Software Vendors are Salivating over the Cloud
If you have not been following the software market as closely as UpperEdge, you may have missed the sudden shift in messaging from traditional on-premise...
Read MoreThird Party Maintenance and Support – Are You Right for It?
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...
Read MoreTimeline Series – Oracle vs. Rimini Street
SAP Support Fee Increases Are Coming in 2017
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...
Read MoreA Cautionary Tale to Commitments
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...
Read MoreERP Go-Lives and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”
Whenever I prep for a major go-live I have one song that I play to get myself ready – “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. It is...
Read MoreERP Deployment Transitions Are Crucial - 3 Things I've Learned
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...
Read MoreERP Program Oversight Review – What should you expect from a trusted advisor?
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...
Read MoreTimeline Series - Oracle vs. SAP/TomorrowNow
Oracle’s Attack on 3rd Party Support - A Series of Timelines
As we have covered previously, Oracle began its aggressive pursuits against third party support providers by suing its major competitor: SAP (through its ownership of TomorrowNow). It...
Read More