Hostage No Longer: Break Free of Rising IT Vendor Prices
IT vendor price increases are coming Many experts are predicting software price increases, including higher support service costs. Reports show that some increases are already here. According to The Register, “Oracle support prices are set to rise by 8% in the U.S., and the company will also impose increases commensurate with inflation in other regions.” […]
Strengthen the Future of Your ERP
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is projected to make up roughly 15% of total IT spending in 2022 — a significant amount of money. Organizations that don’t manage their ERP systems might risk falling short of their ROI goals. The challenge with ERP systems is there is no one-size-fits-all solution that works for every organization. […]
The Future of ERP: IT Talent Management Could Be Your Achilles’ Heel
Composable ERP requires a broader set of support skills than integrated suites. It also requires experts with knowledge that spans the business and IT. Yet, CIOs face a tough truth with IT talent management. Some ERP skills are going the way of COBOL programming: fundamentally critical to operations, but increasingly scarce and losing appeal as […]
Solve ERP Headaches with Consolidation and Third-Party Support
Organizations are more likely to migrate their ERP solutions to the cloud than they are to take advantage of the cost savings and reduced complexity they can realize by consolidating multiple systems. That’s one of the key findings in a new survey conducted for Rimini Street by UK business technology publisher Computing. ERP environments often […]
Is Your Cloud Strategy Accelerating or Hindering Innovation?
The following originally appeared on Diginomica.com CIOs consider the cloud for a variety of reasons, many of which are forcing them to rethink their application strategies. You are not alone if you are feeling pressure to migrate applications and infrastructure to the cloud. But which cloud moves are the right ones? One of the most […]
The Future of ERP: Composable ERP Support Is a Horse of a Different Color
When ERP is composed of a variety of products and services, who do you call when something doesn’t work? How do you coordinate changes across the portfolio of solutions? And how do you ensure that change in one component is compatible with other components? These are just a few questions that must be thoughtfully answered […]
The Future of ERP: With Composable ERP, Interoperability and Integration Are Not Optional
In a composable world, how do you ensure that the products and services comprising the application portfolio are bolted together properly and can interoperate seamlessly? Analysis There are many facets to interoperability and integration, and any of them can derail your success with composable ERP. Interoperability embodies the ability for solution components to exchange and […]
The Future of ERP: Top Emerging Technology Trends to Watch
In 1988, General Motors built an expensive relaunch campaign around the tagline, “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.” As we contemplate the 2027 future state of ERP, does it seem as if some vendors are pinning their hopes on a similar marketing spin? Hopefully, they’ll have more success than GM, whose campaign killed the century-old […]
Open-Source Database Market Roundup
The lock that long-time proprietary vendors have had on the database management system (DBMS) market is steadily eroding, even in the face of astounding industry growth. Overall, revenue growth is extraordinary for the industry in total. “Since its brief pause in 2015, the DBMS market has reeled off six consecutive years of growth, with the […]