How UK Universities Are Cutting Software Costs During a ‘financial crisis’.
Five months. £1.5 million in gross savings. No new headcount, no new tools, just smarter software procurement for universities. That's what happened at the University of Brighton. Julian Wood, Director of Procurement, walked into the process sceptical. Vendors have decades of sales tactics baked into every renewal call, and most institutions don't have the internal bandwidth to counter them. He said it himself, WYN helped decode those tactics and turned scepticism into result
Ibiso David-West
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The Leadership Shake-Up Quietly Driving Up SAP Migration Costs
Only 39% of SAP's ECC customers have actually licensed S/4HANA so far. That means most of SAP's customer base is heading toward a hard deadline without a real plan, and now there's a second complication nobody was pricing in a few months ago, SAP itself is going through its second major leadership reshuffle of the year. If you're negotiating a migration right now, both of these things affect you at the same time. The deadline hasn't moved SAP ECC is the ERP backbone a huge sh
Ibiso David-West
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