CFOs Enter the SAP Upgrade Strategy Conversation: 5 Questions They’re Asking
An organization’s SAP upgrade strategy may be led by the CIO, but CFOs play an increasingly larger role. As conversations turn to SAP Cloud ERP and RISE, finance leaders are being pulled in earlier and more often. It makes sense, as the financial implications of following SAP’s prescribed roadmap are too significant to go undiscussed. […]
What SAP Customers Are Really Doing — and Why It Matters
For CIOs and CFOs running SAP, the most pressing question today isn’t whether to modernize but whether modernization truly requires another forced migration. SAP often presents its customer base as if everyone is on a single, linear journey, moving toward the same destination. In reality, the landscape is far more varied. Organizations have different operating […]
A Smart Alternative to RISE with SAP: A Point of View for CIOs Navigating What Comes Next
If you’re running SAP ECC, Business Suite or on‑premises S/4HANA, you’re not imagining the rising pressure. SAP’s own lifecycle policy brings mainstream maintenance for ECC and Business Suite products to an end between 2025 and 2027, with S/4HANA approaching similar deadlines shortly after — pushing many organizations toward the costly Customer‑Specific Maintenance program with reduced […]
SAP S/4HANA 2602 Decoded: What the Release Reveals about SAP Innovation
CIOs are no strangers to ambiguity, as constant technology shifts, evolving board expectations and unrelenting pressure to modernize are all part of the job. But few developments have triggered more confusion than SAP S/4HANA 2602 — the February 2026 update delivered exclusively to SAP Cloud ERP Public customers. What’s fueling the uncertainty isn’t the release […]
Sybase ASE 16.0: The Quiet Giant Facing End of Mainstream Maintenance
For decades, Sybase ASE 16.0 has been the database enterprises trust when failure isn’t an option. High-volume telecom switches. Real-time trading and clearing systems. Mission-critical clinical workloads. Intelligence systems that never sleep. These are purpose-built, high-concurrency applications that demand absolute reliability—and ASE has delivered, often with uptime measured in years, not nines. Now mainstream maintenance […]
Why CIOs Are Rethinking Oracle EBS Upgrades and Choosing a Smarter Path to Innovation
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is the steady pulse of enterprise operations. For CIOs, it anchors financial precision, supply chain flow and HR reliability. The 2025 CIO Oracle EBS Market Puls confirms its strength: 83% of respondents affirm EBS as important to their business, with nearly all reporting consistent value. In short, it delivers quietly and […]