We just launched a new mobile apps survey aimed at helping enterprises identify best practices, strategies, budget approaches and organizational methods for developing mobile apps.

There is a very decent, albeit not foolproof treatment of Salesforce.com (CRM) on SeekingAlpha.com. The article looks at number of relevant accounting red flags but sometimes fails to interpret those correctly or put them into context. Some of commentary following the article highlight the discrepancies.

Copy of our Tech M&A Outlook from the Bloomberg LP March 2012 conference in New York.

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The 2012 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) valuation guide is now available to MGI Research subscribers as well as in the MGI Research Store and via Bloomberg, L.P.

In this latest research report, MGI analytic team collaborated with our senior advisor - Joe Galuszka to come up with a comprehensive list of the 15 best practices that in field practice we have observed to be the most effective in optimizing IT contract negotiations, leveraging CIO participation to the maximum and improving vendor relationships in the long term. 

Joe Galuszka is a Senior Advisor at MGI Research with a focus on IT Cost Optimization, IT Procurement and Negotiation Strategies.  Joe provides senior IT and tech executives, experienced IT negotiation teams, procurement, financial, and legal professionals with the practical advice and strategic insight to effectively negotiate complex enterprise agreements.

On Feb 28th at 12 noon EST (9AM PST) MGI Research Managing Directors Andrew Dailey and Igor Stenmark will host an interview with COO of KONY Solutions and until recently a senior mobile banking executive Anirban Roy. This session is aimed at bank business and technology executives and will focus on the following key issues:

The MEAPs Buyer's Guide is now published. Includes a free 4-page summary and an overview for the press.

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New York Times on January 1st 2012 quoted MGI Senior Analyst Tero Kuittinen on decline of text messaging in some countries. Click here for the original article in the NY Times.

In a recent “20 Questions with the CEO of Plex Systems” MGI Research’s C-level interview series with leading technology industry innovators, investors and executives – MGI’s Andrew Daily talked with Mark Symonds, CEO of SaaS ERP vendor Plex Systems, Inc. SaaS upstarts are a real threat to the established revenue streams of major enterprise applications vendors.

The new MGI Research Blog is now officially live. It is now integrated into our main web site. We will continue to maintain the original MGI Research Blog on Typepad as a mirror to the new site.

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