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Video: Draw Your Own Roadmap to Avoid the Risks of SAP’s Fast Road to S/4HANA
Business Driven Roadmap, Cloud, ERP 5 min read
Video: Draw Your Own Roadmap to Avoid the Risks of SAP’s Fast Road to S/4HANA
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
5 min read

Over many years, SAP has built a reputation as a safe bet among enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Today, however, following SAP’s roadmap may be riskier than many business and technology leaders appreciate. The potential risks apply to SAP S/4HANA in the data center or in the cloud – and even to organizations that delay […]

How the World of Enterprise IT Is Changing
CEO, CIO Strategies, Cloud 2 min read
How the World of Enterprise IT Is Changing
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
2 min read

CIOs and other information technology leaders are feeling the pressure to move systems to the cloud, including not only pressure from vendors who see the future of their products in the cloud but from the CEO and the board. The cloud is capturing the imagination, and increasingly the budget, of not only technology organizations but […]

How Welch’s Squeezed More Value From IT With Rimini Street
Business Driven Roadmap, CIO Strategies, Client story 3 min read
How Welch’s Squeezed More Value From IT With Rimini Street
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

Because my ultimate bosses are family farmers, I do not get a lot of credit for spending money on technology for technology’s sake. Farming is a tough business, and they are right to have high expectations of the technology investments we make. Welch’s is such a well-known brand many people probably assume we’re a subsidiary […]

What Retailers Have In Common on IT Spending and Digital Innovation
Business Driven Roadmap, Business Growth, Digital innovation 3 min read
What Retailers Have In Common on IT Spending and Digital Innovation
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

The holiday season gave retailers an unexpected gift: sales rose 5.1 percent between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, a six-year high1. To put that into perspective, the National Retail Federation put the average annual increase at about 3.9% over the previous five years. Even so, online sales accelerated even more rapidly, rising 19.1 percent2, according […]

Making Sense of SaaS: Critical Questions to Ask Before Signing Cloud Software Contracts
Cloud, Custom Code, ERP 5 min read
Making Sense of SaaS: Critical Questions to Ask Before Signing Cloud Software Contracts
Frank Reneke
5 min read

The term “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) has turned into a marketing catch-phrase. Many software vendors are using it to boost the appeal of their applications because SaaS implies lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and other benefits like much faster deployment. But, before you take the plunge, it pays to arm yourself with the facts so you […]

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 […]

Oracle’s Cloud Programs: Beware a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Cloud, ERP, IaaS 6 min read
Oracle’s Cloud Programs: Beware a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Rimini Street Staff
6 min read

The promise of the cloud is to liberate IT from the cost and burden of tiresome daily IT administration, while delivering more freedom to select from the industry’s latest and best innovations. Too bad that goes against the very DNA of legacy ERP vendors such as Oracle, whose stock price and revenues historically are closely […]

With ERP Support from Rimini Street, Multnomah County Gains Flexibility While Making Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars
Client story, Cost of Maintenance, Custom Code 3 min read
With ERP Support from Rimini Street, Multnomah County Gains Flexibility While Making Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

At just 465 miles square, Multnomah County in Oregon is home to 800,000 residents. With the county seat in Portland, the organization employs 8,000 people and has an annual operating budget of $2 billion USD, funded by taxpayers. Multnomah County is responsible for its operating units and for securely maintaining its systems to fulfill certain […]

ESCO Rides the Wave of Economic Change with Help from Rimini Street
Client story, Cost of Maintenance, ERP 3 min read
ESCO Rides the Wave of Economic Change with Help from Rimini Street
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

In today’s dynamic global economy, organizations in nearly all sectors are subject to shifts in the marketplace, experiencing periods of high growth as well as slumps. If your organization is like most, when a downturn occurs, you may start to think about trimming operational expenditures. Often, one of the largest budget line items, aside from […]