IDC Path

SaaS Path is IDC's premier SaaS-specific benchmarking survey, providing subscribers with demand-side guidance on the mind and journey of SaaS buyers, including a deep dive into 23 functional application markets: accounts payable; accounts receivable; contract life-cycle management (CLM); core human resources (HR); asset life-cycle management (EAM/ALM); employee experience; enterprise resource planning (ERP); facility management; finance; financial governance, risk, and compliance (GRC); learning experience management (LXM); merger and acquisition (M&A) software; payroll; procurement; product life-cycle management (PLM/CAD); professional services automation (PSA); supply chain management (SCM); subscription management; talent acquisition; talent management; tax; travel and expense (T&E); and treasury and risk. For more information, view this product video.

Markets and Subjects Analyzed

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• 23 functional application markets: accounts payable, accounts receivable, CLM, core HR, employee experience, EAM, ERP, facility management, finance, financial GRC, LXM, M&A software, payroll, talent management, talent acquisition, procurement, PLM/CAD, PSA, SCM, subscription management, tax, T&E, and treasury and risk
• Application adoption, deployment models, budget plans, and replacement cycle timing
• Purchasing preferences and attitudes toward SaaS buying channels, application migration strategy, drivers and inhibitors, packaging, and pricing options
• In-depth vendor reviews, ratings, spend, and advocacy scores for all 23 functional application markets

Core Research

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• SaaS Path: Worldwide Findings Banner Book
• SaaS Path: Additional 20+ Banner Books — Findings by App Category/Country/Region
• SaaS Path: Executive Summary PPT Report
• SaaS Path: Vendor Ratings PPT Report
• SaaS Path: Additional Survey Spotlights on Key Findings

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

Key Questions Answered

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1. What applications are organizations moving to SaaS? When? Where?
2. Which vendors are organizations looking to for each SaaS application solution? How do organizations rate those vendors, and what evaluation criteria do they use to select them?
3. How do SaaS buyers like to be sold to and through what channels?
4. What are their buying preferences, attitudes, fears, needs, and priorities? How do these vary by functional application market?

Companies Analyzed

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This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several hundred SaaS providers in the enterprise applications market. A small sampling of those names include:

Acumatica, Adobe, ADP, Amazon, Amdocs, Anaplan, Aptean, AVEVA, Blue Yonder, Certinia, Conga, Conversica, Coupa, Dassault Systèmes, Dealertrack, Deltek, e2open, Epicor, Genesys, Google, HubSpot, IBM, IFS, Infor, InsideSales, Intuit, Kinaxis, Kingdee, LinkedIn, Logility, Manhattan Associates, Microsoft, Oracle, O9 Solutions, Pegasystems, Planview, Plex Systems, PROS Pricing Solutions, PTC, QAD, Sage, Sage Intacct, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, ServiceNow, Siemens, SuperOffice, SYSPRO, ToolsGroup, UKG, Unit4, Workday, Xero, Yonyou, and Zoho.