THE ORIGINA BLOG

Retail IT Challenges for 2024 (and How to Overcome Them)

Retail IT Challenges for 2024 (and How to Overcome Them)

Discover the four major hurdles every retailer faces when scaling their IT ambitions. Unlock powerful IT strategies and game-changing solutions that can propel every retailer forward.

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Utility Companies: Make the Most of Your O&M Mainframe Software Budget

Utility Companies: Make the Most of Your O&M Mainframe Software Budget

Utility companies are looking for ways to reduce O&M spending without sacrificing innovation. Our webinar, "Revolutionizing Utility IT O&M: Escape IBM's Mainframe Maintenance Maze," offers practical solutions to the challenges utilities are facing and advice on how to exit costly IBM mainframe support. 

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Digital Transformation for Utilities: Don’t Let Software OEM Tactics Deride Your Transformation Plans

Digital Transformation for Utilities: Don’t Let Software OEM Tactics Deride Your Transformation Plans

Your mainframe software can be an asset for digital transformation. For utilities providers, the secret’s in mitigating the business tactics OEM use against you.

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A More Flexible Approach to IBM Software Maintenance

A More Flexible Approach to IBM Software Maintenance

Are you unhappy with your software maintenance and support but skeptical about moving to an independent provider? This blog debunks some of the common misconceptions about partnering with a third-party software maintenance company.

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HCL® Digital Experience 8.5 and 9.0 End of Support: Avoid the Term Licensing Trap

HCL® Digital Experience 8.5 and 9.0 End of Support: Avoid the Term Licensing Trap

You don’t have to move your HCL® Digital Experience to 9.5 to keep your software supported, secured, and maintained. See a different take on the EOS and term licensing changes here.

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Top 3 Triggers for IBM Software License Audits

Top 3 Triggers for IBM Software License Audits

Any company that has purchased IBM software licenses will likely be audited at some point. Here are the top three scenarios that can trigger an audit.

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Software Maintenance Cost Reduction Strategies for Procurement and Operations

Software Maintenance Cost Reduction Strategies for Procurement and Operations

Your IBM® software spend could be significantly lower with the right expertise on call. Discover the strategies and benefits that go beyond the OEM’s upgrade tactics.

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Enterprise Software Trends to Watch in 2024

Enterprise Software Trends to Watch in 2024

Your legacy software has a lot of value left to give in 2024 and beyond. Explore enterprise software trends we expect to see throughout the new year.

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Empowering Communities: A Year of Giving Back with Origina

Empowering Communities: A Year of Giving Back with Origina

Origina had a lot to do in 2023 – and not just for our customers. Check out some of our charitable, social, and environmental activity this year, including work championing the Right to Repair cause.

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Financial Industry Digital Transformation: 3 Ways TPSM Can Help

Financial Industry Digital Transformation: 3 Ways TPSM Can Help

In the finance industry, modernization can take years and cost tens of millions – both of which can be shaved off the runway with the right outlook and backing talent.

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Gartner® Predicts Continued Growth in Third-Party Software Support Market

Gartner® Predicts Continued Growth in Third-Party Software Support Market

In its 2023 market report, Gartner calls third-party software support “a quick win” and outlines the scenarios that could benefit the most from transferring your IT software solutions from megavendor maintenance to companies like Origina.

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Can’t Trust IBM Software Maintenance from a Third Party? Separating Fact from Fiction

Can’t Trust IBM Software Maintenance from a Third Party? Separating Fact from Fiction

Our Co-Founder and CSO Rowan O’Donoghue discusses the common misconceptions and fears about third-party software maintenance for IBM, and how Origina can dispel them.

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