Computer Weekly

MARCH 7, 2017

The SAP legal case against Diageo highlights the seemingly arbitrary rules governing software licensing

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. In 2020, SAP announced an innovation commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040. Customers have had plenty of warnings about the product’s retirement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Ever since SAP CEO Christian Klein (pictured) told financial analysts in July that the company would only offer its latest AI and “green ledger” innovations to customers running its flagship S/4HANA ERP platform through its subscription-only, cloud-based Rise with SAP offering, the company has been on the back foot.

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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 21, 2022

SAP announced its Q2 2022 results yesterday, reporting revenue of €7.5 However, it was not all good news for the German business software group. SAP’s IFRS operating profit was down 32% to €673 million and its non-IFRS profit was down 13% to €1.68 In its Q2 statement, SAP said it still expects to see those losses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Demand for the process mining software is still strong in 2023.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At last, exactly two years later, the long-awaited sequel to my hit, if overly censored, blog post: Five Shades Of Grey (How software buyers and license managers should be compliant without being submissive). My analysis, subject to the usual IANAL disclaimer, is that the real implications are: Read more Categories: SAP.

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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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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

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 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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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A DMS is a software platform used by car dealers to manage a particular brand inventory, manufacturer incentives, customer information, and more. CGA also has its own SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for day-to-day activities, including accounting and project management.

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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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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

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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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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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

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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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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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

While vendors wield the promise of AI as a forcing function for reimplementation, customers who comply with vendor-dictated AI roadmaps likely face four significant challenges: Challenge 1: Roadmap limitations & delays How do SAP and Oracle stack up in terms of AI features and functions?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The future of SAP architectures is hybrid. But according to a survey conducted by the Financials subgroup of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG), where exactly the journey will go has not yet been decided for many organizations. One quarter (24%) are seeking to migrate to S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with RISE with SAP.

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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 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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

The solution is powered by SAP’s ERP Central Component (ECC) , an on-premises enterprise resource planning system, along with SAP HANA data management software. With the SAP software, eZRx could integrate finance, inventor, and product data seamlessly on the web as well as on mobile devices.

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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

JUNE 20, 2024

To achieve this, we are aligning our VMware-based services and solutions to VMware Cloud Foundation , which is one of the industry’s core software stacks that serves as the foundation of private and hybrid clouds. For example, many organizations, particularly those in highly regulated industries, run SAP workloads on premises,” Badlaney says.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Oracle is an enterprise software vendor based in Austin, Texas. This announcement came on the heels of a very busy June for Oracle as it announced earnings, including 12% growth for cloud services and license support revenue and new extensions of relationships with Google and Microsoft, respectively.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2025

In the words of Barry Brown, Technical Sales Director at IBM Cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud enables critical use cases, including data center and application modernization, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience for SAP workloads. Prior to VMware, he held senior and executive management positions with HPE and BMC Software.

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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

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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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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