Business of Tech: No upgrade needed: Rimini Street’s cost-saving pitch to CIOs

Business of Tech: No upgrade needed: Rimini Street’s cost-saving pitch to CIOs
Joe Locandro and Seth Ravin. (Image: Supplied/Jacques Steenkamp)
Peter Griffin
Nasdaq-listed tech services company Rimini Street is challenging the status quo in New Zealand’s enterprise IT market, offering a striking alternative to the upgrade treadmill set by big software vendors. On this week’s episode of The Business of Tech, Seth Ravin, founder and CEO of Rimini Street, and Joe Locandro, global CIO, share their vision for how NZ enterprises and government agencies can maintain legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, dramatically reduce support costs, and harness artificial intelligence for...

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