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Rimini Street Expands Investment and Operations in Asia-Pacific
Rimini
Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise
software products and services, and the leading third-party support
provider for Oracle and SAP (News - Alert) software products, today announced that it
has expanded its operations in the Asia-Pacific region with the launch
of its new subsidiary, Rimini Street New Zealand Limited, and the
opening of its new office in Auckland to address the growing demand for
Rimini Street's premium, ultra-responsive support services in New
Zealand. Rimini Street's expansion was announced at a gala event held at
The Northern Club in Auckland, where clients, local IT leaders and the
special guest of honor, Ambassador Scott P. Brown, the U.S. Ambassador
to New Zealand, were hosted by Rimini Street's general manager for
Asia-Pacific, Andrew Powell, and Rimini Street corporate senior
executives.
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Rimini Street launches subsidiary in New Zealand, hires staff and opens new office in Auckland (Photo: Business Wire)
Growing demand for IT optimization and a business-driven IT roadmap
Rimini Street launched its new subsidiary in response to the region's
increasing desire for software support solutions that can help optimize
their IT spend and enable them to liberate significant funding for their
business transformation initiatives. Rimini Street already supports
nearly 50 clients with operations in New Zealand, including local brands
James Pascoe, Spark, 2Degrees Mobile, Refining New Zealand and The
University of Auckland.
By switching to Rimini Street support from the vendor's support, these
organizations have saved up to 90 percent of the total cost of
maintenance of their SAP and Oracle (News - Alert) software assets, and are able to run
their current ERP releases with no forced upgrades for a minimum of 15
years from the date they switched support. Rimini Street clients also
benefit from the Company's flexible, premium-level enterprise software
support model, including its industry-leading Service Level Agreement
(SLA) of 15-minute response times for critical Priority 1 cases. In
addition, each client is assigned a Primary Support Engineer (PSE) with
an average of 15 years' experience in their particular enterprise
software system, backed by a broader team of technical experts. By
switching their support to Rimini Street, organizations are able to take
back control of their IT roadmaps with a "business-driven roadmap"
strategy that provides much more flexibility and value compared to the
vendor roadmap, allowing CIOs to focus on creating value and providing
competitive advantage for growth.
"Organizations in New Zealand, both public and private, spend hundreds
of millions of dollars every year on their annual enterprise software
support and maintenance, yet see little return from this significant
spend," said Andrew
Powell, general manager, Asia-Pacific, Rimini Street. "Our
conversations with CIOs are squarely focused on how we can help them
dramatically lower the total cost of ownership of their stable, mature
enterprise systems as part of a hybrid computing model and
business-driven roadmap, and as a result, we are experiencing increased
demand in the region. With Rimini Street, organizations have the option
to break free from the seemingly never-ending upgrade cycle dictated by
the vendor's roadmap - an expensive and disruptive path for companies to
undertake just to stay fully supported. With our new operation in
Auckland, we are better able to engage with and support organizations in
New Zealand who want to significantly cut their software support spend
and take back control of their IT roadmaps."
Region at risk of "falling behind" on innovation
Recent research from Vanson Bourne, commissioned by Rimini Street, found
that enterprises in the ANZ region plan to spend the second-least amount
on IT innovation in the world in the next 12 months, and they plan to
increase their IT innovation spend by just 6.31% in the 12 months
following the survey, well below the global average of 10.94%.
"New Zealand is famous for innovation, but it is at risk of falling
behind the rest of the world," continued Powell. "New Zealand CIOs know
that it's important to spend their IT budgets on more than daily
operations. With budget pressures between operating costs and the need
to invest in innovation, CIOs need to reassess the value of existing
support arrangements and explore better software support options
designed to provide a greater ROI. Rimini Street enables CIOs in New
Zealand to unlock significant savings and redirect that funding into
critical innovation initiatives."
To download an eBook summary of the survey, "The State of Innovation:
Priorities and Challenges," click here.
About Rimini Street, Inc.
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI) is a global provider of enterprise
software products and services, and the leading third-party support
provider for Oracle and SAP software products. The Company has redefined
enterprise software support services since 2005 with an innovative,
award-winning program that enables licensees of IBM, Microsoft (News - Alert), Oracle,
Salesforce, SAP and other enterprise software vendors to save up to 90
percent on total maintenance costs. Clients can remain on their current
software release without any required upgrades for a minimum of 15
years. Over 1,700 global Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and other
organizations from a broad range of industries currently rely on Rimini
Street as their trusted, third-party support provider. To learn more,
please visit http://www.riministreet.com/,
follow @riministreet
on Twitter (News - Alert) and find Rimini Street on Facebook
and LinkedIn.
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