CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fueled by strong sales of cloud-based ERP software that more than offset a decline in revenue from on-premises applications, SAP revenue jumped in the third quarter compared to the year-earlier period, according to company’s quarterly financial report, released Tuesday. SAP’s cloud and software revenue for the quarter rose 14% to €6.71

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

SAP has given CIOs another reason to consider moving to the cloud: rising support costs for on-premises software. The company will raise the cost of its SAP Standard Support, SAP Enterprise Support, and SAP Product Support for Large Enterprises contracts for existing customers from January 1, 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise. Largest business segment first.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

First came the carrot of lower costs in the cloud with the bundled Rise with SAP offering. SAP said Thursday it will raise the cost of support for users of its on-premises software for the second year in a row, just days after announcing plans to withhold future innovations in its products from on-prem customers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2023

Dear SAP Support, I don’t think we should see each other anymore. The software I paid $5 million for was suddenly not new enough for you to take care of anymore. I poured my heart and soul into that software. You clearly want me to abandon my ECC software for this shiny new object you call S/4HANA. It’s not you; it’s me.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

SAP, for example, has launched its RISE offering , including reimagined partnerships with AWS, Google, and Microsoft as well as its consulting partners such as Accenture and IBM to bring a vertically integrated solution to market. Choosing SAP S/4HANA RISE vs. perpetual license model. Establishing an SAP partner strategy.

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Computer Weekly

MAY 5, 2017

Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2018

The CIOs of SAP customers need to pay close attention to the vendor’s announcement earlier today with details on how it intends to modernize its software licensing model. Please don’t think that “software licensing” is an esoteric topic that you can delegate to someone a level or two down in your organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Enterprise adoption of SAP S/4HANA continues to climb despite the obstacles in its way, according to new research by user groups in the US and Europe. Adopters are being drawn by advanced capabilities in the new software, and driven by concerns about maintenance of older systems.

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 13, 2016

Software companies like SAP must defend their license revenue. The expertise and forces they bring to bear in the overall process of assessing Indirect usage should not be underestimated.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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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Computer Weekly

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox. AI, machine learning and blockchain oscillated between hype and reality

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Participating partner McCoy & Partners , a Dutch SAP consulting firm known for its solutions market leadership, helped bring about the project’s realization while supporting change management. “In Because of this and other factors, the SAP Business Network was used to digitize transactions and develop enhanced supply chains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. Software sales grew 9.8% of a market worth $306 billion, the study said. annually, IDC predicts. “On-premises

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Salesforce’s decision to raise the price of its software products starting in August can be attributed to a combination of factors, including inflation and pressure to fuel revenue after a pause in price hikes during the pandemic period — issues that are affecting other major technology suppliers, analysts said. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications at the heart of many a company’s operations, the consequences of a failed software rollout can be serious, including shareholder lawsuits and financial meltdown. However, it said that the $22.2 million in implementation costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

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. Faster time to market.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

The year-old startup is led by Ryan Fuller , a longtime tech exec who co-founded VoloMetrix, a Seattle-area startup that built employee efficiency software and was acquired by Microsoft in 2015. Round’s other co-founders include Mani Gill , a former SAP executive who co-founded VoloMetrix with Fuller. Knapsack , a Portland, Ore.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7% With the move to software and platform as a service offerings, infrastructure has now shrunk to less than 10% of his overall budget. They weren’t communicating enough and it cost them a lot,” he says.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, right, with Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky at the Tableau Conference in 2019. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Yet, as organizations transform, CIOs and their teams are being asked to manage the optimal mix of infrastructure, platform, software, database, storage, and more to meet these new strategic objectives—while also creating sustained value and positioning the organization for the future. The challenge?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Streamlining regulatory processes RPA leverages software bots to capture and interpret actions involved in completing a given business task, including inputting and manipulating data, triggering responses, and communicating with other systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. As a licensee of OpenAI’s software it will have access to new AI-based capabilities it can resell or build into its products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. All three major cloud providers host SAP applications for their customers, and all three run at least some of their internal financial systems on SAP. Microsoft, though, is the first to adopt the RISE with SAP offering.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

” Ted Hawksford is CEO of Seattle startup LiquidPlanner, which was acquired this month by Boston software company Tempo. ” Steve Singh is a managing director at Madrona Venture Group who previously co-founded and led expense software giant Concur, which was acquired by SAP for more than $8 billion in 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

After two years on the market, SAP RISE is becoming increasingly positioned by SAP as a solution for customers looking to move to the cloud. Despite SAP pushing RISE as an ideal option for customers, it is still important to evaluate your options against your own goals and objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2023

With the threat of a recession looming, cost pressures increasing, and the deadline to move off SAP ECC swiftly approaching, SAP customers have a lot to consider as they plan for the year ahead. Here are some of the trends we expect to play out as the year goes on, specifically for SAP customers.

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Dataconomy

MAY 11, 2023

OCR, which stands for optical character recognition, is a technology that utilizes hardware and software to extract printed or handwritten text characters from digital images of physical documents, such as scanned paper documents. Once all pages are scanned, the OCR software converts the document into a two-color, black and white version.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2020

Two intersections of concern for high rates of near crashes between motorists and cyclists or pedestrians are in Bellevue’s downtown and near offices for tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Smartsheet and SAP Concur. In the U.S., road crashes are the leading cause of death for people age 54 and younger. City of Bellevue Photo).

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Jeremy’s background is in information science and software engineering. Hortonworks. August 2012.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 13, 2007

In 2003 there were three major vendors of social networking platforms for the enterprise: Spoke , VisiblePath , and Contact Networks , while Interface Software integrated similar functionality into its CRM application InterAction (since bought by Lexis-Nexis). VisiblePath has now come to attention, as next week at Web 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 22, 2006

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Unquestionably, good software, well-implemented, can be a powerful enabler. See some screenshots here. However business processes and culture need to shift too.

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