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6 out of 10 SAP Customers wouldn´t buy again [shutterstock: 344938568, banderlog]
At Sapphire recently, SAP claimed that more than 3200 customers had moved to S/4 Hana, and painted a “simple” roadmap for customers making the move.
The Data Pitfall (Michael Mattern, Horváth & Partners)
Unstructured data, the Internet of Things, machine learning and decision-making - for many customers, 5, 10 or even 15 years will pass before the full functional spectrum of SAP Hana is in everyday use.
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S/4 pricelist: Self-protecting declaration [shutterstock: 414522136, hafakot]
EUR 9,000 is the asking price for an established SAP customer for starting the S/4 change of release. Unfortunately, what awaits the application-users is completely uncertain. Because S/4 Hana is not an R/3 successor!
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Open Society: E-3 Cover Story September 2015 [shutterstock: 446500597, Titima Ongkantong]
When using Hana and S/4 data center managers must align their IT infrastructures in such a way that specialist departments can implement new business cases as quickly as possible. Fujitsu provides a future-proof and future-compatible platform with Primeflex for SAP Landscapes, including Flexframe Orchestrator.
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Business people difficult career in a mechanism system [shutterstock: 241065253, alphaspirit]
Most existing customers are still reeling from the shock of the SAP maintenance fee increase. The five percentage point increase from 17 per cent to 22 per cent meant a price hike of nearly 30 per cent!
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Six Public Clocks by Konstantin Grcic [Rimini Street Cover Story E-3 Magazine April 2015]
With its innovative and dynamic approach, SAP is well on the way to becoming a monolithic in-memory computing vendor. From 2025, SAP will only support Intel x86, Linux, Hana and Simplicity – not enough choice for many existing SAP customers. This is where Rimini Street comes in, offering a very strong alternative for service and support.
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