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Seemingly Harmless Inquiries Could Lead to an Aggressive Sales Cycle

Former VP Technology BloomNet at 1-800-Flowers.com Brings Deep Expertise to UpperEdge

Also Named a 2021 Winner for Boston’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® – Fourth Year in a Row

Hyperscalers, SAP and Service Providers are Assessed

Some Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Pricing Changes are Set for March 2022

Organizations Need to Ensure Salesforce’s Aggressive Determination to Grow Adds Real Value

New Commercial Offering Designed to Help Organizations Navigate RISE and Alternative Sourcing Options

SmartDeal can assess your Workday deal by comparing your pricing and key business terms to other similar-sized deals in our proprietary database

Experts Release White Paper to Help Potential Customers Prepare for Price Increases, Aggressive Sales Tactics, and Challenging Negotiations

Details how customers can develop a deep understanding of SAP’s audit practices and proactively assess their Indirect and Digital Access compliance situations

Experts point to 5 reasons SI’s risk management processes are flawed.

Recognized for commitment to excellence in human resources practices and employee enrichment.

Benchmarks the fundamentally different approaches to evaluating and selecting SAP implementation partners.

Experts detail how to effectively negotiate with Salesforce to achieve better pricing and an optimized relationship.

UpperEdge will present a live webinar entitled “Ask the Experts – Workday Licensing.” Experts uncover commercial asks to ensure you achieve results in price transparency and protections in your agreement.

UpperEdge, an independent third-party advisory company that empowers organizations to get the most value from their IT supplier relationships, announced today that it was selected and ranked by Inc. Magazine for its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest growing companies.

In response to the growing need to better understand and properly license Java use, UpperEdge created a complimentary downloadable guide based on all versions of Oracle’s publicly available Java agreements to help answer common questions.

UpperEdge’s CEO David Blake and SAP Practice Leader Len Riley will participate in the ASUG “Executive Exchange Virtual Summit: United in Leadership” along with Ron Gilson, VP and CIO at Johnsonville Sausage.  The panel, “Licensing and Support Management,” will be moderated by David Wascom, SVP of Executive Programs at ASUG.

UpperEdge, an independent third-party advisory company that empowers organizations to get the most value from their IT supplier relationships, announced today that it was selected as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the nation. Elite awards are presented to the highest winning companies that demonstrate exceptional innovative human resource practices and set high standards for all businesses.

UpperEdge, an independent third-party advisory company that empowers organizations to get the most from their IT supplier relationships, announced today that it was selected as one of Boston’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® for the second year in a row. The competition identifies and honors companies that demonstrate both an exceptional environment, and an impressive commitment to their employees. Companies are evaluated based on categories such as communication, work-life balance, employee education, diversity, recognition, and retention.

Assessing and understanding the various S/4 migration options, pros/cons, benefits, risks, costs, and timing requires a lot of diligence, given the breadth of current SAP customer landscapes.  Given the degree of diligence required to effectively make the transition to S/4 and the complexity of the associated license conversion, UpperEdge has established a team of SAP S/4 migration advisory subject matter experts solely dedicated to advising and preparing SAP customers on how best to tackle the journey to S/4.

Major IT project disasters continue to be the bane of software providers and software implementors alike. No platform or integrator is immune from the potential of a major disaster, according to UpperEdge. New software platforms, methodologies, and automation of IT practices have done little to stem the tide of catastrophic failures. But since most customers, vendors and implementors do not publicly share their mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them.

The chemicals industry is drastically evolving through a collision of forces.  Business models have accelerated with shifting the focus to the customer, massive consolidations and M&A changing the leaderboard, digitization revamping antiquated business processes, and cybersecurity threats forcing companies to develop contingency plans for the unexpected.

UpperEdge, an independent third-party advisory company that empowers organizations to get the most from their IT supplier relationships, announced today that it was selected as one of Boston’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®. 

Studies have shown that nearly one-third of Agile projects fail, but the risk of failure for organizations attempting to scale Agile for ERP implementation projects is even higher.

UpperEdge CEO to Moderate Panel on Structuring Winning AI Deals at AI World Conference

SAP Indirect Access and Oracle non-compliance fees continue to rise as vendors attempt to lock-in customers, says UpperEdge.

With over 65,000 large enterprises relying on SAP to run their businesses in a highly interconnected manner, customers need to have rock solid handles on their SAP relationships.

Oracle customers concerned about potentially being selected for an audit often share the same feelings, fear and anxiety of the unknown. These audit claims have become a costly issue due to the complexity of Oracle’s licensing policies.