Entries by Allan Krans, Practice Manager and Principal Analyst

Ecosystem Intelligence: Key Strategic Changes for 2025

In 2025 IT services companies and consultancies will refine their alliances, winnowing lists of 100-plus technology partners to the handful that drive more than 90% of their business, articulate a clear joint value proposition, and align at both the leadership and sales force levels. A technology- and partner-agnostic approach was always a bit of a fiction and in the coming years will become a relic of the past. To make all that happen, IT services companies, cloud and on-premises infrastructure vendors, and consultancies will invest in ecosystem intelligence and elevate alliance management within their organizations.

Hybrid, Proximity and Ecosystems Are Elevating the Importance of Colocation

Whether due to existing legacy investments, divisional or regional nuances, or acquisition and divestiture activity, heterogeneity will remain in most IT environments. At one point, the benefits of public cloud made organizations consider a homogeneous, fully cloud-based IT delivery strategy, but those visions have faded for most. The challenge — and goal — is to embrace the hybrid heterogeneous approach and find the best way to integrate, manage and optimize services across these diverse sets of delivery methods and assets. Colocation data centers play a critical role for customers, offering a hybrid approach to facilities and in the interconnection of cloud and on-premises services.

SoftwareOne Strategy Brings Speed, Ease, Flexibility and Low Cost to SAP Clients in DACH Region

In a June 2024 chat with SoftwareOne’s DACH leadership, TBR uncovered three key observations that set SoftwareOne apart in the SAP ecosystem: focusing on pragmatic solutions for current SAP environments; emphasizing speed, flexibility and cost-effectiveness amid complexities of S/4HANA migration; and the impending 2027 ECC support deadline.