Data is everything when it comes to AI. Making sure we have SAP data collection running full-speed is essential to our operations as the results can help us make fast, on-the-spot and long-term strategic decisions that impact production, cost, profitability, resource planning and more — we're a manufacturer running 24 …

Rimini Street is more than a service provider. They are now a trusted, long-term partner that respects our strategic direction, aligns with our vision and delivers real value. Rimini Street frees up critical resources, fast-tracks innovation and provides expert support across our global operations, giving us the flexibility to modernize …

As part of Covanta’s IT transformation, our strategy was to deliver high value projects to our internal customers. And in order to achieve this, we sought strategic business partners to help us provide support for all of our technology solutions.

Our experience has been that they [Rimini Street] truly have a deep bench of folks with high skills, high professionalism that really care and they've jumped in, they've asked questions to understand the business, and they help us make decisions and have actually helped us fine tune our JDE infrastructure …

Oftentimes, we're following [Rimini Street's] recommendations with things that we implemented 20, 30 years ago that at the time were great ideas. As things have evolved, we've had to change and adapt, and a lot of that has been through the advice of Rimini Street and it's led to great …

Finally, a couple of years ago decided that we were going to move to Workday. And Rimini Street's been a great partner to help us move in that direction and make sure that we maintain our data as well as moving in a methodical way so that we could keep …

Rimini Street constantly demonstrates that they know how to do this. They have the right talent, the right security, the right cost structure, and most importantly, they are proactive, easy to deal with, and always do what they say they’re going to do.

Time is a luxury. Rimini Street gives me time. I get the ability to thoughtfully go through and figure out what I’m going to replace Oracle with, and then thoughtfully migrate over there.

You [Rimini Street] just deliver on what you commit to doing. And that is really is a wonderful experience – no headaches involved. It never escalates to me, which means it’s being taken care of without me having to get involved.

Instead of just spending labor to do an Oracle upgrade with no value on the back end, I can take what would’ve been technical debt to upgrade the infrastructure and apply that to the new solution. I don’t have to invest 20% of my labor into doing Oracle upgrades every …

We have been working with Rimini Street for the past few years with great success, and in addition to providing the functional and technical support you would expect, they also act as a sounding board for our technical team for developing custom solutions for our environment.

We first learned of Rimini Street at a Gartner conference, where after performing our due diligence, we recognized that in addition to filling the support role, we were able to re-architect our entire ERP platform and save over a million dollars annually as a part of this initiative.

When we first started with Rimini Street, the focus was initially just to meet the immediate needs of the business and remain supported. But there were direct savings by moving to Rimini Street support and those savings have added up over the years into millions of dollars. We got to …

We are now a Rimini ONE™ client with both support, core support and AMS support. We’re actually gonna expand it further with Rimini Connect™ as well.

[Rimini Street] are advising us how to set up our environments to meet the needs of interoperability with browser, hardware, operating system, databases. So it’s an ongoing relationship that continuously evolves.