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Third-Party Software Support for SAP: Hidden Savings
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Third-Party Software Support for SAP: Hidden Savings
Rimini Street Staff
2 min read

The oft-quoted Michael Porter has stated that the essence of strategy is knowing ‘what not to do!’ ─  it is as important as knowing what to do. How does this apply to maintenance for SAP and IT roadmap strategy? In a November 2019  survey conducted by Rimini Street, 79% of licensees said that they have […]

Overwhelmed by Opportunity, Salesforce Customers Need Assistance
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Overwhelmed by Opportunity, Salesforce Customers Need Assistance
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

Salesforce customers are drowning in opportunity – a good problem to have. In most cases, the challenge they have with Salesforce is not that it is rigid or limited, like the enterprise software of the past, but that it is so flexible and ever-evolving that they worry they aren’t extracting all the value from it […]

The SAP S/4HANA Skills Crunch – How Bad Could It Get?
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The SAP S/4HANA Skills Crunch – How Bad Could It Get?
Rimini Street Staff
5 min read

Our colleagues in Japan recently forwarded a series of SAP user group newsletter articles where the title of the series translates roughly into, “The Depression of SAP Users.” Why are they depressed? Likely, because they are being told they must hurry up and implement SAP S/4HANA before the deadline, when SAP says it plans to […]

Oracle’s Cloud Programs: Beware a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
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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 […]

Why SAP Will Likely Extend ECC6 Maintenance Beyond 2025
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Why SAP Will Likely Extend ECC6 Maintenance Beyond 2025
Rimini Street Staff
3 min read

*On February 4, 2020, SAP had announced mainstream support for SAP Business Suite 7 until 2027 We’ve seen it happen before and we will probably see it happen again. Within the next two years, it is increasingly likely that SAP will extend the maintenance window for ECC 6/Business Suite beyond 2025*. In 2014, SAP announced […]

Video: SAP Expert Vinnie Mirchandani Sees No Rush to S/4HANA
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Video: SAP Expert Vinnie Mirchandani Sees No Rush to S/4HANA
David Rowe
David Rowe
Chief Product Officer & EVP, Global Transformation
4 min read

SAP is in a hurry to get customers to move to its next generation S/4HANA platform. Yet most SAP customers are in no hurry to move — nor should they be, according to SAP watcher Vinnie Mirchandani. You can hear from Vinnie directly by watching the video clips embedded in this post (or watch them […]

How Innovative SAP Customers Tackle Performance and Interoperability Issues
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How Innovative SAP Customers Tackle Performance and Interoperability Issues
Rimini Street Staff
2 min read

Many SAP customers want to continue to run their core system of record for the foreseeable future. But performance and interoperability challenges are growing as technology environments change amidst rapid transitions to diverse hybrid IT environments. These rapid changes can have a significant performance impact on SAP systems including new software and servers, upgrades to […]