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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

CIO Business Intelligence

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. through 2027. Software sales grew 9.8% It expects that growth rate to dip to 8.5%

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SAP raises price of on-site support for existing customers

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. However, SAP’s cloud users may not be sheltered from the increases, as the company is also considering ratcheting up the price of its cloud software by 3.3% This is absolutely unacceptable and also incomprehensible.”

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Oracle Corporation: Addressing enterprise IT infrastructure

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The Company's businesses include cloud and on-premise software, hardware and services. Billion in Cloud Push (eweek.com). From: GeekWire - Reality check: Despite copious 'cloud' rhetoric, little software is being offered as a service (computermagazine.com). The 3 Foundations of Cloud Computing (dwwtc.com).

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Dear SAP Support – We’ve Grown Apart

CIO Business Intelligence

Then there was the 2027 ultimatum. You told the whole world that after December 31, 2027, you would charge an additional 2 percentage points for sustaining support. Not only do you want me to migrate to HANA and S/4HANA, but you also want me to give up my perpetual licenses and replace them with subscriptions. An ultimatum?

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Choosing the Right eBook Platform in 2024: A Comprehensive Guide

Kitaboo

billion by the end of 2027. 5 Essential Features of eBook Platforms in 2024 Personalization User-Friendliness AI Support Licensing, Copyrights and Security Timely Upgrades II. Search for platforms that have some type of licensing, copyright protection, and associated security available. Table of Contents I.

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