Eric Helmer

📸 Favorite moment from Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ in Barcelona? Here is ours! ✨ 🎤 Eric Helmer, EVP & Global CTO at Rimini Street, and Chris Blatchford, Group CTO at Kingfisher, took the stage for a high-powered, forward-looking fireside chat, “The End of an ERP Era: Rethinking Enterprise Architecture for the Agentic Age.” Together, they shared how leading organizations like Kingfisher are moving beyond traditional ERP restrictions to accelerate innovation and growth! 🤝 We also appreciated the engagement at our Expo stage session, “From Process to Power: AI-Driven ERP for Smarter Outcomes,” where attendees learned how aligning AI with ERP workflows can unlock rapid value and smarter decision-making. Thank you to everyone who connected with us in Barcelona 🙏 — your insights and enthusiasm made this event truly memorable! #RiminiStreet #GartnerSYM

🚨 European retail giant Kingfisher isn’t buying into SAP’s S/4HANA narrative. Not seeing the value in upgrading its ECC to S/4HANA, the 2,000+ store operator instead moved its ECC to Google Cloud with Rimini Street. Through the partnership, Kingfisher is speeding past its competitors, developing AI, personalization, recommendation engines and flexible pricing models — all from its core ERP data. Get the details here: bit.ly/4oUmVMv #RiminiStreet

Four Challenges with ERP Vendor-led AI Roadmaps & How to Solve Them riministreet.com/blog/solving-e… #ERP #AI #Roadmap

Join me at the #HMG 15th Annual Phoenix C-Level Technology Leadership Summit March 21st! hmgstrategy.biz/Phoenix

Check out my latest article in @informationweek see the top four challenges CIO’s face associated with technical Debt. #techdebt #ERP #ITLeadership informationweek.com/it-leadership/…

Great event this week at #IMPACT2024 #TechTalkSummit at the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, FL. AI focused this year and full of information. Love talking about the intersection of #ERP and #AI !

Make sure ROI is your main driver when exploring AI. #ArtificialIntelligence #ROI #EmergingTech riministreet.com/blog/ai-potent…

Great to contribute to this fantastic @TechTarget article on the trend of rising IT spending on servers and storage and how that relates to SaaS shrinkflation #cio #shrinkflation techtarget.com/searchcio/news…

So great to catch up with some great friends at this year’s Sales Ready. Looking forward to an amazing year! #Riministreetsalesready2024 #erpsolutions #revenuegrowth #clientcollaboration

How do you Navigate between ERP Implementations, a Fixed Budget, and Mission-Critical Operations? Check out my latest article in @SolutionsReview #Enterprise #Budget2024 #erpsoftware  solutionsreview.com/enterprise-res…

Great to be one of the experts in the latest @ForbesTechCncl article. Themes are clear: Projects must have #ROI. Many #ERP customers refuse to re-implement thier ERP systems onto rented clouds and focus resources on #innovativetech instead #youhaveachoice shorturl.at/pFLR1

Wonderful catching up with clients and prospects at the Rimini Street Light event in London last week. #cio #digitaltransformation

Great event at this year’s Evanta CIO Executive Summit in Paris, France. Fascinating discussion in how leading CIOs can achieve growth and profitability in both good and complex times in the wake unreasonable cloud pressures from RRP vendors. #Evanta #CIOSummit

Great to be a party of @Computerworld feature article on Super apps: the next big thing for enterprise IT? Check it out here: computerworld.com/article/371098… #superapps #EnterpriseIT

Join me and the Rimini Street team in Paris on December 5th, at the Evanta CIO Executive Summit. This exciting event provides a unique opportunity for the French CIO community to connect, network and learn. #RiminiStreet #CIOsummit evanta.com/cio/france/fra…

Great to be a part of ComputerWeekly.com article questing if third party support for ERP makes sense. Hear from myself, @emma_hose, and Simon Lytton on their take on why you should consider. computerweekly.com/news/366559292…

#riministreet team at #gartnersym Tokyo.

Big turn out for our session at Gartner IT Symposium Tokyo this year. Turn IT from a cost center into an innovation machine! Connect with us: lnkd.in/gtzX9Ys9   #RiminiStreet #GartnerSym #Tokyo

Gartner IT Symposium Barcelona wraps up today. Fantastic event and great to catch up with everyone! See ya next year #gartnersym

Great turn out for our Gartner session in Barcelona today where we talked about how to turn IT organizations from a cost center into innovation machines that return dividends into the organization. #innovation #ROI