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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Dear SAP Support – We’ve Grown Apart

CIO Business Intelligence

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. You know my budget is tight; I can’t afford that. 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. You call it your “RISE with SAP” program. End of the road.

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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. In the UK and Ireland, 89% of SAP customers are either using or planning to use S/4HANA, up from 74% in 2021, according to a survey conducted for the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG).

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud is taking an ever-larger proportion of IT departments’ budgets, and the picture is no different here. of spend went to the top 10 enterprise applications software vendors: SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit, Workday, Constellation Software, Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, and Autodesk.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

Invacare faces long wait and increased cost for health care ERP intervention Invacare, a manufacturer of medical devices, has put its ailing SAP upgrade into a coma, temporarily stopping the project — but not the bills. But the merged company made the fateful choice to go with a new provider, SAP HANA, by December 2016.

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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

GeekWire

Two intersections of concern for high rates of near crashes between motorists and cyclists or pedestrians are in Bellevue’s downtown and near offices for tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Smartsheet and SAP Concur. In the U.S., road crashes are the leading cause of death for people age 54 and younger.

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