Existing ERP infrastructures remain highly valuable for many organizations across the globe. Despite vendor pressure to discard these investments for full system overhauls, most core systems continue to support mission-critical processes and are deeply embedded in how businesses create value day-to-day. As one of the three foundational steps on the Rimini Smart Path™, Rimini Optimize™ is designed to help organizations find further value in what already works well, delivering turnkey ERP optimization services to run, secure and continuously improve existing enterprise software portfolios – helping organizations unlock greater value from their core ERP investments.
By focusing on uncovering value, reducing complexity and enabling agentic AI and automation, Rimini Optimize™ provides a measurable benefit for business leaders who aim to regain control of their future-readiness without disruption and within the existing budget.
Extract the full value from your investments
Most organizations are running enterprise systems that perform exactly as intended – they support daily operations, manage critical processes and remain central to how the business functions. However, ERP software is hitting its limitations as a product, and expecting strategic thinking and action from an inanimate system of record is creating frustrations across the business landscape.
The current ERP business model requires a significant number of resources to be dedicated to maintenance, siphoning off nearly 90% of IT budgets which could be invested in meaningful innovation. It equates to tasks, integrations and troubleshooting instead of higher-value improvements.
Rimini Optimize™ lifts these burdens by enhancing the performance, flexibility and longevity of your current systems. This allows organizations to run and secure their core investments while positioning their environment for future-readiness.
How Rimini Optimize™ works:
Rimini Optimize™ applies proven consultative methodology to identify the root operational, technical and strategic issues across enterprise systems. From there, improvements target the areas that matter most: simplify system complexity, reduce manual effort, strengthen performance, address technical debt and enhance security to protect critical operations.
The strength of this approach lies in the services that underpin it. Through Rimini Consult™, Rimini Manage™, Rimini Protect™, Rimini Connect™ and Rimini Watch™, organizations can approach their system management and improvement with ease, partnering with a single partner trusted by thousands of IT and finance leaders across every major industry, ranging from Fortune 500 to public sector.
Benefits:
Free skilled IT resources with Rimini Manage™, removing the costly burden of ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting or vendor compliance as take over operations if added on.
Improve performance and stability with Rimini Consult™, identifying and eliminating brittle integrations and outdated interfaces.
Reduce technical debt and inefficient workflows by conducting assessments to identify bottlenecks, redundant processes and performance issues.
Strengthen security with Rimini Protect™. Close vulnerabilities and deploy custom security solutions without reliance on vendor patch cycles.
Improve interoperability across the business with Rimini Connect™. Build stable connection layers, update APIs and middleware without vendor reliance.
Increase visibility and control over system performance with Rimini Watch™. Monitor performance and logs, and use analytics and telemetry to flag anomalies and recommend optimization actions.
Build ROI and free up funds for top and bottom line growth. By removing upgrade spend and reducing operational spend, operations can redirect funds and resources to improve the business with emerging technology such as Agentic AI.
What real-world optimization looks like
A powerful example of what strategic optimization looks like in practice come from Idemitsu, one of Japan’s largest energy producers. Idemitsu operates in a highly regulated, asset-intensive environment where stability and precision must be balanced with innovation and growth. Its SAP ECC 6.0 system is central to day-to-day operations, but the limitation of the system, in particular, the integration of applications and processes, created challenges that slowed down productivity. Instead of overhauling the system, Idemitsu took a pragmatic path to address the issue, partnering with Rimini Street to build the exact solution they needed.
Through a combination of Rimini Consult™, Rimini Manage™ and Rimini Connect™ services, Idemitsu was able to reduce manual interventions, streamline data flows and strengthen the performance and interoperability of its SAP landscape. This work laid the groundwork for a composable ERP strategy, enabling Idemitsu to selectively modernize individual components of its architecture while keeping its proven SAP core stable and efficient for years to come. The work with Rimini Street helped Idemitsu remove bottlenecks, leading to enhanced visibility into performance while maintaining total ownership of future roadmaps.
Idemitsu gained an environment that supported far greater agility and innovation in the years to come, and they can now integrate modern tools, pursue digital initiatives and explore next-generation Agentic AI capabilities without budget concerns or vendor pressure.
Their journey is one of many examples of organizations extending and maximizing the life of their core systems for another decade or more – simply by optimizing what they already have with Rimini Street.
Optimize today, Innovate today
When organizations step back from vendor expectations and costs and look at their enterprise systems as strategic investments, a smarter path emerges. The real opportunity lies in optimizing mission-critical core platforms by strengthening, simplifying and building upon a landscape that will remain stable for years to come – and is capable of supporting innovation goals now, not years from now.
Transform functioning systems into future-ready ones, turning complexity into clarity to help organizations find the value in what they already trust. Once core infrastructures are optimized, this further enhances the capabilities of another step on the Rimini Smart Path™ : Rimini Innovate™.
Innovation does not require disrupting what already works. Rimini Innovate™, in tandem with Rimini Optimize™ , works best with a stable, optimized core to help organizations extend capabilities, integrate new technologies and begin planning for the next era of Agentic AI ERP.
By modernizing around the optimized core, organizations can move faster, reduce risk and adopt the latest innovations at a pace aligned to business priorities, not vendor timelines.
Optimize with purpose
Optimization is about creating stability and regaining control in systems that businesses rely on every day. Rimini Optimize™ is designed to help organizations run, secure and continuously improve the value of their existing enterprise software portfolios while reducing complexity and building agility for the future.
Key takeaways
As an integral step on the Rimini Smart Path™, Rimini Optimize™ enables organizations to simplify, streamline and save more in order to free up resources for future innovations – on your own timeline. It is a practical, strategic approach to capitalizing on what you already trust while preparing for the next generation of business software, Agentic AI ERP. Learn more about Rimini Optimize and how it supports your Smart Path toward Agentic AI.
