Third Party Support
June 16, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Escape Hatch, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Based on a series of interviews with executives who successfully transitioned their organizations to third-party support. Decoupling support contracts from Oracle dramatically reduces the organization’s IT infrastructure costs, improves the quality of support, enables greater efficiency, and offers more freedom, autonomy, and control. These are tangible benefits underpinned by the value you derive by working […]
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June 9, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Escape Hatch, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Based on a series of interviews with executives who successfully transitioned their organizations to third-party support. Overcoming fear and uncertainty is a process of understanding what forms the core of the obstacles. Building confidence and assurance in third party support is a process that involves communication, research, transparency, and facts. Knowledge and evidence can help […]
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June 2, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Escape Hatch, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Based on a series of interviews with executives who successfully transitioned their organizations to third-party support. Don’t let Oracle tie knots around you with its support and maintenance contracts. Complexity is Oracle’s friend, and knowledge will keep it from getting the better of you. Here are a few lessons learned from companies that made a […]
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May 26, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Escape Hatch, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
The advantages of transitioning to third-party vendor support far outweigh the perceived risks of leaving Oracle. Benefits include more control and freedom to manage the IT infrastructure, a partner that provides improved service levels for at least 50% lower cost than they spend with the vendor today, and increased operational efficiency. And, it’s a proven […]
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January 25, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Escape Hatch, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Making a move to a third-party support vendor has considerable advantages. But to reap the benefits, organizations need to break the chains that bind them to Oracle support and maintenance contracts. In the Escape Story series of the Escape Hatch from Oracle Research Mission of EarlyAdopter.com, you will learn how four executives regained control of […]
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January 25, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Oracle, Research Missions, Third Party Support ||
It is time to gain power in your Oracle relationship. Welcome to the “Escape Hatch from Oracle” home page, which summarizes Early Adopter Research’s ongoing stream of content dedicated to educating the IT world about how best to manage, evolve, and if necessary, escape from a relationship with Oracle. The content is in this research […]
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January 20, 2021 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Introduction When it comes to charting an escape from a business relationship with Oracle, many of the barriers are psychological. Legitimate fears must be addressed as part of the transition. This is understandable because Oracle applications and databases play a big role in many companies’ business operations. In addition, staff may have years of investment […]
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October 21, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Given the way they make their money, it’s no surprise that the large ERP vendors want you to constantly upgrade and move to the cloud as soon as possible. These upgrades and migrations benefit their bottom line. Take Oracle as an example. For Oracle it is a dogma, an article of faith, that the best […]
Tags: Oracle escape hatch, peoplesoft, rimini st.
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April 14, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Cloud, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
Oracle’s Continuous Innovation release model is a reinvention of Oracle’s support services intended to encourage companies to pay a maintenance stream for updates to existing installed on-premise software, along with the associated costs of hosting, administering, and applying those updates. But, if customers reject this model and decide to move to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model […]
Tags: cloud migration, continuous innovation model, ERP, escape hatch, escape hatch from oracle, oracle, SaaS, third-party support
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May 22, 2018 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Third Party Support ||
CIOs need to be sophisticated about both saving money and about finding new ways to amplify the value of their investments in software. Third party enterprise software support is changing to meet more of those needs. The world of third party support started as a way to reduce the flow of cash to the original […]
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