The NET Effect Newsletter: March 2022

IT Supplier News, Insight, and Market Intelligence

In This Issue:

Oracle’s Innovation: Costing Customers More, and Getting Less
NetSuite in the Modern Enterprise
Guide to Selecting the Right Microsoft LSP (Licensing Solution Partner)
Top 5 Reasons the IBM Mainframe Empire Will Strike Back

Oracle's Innovation: Costing Customers More and Getting Less:

Oracle spends more on marketing than it does on innovation, $7.6B to be exact. Knowing Oracle, they probably refer to their marketing efforts as innovative. Oracle’s licensing and cloud offers come in a dizzying array of offerings and by extension, complexity, but they are anything but innovative.

In this video we discuss a central question to the C-Suite: How do we bring about positive organizational changes that will modernize the enterprise, improve company performance, simplify operations, and lower costs all at the same time?

Enterprise In Review

NetSuite in the Modern Enterprise:

Increasingly, we are seeing NetSuite encroach into the enterprise space. What was once thought of as a web-based mini-ERP for SMBs is now a serious platform contender for major organizations.

SEE THE PROS AND CONS

Guide to Selecting the Right Microsoft LSP (Licensing Solution Partner):

Microsoft has always been a Partner-centric company. While it’s common to talk about Microsoft Enterprise Agreements as being “direct deals,” in every case there is a Partner involved. Microsoft calls these “Licensing Solutions Partners” and they are certified by Microsoft to be competent in the details of Microsoft’s enterprise volume licensing deals.

Top 5 Reasons the IBM Mainframe Empire Will Strike Back:

Six major industries still make extensive use of mainframe and include Banking, Retail, Insurance, Healthcare, Government, and Travel/Transportation. These transaction intensive sectors have actually driven up mainframe consumption YoY.

The combination of proprietary operating environments and no real alternative systems leads to monopolistic...