Rimini Street, headquartered in Las Vegas, is a global provider of enterprise software support products and services, and a third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products, specializing in database and ERP support and management services.
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Slalom
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Slalom is a consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, that focuses on strategy, technology, and business transformation. Platforms Slalom provides solutions for are: AWS Google Cloud Microsoft Salesforce Snowflake Tableau
The transition from software vendor to Rimini Street third-party support was well managed and planned, with great visibility of progress. The ability to react quickly to impacting issues and have engineers engaged at speed is impressive. The understanding of and engagement around support issues related to software incompatibility, which inevitably occur over time, was great.
Slalom has been a close partner for us for our strategy, technology, and digital transformation initiatives. The firm's strategic guidance, project planning, and management for technology initiatives including cloud migration, and IT architecture have been impeccable. The team also possesses a number of core technology certifications across cloud vendors such as Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and a number of other critical platforms for digital transformation.
Their ticketing system is easy and fast (within 15 minutes). Depending on the priority, an issue is assigned immediately. If the issue persists for a few hours, they have global support until the issue is resolved.
I have worked with Rimini Street on modules such as Payables, General Ledger, Inventory, Receivables, Purchasing, EAM, Fixed Assets, and custom programs. These could be generic or specific to an issue.
I had to open a priority one ticket for the month-end closing issue, and the response and solution were lightning speed.
As a global support organization, at times I'll interact with someone with an accent that is a little tricky to understand. This has never prevented us from reaching a resolution.
It would be nice to have access to a library or knowledge base to be able to research topics on my own.
For 99% of cases, we got the proper resource assigned in an appropriate amount of time. In very few cases, the case was shuffled between analysts, trying to find the right resource and usually required repeated re-explanation of the entire issue, which was time consuming and unproductive.
We didn't have "in-person" training, but it really wasn't necessary. The site is intuitive enough you'll not have any issues opening or managing your cases via the Rimini portal.
From an end-users perspective it was pretty seamless. a) Here's your new website to open and manage cases. b) Here's your credentials c} Here's the process for sharing documentation with the Rimini staff working the case. Step (c) was a bit different because the agreement stipulates we aren't sharing Oracle intellectual property back-and-forth. So the process of providing some of the issue documentation was different than working with Oracle support directly.
Bo other product since this decision was out of my control. If I was to decide, I would surely recommend using Rimini Street as an alternative to Oracle Database support since their employees seem to be very knowledgeable and have the necessary Database Administrator experience needed to help provided the needed support when needed.
We evaluated a number of providers across cloud and digital transformation consulting. Across all facets of our diligence and research, including cloud consulting, mobility consulting, and IT strategy consulting, Slalom consistently scored at the top of our scorecard. In evaluating Slalom, we appreciated the breadth of experience that they possessed across functional pillars from business strategy work to technology integration experience to business change management.
