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In yesterday’s column examining some of the latest solution enhancements from Oracle in the Spend Management arena, I paid particularly close attention to how the provider is attempting to become more flexible with available deployment models and application delivery and integration approaches. What I did not come out and say exactly — though probably should have based on a question I already got from someone — is that the latest release, when Oracle delivers it in an On Demand model, frees companies from doing a fork-lift upgrade on the back-end. In other words, organizations are free to separate ERP and IT upgrade decisions entirely from a move to a hosted Oracle procurement environment. However, Oracle is not advocating such a move in every situation. In fact, they believe many companies could potentially embrace a hybrid or dual deployment strategy leveraging both behind-the-firewall and On Demand applications at the same time…
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