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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Leslie Joseph |Sandy Carielli |Akshara Naik Lopez
This blog post follows several others by my excellent colleagues at Forrester who have previously offered various approaches to thinking about, and understanding, Deepseek-R1. Last week saw the unmatched hysteria surrounding DeepSeek’s release of an open-source model that purportedly matches GPT-4’s capabilities at a fraction of the cost. Now that the dust is settling, it’s helpful to take a step back and understand all the kerfuffle in proper context.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Alvin Nguyen
IBM has had a very busy and prolific acquisition season. It acquired two Oracle consulting firms within the span of last four to five months. Applications Software Technology LLC (AST):On Jan 16, IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC, a global Oracle consultancy.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Carlos Casanova
As reported by several media outlets and confirmed by SAP CEO, Christian Klein, during its Q4 2024 earnings call, SAP will offer an additional 3 years of support for some on-premises ERP customers beyond the existing extended maintenance support of 2030. This news came as a surprise for many ERP customers globally who have been struggling to plan and complete their ECC to S/4HANA migrations under the RISE with SAP offering before end of 2027, which is the current mainstream maintenance end date.
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2 months ago | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Carlos Casanova |Naveen Chhabra
SAP reported better-than-expected Q4 2024 financial results and raised its full-year operating profit forecast as demand for artificial-intelligence systems continues. On top of beating expectations, SAP said it now expects 2025 operating profit to be between €10.3 billion to €10.6 billion, above previous estimates of approximately €10 billion. Its current cloud backlog of €18.08 billion is up 32%. Cloud revenue is up 27% to €4.71 billion and Cloud ERP Suite revenue is up 35% to €3.95 billion.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Laura Cross |Sam Higgins
In a surprising turn of events for ERP customers globally, as part of its Q3 2024 financial results, ServiceNow announced a new expanded partnership with one of the most popular third-party software support providers, Rimini Street. Both the companies are creating a new enterprise software model which will allow existing on-premises ERP systems and other enterprise applications to add new AI innovations using ServiceNow’s AI platform.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Biswajeet Mahapatra |Akshara Naik Lopez
Tech sprawl refers to the uncontrolled expansion or proliferation of technological tools, platforms, systems, and solutions within an organization. As companies grow, merge, and digitally transform, their technology footprint expands, often leading to redundancy and inefficiency. According to Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey, a staggering 77% of US technology decision-makers report moderate to extensive levels of technology sprawl.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Biswajeet Mahapatra |Akshara Naik Lopez
Technical debt is a growing issue for many organizations. Forrester’s Q2 2024 Tech Pulse Survey revealed that only 21% of US IT decision-makers report no significant technical debt. In contrast, 49% face moderate levels, and an alarming 30% struggle with high or critical debt. This growing burden—caused by past decisions, time constraints, or external pressures—competes with the ability to pursue new initiatives. Like financial debt, tech debt accrues interest too.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Craig Le Clair
We recently completed ‘The SAP Services Landscape, Q3 2024’. A lot has changed in the SAP ecosystem since the last edition of this Forrester landscape. SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA cloud migrations are taking center stage for the vast majority of SAP clients. RISE with SAP offering has undergone massive changes in the last two years.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Akshara Naik Lopez |Craig Le Clair |Andras Cser
We recently completed ‘The Oracle Services Landscape, Q3 2024’. Since the last edition of this Forrester landscape, Oracle customers have been eager to modernize their enterprise applications’ footprint and adopt SaaS principles. Customers of heritage products like E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, etc. have been rapidly adopting Oracle Fusion Applications as Oracle is one of the few leading vendors to offer a true SaaS ERP, HCM, SCM, and other applications (via Oracle Fusion Applications).
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
forrester.com | Kate Leggett |Liz Herbert |Akshara Naik Lopez |Aurelie L'Hostis
Salesforce and Workday announced a strategic partnership to blend customer, financial and employee data in a shared data foundation that negates the need to duplicate data or build custom integration. The result? Optimized employee and customer experiences that up-level business outcomes for joint Salesforce-Workday customers. The strategic objective?
