Velocity Technology Solutions End User Survey - Copy

As part of continuing to serve the needs of the Oracle community, Velocity Technology Solutions is holding its first end user survey. Participants will be entered in a drawing to win full conference access to COLLABORATE 12. The results of this survey will be announced during our March 21 webinar in participation with Forrester Research, Oracle JD Edwards, and our customer, the Weitz Company. Don't forget to register for the webinar.

1. Please describe your Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application:

Application Name (e.g. JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS)
Application Version

2. Please describe your Human Capital Management solution:

Application Name (e.g. PeopleSoft, Kronos, Ultimate Software)
Application Version

3. Please list any related third-party applications that you are running, e.g. Tax form processing, data collection tools, etc.:

Third-party applications:

4. When purchasing enterprise applications, which best describes your strategy for the level of vendor consistency you like to have?

We prefer to purchase solutions from the same vendor (e.g. use all Oracle applications)
We prefer to purchase solutions from a handful of selected vendors
We prefer to purchase the best point solutions, regardless of vendor
We don't follow a particular approach; decisions are made as they are needed

5. Please describe your organization's interest in moving its ERP application into a cloud-based infrastructure:

Already implemented
Plan to implement within 12 months
Plan to implement within 1-2 years
Plan to implement within 3-5 years
No specific plans at this time

6. Who is or who would drive your organization's decision to move enterprise applications to the cloud?
7. What benefits are most compelling about moving applications to the cloud? Please rank your top 3 benefits below:

	1	2	3	Not Ranked
Ability to change, scale applications quickly to meet business needs
Improving system performance, service levels
Reduced cost
Shift expense from capital expenditures to operating expenditures
Leverage the technical expertise offered by service providers
We do not feel compelled to move to the cloud

Ability to change, scale applications quickly to meet business needs

Improving system performance, service levels

Reduced cost

Shift expense from capital expenditures to operating expenditures

Leverage the technical expertise offered by service providers

We do not feel compelled to move to the cloud

Drag your choices below to rank

1.

Drag here

8. What role will Oracle Fusion applications have in your organization over the next several years?

We expect to move all our current Oracle applications to Fusion-based applications
We expect to have some Fusion-based applications, but not all
We haven't decided yet. We are waiting to see how others use Fusion
We are not very familiar with Fusion applications

9. What are your top 3 challenges in maintaining your Oracle enterprise applications over time? Please rank your top 3 challenges below:

	1	2	3	Not Ranked
Maintaining in-house expertise on the application
Going through the upgrade and maintenance cycles
Flexibility of licensing model
Cost
Integrating Oracle with other applications in our environment
Length and complexity of purchase cycles

Maintaining in-house expertise on the application

Going through the upgrade and maintenance cycles

Flexibility of licensing model

Cost

Integrating Oracle with other applications in our environment

Length and complexity of purchase cycles

Drag your choices below to rank

1.

Drag here

10. Technology departments are increasingly tasked to manage initiatives that directly contribute to business results. Over the next few years, how will the following metrics change in importance for measuring the success of your company's technology department? Please rate each metric for your company (1= Much less important, 3= Same importance, and 5= Much more important):

	1 - Much less important	2	3 - Same importance	4	5 - Much more important
Helping the company generate revenue
Facilitating corporate innovation
Application/Infrastructure Availability service levels
Internal or external customer satisfaction
Maintaining day-to-day IT operations
Streamlining operations, reducing operational cost
Number of projects completed

11. Please describe your organization's plans for using Business Intelligence applications:

Already implemented (Please indicate solution):
Plan to implement within 12 months (Please indicate solution):
Plan to implement within 1-2 years
Plan to implement 3-5 years
No specific plans at this time

12. To be entered in Velocity Technology Solutions' COLLABORATE 12 conference pass drawing, please enter your contact information below:

First name
Last name
Email address

Thank you for completing our survey!

Conduct your own online surveys