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

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Similarly, Kapil Pal, CTO at iEnergizer, a global BPO solutions provider, had to take some tough calls while heading IT at United Breweries (UB), one of India’s best known liquor companies. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We We leveraged lower cost licensing because of our global contracts,” he adds.

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

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Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP. More data-driven insights.

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Examining the fallout of APAC tech skills shortages

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

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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). It may be difficult to determine the exact point at which you should leverage one over the other.

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Generative AI copilots: What’s hype and where to drive results

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The ambiguity of what’s working today and which users will benefit is driving some CIOs to ask whether adding Copilot licenses to Microsoft 365 is worth the price. Microsoft is heavily investing in AI capabilities and workflow integrations, so CIOs should expect and plan for improved capabilities.