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

CIO Business Intelligence

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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SAP prepares to add Joule generative AI copilot across its apps

CIO Business Intelligence

By year-end, users of a couple of SAP applications should have the option to ask generative AI copilot, Joule, to help with their work — and the company plans to roll the feature out across all its applications one by one in the years to come. One of the unique aspects of SAP is it has a vast portfolio of applications,” Sandhu said. “We

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Acumatica jabs at SAP Concur with new expense reporting features in latest challenge to tech titans

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Business technology company Acumatica expanded its expense reporting capabilities as part of a broader wave of product updates this week, promising a lower-priced alternative to offerings from SAP Concur, the travel and expense management powerhouse based a short drive away in Bellevue, Wash. billion euros in revenue for the period.

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Why is Salesforce hiking prices, and how does it affect customers?

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, Microsoft announced a price increase for its 365 suite in the range of 8%-20%, depending on the edition, in late 2021; SAP increased its maintenance pricing by up to 3.3% Oracle, for example, raised maintenance pricing by 8%, though it did not announce the increase publicly, Herbert noted.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

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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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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

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of spend went to the top 10 enterprise applications software vendors: SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit, Workday, Constellation Software, Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, and Autodesk. It’s a diverse market with a long tail, according to another IDC study, from 2022, which found just 30.8%

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Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

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So far, we have delivered more than 130 bots using the automation solution by automating SAP, Oracle, Web, Windows, Desktop, Office365 applications, Salesforce, PDF, email, FTP servers, APIs, and so on,” she says. The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated one, especially for multinationals doing business across the globe.

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