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It is never too early to start preparing for Oracle’s year-end sales push with their fast approaching 2018 fiscal year end at the end of...

Before we dive into 2018, we want to reflect on this past year, so we compiled a list of our 10 most read blogs of...

As a life-long Cleveland sports fan, I’ve come to appreciate first-hand the difficulty of assembling a winning team, let alone a championship caliber team.  The...

Oracle is ramping up to put a full court press on its installed base to migrate their perpetual license on-premise solutions to Oracle’s subscription Cloud...

Does your team know exactly how many license entitlements you have purchased from Oracle?  Can you provide a log identifying precisely how many Oracle licenses...

Many of you have heard stories or experienced first-hand the number of ways Oracle’s contracts can lead to vendor lock-in and ever-increasing support fees.  One...

Now that the public is aware of SAP’s Indirect Access rules after the recent lawsuits with Diageo and the arbitration with Anheuser-Busch, will their competitors...

  Oracle customers concerned about potentially being selected for an audit often share the same feelings, fear and anxiety of the unknown. These audit claims...

Oracle had a great quarter with continued growth that exceeded expectations and over achieved results in the Cloud. Strong Cloud revenue growth and improving margins...

During Oracle’s FY 2017 Q2 earnings call, Larry Ellison provided some clarity as clients migrate their on-premise licenses to the cloud with respect to application...

By now it is common knowledge that Oracle is fully committed to becoming the largest cloud provider in terms of revenue. Oracle’s recent quarterly earnings have shown...

Like the American political system, the enterprise application market has long been a two-party system, with Oracle and SAP firmly entrenched as the primary parties. ...

During the first week of October 2015 Select Comfort Corporation (SCSS) went live with a big bang ERP implementation.  Three weeks following the go-live the...

From an outsider’s perspective, it is all over but the shouting.  The foundation the State of Oregon is attempting to build in its suit against...

As a consigliere, I am accustomed to providing counsel and advice to others.  But when I need to look for answers or insights into situations,...

This is the second installment in our series on software mega-vendor business practices and the potential implications to the user community.  In our first post,...

“Beware; for I am fearless and therefore powerful.”  Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Over the last few years I have heard more clients express concerns on market...

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...

I just took the whole Consigliere family on a nice vacation, and during my travels I was struck by all the little add-on costs and...

A few weeks ago, I told you about the many ways that golf and IT sourcing are similar. And the more I think about it...