Third Party Support
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 […]
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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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December 9, 2017 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, IT Management, Third Party Support ||
What you don’t know just may cost you money – lots of it – when dealing with Oracle. But just six smart steps, taken early, can help position most companies to get what they want out of their Oracle relationship without breaking the bank. Get Your Oracle Spend Under Control What you don’t know just […]
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December 4, 2017 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, IT Management, Third Party Support ||
All over the world, Oracle customers regularly find themselves having to negotiate with Oracle about how to pay for software that they never intended to buy. Most companies find this process quite unpleasant and would prefer to avoid it. This research mission seeks to answer a simple question: How can Oracle customers gain control of […]
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