ERP Strategy Lessons from Sweden’s 2022 CIO of the Year
Ingo Paas is the CIO of Green Cargo, a sustainable logistics partner serving 270 locations across Scandinavia, transporting some 22 million tons of freight annually. Recently, my colleague Luiz Mariotto and I had the privilege of hosting Ingo and a roundtable of IT leaders. Afterward, Ingo shared a deeper dive on his bold strategies that […]
Rethinking the SAP ECC to S/4HANA Migration Mandate
Contrary to what SAP may want you to think, S/4HANA migration isn’t mandatory for your enterprise. In fact, independent support can extend your current ERP investment beyond SAP’s projected end of mainstream maintenance for ECC in 2027. I sat down with three of our SAP ERP experts to discuss the options businesses have. Let’s dive […]
How Salesforce Data Harmonization and AI Impact Your Enterprise
November 2022 may ultimately be bookmarked as the beginning of the next era of IT. That is when OpenAI announced open access to its ChatGPT, a natural language model that promises to revolutionize customer relationship management (CRM), software coding, and productivity across many industries. “We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational […]
Answer 10 Tough Questions to Justify IT Modernization
IT system modernization can be achieved in different ways. Operational excellence in core and operational IT systems is a key part of most system modernization efforts. It contributes to profitability and makes the systems better able to accommodate change. Many currently deployed enterprise-level IT systems provide a strong foundation for change. For these systems, modernization […]
AI Risks & Rewards: 2023 Global Privacy Summit Key Takeaways
Earlier this year while attending the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit I had a strange feeling of being suspended at an inflection point in history. Perhaps it’s because I’m a new father and my daughter is almost exactly as old as ChatGPT’s open beta, but I really think we have entered […]
Are You Digitally Ready for AI-Enhanced ERP?
Many businesses are eyeing the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to transform ERP. Your ability to reap the rewards of that potential may depend on how far along you are with digital transformation. A recent IDC report sponsored by Rimini Street, AI and ERP: Intelligently Automating the Enterprise and Creating Differentiating […]
How to Evolve IT Systems into Innovation Engines
When vendor-driven and customer-driven technology roadmaps are in close alignment, the results can be almost magical. Unfortunately, for most organizations that’s rarely the reality as they’re often left struggling to achieve innovation that their vendors are supposed to enable. IT leaders are all too familiar with this cycle: Up-and-coming vendors mature or get acquired and […]
New Survey: Why CIOs and CTOs Want a New Model for IT Support and Services
In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. The results spoke for themselves. Respondents voiced broad dissatisfaction with their support services and models, including issues with support […]
How IT Can Sustain Business Growth and Profitability Amid Economic Uncertainty
During most of 2023, business outlook has seemingly ping-ponged between fears of an economic recession and hopes that an almost mythical soft landing—a term some economists use to describe a mild recession with a slight increase in the unemployment rate—will tame inflation without causing negative growth that generally results in high rates of layoffs and […]