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Cloud Methods and Applications to Simplify Your SAP Landscape
Cloud Methods and Applications to Simplify Your SAP Landscape

Cloud Methods and Applications to Simplify Your SAP Landscape

By Elianna Wood|January 15th, 2024|

As a rapidly updating and emerging technology, cloud migration strongly impacts SAP landscape simplification. Cloud migration has become a trend in the SAP space for a reason. As more businesses migrate to the cloud, they consolidate their systems and reduce the number of customizations, simplifying their SAP system. As a result, they have a more streamlined and efficient system that is easier to manage and maintain. Additionally, cloud migration can reduce business costs, as it eliminates the [...]

Technical Debt Management IS People Management
Technical Debt Management IS People Management

Technical Debt Management IS People Management

By Bill Wood|March 3rd, 2021|

Many organizations face a major hidden obstacle with technical debt: people management for those who have a vested interest in the complexity and customization. They have established their careers on building and feeding this technical debt. As a result, they perceive removing that technical debt as a direct threat to their job stability. The change resistance and people issues slow, or in some cases prevent, badly needed changes-- even before making the transition to Digital Business. [...]

Technical Debt Vicious Cycle to Virtuous Cycle
Technical Debt Vicious Cycle to Virtuous Cycle

Technical Debt Vicious Cycle to Virtuous Cycle

By Bill Wood|February 25th, 2021|

Making the move beyond technical debt requires organization-level conscious decisions that complexity and customizing are enemies of. These enemies sabotage the agility you need to simplify and modernize as a competitor in today's digital marketplace. Long-term digital transformation victories begin with a simpler and modern landscape as a foundation for the composable enterprise. In turn, that composable enterprise capability to rapidly assemble, disassemble, and incorporate new capabilities p [...]

The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts
The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts

The Technical Debt Vicious Cycle Ruins Digital Efforts

By Bill Wood|September 9th, 2020|

On the journey to successful digital business transformation, we simplify technical complexity to reduce technical debt. That complexity creates a vicious cycle that needs to be addressed. If they do not address the need for simplifying and modernizing, many digital initiatives can falter, or even fail. Introducing customization, development, and complexity leads to the need for more customization, development, and complexity. In other words, you create a vicious cycle. As solutions or fixes ag [...]

How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation
How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation

How to Free Up Capital & Capacity for Digital Transformation

By Bill Wood|August 11th, 2020|

Technical Debt's High Costs Only Accelerate with Time While finding opportunities in the high cost of technical debt may seem counterintuitive, it is not. By simplifying and modernizing, you free up delivery capacity, and capital, that is tied up in old software (vendor maintenance and support staff). Both the simplification and modernization that come with the technical debt reduction allow you to more quickly make changes (more capacity), while creating a virtuous cycle of improvement. Think [...]

Digital Success Starts with Simplifying and Modernizing
Digital Success Starts with Simplifying and Modernizing

Digital Success Starts with Simplifying and Modernizing

By Bill Wood|August 3rd, 2020|

Today's Competition Is Driving a Change As part of our guidebook series (at the end of this post) on successful digital transformation, we are moving from what digital is to how you should execute a digital program. When considering limited resource capacity, budget constraints, and uncertain markets, you should start your digital journey by reducing costs through simplifying and modernizing the IT landscape. The business need for simplification and modernization is about remaining viable in vo [...]