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News Analysis: New SAP Customers Face Maintenance Hike

News Analysis: New SAP Customers Face Maintenance Hike

By R "Ray" Wang on February 5, 2013

SAP Plans A Standard Support Maintenance Fees Hike Of 5.5%For New Customers For new customers, SAP announced its intent to raise its standard support maintenance fee from 18% to 19% effective July 15, 2013.  The standard support option was reintroduced in January 14, 2010, after much pressure from user groups.  A few key takeaways: Price […]

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News Analysis: Spinnaker Expands JD Edwards Support With Versytec Acquisition

News Analysis: Spinnaker Expands JD Edwards Support With Versytec Acquisition

By R "Ray" Wang on March 29, 2012

Versytec Acquisition Addresses Growing Demand For JD Edwards Support Denver, Colorado based Spinnaker Management announced on March 6th, 2012 its acquisition of its competitor Versytec.  For those who remember their third party maintenance (3PM) history, Versytec was among the first firms to announce third-party maintenance services within a year after PeopleSoft acquired JD Edwards in […]

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Monday’s Musings: Decoupling Support From Maintenance - What Apps Vendors Can Learn From Microsoft Dynamics

Monday’s Musings: Decoupling Support From Maintenance – What Apps Vendors Can Learn From Microsoft Dynamics

By R "Ray" Wang on March 8, 2010

Who Says Support Has To Be Bundled With Maintenance?
About a decade back, vendors would offer support and maintenance as two separate line items on their contracts.  Support would run about 5 to 10% the license fee and so would maintenance.  Keep in mind, average support and maintenance fees were under 15% back then.  Here’s a […]

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Monday's Musings: Why Users Must Preserve Their Third Party Maintenance Rights

Monday’s Musings: Why Users Must Preserve Their Third Party Maintenance Rights

By R "Ray" Wang on February 22, 2010

Apps Users Seek Third Party Maintenance For Cost, Value, and Service Updated surveys from inquiries, client conversations, and user group meetings show a 113.8% increase in interest in third party maintenance (3PM) services from Q3 2009 to Q1 2010 (see Figure 1).  Key factors stem from (see Figure 2.): Continuing cost pressures. Budgets continue to […]

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News Analysis: Hasso Brings More Changes to SAP's Management Team

News Analysis: Hasso Brings More Changes to SAP’s Management Team

By R "Ray" Wang on February 11, 2010

New Changes Hint At Hasso’s Priorities In a not surprising update, SAP makes changes to Executive Board and management.  Here are the changes: Gerhard Oswald becomes COO. Gerhard has experiences in support, consulting, education, custom development, and quality.Gerhard’s contract has been extended till December 31, 2011.Point of View (POV):  Gerhard’s been a long-timer at SAP […]

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Event Report: 2009 SAP Influencer Summit - SAP Must Put Strategy To Execution In Order To Prove Clarity Of Vision

Event Report: 2009 SAP Influencer Summit – SAP Must Put Strategy To Execution In Order To Prove Clarity Of Vision

By R "Ray" Wang on December 11, 2009

(Photos by R Wang & Insider Associates, LLC.   Copyright © 2009 All rights reserved.)
Re-innovation Now At The Heart Of SAP’s Focus And Strategy
SAP has faced a rough two years.  From the continuing market pressure on new license revenue, false-start launch of Business By Design (ByD), management restructuring, and issues with […]

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News Analysis: DSAG Project Team Members Resign Leadership of SUGEN KPI Working Group

News Analysis: DSAG Project Team Members Resign Leadership of SUGEN KPI Working Group

By R "Ray" Wang on November 30, 2009

DSAG project team and project leader departure could signal disagreement with methodology not SUGEN
SAP embarked on an ambitious program to prove value in its Enterprise Support fee hike last year.   As planned, SAP should announce the results for the first set of SUGEN KPI’s in early December.  However, two key SUGEN KPI project sponsors […]

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