SAP ECC 6.0 lives to fight another decade under Rimini Street Third-party provider pledges to support legacy ERP until 2040 PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 3
UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs Databases22 May 2025 | 5
Users find RISE with SAP service levels below industry standard Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays Databases08 May 2025 | 4
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 16
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options £5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2025 | 34
Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org Databases25 Mar 2025 |
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year 'Three-year' tech support deal still running PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61
How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2025 | 37
Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114
Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4
SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7
Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39
Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022 Databases29 Jan 2025 | 22
Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program' On-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 24
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Databases03 Jan 2025 | 7
Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion Exclusive Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues On-Prem19 Dec 2024 | 52
London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9
Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate Schools taken out of scope, but £108M plan still dwarfs initial £20M Public Sector06 Dec 2024 | 46
Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorce On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 33
Asda security chief replaced, retailer sheds jobs during Walmart tech divorce British grocer's workers called back to office as clock ticks for contractors On-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 18
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73
Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8
UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13
Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23
Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4
Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up Databases08 Oct 2024 | 8
Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109
SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year Updated Single digit price hikes suspected for UK and Europe and double digit mooted for everywhere else Databases26 Sep 2024 | 13
Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations Databases20 Sep 2024 | 51
ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Databases19 Sep 2024 | 6
UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12
Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint Databases17 Sep 2024 | 5
Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path Databases28 Aug 2024 | 8
India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 3
Two senior board execs leave SAP as restructuring hits the fan German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2024 | 2
Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs Databases23 Jul 2024 | 9
Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster Thank goodness for pen and paper. Re-implemented system might not arrive until March 2026, four years after initial roll-out Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 39
Cold comfort to teachers who got paid late, but ERP software rollout had 'unrealistic' timeline 18 months late, overbudget... report finds council's SAP ERP rip 'n' replace with Unit4 had hidden complexity Databases16 Jul 2024 | 49
Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56
Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray Analysis Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation Public Sector05 Jul 2024 | 426
Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor's update systems to spew malware Notorious 'Andariel' crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack Malware Month02 Jul 2024 |
Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays Systems01 Jul 2024 | 31
SAP customers warned on hidden risks in the unofficial route to the cloud But RISE with SAP can also be too rigid for some customers, Gartner says Databases25 Jun 2024 | 1
GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for? Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7
SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10
Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace Updated No it's not Birmingham this time. West Sussex County Council ERP replacement price to hit £40M Databases30 Apr 2024 | 85
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 92
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial' Databases17 Apr 2024 | 47
North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15
SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council 8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7
Licensing labyrinth for Power Apps and Dynamics 365 must be clarified, warns expert Rules still unclear for Microsoft users making potentially costly decisions on enterprise applications Databases21 Mar 2024 | 4
SAP users aren't keen on upping spending right now Cloud and upgrade conversions remain steady if sluggish, according to ERP spending bellwether DSAG Databases21 Mar 2024 | 5
Microsoft license shuffle means Power Apps users could break the bank Updated New restrictions seem to usher users toward expensive Dynamics 365 subscriptions Applications15 Mar 2024 | 21
City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71
City of London ditches Oracle for SAP in search of ERP enlightenment Updated Four years after first approaching market for new system, public body hopes to start working with SI Databases19 Feb 2024 | 43
Unit4 software's budget bungle leaves schools counting the cost MP calls on council to ensure education teams can plan their financial futures Databases13 Feb 2024 | 21