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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud.

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Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs

Forrester IT

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

All the major cloud providers from North America AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud are on par with each other, with most of their services and capabilities are primed to address the needs of any enterprise. This new paradigm of the operating model is the hallmark of successful organizational transformation.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

They just pass on all those increases in areas such as layers of licensing, management of the software stack, and their infrastructure services. For example, at one time, Oracle DBAs would command $175,000, but as more people entered the space, salaries dropped to the point where he can get someone for $80,000.