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The feeling you get following your vendor’s ERP roadmap… Sometimes, it’s hard to see how IT teams can deliver game-changing initiatives when a significant amount of their budget and resources are spent on a vendor-dictated roadmap … a never-ending journey with costly software maintenance, mandatory updates and upgrades and ultimately a rip-andreplace move to the cloud. In the end, funding their roadmap could mean not funding yours. Don’t lose sight of your options. Learn how Rimini Street can help. Get your free software support assessment today. It’s Your Roadmap.
Powering digital transformation with a Business-Driven Roadmap By Glenn Cahaly I spend most of my time talking to Oracle and SAP customers and the conversation is essentially the same these days: “To change the game, our company needs to put users first and technology second. The good news: Our leadership team has identified what we need to compete and grow the business, and we understand the IT initiatives required. The bad news: we have very little capacity for innovation because we spend the majority of our budget and time on vendordictated ERP roadmaps, which can include risky updates, costly upgrades and rip-and-replace projects to move to their cloud solutions prematurely.” Whether you are a CFO, a CIO, an IT leader, Procurement or IT Asset Manager, these words probably sound familiar. The vendor’s product roadmap should be an input into your strategy; it shouldn’t be your strategy. Yet ERP applications are such an important component of the IT you use to run your business that it can be easy to fall into the pattern of letting your vendor call the shots. If you don’t upgrade, you can fall out of compliance. And regardless of how much you pay, you get progressively less value from each upgrade. All the while, the vendor is shifting its R&D investments away from the products it sold you and giving you seemingly no option but to continue to move. Unlike a vendor-dictated approach, a Business-Driven Roadmap starts with an organization's 3-to-5 year business strategy and then defines the game-changing IT initiatives that will support it. Rimini Street accelerates clients' to adopt a Business-Driven Roadmap strategy by providing capacity that accelerates their ability to innovate and reduces vendor lock-in, allows them the flexibility to design a roadmap based on their unique requirements, and provides the agility to take an orchestrated approach to their technology strategy. When clients move to a Business-Driven Roadmap approach powered by Rimini Street, they are liberated from the vendor-dictated roadmap and enabled to take control of their IT destiny and future-proof their investment to accommodate continuous change. Get your free roadmap assessment today Learn More 1 Gartner - “IT Key Metrics Data 2018: Executive Summary” December 11, 2017 Free up IT capacity: According to Gartner 1 , as much as 90percent of the IT budget goes to ongoing operations (“keeping the lights on”). That leaves a measly 10percent to invest in game- changing initiatives. Organizations becoming trapped in an endless cycle of enterprise software upgrades is a big reason why. If you’ve customized your ERP and integrated it with other software, you don’t dare upgrade without extensive testing. Free yourself from this busywork, and you can get back to making technology investments that make a difference. Extend the lifespan of existing investments: Most enterprises have spent years implementing, integrating and customizing their ERP to meet business needs — only to have their vendors tell them it’s time to abandon all that in favor of a “new and improved” but immature platform. Vendors want to establish new revenue streams and reposition themselves for the cloud. That roadmap serves vendors’ needs, not those of enterprises seeking to build on investments they have already made. That’s why you need a Business-Driven Roadmap approach that includes third-party support for your ERP. Innovate with flexibility: Cloud computing should give you more options, not fewer. Your ERP vendor has a roadmap to take you to the cloud — specifically, to its proprietary corner of the cloud. Fortunately for those wary of even deeper vendor lock-in, open cloud options exist to improve the cost and performance of your ERP operations while keeping you in control. You won’t find many on the vendor’s technology roadmap; you need to follow your own and we can help you get there. Design with your future enterprise in mind: How are you rationalizing your software decisions? You won’t find the answer exclusively on one vendor’s roadmap, unless you’re convinced it has the best product in every category. Born-in-the cloud software represents some of the greatest innovations in enterprise technology. The best of them come with APIs that allow you to connect them to other APIs and to your installed base of software. Rather than struggling with laborious integrations, you have the opportunity to orchestrate software around the use cases that matter most to your business. Learn why over 2,600 clients chose Rimini Street’s ultraresponsive service, breaking free from the burden of vendor support so they can focus IT resources on initiatives that support their Business-Driven Roadmap strategy. 195
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