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IBM to transform its operations with RISE with SAP
By Beckie Barrett
IBM and SAP have extended their long-standing partnership as IBM undertakes ‘one of the world’s largest corporate transformation projects’ based on SAP ERP software, designed to fuel the company's growth and better support its clients.
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Christian Klein, cover story preview
Christian Klein, talks exclusively to Paul Esherwood in this access all interview. As SAP turns 50, Klein opens up on his journey to the CEO role, the work SAP has done on its own transformation, and discusses S/4HANA, RISE and sustainability.
This 8 minutes preview forms the basis for the cover story in the June issue of ERP Today. Subscribe for free to get the full story.
Editors Choice
Cloud healthcare and the data state of play
By Giacomo Lee
Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.
AI in healthcare: What now after Watson?
By Giacomo Lee
IBM’s Watson health venture was so beleaguered, it can be forgiven if AI in healthcare seems like a poor business bet.
Legacy tech lingers in healthcare after Covid. What’s the fix?
By Giacomo Lee
It's still too early to say the NHS has shed off enough of its legacy technology, even after the pandemic.
Editor’s Words: capability and complexity
By Paul Esherwood
In a previous editorial, I quoted Tom Peters who famously said: “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention” - but that sentiment is already outdated.
ERP Today Vendor Review 2022
By ERP Today
ERP’s role has changed – and finally the vendors are listening. This year’s vendor review takes a close look at the 10 key ERP vendors that are suited to mid-market and enterprise customers.
The art of enterprise intelligence
By Dave Wright
Amazon, Venmo and Uber Eats: none of these iconic brands allow us to do anything we couldn’t do before. After all, I bought stuff on the internet, paid the babysitter, and ordered food delivery for years before any of those companies came around.
The great hybrid multi-cloud myth
By Dan Scarfe
Dan Scarfe with an alternative look at the trend for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures – does the world really need to be this complex?
Industry clouds: a key ingredient for agility and business opportunity
By Jan Gilg
The astonishing pace of change in the world today driven by extraordinary levels of technology innovation has been pushing business towards the cloud for years.
Latest Blog
Optimising your data strategy
By Paul Cooper
Data remains one of a business’s most valuable assets, with organisations increasingly using insights derived from analytics to drive decisions and strategy. According to our latest survey of 116 SAP user organisations across the UK and Ireland, three quarters of...
Guest Contributors
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...
What US wars can teach us about ERP strategy
By Duncan Prior
Thanks to Hollywood, US wars are etched in our collective understanding. Not to mention politicians’ soundbites, the moving images captured...
Can ERP degrees help solve the talent crisis?
By Steve Leggetter
The ERP industry is woefully short of resources and many global brands in this space are locked in a battle to find, recruit and retain new talent.
Making a genuine difference in building a sustainable future
By Oliver Pilgerstorfer
At the end of 2021, IFS hosted its Change for Good awards at COP26 in Glasgow to celebrate the difference and impact our customers are having...
ERP and HR systems: the lovechildren of Inflation
By Tom Holmes
When inflation and high interest rates last got together in the 1970s, they spawned the lovechild of ERP and drove a revolution in materials...
Using data to stem the tide of employee resignations
By Ian Cook
Throughout the course of 2021, employees have been leaving their organisations in record numbers. During the months of July, August and September...
The data migration project minefield
By John Smith
Data is the foundation on which all modern businesses are built and the importance of accurate and timely data has never been more important...
Culture sits at the top of the finance agenda
By Michael Douroux
It may be a new year but many challenges brought on by the pandemic are persisting - the ‘Great Resignation’ being one of the biggest issues affecting business...
Supply chains post Covid-19
By Will Stirling
Supply chains for complex and costly products are always in a state of flux. But massive changes to...
Expert Opinion
Our Cover Stories
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. McDermott talks in terms of exponential thinking - radically disrupting classical concepts by discovering new solutions to problems that have puzzled us for decades. There is no ceiling to his ambitions and he unashamedly sets astronomic targets which few would dare to consider.
Winners Dream - the title of his book says it all.
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...
The time is NOW for Kevin Samuelson and INFOR
By Paul Esherwood
When we last wrote about Infor all the talk was around an IPO – and who doesn’t love a big IPO? I wrote bullishly about the expectation of Infor floating and becoming one of the biggest software IPOs of all time. It seemed certain that the prospect of raising a load of new cash coupled with the lure of being catapulted into the limelight would be too much for Infor (and their VC partners) to resist. Thank God it didn’t happen...
