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

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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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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

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Critical to the success of the migration was AWS premier consulting partner Lemongrass, which enabled Pick n Pay to migrate its mission-critical SAP (including SAP S/4HANA) and non-SAP workloads to AWS, and provide the ability to manage these workloads with the highest levels of automation and agility.

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

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But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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10 ways to improve IT performance (without killing morale)

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Prioritize transparency Prioritizing transparent communication is necessary to maintain positive team morale, says Chip Kleinheksel, global SAP CTO at business consulting firm Deloitte. Encourage team members to communicate openly — listen to their concerns and provide opportunities for skill development,” he explains.

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

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“The ability to securely store, prioritize, analyze, share, and scale data is fundamental to operations,” says Chuck Brooks (@ChuckDBrooks) , president of Brooks Consulting International and an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

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As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Say you are doing a SAP implementation that will take six months. CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.