SAP barely moving needle to migrate users off ECC before support ends Gartner finds only a third are somewhat prepared for S/4HANA transition Databases11 Oct 2023 | 7
SAP customers on brink of ERPocalypse as 2025 support cliff looms for ECC When German vendor promised service until 2027, not everyone qualified Databases10 Oct 2023 | 10
Techies at Europe's biggest council have 8 weeks to pull finance reports from Oracle system Auditors issue new deadline following ill-fated migration Public Sector02 Oct 2023 | 72
NTT will take those SAP licenses off your hands if it helps ease cloud migration Bid to break impasse where boards only see costs Databases28 Sep 2023 | 5
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment Databases18 Sep 2023 | 58
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
SAP user group calls for support deadline reprieve amid hospital billing worries Schedule is unrealistic... it takes 2 years just to tender, protests board member Databases06 Sep 2023 | 13
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster Authority effectively bankrupt as ERP car crash adds to equal pay liability Databases05 Sep 2023 | 236
S/4HANA was once the future for SAP – but now it's in the clouds Midway through upgrade projects, users are struggling to understand the change of heart PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2023 | 35
£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red Experts warn agreement needed and skills lacking in HMRC-led project Databases27 Jul 2023 | 28
SAP checks cloud forecast to find it's not raining as much revenue as hoped Yet mission vital to ERP giant's financial future remains on track Databases21 Jul 2023 |
UK government's newest department to lead mega ERP procurement Tender designed to bring together 48k users running Oracle, Microsoft and more into 1 SaaS system Databases07 Jul 2023 | 19
Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19
UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says Databases01 Jun 2023 | 8
SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility Databases23 May 2023 | 3
SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings 50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids AI + ML03 May 2023 | 4
SAP users not happy about German giant's price rises Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud Databases02 May 2023 | 14
Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this? Databases26 Apr 2023 | 44
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable CxO21 Apr 2023 | 12
Huawei replaces ERP with homebrew effort, claims it’s perfect and shows company will thrive despite sanctions Compares three-year development push to a famous battle that saw Communist forces triumph Applications21 Apr 2023 | 20
Fujitsu sets out on 5-year mission to standardize ERP on SAP S/4HANA To that we say good luck PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2023 | 9
Users slam SAP's public cloud and S/4HANA migration strategy German-speaking heartlands fear they'll be paying again for features they've already built Databases05 Apr 2023 | 9
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 6
Power behind throne to depart as SAP enters a new era Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory Databases28 Feb 2023 | 6
Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss Updated Anything could happen in a half hour Off-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 10
SAP culls 3,000 jobs – and its results weren't even that bad CRM and industry solutions among biz units targeted, analyst says cuts could be worse Software26 Jan 2023 | 4
UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 16
City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October Government Tech Week23 Jan 2023 | 23
Brit civil service claims there's enough money for mammoth ERP refresh project Business case and competition said to be helping to close the shortfall Government Tech Week18 Jan 2023 | 21
University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code Databases17 Jan 2023 | 36
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons Databases12 Jan 2023 | 50
$20m SAP ECC replacement project delayed because UK university unsure what it wants After 10 month’s deliberation, abandons current competition as ERP support deadline looms Databases03 Jan 2023 | 12
When ERP projects go bad: Surrey County Council's £30m ditch SAP effort delayed again Existing hold ups already cost millions as UK authority fails to put a price on latest setback Databases19 Dec 2022 | 14
French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1
Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users Updated 'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice' SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39
University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 47
SAP renames developer platform and bundles it with S/4HANA TechEd But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems Databases17 Nov 2022 |
University of Edinburgh staff paid late due to Oracle ERP troubles Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments Databases03 Nov 2022 | 36
SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision 'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios' Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8
SAP users see scattered clouds on the horizon User group's views are at odds with the software giant's direction Databases11 Oct 2022 | 1
SAP to increase support fees in January to offset inflation costs Maintenance and software installation prices heading north for range of agreements Applications12 Sep 2022 | 3
Deals are being 'inspected by higher levels of management,' says Salesforce Customers 'more measured' and this will continue, says CRM giant, but Snowflake lifts forecasts SaaS25 Aug 2022 | 4
Analysts question pace of SAP users moving to S/4HANA CEO claims 60 percent of deployments are new buyers. It may all depend on how you define deployment Software22 Jul 2022 | 2
SAP unlikely to see most customers move from ECC before support ends But those who show willing in S/4HANA upgrade might see existing ERP support extended, says Gartner Databases08 Jul 2022 |
Infor to stop developing CM3 on-prem software for IBM iSeries Updated ERP vendor had promised containerized options, but looks set to focus on the cloud Databases29 Jun 2022 |
You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg Interview Bill McDermott thinks companies need workflow on top of enterprise apps, whether they replace them or not SaaS16 May 2022 | 18
IFS bags Japanese airline and printermaker software deals Konica Minolta maintenance system to be installed across 10 national support companies Applications30 Mar 2022 | 2
SAP wins competition to replace own ageing system at UK council £7m Gloucestershire County Council deal the first for RISE with SAP in the UK public sector Databases22 Mar 2022 | 7
Northwest England councils in £31m SaaS HR system tender Procurement comes as Manchester City Council looks for SAP next steps Databases18 Mar 2022 | 5
A €1.5bn day in European software mergers German veteran Software AG buys StreamSets while private equity firm takes over ERP slinger Forterro Software01 Mar 2022 |
Desperately seeking SaaS: English council to replace Oracle R12 Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use Databases01 Mar 2022 | 9
Scottish universities launch £42m ERP tender Framework deal to cut across software, services and systems integration Databases23 Feb 2022 | 8
London university on hunt for £17m SAP ERP replacement Institution also relies on German vendor for data warehouse software PaaS + IaaS18 Feb 2022 | 19
English county council blasted for 'inept project management' in delayed SAP replacement Questions remain over whether Surrey's £3.2m budget increase will avoid further delay Databases10 Feb 2022 | 25
Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority Databases24 Jan 2022 | 25
And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good Let's not mention on-premise licences.... Databases15 Jan 2022 | 2
Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays Databases13 Jan 2022 | 62
Another day, another ERP project behind schedule: This time it's Norfolk County Council and an Oracle system Cost of over-run was unknown, but won't be as bad as delays at other authorities, council document claims Databases11 Jan 2022 | 21
When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks Databases10 Jan 2022 | 17
Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour Databases14 Dec 2021 | 5