Stop Upgrading, Start Innovating: The Case for Outsourcing ERP Operations
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are a crucial component of business operations — used to close the books, ship orders, pay employees, enforce compliance and much more. Yet for many CIOs, CTOs and boards, ERP has become both indispensable and unsustainable. Rising licensing fees, infrastructure overhead and internal support costs are only the beginning. Multi-year […]
What Is a Composable ERP Strategy and How Does It Benefit Organizations?
This blog was originally published in October 2022 and was updated in December 2025 The days of the monolithic ERP software are numbered. Organizations are tired of confining their business practices to those purely defined by ERP vendors such as SAP and Oracle. Instead, leaders are seeking an outcomes-based composable ERP strategy, selecting an optimized […]
Why CIOs Are Rethinking Oracle EBS Upgrades and Choosing a Smarter Path to Innovation
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is the steady pulse of enterprise operations. For CIOs, it anchors financial precision, supply chain flow and HR reliability. The 2025 CIO Oracle EBS Market Puls confirms its strength: 83% of respondents affirm EBS as important to their business, with nearly all reporting consistent value. In short, it delivers quietly and […]
The Traditional Application Management Services Outsourcing Model Fails to Deliver – It’s Time for an Overhaul.
On paper, the traditional Application Management Services (AMS) outsourcing model sounds simple: offload incidents, service requests, routine tasks, and IT backlogs to an outsourced vendor to free up internal IT staff. But the reality? It’s a tangled web of rising ticket volumes, ballooning costs and diminishing returns. Instead of driving transformation, the internal IT team […]
IT Experts in Action: Stopping Oracle Database Chaos on Black Friday
Retailers are heavily dependent on the holiday season to meet their yearly targets, and Black Friday is the crown jewel of that period. In 2024, consumers spent a record $241 billion online between November 1 and December 31. Cyber Week alone, those critical five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, pulled in a staggering $41B […]
How Oracle E-Business Suite Clients Can Stay Ahead of Evolving Cl0p Ransomware Threats
A wave of sophisticated cyberattacks is targeting organizations running Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). The Cl0p ransomware group, known for high-impact extortion campaigns, has exploited existing and newly discovered vulnerabilities to steal sensitive data from dozens of organizations — including The Washington Post, Harvard University, Envoy Air and major industrial firms like Schneider Electric and Emerson. […]
The Rise of Agentic AI ERP
Over nearly six decades, the ERP software suite became the digital backbone for business operations across the globe, but it has reached its peak. The rise of Agentic AI is creating a new, game changing ERP technology paradigm that enables huge competitive advantage for organizations that take advantage, a future where autonomous AI agents orchestrate […]
Flexible, High-Value Support Now Available on the Rimini E-Commerce Store
Every organization deserves access to comprehensive, cost-effective support that can help keep business operations running smoothly and securely. Rimini Street, the global leader of third-party support for Oracle, SAP, VMware and hundreds of additional products, is proud to announce the launch of the Rimini Store — a new e-commerce destination offering unmatched enterprise support with […]
Stop Overpaying: Smart ERP Cost Optimization Strategies for CIOs
Enterprise software costs are rising, yet CIOs are still expected to deliver high performance, uptime and agility with no additional resources. Adding to mounting economic pressures and digital transformation demands, software vendors are aggressively pushing for costly upgrades and cloud migrations. These replatforming projects not only disrupt operations but also drain budgets and monopolize resources, […]