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Rimini Street ups the support ante: expands international support

Rimini Street has announced the global expansion of its tax and regulatory compliance services to more than 100 countries, beefing up its expertise in the process with the appointment of Greg Prowe as group vice president, global tax and regulatory strategy and research. From the release: “Greg...

Tags: SAP AG, Rimini Street, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Rimini Street chief: Where's the maintenance cost 'peace dividend'?

Enterprise software maintenance and support---the cash cow that keeps giving---has becoming a hot topic amid an economic downturn that has customers questioning a never-ending stream of price increases.  Rimini Street is at the forefront of taking advantage of some of this ire. Rimini Street, a third party...

Tags: Maintenance, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, Dividend, Rimini Street, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Rimini Street goes after SAP support

Rimini Street, which is a third party maintenance and support vendor, said Monday that it is launching services for SAP customers.  Rimini, which has typically offered third party support for Oracle's Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software, appears to be trying to take advantage of the well...

Tags: SAP AG, Rimini Street, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales Force Management, Software, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-11

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Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years

Double revenue in five years???Well, that's the kind of talk I used to hear when I worked at Worldcom.More likely 10 times in five yearsWe have a sure as heck hyperinflation coming so their revenue will go up 10 times measured in Dollar or down 50% measured in Gold. Evil...

Tags: Operational accounting, Oracle Corp., revenue

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years

Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...

Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Siemens cans SAP support

Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Siemens plans to ditch SAP for its ERP support. The story goes that Siemens had become fatigued with the situation. A recent heavy hint should have come from Siemens signing off a massive deal with SuccessFactors. A report in...

Tags: Siemens AG, Customer, SAP AG, Ray Wang, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-12

Mid-range European ERP portending the future?

On my personal blog, I skimmed over recently published results for Agresso and COA Solutions. Agresso is emerging in the US as a small if solid player in public sector as well as for those businesses that need a more agile approach to business configuration than you'd likely get from...

Tags: Revenue, Public Sector, Vendor, SAP AG, Agresso, COA Solutions, COA, Maintenance Revenue, Saas/on-demand, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-02

News to know: Pixie; Google Books; Time Warner-YouTube; PayPal; iLike

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Next Palm webOS-ready phone, Eos 'Pixie', to arrive Oct. 2010 Richard Koman: Lawyer files a full-throated attack...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Canon Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Word, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Internet

Blog posts 2009-08-20

SAP Sapphire: Reading the tea leaves demand, margins and M&A

SAP's Sapphire customer powwow concluded this week and the takeaways appear to focus on what wasn't there: Subscription pricing, a sign of an enduring rebound and confidence that the company can maintain its profit margins.  Among the notable business points Dennis Howlett has the product overview: ...

Tags: M&A, SAP AG, MacMillan, Merger And Acquisition Speculation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pricing, Roi/Tco, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-15

News to know: Google Search; iPod Touch; Pre launch date; Yahoo; Zune; AMD

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared Tom Foremski: How...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Apple iPod Touch, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Cutting software maintenance costs 101

Maintenance and support costs are increasingly gobbling up more of your IT budget despite the occasional bone thrown to you from your friendly neighborhood software vendor. The larger question is what can be done about this maintenance inflation.  Luckily Forrester Research has a few answers.  ...

Tags: Software, Software Company, Vendor, Shelfware, Forrester Research Inc., Maintenance Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Strategy, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-12

News to know: University iPhones; Salesforce; Windows 7; Kindle app; DOJ

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone Christopher Dawson: Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Engineering, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle’s recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...

Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Are third party Oracle support providers losing momentum?

Oracle's lawsuit against SAP and its TomorrowNow unit may be paying off for the company. A Wall Street research firm argues that TomorrowNow and Rimini Street are losing momentum. According to Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at Global Equities Research, his research indicates that TomorrowNow and Rimini Street are losing...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Undermining the Support and Maintenance Market: Red Hat Today, Everyone Tomorrow?

Undermining the Support and Maintenance Market: Red Hat Today, Everyone Tomorrow?This can only be good for RedHat. What if Oracle had picked SUSE?Yes, RedHat may have to start reducing support costs as the volume of licenses goes up, but there are already clones out there. Really, the more people using...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Undermining the Support and Maintenance Market: Red Hat Today, Everyone Else Tomorrow?

Oracle's announcement that it will basically cut the legs out of Red Hat by offering a lower-cost support package sounded familar to anyone who's followed the likes of TomorrowNow, Rimini Street, and NetCustomer. All are companies that underprice Oracle's support costs for PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel, and have been...

Tags: Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2006-10-25