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The Best Time to Take Back Control of Your Oracle Roadmap is NOW
ERP, Maximize ROI, Oracle 2 min read
The Best Time to Take Back Control of Your Oracle Roadmap is NOW
Rimini Street Staff
2 min read

Many Oracle customers are currently facing a May 2020 maintenance renewal deadline that may lock them into another year of high costs, limited innovation and falling behind. IT today is facing a mandate from the business to evolve beyond a cost center to a source of innovation and growth. However, CIOs running Oracle can be […]

9 Signs that Market Forces are Affecting your IT Roadmap
CIO Strategies, ERP, Innovation 4 min read
9 Signs that Market Forces are Affecting your IT Roadmap
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
4 min read

Most CIOs believe they are in control of their IT roadmaps, yet external dynamics are creating pressure to change course. No longer can enterprise roadmaps be calibrated once and then put out of reach. To continue to enable business priorities and drive growth in a dynamic technology environment, roadmaps must be monitored and adjusted to […]

Gartner Predicts 2020
Cloud, Cost of Maintenance, ERP 3 min read
Gartner Predicts 2020
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
3 min read

A new year (and a new decade) are ideal times to prognosticate about the future. While it’s one thing for a business to predict great things for its future, it’s quite another for a respected, trusted analyst in the industry to predict great things for your industry … and your business. That’s precisely the case […]

Overpaying for Application Management Services? It’s Not About Man-Hours Anymore
AMS, ERP, Maximize ROI 4 min read
Overpaying for Application Management Services? It’s Not About Man-Hours Anymore
Rimini Street Staff
4 min read

Why is outsourcing Application Management Services (AMS) so complicated, and why doesn’t it work like it’s supposed to? The AMS concept is simple: offload incidents, service requests, routine tasks, and IT backlogs so that internal teams are free to focus on game-changing initiatives. But the reality? Too many man-hours, yet nothing seems to get done; […]

Why IT Needs a Business-Driven Roadmap
Business Drive Roadmap, CIO Strategies, ERP 4 min read
Why IT Needs a Business-Driven Roadmap
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
4 min read

A Business-Driven Roadmap is an IT planning framework driven by business goals and the potential for smart use of technology to further those business goals. Besides fostering better alignment between IT and company goals, this approach can be a boon to IT departments and the people within them who aspire to do more meaningful work. […]

11 Characteristics of a Successful Business-Driven Roadmap for IT
Business Drive Roadmap, CIO Strategies, ERP 4 min read
11 Characteristics of a Successful Business-Driven Roadmap for IT
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
4 min read

A Business-Driven Roadmap is an information technology plan built around business priorities. Although it is informed by the vendor roadmaps of major technology suppliers, it avoids letting them dictate enterprise IT plans or take control of the organization’s budget. This is easier said than done, particularly when you see the need to diverge from the […]

5 Ways to Leverage ERP in the Cloud Without Necessarily Moving to Cloud ERP
Cloud, ERP, Oracle Cloud 5 min read
5 Ways to Leverage ERP in the Cloud Without Necessarily Moving to Cloud ERP
Rimini Street Staff
5 min read

This article originally appeared on Diginomica.com; it has been modified for this space. Everyone is moving to the cloud, no doubt about it. How to take advantage of the cloud is the multi-million dollar question. Get stampeded into making the wrong decision, and you could wind up throwing away millions. Do it right, and the […]

Overwhelmed by Opportunity, Salesforce Customers Need Assistance
Business Growth, Salesforce, Support 4 min read
Overwhelmed by Opportunity, Salesforce Customers Need Assistance
Rimini Street Staff
4 min read

Salesforce customers are drowning in opportunity – a good problem to have. In most cases, the challenge they have with Salesforce is not that it is rigid or limited, like the enterprise software of the past, but that it is so flexible and ever-evolving that they worry they aren’t extracting all the value from it […]

Following Your Own Business-Driven Roadmap for IT
Business Drive Roadmap, CIO Strategies, ERP 4 min read
Following Your Own Business-Driven Roadmap for IT
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
4 min read

Read a few recent blog posts and research notes from this space and you will likely notice a theme: Following your own Business-Driven Roadmap is a big deal. The latest research note, The Business-Driven Roadmap Imperative, explains it in the context of how CIOs can respond to the expectations of their CEO and/or board about […]