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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 […]

Rimini Street Survey Confirms Oracle Customers Want More Savings, Best-In-Class Cloud Options
Cloud, Cost of Maintenance, Oracle 4 min read
Rimini Street Survey Confirms Oracle Customers Want More Savings, Best-In-Class Cloud Options
Rimini Street Staff
4 min read

When Rimini Street surveyed Oracle customers recently and asked their top priorities, they put cost optimization at the top of the list. Yet a recent Gartner survey of CIOs 1 identified enabling growth as their top priority. What accounts for the difference? I encourage you to read the full survey report, Why Enterprises Are Rethinking […]

What Can Oracle And SAP Customers Be Doing Instead Of Upgrading?
Cloud, ERP, Innovation 2 min read
What Can Oracle And SAP Customers Be Doing Instead Of Upgrading?
Frank Reneke
2 min read

Are you facing a decision to upgrade your ERP? When meeting with businesses across the globe, the most common question I receive is “Is there value in upgrading my ERP application?” And my answer is this: 20 years ago, upgrades were important because new features and functionality were being introduced all the time based on […]

Moving to Third-Party Support Need Not Mean Your ERP Is “Frozen”
Business Driven Roadmap, ERP, Innovation 2 min read
Moving to Third-Party Support Need Not Mean Your ERP Is “Frozen”
Pat Phelan
Pat Phelan
VP, Market Research
2 min read

Rimini Street clients continue to grow and evolve their ERP portfolios, including modernization of their technology stacks and investment in innovations such as cloud-based applications and tools. We can help make similar evolutionary steps possible in your enterprise. Canceling vendor maintenance does not freeze your ERP solution. In fact, the opposite happens. Enterprises become more […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

4 Best Practices to Reduce the Pain of an Oracle License Audit
Audits, Cost of Maintenance, ERP 3 min read
4 Best Practices to Reduce the Pain of an Oracle License Audit
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

The words “license audit” are guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any Oracle customer today. At best, going through the audit process is a hassle. At worst, it can result in an unexpected hit to the IT budget — even if you’ve been trying in good faith to play by the vendor’s rules. […]

How to Achieve a Healthy, Balanced Relationship with Your ERP Provider
ERP, Oracle, SAP 4 min read
How to Achieve a Healthy, Balanced Relationship with Your ERP Provider
Sebastian Grady
Sebastian Grady
President, Strategic Initiatives
4 min read

Observing the enterprise software market today is like observing a major relationship crisis where one side is failing to listen to the other. It appears that suppliers are unrelentingly pushing their customers to move to the cloud. Their customers want to move to the cloud too, but not to rip and replace their perfectly functioning […]