The Top 10 Ways to Improve Vendor Relations December 5, 2017 Len Riley Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever completed a major negotiation and wondered why it was so difficult? Your instinct may be to direct… Read More Categories: Contract Negotiations, ERP Program Management
Can a Program Status Report be Too Sexy? November 20, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever noticed how much time your consultant invests in producing a status report for your program? Filled with the appropriate… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators
‘Tis the Season for Maintenance Renewals November 7, 2017 Greg Hall Reading Time: 2 minutes 5 Key Strategies to Drive Reductions in OPEX Over 80% of all maintenance renewals are based on the calendar year. … Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Contract Negotiations, ERP Program Management
SAP Prescribes a Good Night’s Sleep: Q3 2017 Earnings Analysis October 25, 2017 Chip Hanna Reading Time: 3 minutes Based on SAP’s Q3 2017 earnings announcement on October 19th, its CEO Bill McDermott purports to be resting easy. But… Read More Categories: Cloud, Contract Negotiations, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, SAP
Cleveland Rocks: Your ERP Implementation Needs a Winning Team October 11, 2017 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 3 minutes As a life-long Cleveland sports fan, I've come to appreciate first-hand the difficulty of assembling a winning team, let alone… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators
Defeating the SAP Project Optimism Death Star September 13, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 3 minutes We have all seen the stories of SAP projects that spin hopelessly out of control. The tales of these failed… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, HCL, IBM, SAP
Does Your ERP Provider Run Your Business? August 30, 2017 Jeff Lazarto Reading Time: 4 minutes Sounds like a simple question, but the answer may be more complex than you think. SAP had a tagline that… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
Top 10 Excuses to Not Implement Best Practices and 5 Things to do About it August 22, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past 30 years, a great deal of research has been conducted on IT-enabled business transformations. As a result… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, Oracle, SAP
Software Audits Continue to Rise: Understand the Software Vendor’s Audit Playbook August 15, 2017 Len Riley Reading Time: 4 minutes Software vendors have developed an array of strategies and tactics to extract revenue from customers beyond an initial transaction. These… Read More Categories: Cloud, Deloitte, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, Oracle, SAP
Existing Service Providers – What’s Your Cost of Incumbency? August 2, 2017 Greg Hall Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s inevitable. Every year new targets are set to reduce OPEX (OPerational EXpenses). Whether you’re the one responsible for setting… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators