Your buyer persona: Take the ERP Quiz!

Although ERP offerings like Oracle and SAP have been around for decades, vendor support for these legacy software products continues to be a challenge for many enterprises. Support costs can chew up a large part of IT’s budget, fear of ERP vendor lock-in can stifle cloud migration plans, and innovation can suffer as organizations spend nine out of every ten dollars just ‘keeping the lights on.’

An enterprise needs effective strategy, best practices, and efficient operations that will keep systems humming while enabling innovative new projects and developing a cloud migration that makes sense for their organization.

Take the ERP Quiz to establish what kind of buyer you are, and we’ll instantly deliver the most helpful content to address your key tech and business challenges!

1. What objective would allow you and your team to deliver the greatest strategic benefit to your company?

Improving IT ‘s operational costs and resource constraints Reducing our data center footprint Creating greater competitive advantage through a business-driven IT roadmap

2. What is the primary requirement you must tackle to address those objectives?

Leveraging a path to migrate to the cloud Gain freedom from legacy infrastructure that prevents innovation Find ways to fund new IT projects

3. What is the issue preventing your team from delivering on those objectives?

Lack of Executive buy-in (Board, C-suite, etc.) Inability to make changes to existing vendor agreements Roadmap complexity and inflexibility

4. How would you describe the importance of migrating enterprise software to the cloud?

Cloud migration is most important to our organization Cloud migration is less important than being more agile and innovative Cloud migration is less important than reducing overall software support costs

5. When it comes to ERP, what is your primary concern?

Our organization might be falling behind when it comes to ERP innovations I am not getting the value I once did for the dollars/resources I am spending on software maintenance I am under pressure to migrate everything to the cloud

6. Which of these problems does your organization struggle with the most, as it relates to your ERP environment?

Our roadmap is at the mercy of our vendors – we can’t move too fast or take big risks The cost and resource of moving our internally-deployed ERP to the cloud Maintaining the environment with updates, fixes and enhancements which are costly to implement, test and roll out

7. In thinking about your ERP strategy, what is your highest priority?

I want to reduce the cost of supporting enterprise software I want to take advantage of new technologies and trends I want to move resources from datacenter to cloud provider

8. How important is reducing software support costs to your organization?

Reducing ERP-related costs is most important to our organization Reducing ERP-related costs is less important than fulfilling our cloud-first strategy Reducing ERP-related costs is less important than driving innovation

9. How would you describe the importance of becoming more innovative and proactive?

Innovation and agility are most important to our organization Innovation is less important than reducing costs Innovation is less important than fulfilling our cloud-first strategy

10. What are your barriers to achieving your desired state of ERP?

We are paying high annual support and maintenance costs We are not leveraging opportunities in the cloud We are hampered by legacy infrastructure that prevents innovation

11. How would you describe the future state of your ERP environment?

We are not looking to make significant changes to our existing ERP We want the cost efficiencies of the cloud (IaaS) with minimal disruption to our ERP applications We plan to move to SaaS ERP with a mega vendor or other SaaS vendor

12. If you are considering significant ERP roadmap changes, what is your timing?

Immediately Evaluating our options now Not planning any significant changes in the next five years