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THE MAGAZINE

TOP NEWS

Latest results a turning point for IFS By Paul Esherwood

IFS has revealed another set of stellar results which confirm the business is firmly on the path to £1bn in revenue and underscores the recent valuation of $10bn following a recent recap with Hg Capital. IFS’s growth in H1 2022 is put down to acquiring net new customers as well as from the IFS install base continuing to upgrade to its IFS Cloud product. In the first 12 months of IFS Cloud’s general availability, the company reported the same number of new users as it secured over a 25-year period with previous generation software.

DAILY NEWS

Acquisiton Arcwide expands European offering with acquisition

Oracle Oracle and Anaconda partner to accelerate open-source innovation

Infor Infor AI helps global bakery business to rise

Salesforce New Salesforce commerce solution will help retailers ‘go headless’ fast

Accenture Accenture Federal Services secures US Army contract

DIGITAL XTRAS

Oracle partners collaborate on event for EBS customers

AI in the House of Lords

EDITORS CHOICE

Editor’s words: what kind of future do we want? By Paul Esherwood

Our future is being designed for us and we have very little say in the process. Drucker told us we could predict the future by designing it, the only question that remains is what kind of future do we want?

Samsara poised to disrupt world of physical operations By Paul Esherwood

The IoT industry is more than 40 years old, but until recently most companies that strapped a device to a physical asset got little more than some binary data with almost zero value.

Red Hat: an open shift in the enterprise cloud By Adrian Bridgwater

An interview with Matt Hicks, Red Hat’s global executive VP of products and technologies. "Disrupting a critical application is never the right path, but deliberately evolving into an open ERP foundation is absolutely a well-trodden and successful approach."

Orbis non sufficit – the race for cloud supremacy By Paul Esherwood

Is anyone else bored by the numbers? Do you find the race for cloud dominance a bit dull? Are vendor boasts reminding you of a recent time in history when getting rich and grabbing more played out pretty badly for most of us?

SPONSORED NEWS

Arribatec Arribatec will transform the housing sector with its ERP implementations

Shopify Acumatica broadens strategic relationship with Shopify

PARTNER PLATFORM

Inoapps Inoapps sparks five-day close for ECM Industries with Oracle Cloud EPM

Embridge Consulting Embridge named a WalkMe reseller partner

BLOGS

Iguazio sees ‘Sense’ in MLOps automation By Adrian Bridgwater

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platform company Iguazio has this summer noted work carried out with Artificial Intelligence (AI) talent engagement for recruiting specialist Sense. Sense is using automation and AI to speed up the recruitment process, while also delivering what...

Deepfake data will mean real money in finance – but reality is key By Giacomo Lee

Can synthetic data resolve bias, privacy and data gaps for financial services?

Netflix and chill on the Mega-Deal? By Giacomo Lee

The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.

New Relic goes native on SAP agentless observability By Adrian Bridgwater

New Relic wants to up the monitoring game for SAP deployments. But let’s step back, why is New Relic called New Relic? As a cloud-based application and web service monitoring specialist, New Relic should be called New Relic because its...

Is the business world ready for Zoomer SaaS apps? By Adrian Bridgwater

As Gen Z joins the workforce, businesses have to adapt to the shifting expectations employees bring to the office.

MORE NEWS

Infor Global clothing company strengthens supply chain with Infor

Capgemini Capgemini links up with Unity on metaverse solutions

Salesforce Crown Commerical Service signs MOU with Salesforce

Accenture Accenture expands cloud capabilities with Sentia

+ News

ERP TODAY LIVE! SESSIONS

ERP Today Live! with Acumatica

John Case is the new CEO at Acumatica. 6 months into his role, we ask what has been achieved in the first half-year of his tenure and does the world really need another mid-market ERP vendor? Case discusses the traction Acumatica is getting with an increasingly focussed cohort of customers and how Acumatica’s points of differentiation help set the cloud-native ERP publisher apart from the competition.

Embridge Consulting Drive Low-Risk, Efficient Digital Evolution

ServiceNow The art of enterprise intelligence

+ Partner Platform

FEATURES

Celebrate pioneers during time of disruption By ERP Today

Since its founding 50 years ago, SAP has strived to create positive economic, environmental and social impact, and the SAP Innovation Awards reflect that mission.

The CIO is becoming the innovation orchestrator at digital first enterprises By Bob Parker

We have all heard it – the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation. Great; but the need for speed required a change in approaches to technology deployment. Prior to the pandemic our research showed a strong correlation between advanced digital maturity...

Ukraine and the state of play in Enterprise Security By Giacomo Lee

When it comes to cybersecurity, enterprise tech can no longer afford to ignore the threat of hostile nation states.

Navigating global supply chain disruption By Christine Horton

It has never been more important to ensure supply chains are both resilient and sustainable. So how can organisations develop both short and long-term strategies to cope with global disruption?

Melissa Di Donato – how far have we really come? By Paul Esherwood

Melissa Di Donato dares to be different. And she is daring you to be the same. The new CEO of SUSE is unashamedly taking aim at the issue of gender-bias and diversity while hatching a plan to grow SUSE into a global powerhouse.

REPORTS

SAP A Complete Guide to SAP

Capgemini A Complete Guide to Supply Chains

NEXT REPORT

A Complete Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation

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EXPERTS

Paul Esherwood Editor in Chief

Adrian Bridgwater Technology Editor

Holger Mueller Principal analyst at Constellation Research covering next gen apps

Emma Sinclair MBE CoFounder, EnterpriseAlumni

Andy Bird Inoapps founder, passionate about increasing value from Oracle solutions.

Dr Zara Nanu CEO and co-founder at Gapsquare

+ All Experts

EXPERT OPINION

A fair and inclusive future of work needs some planning By Dr Zara Nanu

For a closer look at how much the Great Resignation is impacting the IT sector and its workforce plans for the future, just look at the data.

An effective metaverse strategy requires a web3 mindset By Wayne Lloyd

Businesses might face risks by underpinning their metaverse strategies with a web2 way of thinking.

The Rise of Industry Vertical Solutions By Mark Sweeny

Both the platform vendor and systems integrator landscapes are changing. Where to put your money?

Aligning ESG and digital strategies By J R VanOrder and Sameer Shah

In the quest to build sustainable, purpose-driven companies, technology cannot be an afterthought.

The future of work won’t wait for you to evolve By Dr Zara Nanu

Instead of a grand movement shaped by AI and automation, self-driving cars and trips to Mars...

VENDOR CHANNELS

EVENTS

The ERP Today Awards & NHS Fundraiser

The ERP Today Awards & NHS Fundraiser has set a new benchmark for in-person events combining fun, awards and fundraising in an outdoor festival-style setting.

GUEST CONTRIBUTORS

We are ready to write our next chapter By Julia White

It feels as though we’re just getting started. In this special issue, we look back so we can innovate forward - we hope you’ll join us on the journey as we write our next chapter.

Five key cloud opportunities for the next decade By Scott Russell

After years of repeated shocks and disruption, there is still one constant when we talk to customers about their cloud goals - the need for business transformation.

The future of cloud ERP is here By Thomas Saueressig

Five founders and the vision to transform the way businesses run - that is how SAP’s story began in 1972. I’m privileged to have been part of this journey for almost two decades.

SAP’s history – fifty years and counting By Jon Simmonds

What started SAP on such an illustrious journey, all those years ago back in 1972? Let’s take a dive into history to understand SAP's legacy and what the future holds.

Why verticalisation is key to software development By Bonnie Duncan Tinder

As cloud solutions evolve, there is a shift from horizontal to vertical industry-tailored applications. Bonnie Tinder, CEO at Raven Intel...

COVER STORIES

50 years of SAP, Klein says, “We’re just getting started.” By Paul Esherwood

50 years ago five former IBM executives started the conversation by forming a company called Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung. Since then, new protagonists have emerged, markets have shifted, share prices have fluctuated and products have evolved, but one thing has remained constant. SAP is the market leader….by a mile.

Dream Big By Paul Esherwood

Bill McDermott Dreams Big. His aspirations are not bound by convention nor are they constrained by tradition. They are driven by a conviction that anything is possible and we all have the ability to reimagine our future on whatever scale we conceive.

Social Work England creates new benchmark for ERP projects By Paul Esherwood

Kindness, wellbeing and mindfulness embedded as a key tenet of the project - implemented on time, to budget and already delivering benefits.

Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO UK&I, Salesforce By Paul Esherwood

A 22 year veteran of consulting giant Accenture, Zahra Bahrololoumi – or Z as she is known to her friends – has made the monumental leap from consultancy to vendor and now finds herself sitting at the top table within...

The Moment of Service By Paul Esherwood

There’s a fragile point in time during every business deal when the blood, sweat and tears are condensed into a single instance. The efforts made to secure the sale, the capital invested to deliver your product, and the time spent nurturing relationships are boiled down to a solitary moment when it all comes together or fails to meet expectations. This is the moment you either delight or disappoint. This is the moment of service...

ERP TODAY LIVE

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