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Mark Sweeny and Emma O’Brien | de Novo and Embridge join forces for digital transformation in local government
de Novo and Embridge join forces for government transformationBy Yoana Cholteeva
de Novo Solutions and Embridge Consulting have announced they are teaming up to help drive transformation for local government.
DAILY NEWS
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SalesforceSalesforce and AWS expand partnership to deliver new integrations
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Tech MahindraTech Mahindra scores with AWS to enhance sports fan experience
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EYERP Today’s weekly hotlist: 20-24 November
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EYAspen Technology switches on to EY services to aid clients
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EvidenEviden and Microsoft help users move to the cloud
EDITORS CHOICE
Castle in the Clouds : SAP Microsoft cloud collab
SAP and Microsoft’s fairytale ending with cloud collab success story
As Microsoft credits successful Q1 24 to cloud initiatives, has the Microsoft/SAP cloud collab gotten its 'fairytale in the cloud' ending?
By Shána Briddock
As NTT Data buys up SAP licenses, are SIs now horsemen of the HANA-pocalypse?
NTT DATA has announced a plan to repurchase legacy and on-premises SAP licenses to help ease customer cloud migrations. But is this enough?
By Yoana Cholteeva
A frustrated man sitting down at a table with his laptop, running his hand through his hair looking exasperated | manual testing original software
How to reduce your manual testing by up to 60%
The more you can do to make the manual testing process intuitive and painless for business users, the faster and smoother it will go.
By Carl Andrews
image of leaf growing from a pile of money | Oracle and IBM
Move over finance, it’s time for a new value metric
Paul Esherwood speaks with Jonathan Wright, IBM senior managing director for sustainability, and Jon Chorley, Oracle's chief sustainability officer.
By Paul Esherwood
Gartner on why CFOs need inhuman accountants
Exclusive: Mark D. McDonald, senior director analyst in the Gartner Finance Practice, talks GenAI use in the financial space
By Giacomo Lee
Two laptops on a desk with a close up camera shot of two pairs of hands, each of them writing plans on a shared piece of paper | CFOs cloud
A cloud-juiced CFO can unleash a new era of financial excellence
For CFOs to stay afloat, knowledge of the latest technological developments will be necessary. Here's how cloud technology can help CFOs turboboost their respective businesses.
By Scott Russell
Workday fuels future work strategies with multiple tiers of AI
Workday held the US leg of its annual user event in San Francisco this week. Workday Rising was a vibrant mix of Human Resources (HR) people, finance specialists and software application development professionals all blended into one heady mix of...
By Adrian Bridgwater
The advent of value-based maintenance and how to reap the rewards
Servitization is too often looked at in isolation as an independent trend, but it represents the entirety of a customer journey. To reap the benefits of it, organizations can make changes such as apply intelligence to the approach.
By Marne Martin
MOST READ
The letters 'AI' placed in front of a dark, gradient background | SAP and Accenture
SAPSAP and Accenture partner to help businesses adopt GenAI
An Iphone with Netflix on screen connected to headphones | SAP and ServiceNow
SAPIt’s 2007 all over again for SAP and ServiceNow
Workday EMEA mid-size enterprise success
WorkdayWorkday Rising reveals “mass EMEA expansion scheme” success
Image of Accenture building/ Accenture salary hikes
AccentureNo salary hikes for Accenture employees in India and Sri Lanka
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Google CloudSpotify jazzes up platform with Google Cloud’s AI help
The slack logo appears on a laptop screen | Slack CEO
SalesforceSalesforce exec Denise Dresser appointed as new Slack CEO
 
FEATURES
One hand holding up an apple and one hand holding up an orange side by side | Contractor vs consultant
Comparing ERP apples and oranges – Consultant vs contractorBy Christine Horton
GenAI LLM | Image of a Minecraft sandcastle
GenAI guardrails ahoy with LLM sandboxesBy Stephanie Ball
A hand held up to a screen with the index finger showing a digital fingerprint | Remote work and GenAI
Remote work and GenAI: spanners in the cybersecurity engine?By Yoana Cholteeva
Remote work and GenAI are here to stay. But what does this mean for enterprise cybersecurity and how are they impacting it?
Andy Green, COO Arcwide
Arcwide – tall and proudBy Giacomo Lee
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Scaling startups for sustainable cities is a billion-dollar businessBy Giacomo Lee
ERP TODAY LIVE!
UKISUGERP Today Live! talks UKISUG Connect
Craig Dale explains what to expect from the UKISUG 2023 conference, and why it is regarded so highly.
Embridge ConsultingERP Today Live! with Embridge Consulting
Change mobilization - is there a foolproof formula to a successfully implemented transformation?
Unit4ERP Today Live! with Unit4’s Mike Ettling
How can business leaders improve organizational resiliency? Mike Ettling, CEO of Unit4 explores more with Paul Esherwood.
SAPERP Today Live! with Vivien Boche and Sharon Peters
SAP rising star Vivien Boche and Boldyn CIO Sharon Peters discuss how to navigate the industry as a young female professional.
erp today awardsERP Today Awards 2023 Highlights
More than 3,000 ERPers and NHS staff enjoyed a sun-soaked day at glorious Royal Ascot for the 2023 instalment of the ERP Today Awards. City Dynamics raced to the finish to win the top prize for the “Transformation Project of the...
Unit4ERP Today Live! with Unit4
Just how important is the customer experience? Jean de Villiers, chief customer officer at Unit4, sits down with Giacomo Lee to discuss the untapped potential of industrial personalization and how to enhance the customer journey.
MicrosoftERP Today Live! with Microsoft
What does AI mean for SMEs and, with such a fast pace of change, what does effective adoption look like? Microsoft’s Amit Sinha and Adam Stewart cover the bases with Giacomo Lee in this ERP Today Live! session.
SplashBiERP Today Live! with SplashBI
A look at how to make reporting consistent across different systems by building data pipelines for cloud systems to get all the data into a data warehouse.
 
GUESTS
 
A quotation bubble made up of hundreds of people to depict a group | User groups in ERP
Hug! The history and hereafter of user groupsBy Debra Lilley
Debra Lilley, vice president of customer success at Inoapps, discusses the very important role of user groups in the ERP industry.
A robotic character pointing to a board as two smaller robotic characters look towards it | AI and robotic process automation
Where are all the robots hiding in back office?By Paul Taplin
A giant tennis ball surrounded by London, England landmarks such as the Big Ben and the London Eye | Data in sports
Sports data: Why I might be the data bard of the EisteddfodBy Chris Gabriel
BLOGS
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InforUnleashing the power of digital transformation
Close up of a robot hand made of white polymers and futuristic material, it's reaching out as if to offer someone help | Opkey Generative AI
OpkeyAI – beyond chatbots and into testing automation
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UKOUGUKOUG is all for Oracle’s fresh face
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SAPHow technology can help organizations get their houses in order
Playbook to negotiate with SaaS vendors
SaaSPlaybook to negotiate with SaaS vendors
NTTNTT ‘inclusive core’ network technologies point to 6G era
 
EXPERT OPINION
A robotic figure captured in a mid-running motion | AI
Race for the prize: An update on the AI race as ChatGPT speeds ahead
All vendors bring distinctive value propositions to enterprises - choose wisely or find yourself obsolete in the age of AI!
By Holger Mueller
Cloudy vision begone? How to clarify our view of SaaS in the name of security
A murky mass of cloud instances is not good for business. Instead, we want cloud clarity, visibility and observability to secure virtualized compute and data services.
By Adrian Bridgwater
A puddle of oil : DaaS
After the oil spill comes AI to fill in the gaps for enterprises
For AI to succeed it needs data and computation, so let’s look into the reasons why CxOs need to now have DaaSrolling off their tongues.
By Holger Mueller
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GenAI for enterprise: the AI guru view
Pascal Bornet and Kieran Gilmurray discuss the impact of GenAI, its impact in the workplace and how it has changed the workforce.
By Pascal Bornet & Kieran Gilmurray
abstract image of green palm trees with purple background | ESG
The big supply chain data green-up
James Veale, co-founder at GreenToken by SAP discusses ESG 'washing' and turning a green blockchain into reality.
By James Veale
A picture of legos built into a sphere.
How Kubernetes is steering ERP cloud deployments
For many people, the real age of cloud composability started just less than a decade ago with the birth of Kubernetes in 2014.
By Adrian Bridgwater
The start of a beautiful friendship
Workday’s partner strategy historically leveraged two key global relationships and a small cohort of boutique partners to deliver.
By Paul Esherwood
Shutterstock image | Workday
Thriving in a changing world – how to seize the opportunity
Angelique De Vries, EMEA president, Workday, discusses how the company have adapted to the ever-changing tech environment.
By Angelique De Vries
SPONSORED NEWS
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SamsaraSamsara supports drive for road safety charity Brake
Frustrated and angry looking lady in front of her laptop, chewing on a pencil with rage | SoftwareOne cloud skills gap
SoftwareOneThird of businesses suffer financially from the cloud skills gap, SoftwareOne research reveals
A close up of a police siren, typically found on top of most police vehicles, it's red and blue and in front of a dark background | Norwegian Police IFS
IFSNorwegian Police investigate logistics upgrade with IFS Cloud
Close-up of a pilot's cockpit and complex controls, with several dials and meters | Original Software test automation
Original SoftwareTo the stars: Curtiss-Wright reach for Original Software test automation
MORE NEWS
AtosAtos goes green with WWF to support biodiversity initiatives
WiproWipro and NVIDIA accelerate GenAI adoption for healthcare
HPESwisslog GmbH selects HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud
SAPMercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team drives success with SAP
DIGITAL XTRAS
REPORTS
DIGITAL XTRAS
ServiceNow
enosixA Virtual Win: Why SAP Integration is Vital for ServiceNow
WorkdayWorkday is not just a people platform, bet your bottom dollar on it
SamsaraMcKinsey and DHL navigating fleet sustainability with Samsara
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Oracle+IBMBehind the grid at Red Bull Racing with Oracle and IBM
REPORTS
UiPath Guide
UiPathA complete guide to UiPath
complete guide to SAP
SAPA Complete Guide to SAP
CapgeminiA Complete Guide to Supply Chains
Guide to servicenow
ServiceNowA Complete Guide to ServiceNow
PARTNER PLATFORM
Doctor wearing his coat and with a stethoscope around his neck examines a phone in his hands, you cannot see the doctor's head | healthcare Oracle
OracleLatest Oracle mobile additions are a fresh shot of adrenaline for healthcare organizations
Oracle has upgraded their mobile capabilities to help healthcare organizations reduce inventory errors, improve restock efficiency and gain the visibility needed to better predict demand and optimize stock availability.
A closeup of a handshake between two males in suits, you can only see their hands in a firm grasp with each other | Inoapps McKeel
InoappsThomas McKeel joins Inoapps as global practice lead EPM
The appointment is said by the firm to signal the growth of Inoapps Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).
Futuristic city scape with bright, neon lights highlighting tall buildings during the night | Inoapps modernization
InoappsInoapps and Oracle Cloud Apps: the first steps on the path to modernization
Modernizing processes and adopting new technology is an issue that needs to be addressed by most businesses. Before that decision is made, however, you need to identify what you hope to gain out of the new tech. 
Top-down view of a city skyline, showing multiple skyscrapers, a river running-through and a lovely sunset | Boomi
AmericasPreventing business boondoggles with Boomi
The already pressing need for organizations to transform their operations to stay competitive exploded into an “or else” during the pandemic. Companies suddenly had to provide digital access to anywhere, anytime services.
 
OUR COVER STORIES
 
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Blue Marine Foundation: Saving our seas in real timeBy Giacomo Lee
Blue Marine's project with integrator City Dynamics is proof that while stargazing is an easy habit to fall into when it comes to tech, sometimes the best stories of transformation are happening “down to Earth”. Such stories are happening very much in the here and now, with real-time consequences for everyone on our embattled planet.
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Meet Maxi, Earth CEO – and savior of humanityBy ERP Today
Carl Eschenbach and Aneel Bhusri, Workday
New Dawn, new Workday: Carl Eschenbach to lead next chapterBy Paul Esherwood
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