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

CIO Business Intelligence

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. A cloud-first enterprise applications strategy helps make data more accessible to distributed users and workflows, he says.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The digital transformation journey for any enterprise is protracted and complex. Technology leaders often underestimate the complications associated with it. To bring about enterprise-wide changes, CIOs at times need to take tough decisions that may not go down well with employees. “The To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). Variety: The differences in structure between all the types of data within an enterprise.

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Announcing Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum: Sydney, 19 February 2008 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Interview on Sky Business on Enterprise 2.0 and social networks in organizations | Main | The state of Enterprise 2.0: adoption has begun in earnest » Announcing Enterprise 2.0