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Original Articles and Highlights for August:
Top 10 Ways to Save on Mainframe: Part 6 of 10 in Series
Five Ways to Save on Atlassian
Top 5 Ways to Save on Bloomberg
Q3-Q4 Market Update on SAP, Adobe, Oracle and Salesforce
Executive Moves Roundup: News, Moves and Changes in the C-Suite
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When it comes to Mainframes, NET(net) sees incredible savings opportunities in 2023. Not since 2008 has there been as much downward pricing pressure on technology incumbents, and we believe meaningful savings targets can be achieved, but due to the market conditions, technology incumbent suppliers are seeking to increase prices and will attempt to be highly disruptive to any cost savings agenda!
Part 6: Mainframe Support
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Many client organizations who are long-time users of Atlassian's Jira are suffering from supplier-imposed changes over the last several years that have resulted in sharp increases in costs, pressure on their relationships, and the opportunity for other providers to gain a foothold in the gap Atlassian has put between themselves and their customers. Of course, this has been happening right at the time when client organizations can least afford to be distracted by this small but annoying problem.
When it comes to casting aspersions, technology suppliers face their fair share of scorn from client organizations who have been burned by past transgressions. It’s not uncommon for them to demonstrate contempt for the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, and others... but few garner the wrath deservedly bestowed on Bloomberg.
Time and again, these organizations seek ways to dethrone the financial software giant, best known for its iconic ‘Terminal’, yet Bloomberg continues to cling to a strategy of tyrannical account control wherever they can, as they continue to ride the mysticism of an iconic social status symbol in the financial services industry that persists to this day.
