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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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3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

“As the new solution would cut down the time taken from several days to less than one day, I showed them how it could increase their efficiency, enable them to go home early, and make the entire process transparent.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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

CIO Business Intelligence

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project.

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

CIO Business Intelligence

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. “A For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find.

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

GeekWire

Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. The company announced that Mark Nelson , the former CTO at SAP Concur who joined Tableau nearly three years ago as vice president of product development, has been named president and CEO. Adam is not a new face to AWS.