Support for SAP S/4HANA

Drive Innovation for SAP with Expert Support

Now you can drive innovation for SAP by optimizing your current roadmap strategy. Find out how, in an informative thought leadership panel on SAP support services, featuring Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang, T-Mobile’s Senior Director of Product and Technology Erik LaValle, and Rimini Street SAP Support Services Leader Jennifer Perry. If you’re like most companies, your budgets are already stretched to the limit. Meanwhile, CIOs and IT leaders are under unrelenting pressure to drive innovation for SAP and manage the high cost of SAP support services. Not surprisingly, SAP seemingly wants you to follow its roadmap, timeline, and SAP strategy regardless of the impact on your company’s innovation. In this engaging panel discussion, you’ll hear Ray’s views on the state of SAP support services today and the growing challenges facing IT leaders. Plus, Eric will discuss T-Mobile’s practical approach to achieving critical innovations, flexible solutions, and superior customer experiences by leveraging Rimini Street support services for SAP.

Four Critical Factors to Consider When Making the SAP S/4HANA Decision for Your Business

SAP customers are being forced to make difficult SAP application strategy decisions. SAP customers are feeling the pressure to adopt, or at least license S/4HANA now due to the planned end-of-support date for ECC 6* and potential license audit threats. But many SAP customers plan to run their stable and proven SAP ERP releases until S/4HANA matures and the ROI emerges. Based on your roadmap, you can run your current SAP ECC release for a minimum of 15+ years, while you direct funds towards other strategic initiatives, including the eventual re-implementation onto S/4HANA in the future. You could also move to alternate SaaS solutions. This eBook provides four critical factors to help decide what makes most sense for your organization. *On February 4, 2020, SAP had announced mainstream support for SAP Business Suite 7 until 2027.

How Organizations Can Minimize Risk by Reviewing Their SAP S/4HANA Migration Strategy

According to the global IDG survey of SAP licensees, nine out of 10 respondents reported being happy with their current releases.1 Yet, they’re facing SAP S/4HANA migration pressure combined with the pressure to innovate, recovery from a global pandemic, and tightening budgets. Given these challenges, IT leaders need to make strategic choices that drive competitiveness and value. If you’re debating a migration to S/4HANA or maintaining your current release, the white paper, “How Organizations Can Minimize Risk by Reviewing Their SAP S/4HANA Migration Strategy,” can help you sort through the decision. From evaluating risk through post-migration planning, this white paper covers the major considerations of making the move or staying put in four steps: Evaluating your current environment and whether making the move is financially and strategically sound Designing your ideal environment around SAP or choosing SaaS-based options to augment your existing release Preparing for an SAP S/4HANA migration and ensuring your environment is ready to take advantage of new capabilities Customizing the new environment to your business needs amid the post-migration budget challenges Download a complimentary copy of the full white paper to guide your SAP S/4HANA migration strategy. 1 IDG Communications, Inc., “Navigating the Future of SAP: How IT leaders are accelerating innovation while maximizing ERP investments,” 2021

Building a Business Case: 3 Responses to SAP’s S/4HANA Migration Push

SAP’s planned deadline looms. Are you prepared? In a few short years, SAP will end mainstream maintenance support for its Business Suite 7 core application releases, likely hoping that licensees will make the SAP S/4HANA migration. What will current licensees do? They can: stay with their current SAP installation and pay for diminishing support rip out their mature, customized SAP installation in favor of a still immature S/4HANA and its SAP HANA database forge a business-first strategic path via hybrid IT This eBook outlines six key criteria to consider as you build the business case for the SAP path you choose from the options above. And if you are considering the SAP S/4HANA migration, be sure to ask yourself: “Who benefits most from this move, my business or SAP?” Read the eBook to start building your business case today.

How UK Public Sector Organisations are Delivering Quality Essential Services and Innovation While Reducing ERP Support Costs

In this Rimini Street webinar, public sector IT leaders share how they’re making significant savings, taking control of their IT roadmaps and planning for the future

A Prudent Approach for SAP Leaders to Conserve Cash

Even within normal circumstances, IT faces constant pressure to maintain performance, deliver new projects and drive innovation within a limited budget. However, in today’s times of economic downturn with a long and hard recovery being predicted, conserving cash takes on a criticality like never before. Mandatory IT budget cuts are and soon will be prevalent across the board. IT leaders must follow a structured approach to identify, evaluate and deliver cost-saving measures that still can deliver performance and needed innovation. In this webinar, Deepa Salem, Senior Product Marketing Director from Rimini Street, discuss some key insights from Gartner on how CIOs should respond to the mandatory IT budget cuts and how they can conserve cash while maintaining performance. This includes ideas on how to prioritize and roadmap major IT projects, as well as control IT operating expenses such as support and maintenance costs. We also hear from Eric Robinson, General Manager of SAP Services at Rimini Street and former CIO of Color Spot Nurseries, on his lessons learnt on responding to mandatory IT budget cuts.

Evaluating Third-Party Support for SAP – What You Need to Know

Saving at least 50% on SAP support costs to leverage the investment made in implementing an existing SAP system is an attractive proposition for most IT leaders, especially in today’s economic stress. Third-party support provides this option. In fact, Gartner calls “third-party support a safe haven.” 1 However, many IT leaders have several questions: Is third-party support right for their SAP landscape? Will it support their specific SAP environment and business needs? Will it deliver reliable and consistent support? How will moving to Rimini Street support impact their SAP roadmap – for e.g., expanding or deepening SAP footprint? How will they manage our SAP landscape with or without Solution Manager? What are the benefits of using Rimini Street support for SAP Products? Please listen to Hari Candadai, GVP, Global Thought Leadership and Strategy, Rimini Street, and Eric Robinson, General Manager of SAP Services, Rimini Street as they discuss the above questions using their deep experience with over 500 SAP clients. Gartner, Predicts 2020: Negotiate Software and Cloud Contracts to Manage Marketplace Growth and Reduce Legacy Costs, 18 December 2019

CIO Experiences Episode 7: To S/4 or not to S/4 ─ Gaining Flexibility with Third-Party Support