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Feeling the Pressure of Moving ERP to the Cloud? It’s Not as Urgent as Vendors Would Have You Think.
Cloud, Cloud ERP, Hybrid IT 4 min read
Feeling the Pressure of Moving ERP to the Cloud? It’s Not as Urgent as Vendors Would Have You Think.
David Rowe
4 min read

Implement hybrid IT instead and invest the savings in transformation.   An October 2020 Diginomica article, “Don’t be a sheep – challenge the call to re-platform ERP” from author Brian Sommer, contains some pragmatic advice for CIOs feeling the pressure of moving ERP to the cloud.   It’s not necessary to replace or re-platform important […]

On-Going IT Response to the Global Pandemic: The View from a Front-Row Seat
CIO, ROI, Security 5 min read
On-Going IT Response to the Global Pandemic: The View from a Front-Row Seat
David Rowe
5 min read

In January’s “2020 State of the CIO Executive Summary,” the news was good for CIOs… They were getting increased recognition from CEOs and colleagues for their growing and essential leadership role in business strategy, innovation, and revenue generation — while decreasing time spent on important yet “back-office” activities such as optimizing the enterprise IT infrastructure […]

How to Join the Digital Vanguard
Business Growth, CIO Strategies, Cloud 3 min read
How to Join the Digital Vanguard
David Rowe
3 min read

Is your organization a digital laggard or a member of the digital vanguard? I’ve been reading Deloitte’s 2018 CIO Survey, which makes a point of distinguishing between “vanguard” organizations where IT actively contributes to creating new businesses and business opportunities and everyone else. The traditional role of the CIO has been to be an operational […]

Strategies for Supporting SAP S/4HANA From “Wait And See” To “Full Speed Ahead”
Business Driven Roadmap, Client story, Cloud 5 min read
Strategies for Supporting SAP S/4HANA From “Wait And See” To “Full Speed Ahead”
David Rowe
5 min read

Clients of Rimini Street’s support for SAP have the freedom to make independent decisions about S/4HANA – but that doesn’t necessarily mean they reject SAP’s reinvention of its ERP software. Some are moving forward with S/4HANA, while continuing to rely on Rimini Street for high quality and cost effective support of their existing SAP Business […]

Biggest Obstacle to Innovation, IT Leaders Say: “Keeping the Lights On”
CIO Strategies, Innovation, Optimization 3 min read
Biggest Obstacle to Innovation, IT Leaders Say: “Keeping the Lights On”
David Rowe
3 min read

Businesses want to innovate faster because they know successful innovators tend to be the most successful businesses. Yet if you survey IT and finance leaders, as we did recently in conjunction with Vanson Bourne, a technology market research firm, you will find many are dissatisfied with the pace of innovation happening in their organizations. The […]

Why a Stable, Available Business Platform is Key — Today and Tomorrow
Business Growth, CIO Strategies, ERP 3 min read
Why a Stable, Available Business Platform is Key — Today and Tomorrow
David Rowe
3 min read

As the role of IT evolves from keeping the lights on to helping shape business strategy, technology leaders are challenged to find room for those strategic projects in their schedules and in their budgets. In a recent poll by CIO, 72 percent of those surveyed admitted they are struggling to balance business innovation and operational […]

Video: SAP Expert Vinnie Mirchandani Sees No Rush to S/4HANA
ERP, Innovation, SAP 4 min read
Video: SAP Expert Vinnie Mirchandani Sees No Rush to S/4HANA
David Rowe
4 min read

SAP is in a hurry to get customers to move to its next generation S/4HANA platform. Yet most SAP customers are in no hurry to move — nor should they be, according to SAP watcher Vinnie Mirchandani. You can hear from Vinnie directly by watching the video clips embedded in this post (or watch them […]

Smart Strategies That Will Boost IT Cost Optimization
Business Growth, CIO Strategies, Optimization 3 min read
Smart Strategies That Will Boost IT Cost Optimization
David Rowe
3 min read

Digital transformation is picking up speed. It’s driving businesses to rethink their traditional imperatives and bringing a new focus on customer engagement and disruptive business models. As companies emphasize new priorities, they need to optimize inefficient processes and reduce burdensome costs that are a drag on their business. For IT, that requires some tough choices. […]

What You Need to Know About Bimodal IT
CIO Strategies, Innovation, Modernization 3 min read
What You Need to Know About Bimodal IT
David Rowe
3 min read

The digital economy is all about fast innovation and getting new products to market more quickly than competitors. IT needs to step up its game to help drive innovation, without sacrificing top priorities such as compliance, cost control and maintaining availability. The stakes are high even for massive, successful businesses. Today, 50 percent of the […]