What are the top issues you need to focus on when negotiating with SAP, Oracle, and Infor?
In this video, we discuss some key issues you need to negotiate with your ERP vendors, like SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Infor, Acumatica, Epicor, Tecsys, and others.
Understanding what to negotiate and who you are negotiating against is fundamental in leveraging the ERP contract negotiation process to your advantage.
You want to have a plan going into the negotiation process for what you will ask for, how you will mitigate risk, critical asks, and fall-back positions.
If you treat the ERP contract
The themes underlying failed SAP and Oracle ERP and digital transformation lawsuits are almost always the same. Vendors misrepresent functionality, cloud products are not fully baked, and salespeople minimize the software’s limitations while overselling its capabilities.
In this video, I discuss common themes in the many failed ERP implementations I have litigated in my career.
In this video, Taft partner Marcus Harris explains how the ERP contract negotiation process is one of the most valuable tools you can use to mitigate the likelihood of an ERP failure.
If done correctly, your expectations, concerns, and a process for resolving disputes should all be addressed in detail.
ERP software continues evolving, and digital transformation remains as relevant as ever for modern commercial enterprises. Keeping up-to-date is essential for your business. Post-COVID, there have been non-stop developments in ERP software trends, pushing IT leaders to reprioritize constantly. Here is a breakdown of the latest ERP trends we expect to see in 2023:
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
The general counsel at any sized company knows how to draft everything from employment contracts and leases to complicated sales agreements. But few are familiar with what Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software systems actually do, let alone the traps lurking in these types of contracts.
This isn’t surprising given that the lifespan of most ERP
Three court cases reveal the importance of ensuring that contracts for an ERP software system and other digital transformations be carefully negotiated to remove the possibility that a lawsuit over a failure can be blocked by, seemingly harmless clauses that vendors and integrators insert as a matter of routine in their template agreements.
The first
Corporate financial wizards are expert at creating realistic expense budgets that project exactly how much will be spent on everything from paper clips to building a new facility and expanding into new markets. But even the best MBA analysts from the best grad schools have trouble accurately budgeting the cost and time for an SAP