SAP culls 3,000 jobs from CRM business and its results weren't even that bad 'Targeted restructuring' could have been worse, analyst points out 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 | 22
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
Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies SaaS03 Dec 2021 | 11
Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2
Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst Databases19 Oct 2021 | 1
And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system Award delayed nine months due to pandemic Databases13 Oct 2021 | 5
Surrey County Council faces £700k additional SAP support fees as £30m Unit4 ERP set to miss go-live target Which doesn't help when there's a £47.1m hole in the budget SaaS07 Oct 2021 | 14
Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor 'Technology has been a source of pain,' CIO admits to investors SaaS06 Oct 2021 | 32
UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration 'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told Databases16 Sep 2021 | 3
When ERP migrations go bad: Games Workshop says project issues are delaying refresh of 'dated' online store Commissar Yarrick's bale eye focuses on company's web retail presence as 'long and complex' saga continues Databases14 Sep 2021 | 16
Leeds City Council swallows the Gartner glossary and orders up 'post-modern' ERP in £44m SAP replacement When do we get avant-garde ERP? Databases03 Aug 2021 | 9
NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog Databases02 Aug 2021 | 19
Infor ERP kicked out at closing time for Fuller's brewery biz while Microsoft Dynamics is invited to stay for lock-in Pandemic offers chance to change focus just four years after £10m deal Databases28 Jul 2021 | 1
SAP's RISE 'yet to prove its worth in practice...' Key German user group offers giant a progress 'reality check' Sapphire Now Analysts say S/4HANA upgrades remain sluggish, and users want to see things RISE shine before committing Applications04 Jun 2021 | 7
Unit4 handed police ERP deal after 'significant deficiency' found in Oracle Fusion system Big Red product only went live in 2019, but commissioner is ready to ditch it Databases18 May 2021 | 12
Stuck in R/3verse: East Sussex County Council struggles to move forward with £25m SAP replacement Hardware supporting ageing system is mired in performance issues Databases04 May 2021 | 14
India seeks locally developed open source CRM and ERP for government users #FOSS4GOV challenge will fund and mentor devs and startups to create govtech code Software23 Apr 2021 | 4
MoJ cancels £100m ERP procurement to get in line with UK government shared service strategy Hmmm. Shared services... that always works out really well, right? Databases29 Mar 2021 | 8
Dutch enterprise software outfit Unit4 acquired for $2bn in private equity takeover Existing leadership to continue while majority shareholder exits stake Databases22 Mar 2021 |
Low-risk AND rapid? Brit vaccine centre seeks ERP to meet accelerated schedule, and needs it yesterday Org was originally supposed to launch in 2022 – then a pandemic happened Databases15 Mar 2021 | 4
ServiceNow bakes more ML, low code into Quebec release to push itself as all-encompassing workflow layer But questions remain over its enterprise app credentials AI + ML11 Mar 2021 | 7
SAP: Come to the cloud with us, we promise there's total accountability and lower TCO with lift-and-shift ERP package SaaS pick 'n' mix might appeal more than standard processes for S/4HANA upgrade, though SaaS28 Jan 2021 | 10
East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end From one of the world's largest software suppliers to... who? SaaS26 Jan 2021 | 18
UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force Updated Or maybe it's that no one wants to touch this complex SaaS migration SaaS25 Jan 2021 | 5
Games Workshop finds that in the grim darkness of the 3rd millennium, there is only ERP 'Long and complex' saga shifts into next phase as new heroes enter battlefield Software15 Jan 2021 | 15
Two English councils sign up to Azure for six years in £35m reseller deal as ERP project faces delays, ballooning costs Local authorities' shared Unit4 system is late, overbudget, and only works on Microsoft's cloud PaaS + IaaS07 Jan 2021 | 12
Scottish council awards Unit4 £4.75m support and hosting contract as it seemingly runs out of options Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Software06 Jan 2021 | 4
SAP's strength is the basics: Not RPA or AI, but 'consistent' data models that make sense for actual business processes Comment However, this same nitty-gritty ERP stuff is not cloud-ready, and that's the big vendor's weakness SaaS08 Dec 2020 | 7