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SAP Raises Costs, Slashes Innovation for On-Prem Software

August 9, 2023 Alex Woodie

Companies that run SAP on-prem, including all of its IBM i customers, will be left out in the cold following the German ERP giant’s latest moves, which includes a 5 percent increase in annual on-prem support costs and a pledge from the CEO that all new “innovation” only will be delivered in the cloud.

SAP, like most enterprise software vendors, has been trying to get its customers to move to cloud versions of its ERP software for some time. Moving customers to cloud subscriptions not only smooths out the revenue stream for companies like SAP compared to the sporadic …
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Beware The Hype Of Modern Tech

April 25, 2022 Alex Woodie

Many IBM i shops are under the gun to modernize their applications as part of a digital transformation initiative. If the app is more than 10 or 15 years old and doesn’t use the latest technology and techniques, it’s considered a legacy system that must be torn down and rebuilt according to current code. But there are substantial risks associated with these efforts – not the least of which that the modern method is essentially incompatible with the IBM i architecture as it currently exists. IBM i shops should be careful when evaluating these new directions.

Amy Anderson, a modernization …
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The Power Systems And System z Mainframe Cycles Start Anew

April 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you listen to Big Blue a lot, like we do at The Four Hundred, you know IBM spends a lot of its time yammering about hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, and how it has domain expertise to help develop applications for very precise problems in very specific businesses and markets. And sometimes in its quarterly financial reports, it can go through the whole hour and not mention Power Systems at all.

But thanks to the beginning of the Power10 product cycle last September with the high-end “Denali” Power E1080 server and the launch of the “Telum” z16 mainframe …
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JD Edwards Roadmap Reveals Decisions To Be Made

April 7, 2021 Alex Woodie

SAP isn’t the only ERP vendor that wants to move on-prem customers to its cloud-based option. Its top rival, Oracle, appears to have similar aims. The company has made public commitments to continue supporting its JD Edwards customers for years to come, so there is no immediate reason to panic. But considering the investments that customers make in their ERP environments, JD Edwards customers should pay close attention to what comes next.

When Oracle bought PeopleSoft in 2004 for $10.3 billion, it also acquired the JD Edwards portfolio. That includes the World line, which only runs on IBM i, and …
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SAP on IBM i to S/4 HANA Migration: ‘No Need to Rush’

March 17, 2021 Alex Woodie

Organizations that run SAP applications on IBM i servers have about nine more years of maintenance and support available from SAP, and should be in no rush to move to SAP’s preferred application environment, S/4 HANA, IBM SAP on IBM i expert Christian Bartels told the community last month. “There is still a lot of time to go, so there is no need to migrate right now,” he said in a webinar.

The SAP on IBM i community, which numbers around 1,500 or so organizations around the world, has expressed concern about SAP’s plan for the IBM i environment, particularly …
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SAP Raises Costs, Slashes Innovation for On-Prem Software

Beware The Hype Of Modern Tech

The Power Systems And System z Mainframe Cycles Start Anew

JD Edwards Roadmap Reveals Decisions To Be Made

SAP on IBM i to S/4 HANA Migration: ‘No Need to Rush’

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