By R "Ray" Wang on August 22, 2012
The Real Deadline To Consider Third Party SAP Maintenance Is September 30th In conversations with hundreds of SAP customers, many have not realized that they must act in the next 30 to 45 days if they want to move off of SAP customer specific maintenance from extended maintenance. Despite the support window ending in March […]
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By Denis Pombriant on July 5, 2012
In a blow to the software licensing paradigm and intellectual property rights everywhere, the European Court of Justice said that it was OK to resell a software license once you are done with it. The case involved Oracle and a European company UsedSoft, which had made a nice business of reselling the licenses. The story […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business […]
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