Pat Phelan - author at diginomica

Pat Phelan has provided thousands of CIOs and IT leaders with research and advice on strategies and options for managing the business application life-cycle and costs, and has published nearly 300 research reports. Prior to joining Rimini Street, Ms. Phelan spent 18 years with worldwide analyst firm Gartner, where she served as research vice president for enterprise software and ERP products, and was the leading analyst covering third-party enterprise software support.

Articles by Pat Phelan

Making the move to unified software services - risk or opportunity? This article is sponsored by:

As enterprise applications continue to grow and evolve, how do CIOs ensure their support models are able to keep up with business demand? Pat Phelan of Rimini Street offers three ways that unified software services can help.

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The shape of your hybrid IT environment should not be an accident This article is sponsored by:

As the hybrid IT model becomes the new norm, Pat Phelan of Rimini Street outlines why CIOs need to assess how suppliers, customers and partners use the cloud and devise their own approach to integration and security.

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Six guidelines to make a success of managing hybrid IT This article is sponsored by:

As CIOs adapt to the new reality of hybrid IT, Pat Phelan of Rimini Street offers six guidelines to help develop a roadmap for your journey to a hybrid IT model

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Is your cloud strategy accelerating or hindering innovation? This article is sponsored by:

A cloud strategy can accelerate innovation - or hinder it. As Rimini Street's Pat Phelan explains, it all depends on what you move to the cloud, and why

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Don't be fooled by these 8 misconceptions of ERP in the cloud This article is sponsored by:

CIOs are often advised to move core applications to the cloud, but should beware these common misconceptions about SaaS ERP, writes Rimini Street's Pat Phelan

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Why enterprise IT is moving to the cloud - and when it's not This article is sponsored by:

CIOs are under pressure to move enterprise IT to the cloud. But that doesn't mean ERP has to go too, writes Pat Phelan from Rimini Street