The 2021 Tidelift Open Source Maintainer Survey

In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.

Over the following pages, we’ll share nine of the most interesting findings with you.

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Microsoft Office 365 License Optimization Report

To thrive in today’s highly competitive business climate, organizations must continue to leverage their cloud-based apps and services to their full potential.

With 40% of enterprise organizations mismanaging their O365 licenses - most IT teams need to devote more time and resources to better understand the dynamic licensing needs of their organizations.

Download the full report and see how enterprises are taking back control of their cloud budgets and reaping the full value of their M365 licenses.

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Is Your Company Ready for The Future of Work?

The unexpected arrival of the pandemic in 2020 forced every organization to assemble a patchwork of unplanned workforce responses as many moved to remote-work solutions. Now, every firm faces difficult decisions around what the future of the office — and the future of work — will be. It is now time for organizations to decide where employees can or will work from in the future.

In this environment, leaders must make a series of choices for how to best support their workforce with infrastructure that promotes employee safety, connects a distributed workforce, and fuels distanced collaboration. Document management (DM) strategies are a key enabler the future of work, but organizations must act to ensure these strategies support their employees’ current and future needs.

Forrester predicts that around 60% of organizations will adopt a hybrid future work model, which is defined as at least 10% of employees working in anywhere-work mode at least two days a week. This is similar to how our survey respondents plan to orient their document management strategies.

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Is Your Company Ready for The Future of Work?

The unexpected arrival of the pandemic in 2020 forced every organization to assemble a patchwork of unplanned workforce responses as many moved to remote-work solutions. Now, every firm faces difficult decisions around what the future of the office — and the future of work — will be. It is now time for organizations to decide where employees can or will work from in the future.

In this environment, leaders must make a series of choices for how to best support their workforce with infrastructure that promotes employee safety, connects a distributed workforce, and fuels distanced collaboration. Document management (DM) strategies are a key enabler the future of work, but organizations must act to ensure these strategies support their employees’ current and future needs.

Forrester predicts that around 60% of organizations will adopt a hybrid future work model, which is defined as at least 10% of employees working in anywhere-work mode at least two days a week. This is similar to how our survey respondents plan to orient their document management strategies.

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The 2021 Tidelift Open Source Maintainer Survey

In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.

Over the following pages, we’ll share nine of the most interesting findings with you.

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Thinking Upstream About White House Cybersecurity Order 14028

A few months ago, the U.S. White House released cybersecurity executive order 14028, an attempt by the United States government to use its purchasing power to create positive changes to the way cybersecurity is addressed around the world.

Recent high profile breaches like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack or the SolarWinds software supply chain attack have shown that our cybersecurity defenses are woefully inadequate. This executive order forces a higher standard of cybersecurity for any organization selling software to the federal government, which in turn makes it the de facto global standard for all software in the future.

Tidelift CEO and co-founder Donald Fischer shares his perspective on how the cybersecurity executive order impacts software supply chain security. He’ll brief attendees on the key issues addressed by the executive order, including software bill of materials (SBOM), supply chain security, and provenance requirements. He’ll outline the gaps that most organizations will need to close in order to stay in compliance. And he’ll share a proactive approach to addressing open source software supply chain health and security upstream.

If you want to ensure your organization is fully prepared for the coming changes, you won’t want to miss this briefing.

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Cooking with Tidelift

When cooking for friends or family, many of us go out of the way to seek the freshest, tastiest ingredients possible. You may have favorite producers at the local farmers market, or brands from the grocery that you've come to know and trust. But when choosing the ingredients that make up our open source applications, we often bring in new libraries without any guarantees that they are safe and well maintained.

We wanted to distill the idea of managing open source down to something so simple, you could explain it to a child, so that’s why we wrote a children’s book about enterprise open source software management. Yes, we just used the phrases “children’s book” and “enterprise open source software” in the same sentence.

We call it Cooking with Tidelift, and it will show you how we can help you create catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components to ensure your apps are as safe and healthy as they can be.

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Is Your Company Ready for The Future of Work?

The unexpected arrival of the pandemic in 2020 forced every organization to assemble a patchwork of unplanned workforce responses as many moved to remote-work solutions. Now, every firm faces difficult decisions around what the future of the office — and the future of work — will be. It is now time for organizations to decide where employees can or will work from in the future.

In this environment, leaders must make a series of choices for how to best support their workforce with infrastructure that promotes employee safety, connects a distributed workforce, and fuels distanced collaboration. Document management (DM) strategies are a key enabler the future of work, but organizations must act to ensure these strategies support their employees’ current and future needs.

Forrester predicts that around 60% of organizations will adopt a hybrid future work model, which is defined as at least 10% of employees working in anywhere-work mode at least two days a week. This is similar to how our survey respondents plan to orient their document management strategies.

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Preparing Your Business for Global Growth: Streamlining Cross-Border Tax Compliance

As consumers have shifted toward digital engagement with brands and retailers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity to expand and reach customers globally has never been bigger. But as you build your strategy for international growth, one of the biggest challenges you will face is ensuring compliance with the many tax and regulatory requirements of the countries and regions where you will be doing business.

Depending upon your business model and plans for expansion, there are a variety of tax and compliance requirements that you will have to comply with – from Value Added Tax to trademark tax, import and export taxes, etc. And while Oracle applications offer some capabilities to help address these requirements, without the right strategy and tools, cross-border tax compliance can become very difficult and costly to manage.

In this webcast, learn about best practices and insights that organizations can use to streamline global tax determination and compliance, including:

  • The current global tax and regulatory landscape and what you need to know to ensure cross-border tax compliance.
  • How to extend the capabilities of your Oracle applications with Vertex tax solutions to reduce manual processes, streamline tax determination and reduce risk.
  • Case studies, metrics, and shared learning from peers.
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State of Accounts Payable Today

A study of 600 finance workers found that 76% of accounting teams, with automated AP, report increased productivity and less overtime.

Invoice approval delays, document management and late vendor payments surfaced as the main AP challenges. This directly impacted the work-life balance of accountants, forcing many to work an extra 10 hours per week.

Download this research to find out:

  • How 76 % of finance professionals have increased productivity and reduced overtime
  • How to eliminate late payments for good
  • How Beanworks improves approvals, payments and AP data access
  • How to prevent vendor fraud and expense abuse that 60 % of businesses experienced this year
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Discover Benefits and Best Practices to Improve a Call Center

In the modern world, call centers remain one of the most challenging places to work in. They have very high turnover rates, usually low employee satisfaction, and are regarded as a cost center by most executives.

The ongoing pandemic has had a major effect on how businesses operate, including call centers. It forced many offices to close down and created pressure to switch to a work-from-home (WFH) environment. There is no saying if this “new normal” is here for good, but many businesses have already decided to cultivate WFH while some are still struggling.

So, how can you manage your team effectively in one of the most challenging environments under the pressures of digitalization, remote work, and customer demands?

Download this Success Kit to discover how to improve your Call Center.

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The Future of Tax is in the Cloud

The cloud computing market is booming, with Gartner projecting the industry to exceed $331 billion by 2022. That’s no surprise considering the benefits include cutting costs, improving data quality, increasing security, and ensuring reliability.

Check out these stats, based on a survey of IT professionals, to learn why your organization should upgrade its tax applications or migrate them to the cloud.

Companies that migrate their tax applications to the cloud accelerate digital transformation and experience many benefits:

  • Improved data management
  • Increased process automation
  • Faster access to new functionality
  • Enhanced security
  • Decreased costs
  • Easier implementation
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Manufacturers and Distributors Modernize Their SAP Solutions to Address Tax and Technology Challenges

The wave of digital transformation that has prompted businesses to migrate some applications to the cloud and re-evaluate process efficiency has officially hit the Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) industry. In anticipation of the next worldwide crisis, M&Ds can refocus on their core businesses, streamline and automate tax management, and redesign their supply chains to be more flexible, scalable and risk-tolerant.

In this white paper, we share key learnings from IDG’s Research MarketPulse Survey that uncover the challenges IT and finance leaders at M&D organizations are facing today, and the drivers behind their current and future technology plans.

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5 Reasons to Automate Sales And Use Tax Compliance

Ensure Peak Performance In The New Business Environment

Monthly sales and use tax compliance can be a massive burden for your finance department. If you’re looking for ways to control costs and make smart investments, automating these processes in-house using tax compliance technology — or outsourcing them — can deliver measurable business benefits like:

  • Reducing audit risk
  • Boosting staff value and ROI
  • Cutting costs
  • Improving governance and controls
  • Enhancing scalability
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State of the Market for Enterprise Cloud Deployment for SAP Users

This special report compiles all the research found when SAPinsider surveyed 116 members of their community. The purpose of the survey was to determine what is critical to their cloud deployment, which cloud providers and deployment models they are using, and what workloads they are running in the cloud. In this special report, learn what drives organizations in their approach to enterprise cloud deployment, discover the top requirements and tools for cloud deployment strategies, and gain your strategy guidance for optimizing cloud deployment processes.

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