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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO Business Intelligence

The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015.

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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

BAs engage with business leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software, and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value. Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Configurability in cloud-first strategies is key as organizations don’t have to worry about hardware control, allowing for more focus on getting new services up and running faster,” he says. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP.

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IT leaders tackle the high price of talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Iyer has already outsourced 90% of the company’s IT — everything from the network to the hardware maintenance. We also thought of setting up a shared SAP competency center with other big auto ancillary players, but it didn’t materialize,” he says. In a digital world, the list of certifications for IT courses is endless.

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Righting the vessel

CIO Business Intelligence

“We do not want to deal with distracting things such as IT and cyber security, software and hardware support, VPNs (virtual private networks), backups or on-premise servers,” said YANMAR Marine’s senior vice president of sales Floris Lettinga. That decisiveness helped – and focused executives on the course they needed to take.

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VMworld 2013 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

He pays particular attention to mission-critical apps on VMware, calling out Oracle, SAP, and others. ” Of course, it’s not just about today’s apps, but also next-generation apps. Third, application-specific data services must be virtualized and abstracted from the hardware arrays.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

Whether it is the Adobe folks creating their Creative Cloud or SAP building their ERP [enterprise resource planning] business. We, of course, have a browser. And, of course, there are parts of the world where already there are many substitutes to the Android app store, which [are] even bigger than the Google app store.

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