For this report, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services conducted interviews with industry experts and five CIOs who have migrated their on-premises SAP solutions to the cloud. The research indicates the greatest success is going to companies that look beyond cutting costs and improving efficiencies and focus on bolstering their innovation and digital transformation strategies by ...

It’s critical that organizations have access to their data and can analyze it for deep insights. Organizations want to use this data to understand customers, identify trends, and design products, as well as to prevent and solve problems. As a result, real-time data analytics has become a key business priority. Subscribe to the Cloud Insider ...

There are many financial benefits of moving to the cloud. This whitepaper explores five ways to implement and achieve cost optimization for your cloud. You’ll learn proven strategies, detailed techniques for compute, storage, network, and data analytics, and tactics to manage and optimize costs. This whitepaper also provides real-world examples of enterprises that have achieved ...

Learn how to answer these important questions before your business kicks off a journey to the cloud: What’s the best platform for your critical workloads? What does an effective roadmap to the cloud look like? What are some best practices for ensuring that this enormous effort promotes innovation, minimizes overhead, and enables cost savings? Subscribe ...

In this whitepaper, we’ll cover some of the most important migration topics facing organizations today, including: Some of the challenges you might need to overcome during a migration What we consider a “migration factory” and how we help you build one Prescriptive guidance on how to execute each phase of a migration Subscribe to the ...

In this 25-criterion evaluation of data management for analytics (DMA) providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM, MemSQL, Micro Focus, Microsoft, MongoDB, Oracle, Pivotal Software, SAP, Snowflake, and Teradata – and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Forrester’s research uncovered a market in ...

In this 25-criterion evaluation of data management for analytics (DMA) providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM, MemSQL, Micro Focus, Microsoft, MongoDB, Oracle, Pivotal Software, SAP, Snowflake, and Teradata – and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Forrester’s research uncovered a market in ...

ESG created a three-year TCO model that compared the expected costs and benefits of upgrading an on-premises EDW solution from the leading vendor, migrating to a cloud-based solution provided by this vendor on AWS, or redesigning and migrating the EDW function to Google BigQuery. ESG found that our modelled organization can reduce their overall three-year ...

ESG created a three-year TCO model that compared the expected costs and benefits of upgrading an on-premises EDW solution from the leading vendor, migrating to a cloud-based solution provided by this vendor on AWS, or redesigning and migrating the EDW function to Google BigQuery. ESG found that our modelled organization can reduce their overall three-year ...

Agile BI requires more than just agile dashboards. True agility means prototyping data models quickly so business users can continuously iterate on them. Application development and delivery professionals working on BI initiatives should consider adding DWA platforms to their BI toolbox. This Forrester report discusses how seven data warehouse automation (DWA) vendors bring Agile options to ...