Name: Getting off the Hamster Wheel of Vendor Patching for Enterprise Software
Start: 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z
End: 2022-09-20T04:00:18.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Rimini Street, Inc (NASDAQ: RMNI) , a Russell 2000® company, is the global leader in independent, third-party enterprise software support services, serving over 4,600 clients to date. Rimini Street replaces traditional vendor support and enables licensees of Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, and other enterprise software to save up to 90% on total software support costs, extract more value from their enterprise software investments, invest in innovation, and create competitive advantage and growth.

Many organisations are facing the same challenge: finding funds and capacity to accelerate innovation and digital transformation. The landscape is constantly evolving, and IT departments face increased operating costs and limited capital, the loss of skills through the ‘great resignation’ and limited access to modern innovations. Join Rimini Street experts, Ronen Fox, Service Solution Architect, SAP, Anthony Griffin, Manager, Business Solutions Finance – EMEA and Gordon Smith, Director, SAP Applications Support for a practical guide to support and services for business-critical applications. They’ll provide real-world examples of the multitude of options available to you and show how you can take control of the journey your organisation is on.

SAP Innovation: Accelerating IT to the Speed of Business

As the global leader in commercial design and manufacturing with flagship clients like Starbucks, Hilton, and McDonalds, Elkay Interior Systems (EIS) has a sprawling and complex IT environment. Over this past year, it has been able to reduce complexity, improve service, and cut costs with Rimini Street application management services (AMS) for its Salesforce environment. Find out how Elkay Interior Systems gets more out of Salesforce and watch this webinar.

How to Solve Salesforce Skills Gaps and Boost Performance

Security is a top issue facing IT professionals today, and if you’re relying solely on software vendor patches to keep your data safe, you’re taking an unnecessary risk. In this on-demand webinar, Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin and IT security experts discuss the escalating cybersecurity threat environment and how you can take control of your own defense with Rimini Protect zero-day security solutions and services. Learn about the high cost of security breaches, how often they are occurring, how bad actors can target your employees, and how your current security efforts may still leave you vulnerable.

Defend against Cyberthreats with Comprehensive, Zero-Day IT Security

Join Rimini Street's Director of Global Service Delivery in a fireside chat to get a better understanding of how technology leaders evaluate partners in order to deliver a seamless customer experience, how clients are overcoming freeing human and financial capital with tighter IT budgets and market skills shortage, plus hear about Rimini Street success stories and why these IT leaders are ahead of the game in uncertain times.

Ahead of the Game: Winning in Uncertain Times through Extraordinary Support

As Australian technology executives grapple with the growing standards of delivering efficient yet effective outcomes in volatile times of tech talent drainage, this is the perfect opportunity to broaden our holistic mindsets with improving your human and financial capital needs.

Rimini Street is delighted to present this webinar featuring guest speaker Sam Higgins, Principal Analyst at Forrester, whom will take us on a deep dive into the latest trends in optimising and futureproofing your technology stack – leaving you with actionable insights  that will revolutionalize your approach! 

During this webinar you will learn: 
• Insights on how to balance getting lean, organised
and proactive when it comes to freeing up human and
financial capital.
• How to make smarter decisions to remain modern and economically sound during uncertain times like now.
• How to increase opportunities for innovation, driving the next stage of acceleration right to your door steps.

Forrester | Freeing Human & Financial Capital With Tech Stack Optimisation

Join Rimini Street's Director of Global Service Delivery in a fireside chat to get a better understanding of how technology leaders can continue to navigate today's landscape. We'll be discussing how you can evaluate partners in order to deliver a seamless customer experience. When faced with financial constraints and a brain drain, we'll be sharing some unprecedented insights that will allow you to make optimal impacts on human and financial capital. If that's not enough, stay tuned to hear success stories and how we're guiding  IT leaders with  foresight in staying ahead of the game in uncertain times.

Attend this webinar to learn more on how technology leaders from multiple industries are adopting specific strategies to fill the technology resource gap and fuel digital growth.

2022 CIO Study Reveals Business Impacts of IT Talent Shortage

Learn more on how Origin energy, a Rimini Street client. used AWS to offset some database costs and move to Amazon RDS Licensing.

Why It's Time to Rethink Your Database Strategy

Join this webinar to learn more about how to prioritize investments and reduce technology costs in a complex retail environment.

Funding Retail Technology Transformation

Oracle licensees are spending a small fortune on support for their Oracle investments, while shrinking IT budgets and limited resources are compelling them to slash their support costs by:

- Deferring major upgrades
- Adopting open-source options
- Switching to third-party support

Understanding Oracle licensing is crucial to Oracle license optimization. Rimini Street surveyed 400-plus customers to find the answers to Oracle licensing questions and gain insights into the challenges and priorities impacting their roadmap strategies.

Hear the results of the survey in this exclusive audio webcast, hosted by IDG Digital Content Director Tom Schmidt. Contact Rimini Street to learn more about how independent, third-party support can enhance Oracle license optimization.

Oracle License Optimization and the Future of Customers’ Roadmaps

During this webinar you’ll learn smart ways to manage your SAP relationship, plus how to free your budget and liberate funds for innovation including digital transformation.

Join this essential session as our experts explain how to respond to:

- SAP license negotiation strategies
- SAP audit triggers and tactics including Indirect Access
- Licensing questions when moving to third-party support

Doug Gibson, Managing Partner at Invictus Partners along with James Ratcliffe, Service Solution Architect – SAP at Rimini Street will share guidance on SAP licensing as well as strategies to reduce your SAP support costs, free up resources and focus on your business initiatives.

Take Control of Your SAP Relationship & Roadmap

Information security expert Derek Brink of Aberdeen Strategy & Research sits down with Rimini Street’s Anne Plese to discuss the business case for virtual patching vs. vendor patching.
In this on-demand webinar, Brink likens applying software vendor security patches to being on a hamster wheel:

• vulnerabilities are discovered and publicly disclosed
• patches are (usually) made available by the vendor
• IT teams must decide if and when to implement the patches
• new vulnerabilities are discovered and publicly disclosed

Getting off the Hamster Wheel of Vendor Patching for Enterprise Software

Patching

Enterprise Applications

Enterprise Software

Vulnerability Management

Vendor patching

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