| 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.   READ MORE   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.   READ MORE 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... READ MORE   See Our Newsletter Archive Did this get forwarded to you? Sign Up To Our Monthly Newsletter Here Schedule a Complimentary Consultation Schedule A Consultation     COPYRIGHT 2022 Contact Info@netnetweb.com About Us NET (net) \| Americas \| APAC \| EMEA Unsubscribe Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. |
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