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When determining what level of SAP support you will require going forward, it is important to consider what level of support you are currently operating...

With the hyperscalers hitting prime time in the market, organizations are relinquishing any reservations they once had about the public cloud.  As they plan to...

Even as companies begin to recover from the COVID pandemic, SAP continues to aggressively pursue audits of their customers in an effort to not only...

In the advent of RISE with SAP, organizations may be tempted to pit a hyperscaler’s offerings against RISE to determine the best fit for their...

This month, UpperEdge’s project staffing database will bring the total value of all projects completed over the last 5 years to just over $20B in...

Tips for Budgeting, Negotiating and Renewing Proactive CIOs prepare a set of well-thought-out principles that serve as the foundation from which they manage their ongoing...

There is no doubt 2020 has been a volatile year.  Economic uncertainty and the COVID pandemic have combined to impact almost every sector of the...

Since the very negative sentiment customers had against SAP related to Indirect and Digital Access in 2018, SAP had kept a relatively low profile tied...

Given the current situation, all organizations are searching for ways to improve their IT cost structure, especially those companies with a large SAP footprint managed...

While SAP had previously touted a 93% renewable maintenance base, our recent experience and SAP’s Q1 2020 earnings announcement indicate the maintenance base they had...

SAP customers have been significantly impacted by COVID-19 which has resulted in the acceleration, delay, or flat out cancellation of their strategic programs.  Not only...

In light of the unknown impact the pandemic will have on all businesses, transformational SAP projects are now under immense scrutiny to justify the commitment...

When it comes to IT spending, it’s never about how much an organization spends as a percent of revenue, it’s a matter of how and...

At the end of 2019, we wrote about the differentiated Workday value proposition as being Workday’s key advantage if they were to slay the Goliath’s...

With the May 2020 expiration date of SAP’s Digital Access Adoption Program (DAAP) fast approaching, SAP customers are feeling pressure to choose whether to remain...

Over the last several years, many SAP customers have asked us, “Do you think SAP will move its 2025 date for supporting Business Suite 7?” ...

When listening to SAP’s preliminary FY 2019 results, it became obvious to me what keeps SAP’s new co-CEOs, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein, up at...

Oracle has gone on record multiple times stating that Cloud ERP Applications and Autonomous Database are the two key product areas that will determine Oracle’s...

2019 brought many changes to the SAP hosting market and hyperscalers have continued to deliver a level of disruption and transformational change.  UpperEdge also had...

SAP has had a rash of exits over the past year, culminating with the departure of Bill McDermott.  In April, Rob Enslin announced he’d be...