CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. That’s just as well, as SAP is only promising mainstream support ECC through the end of 2027.

SAP 121

SAP Cloud Licensing CTO Hire 121

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. through 2027. Software sales grew 9.8% It expects that growth rate to dip to 8.5%

Applications 52

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Study 52

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Here is how they describe themselves: Oracle Corporation (Oracle) provides products and services that address all aspects of corporate information technology (IT) environments, including application, platform and infrastructure. The Company's businesses include cloud and on-premise software, hardware and services. newsmaker.com.au).

Oracle 150

Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Hardware 150

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud.

SAP 112

SAP Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 112

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

In choosing RISE, Microsoft is making SAP responsible for the licensing, technical management, hosting and support of its SAP applications under a single SLA — although ultimately Microsoft will host its S/4HANA instances in its own Azure cloud, and some of the migration work will be performed by third parties.

SAP 123

SAP Microsoft System Applications 123

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2023

SAP will hold firm on expiration of ECC support Though customers may be looking for an extension, we expect SAP will not extend the expiration of mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 core applications beyond 2027. SAP has already extended the deadline once — in 2020, it extended support from 2025 to the end of 2027.

SAP 52

SAP Strategy Cloud Licensing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The biggest driver for the move to S/4HANA, cited by 70% of survey respondents, is SAP’s plan to end maintenance support for its ECC 6 and Business Suite 7 software in December 2027. Awareness and adoption of the Rise with SAP all-in-one package of licensing, hosting and application management is also on the up.

SAP 84

SAP Groups Survey Training 84