeted at both independent and enterprise developer ...

The Citrix Online division of Citrix Systems announced November 9 that it took the wraps off its new GoTo Developer Center, which had been disclosed earlier in the year. This offering is targeted at both independent and enterprise developer ...