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Considering that Indirect Access has been such a hot topic with SAP customers, we have decided to explore the topic and its implications a bit...

Oracle’s Q1 2014 earnings fell short of expectations with only a nominal increase to total revenue. Oracle has now experienced 6 straight quarters of nominal...

Anyone that has interacted with Microsoft would not be surprised to hear someone complain that Microsoft is one of the most difficult vendors to negotiate...

SAP has recently announced incentives for customers to migrate or reallocate elements of their on-premise solutions to the cloud.  Incentives include the ability to partially...

In light of SAP’s Q2 FY2013 performance, UpperEdge has seen a rise in SAP Indirect Access non-compliance claims. Claims of unlicensed activities associated with Indirect...

On June 27, 2013 the US based consulting firms Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM’s profit forecasts were nudged, while the forecasts for off-shore firms like Infosys...

Question: What do the following all have in common? Earthquakes and tornadoes wipe out large parts of the civilization. Evil doers penetrate our civil defenses....

Shortly after 2 P.M EST on August 14, 2003, a high-voltage power line in northern Ohio brushed against some overgrown trees and shut down. In...

When you think you have it all figured out and everything under control -think again.   Your evaluation of the situation has likely been developed without...

Senior executive engagement is always listed as high on the critical success factors of any ERP implementation project.   Often times, how this engagement should manifest...

If you are one of Adobe’s highly valuable enterprise customers, it is my expectation that your Adobe Account Executive has started to push a migration...

  In “Don’t Become an ERP Horror Story – Implement Solid Risk Management”, we contend that project risk management is the silver bullet in the...

If you haven’t been closely following the software market, you may have missed the sudden shift in messaging from traditional on-premise software vendors like SAP...

We’ve received a lot of calls from organizations concerned that the cost/value ratios of their existing maintenance/support contracts are skewed. This is not in the...

We predict that SAP will begin annual support fee increases by 2017. This prediction is not something SAP has announced nor is it based on...

Many years ago when I was a young Consiglieri in training, I decided on law school as my path to career advancement. As I had...

ERP deployments are rarely implemented in a “big bang” fashion because the risk of putting the entire corporation in jeopardy at once is simply too...

ERP enabled transformations are incredibly difficult. During these crazy projects, senior executives are bombarded with software salesmen pitching software, system integrators marketing a whole suite...