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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

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

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Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP. Faster time to market.

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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

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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. Software sales grew 9.8% of a market worth $306 billion, the study said. annually, IDC predicts. “On-premises

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

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For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7% With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. They weren’t communicating enough and it cost them a lot,” he says.

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Generative AI copilots: What’s hype and where to drive results

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The ambiguity of what’s working today and which users will benefit is driving some CIOs to ask whether adding Copilot licenses to Microsoft 365 is worth the price. For software developers, the benefits of using copilots and other generative AI capabilities may be more about who is using it and the cost-benefit of validating code results.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

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The software and content, including interactive maps, can be downloaded on the Internet or purchased on CD-ROM or preinstalled modules. In addition, Lonely Planet licenses its brand for a television travel series that is screened worldwide, and now it even publishes world music CDs. You can: • Build. Form Alliances. Virtualize.