ERP

SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown

Drop in customers' cloud conversion rate causes share price to plunge 22% – steepest decline since 2020

Databases02 Feb 2026 | 4

Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working

Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold

Databases29 Jan 2026 | 86

SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition

Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC

Databases22 Jan 2026 | 11

ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake

7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next

Databases19 Jan 2026 | 37

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board

Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster

Databases13 Jan 2026 | 31

How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems

20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly

Public Sector29 Dec 2025 | 24

Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

Exclusive Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms

Databases11 Dec 2025 | 17

UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze

Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle

Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8

Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival

Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits

On-Prem01 Dec 2025 | 29

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

Updated Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions

Databases01 Dec 2025 | 62

SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script

B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain

Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10

SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness

Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work

SaaS17 Nov 2025 |

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared

Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure

Databases13 Nov 2025 | 28

England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache

Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg

Public Sector31 Oct 2025 | 40

SAP says some customers are dragging their feet on contract sign-offs

Share price dips as cloud sales outlook disappoints amid slow US public sector bookings

Databases23 Oct 2025 | 5

Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner

On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing

Databases14 Oct 2025 |

Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services

Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M

Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2025 | 6

More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn

Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year

Databases11 Jul 2025 | 5

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 | 17

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors

Databases13 Mar 2025 | 63

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 | 77

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 | 7

India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months

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Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 3