Updates and Analysis from Taft Technology Attorneys
As SAP and some other vendors are forcing users of ERP software systems into vendors’ proprietary clouds, a significant percentage of the world’s Chief Information Officers are concerned about the security of the data being stored there.
This is one of the main takeaways from a KPMG and Oracle survey released during the midst of…
As is happening with almost everything in business, COVID-19 is having an impact on ERP software systems and digital transformation projects – particularly with respect to interruptions or delays in software implementation projects. Some companies are postponing their implementation or drastically reducing the scope of their implementations.
While halting or postponing an implementation project in…
In an interview with TechTarget, Chicago Taft partners Marcus Harris and Daniel Saeedi explored the impacts that the pandemic will have on ERP implementations and what customers can do to alleviate risk and protect their ERP investments. In a separate interview, Marcus Harris also provided advice on renegotiating ERP contracts when the scope of ERP…
Taft Chicago partners Marcus Harris and Daniel Saeedi presented several sessions during the Digital Stratosphere Online Edition, April 20-24, 2020. Each day featured different presenters discussing the new realities of ERP, HCM and digital transformation projects in a post-COVID-19 world. Harris and Saeedi spoke jointly on “How to Negotiate (and Renegotiate) ERP Contracts During…
These are thoroughly disturbing statistics that should make every ERP user shudder:
A survey of more than 400 IT professionals conducted by Onapsis Research Labs found that 64-percent of ERP software systems suffered a data breach in the past two years. Onapsis reported that 90-percent of SAP’s ERP software systems remain vulnerable to a nasty…
The list of ERP software system train wrecks is legendary – and growing. Hardly a month passes without news appearing of another lawsuit being filed against a vendor or integrator by a customer who claims they wasted tens of millions of dollars – sometimes hundreds of millions – only to discover than an upgrade or…
Over the years, we have written quite a bit about the many “train wrecks” that seem to plague a disturbing number of ERP software systems. We have also litigated many of these disputes on behalf of companies whose systems did not meet the promises made by software vendors or integrators during the software sales…
When Elizabeth Kubler-Ross first described the five stages of grief, she was exploring how people deal with the death of a loved one. When she wrote her definitive work, ERP software systems were not even a gleam in anyone’s eye.
Yet as attorneys who have spent our careers working with ERP software systems and…
It seems a growing number of companies are coming to us to negotiate and draft contracts for an upgraded ERP software system. As part of understanding what we need to include in the contract, we ask the company’s CEO, COO, CTO or General Counsel why they are making the upgrade.
Frequently, the answer revolves around…
Technology companies are notorious for believing the solutions they propose to a potential user’s pain points are the best possible answer. When it comes to ERP software systems, however, too often many developers, vendors and integrators ignore or overlook the reality that the technology they sell is actually a business solution, not simply a technology…
