What Is Third-Party Support?

Third-party support is software support for applications and databases that replaces vendor support packaged with a software purchase. Third-party support is typically more comprehensive, personalized, and responsive at half the cost of vendor annual support fees.

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Why Organizations Choose Third-Party Support

Traditional vendor support may be holding you back. Unresponsive support, lack of agility, and technical debt can hinder progress. In contrast, third-party support typically saves time, money, and resources so you can move faster on business priorities. Third-party support can help by:  

  • delivering savings of up to 90% in total software support costs — so you can self-fund innovation 
  • avoiding the need for software upgrades and extending the life of your high-functioning enterprise software platforms for a minimum of 15 years 
  • relieving your IT team of self-support, freeing up scarce resources for critical business priorities 
  • enabling a Business-Driven IT Roadmap aligned with your strategy so you don’t have to follow the vendor’s roadmap 

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What Does Third-Party Support Include?

Third-party support is comprehensive Level 4 support that covers troubleshooting, configuration issues, break/fix support, integration, interoperability, performance, and other expert-level guidance for your enterprise software applications.  

In addition to basic L4 support, Rimini Street clients gain features that vendors and other third-party providers typically don’t offer in standard support models. Added service features include:  

  • Dedicated Primary Support Engineers 
  • Guaranteed response and communication SLAs 
  • Support for custom code
  • Tax, legal, and regulatory updates

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The Rimini Street Advantage: Unified Software Support

Rimini Street provides above-and-beyond, premium support. We deliver synergistic, unified software support and services including:

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Third-Party Support Use Cases 

No matter what your IT roadmap, software release, or deployment status, third-party support can deliver significant benefits.  

  • Improve support:
    Need faster resolution and personal service
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  • Access expertise:
    Overcome skills gaps and scale expertise
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  • Drive innovation:
    Enable emerging technology and composable ERP models.
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Rimini Street Third-Party Support Clients 

Rimini Street supports licensees of Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, and Salesforce® software. Global Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector, and other organizations from a broad range of industries rely on Rimini Street as their trusted enterprise software products and services provider. 

With Rimini Street, the scope of support covers our customizations and add-ons. We have experienced faster time to solution and no hesitation resolving issues with our customized environment.”

– Jae-Hoon Jung Information Strategy Team Leader

We need nothing less than extraordinary support, and with the extraordinary support we get from Rimini Street, we can continue providing extraordinary support for our customers.”

– Raj Velpuru Vice President, Application

Rimini Street has always been very understanding and takes the time to check the facts, solve problems, and help us reach our goals. Therefore, we are grateful to have Rimini Street's support.”

– Shinya Hidaka Group Manager of the Information Systems Group, Business Administration Division

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