SAP Prescribes a Good Night’s Sleep: Q3 2017 Earnings Analysis October 25, 2017 Chip Hanna Reading Time: 3 minutes Based on SAP’s Q3 2017 earnings announcement on October 19th, its CEO Bill McDermott purports to be resting easy. But… Read More Categories: Cloud, Contract Negotiations, ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, SAP
A CIO’s Checklist to Ensure You Are Leveraging SAP’s Year-End October 24, 2017 UpperEdge Reading Time: 3 minutes As SAP’s year-end approaches, companies are leveraging the opportunity to negotiate strategic commitments like HANA or resolve their audit exposure.… Read More Categories: Contract Negotiations, SAP
The Underlying Implications of SAP’s New Indirect Access Order Licensing Policy October 17, 2017 UpperEdge Reading Time: 3 minutes Earlier this year, SAP’s announcement that external Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) Indirect Use scenarios will be addressed via order… Read More Categories: SAP
Cleveland Rocks: Your ERP Implementation Needs a Winning Team October 11, 2017 Shawn Stamp Reading Time: 3 minutes As a life-long Cleveland sports fan, I've come to appreciate first-hand the difficulty of assembling a winning team, let alone… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, ERP Program Management, System Integrators
Defeating the SAP Project Optimism Death Star September 13, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 3 minutes We have all seen the stories of SAP projects that spin hopelessly out of control. The tales of these failed… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, HCL, IBM, SAP
Top 10 Excuses to Not Implement Best Practices and 5 Things to do About it August 22, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past 30 years, a great deal of research has been conducted on IT-enabled business transformations. As a result… Read More Categories: ERP Program Management, IT Sourcing, Oracle, SAP
Countersuit: HCL Claims MillerCoors Bullied Them July 31, 2017 John Belden Reading Time: 6 minutes On June 19th 2017, India-based IT and Engineering services firm HCL Technologies filed a countersuit against American brewery MillerCoors and… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Deloitte, HCL, SAP, System Integrators
What SAP’s Indirect Access White Paper Said and Didn’t Say July 25, 2017 UpperEdge Reading Time: 3 minutes With SAP’s very public arbitration against AB-InBev followed by Indirect Access taking center stage during Bill McDermott’s opening keynote address… Read More Categories: SAP
Will SAP Competitors Fight the Indirect Access Madness? July 24, 2017 Jeff Lazarto Reading Time: 4 minutes Now that the public is aware of SAP’s Indirect Access rules after the recent lawsuits with Diageo and the arbitration… Read More Categories: Application Management Services, Cloud, ERP Program Management, Oracle, SAP
Digital Ecosystems – Why Large Companies Have an Advantage in the Digital Future May 24, 2017 UpperEdge Reading Time: 4 minutes Winners of the digital evolution will be highly dependent on a company’s ability to innovate and identify with their customers,… Read More Categories: Digital Transformation, IT Sourcing