5 Decisions To Consider Before Moving To SAP S/4HANA
Over the next few years, SAP customers will face difficult roadmap decisions, including a potentially costly “rip-and-replace” implementation of S/4HANA. With a published ECC 6 end-of-mainstream-support deadline*, SAP is investing more in their future applications which means customers may get minimal value for their current software maintenance fees. In this 30-minute webinar, learn about the five decisions that you need to consider before a move to SAP S/4HANA as well as what other SAP customers are doing today. Join Michael Louie, Director of Product Marketing for this informative session. Download this webinar today! *On Feb. 4, 2020, SAP had announced mainstream support for SAP Business Suite 7 until 2027.
5 ways to come out ahead on a software audit
Software audits are increasingly being used to gain leverage by ERP mega-vendors frequently to keep you on a vendor-dictated roadmap. And most find the question is not “if” you will be audited, but “when?” While most IT and Asset Management teams understand the motivation for an audit, many don’t realize audits can be leveraged to flip the narrative with their vendors. In this webinar Jeremy Sayler, Director of License Advisory Services at Rimini Street provides a checklist of the ways you can be better prepared for an audit, and more importantly, how you can gain control of your IT roadmap and vendor relationships every step of the way. Hosted by Dan Ashton, Senior Product Marketing Director at Rimini Street, this discussion will be eye-opening, particularly to Oracle and SAP licensees who are facing support renewals in the next 6-18 months.
The Oracle EBS 12.1 Support Countdown Has Begun
Every Oracle EBS licensee running the 12.1 release will lose full support from Oracle by December 2021, potentially putting their businesses at risk if they do not take action. This is forcing a choice: remain with the 12.1 release when Oracle 12.1 support moves to Sustaining Support; complete an EBS upgrade from 12.1 to 12.2, potentially costing several million dollars; purchase temporary and less-comprehensive 12.1 support extensions; or move to the cloud. Although EBS 12.2 was released several years ago, it is still not widely adopted, leaving licensees to wonder how much new value is being delivered by Oracle for existing EBS software. And for many IT organizations, there are much more urgent priorities these days than having to make an EBS decision of this magnitude and expense. In this 30-minute on-demand webinar, Rimini Street discusses critical factors that Oracle EBS licensees should consider before: committing to an EBS upgrade from 12.1 to 12.2, spending even more for less Oracle 12.1 support, or moving to Oracle Cloud. Third-party support is also discussed as a solution to free up scarce IT resources and take back control of the EBS roadmap.
5 vendor lock-in obstacles and strategies to avoid
Whether you run SAP or Oracle applications, you may have come to the same conclusion that thousands of other IT teams have: software vendor policies and support models which we refer to as “vendor-dictated roadmaps” are primarily designed to benefit the software vendors … NOT their customers. A big challenge that can stop IT innovation dead in its tracks is vendor lock-in. In this 30-minute webinar, Jason Kotsaftis, Senior Product Marketing Director and Jeremy Sayler, Director of License Advisory Services, share five ways to help you break free from vendor lock-in! You will learn how other IT teams have taken back control of their Oracle and SAP relationships in order to regain flexibility and invest in their IT roadmap.
5 Questions to Ask Oracle at RECONNECT and INFOCUS
Companies have invested in PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software for years, which includes paying Oracle maintenance support in exchange for upgrades that contained new features and innovation. Now that Oracle has announced that their future is the Oracle Cloud, what is the path forward for those existing platforms? Whether or not you are going to the PeopleSoft RECONNECT or JD Edwards INFOCUS conferences this year, you may have questions or concerns about your applications, Oracle’s Continuous Innovation release model, or how best to implement IaaS or PaaS. During this 30-minute recorded session, Jason Kotsaftis, Sr. Director, Product Marketing and Ray Grisby, VP of Global JD Edwards Service Delivery share five questions to ask Oracle and RECONNECT and INFOCUS.
How SAP customers are designing digital roadmaps to get to 2025 and beyond
Many SAP customers are feeling pressure from SAP to license and migrate to the SAP S/4HANA platform due to the planned end-of-support date of 2027 for Business Suite 7 core application releases. This looming deadline has created a decision point for CIOs as they determine their SAP roadmap and strategy for the next decade and beyond. SAP customers must make a choice now: either stay on an SAP-dictated roadmap which benefits SAP or choose a Business-Driven Roadmap which benefits their organization. Rimini Street recently conducted a survey of SAP customers to gather data and insights on the impact of the 2027 deadline on their SAP strategy and how they plan to re-align their roadmap to meet their unique business needs. In this 30-minute webinar, former Gartner analyst, Pat Phelan covers the three main trends that emerged from the data: The top 2019 priorities of licensees and how those align with the current health of their relationships with SAP Whether they have moved or plan to migrate from their core SAP applications to S/4HANA and the reasons behind their decisions Details on their overall satisfaction with SAP maintenance, support, and new features, as well as their plans with respect to future investment with SAP Hosted by Michael Louie, Director of Product Marketing for Rimini Street, this interactive session will be illuminating to any organization that wants to take control of their ERP strategy and eliminate the planned 2027 end-of-support roadblock. Watch this on-demand webinar now.
Get More Out of Your JD Edwards Maintenance Investment
When Oracle announced a “cloud first” approach to new applications development, they left many JD Edwards customers questioning the future of their JDE applications and their customizations. Tune into this recurring webinar to get the latest news and best practices as you make decisions about your roadmap.This webinar will be important if your organization is: On JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and upgrading just to maintain support – or – no longer upgrading and therefore questioning the value for their ongoing maintenance dollar investments On JD Edwards World and feeling forced pressure to migrate to EnterpriseOne Any JDE customer evaluating a lock-in with Oracle Cloud as a rip-and-replace strategy Any JDE customer running the IBM Technology Foundation (a.k.a. Blue Stack) and deciding your next move. Jason Kotsaftis, Sr. Director, Product Marketing and Ray Grigsby, VP of Global JDE Service Delivery at Rimini Street provide real-world examples of how customers are deciding their next move and answer questions in this 30-minute session.Watch this webinar and get the answers you need to start innovating today!
Get More Out of Your PeopleSoft Maintenance Investment
Through the years, your organization has spent millions of dollars to run PeopleSoft …so it must have been a shock when Oracle explained they were going to invest their dollars in a cloud-first R&D strategy that will force you to make some tough decisions about your existing PeopleSoft environment. Get answers and get real-world examples of how organizations just like yours are deciding their next moves in these 30-minute, interactive sessions. Jason Kotsaftis, Sr. Director, Product Marketing and Subramanian Sundar, PeopleSoft Functional Expert discuss options are available for PeopleSoft 9.1 or earlier, what’s being delivered with 9.2 updates, and how to avoid a rip-and-replace of PeopleSoft as you move to the cloud. Watch this webinar and get the answers you need to start innovating today!
The future of Oracle’s ERP platform: Rimini Street Insights
Many organizations may be in the midst of evaluating the lifespan of their back-office applications, particularly as vendors like Oracle shift more of their innovation and R&D investments away from the core ERP software you have spent years customizing and building your business around. Oracle Cloud may seem like the right option to take your organization to the next level – but if you take a closer look at what Oracle is offering, several questions emerge. During this 30-minute session with Rimini Street, we address some of these common questions, including: Cloud credits and other promotion offers – what are you really getting? The SOAR program…or is it the SORE program? Are you giving up control of your future IT roadmap to follow theirs? Jason Kotsaftis, Rimini Street’s Director of Product Marketing for Oracle products, walks through key factors customers should consider before making a decision about the Oracle Cloud, and their overall ERP roadmap for 2025 and beyond.