Thousands of Organizations Have Chosen Rimini Smart Path™ to Fund and Accelerate Innovation

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced thousands of organizations have benefited from the Rimini Smart Path™, a proven, three-step methodology to Support, Optimize and Innovate across the enterprise software portfolio, helping leaders achieve innovation within existing budgets and without costly vendor-mandated upgrades or migrations.

Across industries, CIOs and business leaders face escalating pressure to modernize and innovate even as resources are constrained and IT complexity grows. Yet traditional ERP models continue to place significant roadblocks in front of progress. IDC research shows that 47% of organizations have delayed innovation due to upgrade requirements, and 92% feel locked into their ERP vendor’s roadmap, limiting flexibility and driving dissatisfaction. ¹ These pressures make it increasingly difficult to innovate at the speed the business requires, and stall the transformation needed for competitive advantage.

The Rimini Smart Path™ addresses these challenges head-on — restoring control, freeing budget and accelerating innovation by enabling organizations to maximize the value of existing software investments while advancing toward next-generation operating models such as Rimini Street’s vision for Agentic AI ERP, where autonomous AI agents orchestrate business processes across composable architectures.

How the Rimini Smart Path Works

Since 2005, Rimini Street has helped thousands of organizations save over $10 billion in IT costs while enjoying stability, risk reduction and freedom from vendor-mandated upgrade cycles. The Rimini Smart Path is proven across Fortune Global 100, Fortune 500, midmarket, public‑sector and government organizations as the fastest, surest route to real innovation within existing budgets.

The methodology is simple and powerful:

• Support: Replace costly vendor support with Rimini Support™ for Oracle, SAP, VMware, and hundreds of other products, delivering comprehensive third-party support, including for customizations, at substantial annual savings, guaranteed for up to 15+ years. This stabilizes systems, reduces risk and frees critical people, time and budget for strategic priorities.

• Optimize: Reduce operating costs and improve performance with Rimini Optimize™ expert-led services, including managed services, professional services, proactive security, and interoperability solutions. Organizations benefit from a stable, secure and flexible IT estate while gaining maximum efficiency and ROI.

• Innovate: With systems stable and resources freed from day-to-day operations, Rimini Innovate™ empowers organizations to take on transformational projects — from AI to automation to analytics — without increasing overall IT spend. Rimini Agentic UX™ further accelerates enterprise-wide automation, delivering streamlined workflows and new capabilities at scale.

Key Benefits of the Rimini Smart Path™

• Maximize Return on Current Software Investments: Keep existing ERP and other enterprise applications running smoothly and securely through 2040 and beyond, while layering Agentic AI ERP “over the top” for transformation without disruption.

• Save on Software Support Costs: Achieve up to 90% total savings on ERP and other software support with ultra-responsive 24/7/365 service and guaranteed 10-minute response times for priority cases, delivered on average in less than 2 minutes.

• Improve Operational Performance: Leverage turnkey services to free up limited internal IT resources for higher‑ROI work, reduce operational burdens and increase operational savings, and improve productivity and results across the organization.

• Innovate to Lead with Profit and Growth: Invest freed-up capital in AI to achieve ERP Process execution savings that lower the total cost to serve, enhance competitive advantage and improve profitability.

“ERP Software is dead. While existing ERP Software and releases can continue to provide great value and be supported by Rimini Street at significant savings for many years to come, we believe ERP Software is peaking in capability, and there is little value to any further investments in ERP Software upgrades, migrations or replatforming,” said Seth Ravin, CEO of Rimini Street. “Agentic AI ERP is the breakthrough that shifts ERP from a passive system of record to an active, intelligent system of action – one capable of orchestrating processes autonomously while delivering exponential gains. The Rimini Smart Path is how you fund innovation within your existing budget – fast – while achieving your strategic, operational and financial goals.”

Analyst Perspective: A New Operating Model for Enterprise Software

IDC recently surveyed over 700 global enterprises and IT leaders across ten countries on their enterprise application portfolio and service provider decisions over the next two years. Findings reinforce the shifting market landscape:

• 74% of organizations believe their ERP has a longer valuable lifespan than the vendors are willing to support

• 68% of organizations value autonomy in deciding whether and when to upgrade their enterprise software

• 72.5% report having a composable architecture strategy for core ERP and other applications

IDC group vice president, enterprise software, Mickey North Rizza, notes that “upgrades, migration and replatforming to the latest software release are not needed to adopt AI,” adding that 53% of organizations are already integrating AI, agents and automation into their existing systems, that may or may not be in their existing software portfolio. Rizza encourages leaders to transform their software portfolio and consider all possibilities, including challenging vendor narratives and adopting operating models that enable AI‑driven modernization without disruption.

Visit Rimini Smart Path™ to learn more, or schedule a workshop led by one of Rimini Street’s expert regional CTOs to discover your roadmap to Agentic AI ERP advantage.

Download the recently published IDC white paper, The Rise of the Agentic Enterprise: Survey Insights on the New Operating Model for Enterprise Software.

About Rimini Street, Inc.

Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a proven, trusted global provider of end-to-end, mission-critical enterprise software support, managed services and innovative Agentic AI ERP solutions, and is the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. The Company has signed thousands of IT service contracts with Fortune Global 100, Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and government organizations who have leveraged the Rimini Smart Path™ methodology to achieve better operational outcomes, billions of US dollars in savings and fund AI and other innovation.

To learn more, please visit www.riministreet.com, and connect with Rimini Street on X, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

¹Source: IDC Signature White Paper, sponsored by Rimini Street, “The Rise of the Agentic Enterprise: Survey Insights on the New Operating Model for Enterprise Software,” doc #US54053226-WP, January 2026

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