Apps Purchases: 10+ Million Software Purchases
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Our global team of 50 researchers has been studying the digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by 2 million + companies including technographic segmentation of 10 million ERP, EPM, CRM, HCM, Procurement, SCM, Treasury software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions and perhaps the rise and fall of certain vendors and their products on a quarterly basis.
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- Aerospace and Defense
| Logo | Customer | Industry | Empl. | Revenue | Country | Vendor | Application | Category | When | VAR/SI | Insight | Insight Source |
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Royal Air Force (RAF) | Aerospace and Defense | 32000 | $41.0B | United Kingdom | Certero | Certero for Enterprise SAM | Software Asset Management (SAM),IT Asset Management (ITAM) | 2011 | n/a | In 2011, the Royal Air Force (RAF) deployed Certero for Enterprise SAM across UK defence IT estates to strengthen asset visibility and licence governance. Public reporting and vendor material list the RAF among organisations using Certero products for IT asset and software management, indicating operational use in IT and SAM process areas within the United Kingdom. The deployment targeted centralized inventory and licence management functions to provide a single source of truth for software and hardware assets across distributed defence infrastructure. Certero for Enterprise SAM was configured to deliver core Software Asset Management (SAM),IT Asset Management (ITAM) capabilities, including automated discovery, normalized inventory, software recognition, licence entitlement reconciliation and compliance reporting. Implementation work emphasized data normalization and automated reconciliation workflows to align discovered entitlements with licence records, consistent with SAM best practices. The Certero for Enterprise SAM implementation served to unify asset and licence data for ongoing governance and operational reporting. Operational scope covered IT/SAM process areas across the UK defence estate, supporting IT asset owners, licensing teams and procurement governance. Governance adaptations focused on establishing centralized inventory stewardship, defined licence governance processes and repeatable reconciliation workflows to improve control over software usage. Reported objectives and outcomes concentrated on improved asset visibility and strengthened licence governance as the primary benefits. | |
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Marshall Group | Aerospace and Defense | 1980 | $1.9B | United Kingdom | Aramar | Aramar Fast Financials | EPM | 2021 | n/a | In 2021, Marshall Group implemented Aramar Fast Financials as a pre-configured solution on IBM Planning Analytics to automate budgeting, forecasting and period-end financial reporting for its Marshall Fleet Solutions operations in the United Kingdom. Apps Category: The Aramar Fast Financials deployment emphasized pre-built FP&A templates and configuration patterns typical of Aramar’s Fast Financials on IBM Planning Analytics, with configuration focused on budget modeling, rolling forecast workflows and consolidated period-end reporting. Aramar Fast Financials served as the execution engine for standardized forecast cadences and a 9+3 forecasting construct referenced in the published case material. The project delivered rapid time-to-value, with the case published in January 2022 and Marshall producing its 9+3 forecast from the new system within two months. Operational governance centered on finance-led rollout within the UK business unit, standardizing forecast and close processes through Aramar Fast Financials configurations in IBM Planning Analytics. | |
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Aerospace and Defense | 8403 | $1.9B | United Kingdom | Hensoldt | Surveillance Optronics | Video Security Cameras | 2022 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 28343 | $5.7B | United Kingdom | IFS | IFS Reporting (formerly P2 Reporting) | Analytics and BI | 2003 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 42400 | $25.9B | United Kingdom | Equus Software | Equus AssignmentPro Payroll | Payroll | 2021 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 300 | $50M | United Kingdom | Cloudflare | Cloudflare DNS | Domain Name System (DNS) | 2024 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 300 | $50M | United Kingdom | DocuSign | DocuSign eSignature | Digital Signing | 2024 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 300 | $50M | United Kingdom | Microsoft | Microsoft Azure DNS | Domain Name System (DNS) | 2024 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 300 | $50M | United Kingdom | Cloudflare | Cloudflare CDN | Content Delivery Network | 2024 | n/a |
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Aerospace and Defense | 300 | $50M | United Kingdom | Microsoft | Microsoft 365 | Collaboration | 2025 | n/a |
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