Normalizing Your I&O RFP Proposals: Solid Hosting Metrics You Can Operationalize April 23, 2019 Greg Hall Reading Time: 6 minutes Best Practice Metrics for Tower-based I&O Services As we continue our 5-part series, we turn our attention to hosting metrics.… Read More Categories: I&O Services, IT Sourcing
Normalizing Your I&O RFP Proposal: Solid Help Desk Metrics You Can Operationalize March 29, 2019 Greg Hall Reading Time: 4 minutes Best Practice Metrics for Tower-based I&O Services When going to market to secure proposals for Infrastructure and Outsourcing (I&O) services,… Read More Categories: I&O Services, IT Sourcing
TOP 12 UpperEdge Blogs from 2018 January 2, 2019 UpperEdge Reading Time: 4 minutes Over this past year, we have written about everything from high profile IT vendor lawsuits to ERP implementation best practices.… Read More Categories: IT Sourcing
IT Outsourcing Agreements: 3 Details Many Negotiations Forget October 30, 2018 Adam Mansfield Reading Time: 3 minutes It is not hard to come across a blog or article that covers the “must haves” or “gotchas” in an… Read More Categories: Contract Negotiations, IT Sourcing
There’s an Elephant in the Room with Your Cloud Service Provider August 23, 2018 Ted Rogers Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you confident in the long-term viability of your current cloud service provider (CSP)? Though many companies have short-term needs or a current… Read More Categories: Cloud, IT Sourcing
Like Taking Candy from a Baby: Sacramento Schools Claim Workday Took Advantage of Them and File Suit August 14, 2018 John Belden Reading Time: 6 minutes Move over SAP, you are no longer alone in being sued with regards to California’s state payroll system. While the… Read More Categories: Contract Negotiations, IT Sourcing, System Integrators, Workday
Oracle’s Cloud Pillars- Helping or Hurting Sales? June 1, 2018 Jeff Lazarto Reading Time: 3 minutes If you have purchased Oracle software before, you are most likely familiar with how Oracle has set up different silos… Read More Categories: Cloud, IT Sourcing, Oracle
Will SAP Bring the Steak or Just the Sizzle to SAPPHIRE? May 17, 2018 Chip Hanna Reading Time: 4 minutes More than once in SAP’s Q1 earnings announcement, Bill McDermott said, “We want CRM.” He made it clear that surpassing… Read More Categories: IT Sourcing, Salesforce, SAP
ServiceNow FY 17 Q4 Earnings – Key Takeaways February 1, 2018 Erik Bullard Reading Time: 3 minutes ServiceNow announced the results of its 2017 fiscal year earnings last night. Although they missed their revenue guidance by ~$3M,… Read More Categories: IT Sourcing, ServiceNow
Let’s Face It — Risk Happens: Pay a Little Now, or a Lot Later December 19, 2017 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 3 minutes Congratulations! After an exhaustive (and probably exhausting) selection process, you've finally chosen the Systems Integrator (SI) who is going to… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, System Integrators