Adrian Bridgwater, Author at ERP Today

Adrian Bridgwater

Technology Editor

145 Articles Published

How to be an AWS partner at re:Invent 2023

The biggest re:Invent 2023 takeaway: you have to be tough to be a partner working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

NTT ‘inclusive core’ network technologies point to 6G era

Networks are changing. As we draw to the end of a computing era defined by Moore’s Law and the proposition that processing power can continue doubling (roughly every 18-months) due to advances in silicon wafer technologies, organizations have been working...

Qualys CEO Thakar: A unified view of business-related risk management & remediation

There are cybersecurity companies, but there are also enterprise software vendors who work in the vulnerability management zone that we would not classify as cyber firms in the traditional sense of technologies ‘simply’ circulating around malware, ransomware and system security...

UiPath AI10 awards point to coal-face of AI deployment

UiPath used its Forward VI conference this week in Las Vegas to detail the winners of its inaugural UiPath AI10 Awards programme.

UiPath and SAP deepen partnership and endorsements at Forward VI

Automation platform technologies need pertinent software application development topographies to apply themselves to in order to shine, provide outcomes-based functionalities that lead to new efficiencies… and to illustrate and validate their effectiveness. Equally, enterprise software platforms – especially the more...

Infor Now 2023 – live from the Big Easy

Infor staged the US leg of its Infor Now 2023 user, partner and practitioner conference this week in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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...

Algolia: Why dogs need AI-powered search too

Technology is all-pervasive. Modern applications and data services are found in oil & gas petrochemical installations, across manufacturing facilities, throughout the retail, pharmaceutical and financial industry verticals and – of course – pretty much everywhere in between. So then, that...

Basis CTO: Avoiding ‘SAP stalemate’ means being smarter than spreadsheets

The basic laws of physics play out every day in the global software supply chain. So let’s ask ourselves what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? Many large SAP customers across the globe are facing this conundrum...

Linux Foundation Energy powers-up & opens wider

LF Energy is part of the open source Linux Foundation bastion of new and emerging sub-foundations (not an official term, but arguably illustrative enough to clarify the point) and works to provide open technology guidance, standards and community opportunities for...

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Solid air: building secure clouds

Building contemporary software applications is complex, we still exist in a world where systems are created with instabilities.

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.

VMware drives cloud orchestration & operations at edge

VMware used its VMware Explore 2023 conference in Las Vegas this week to cover a raft of announcements. Among the key news items is the newly launched VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator, a technology designed to enable organizations to deploy, manage...

What to expect from Infor Now 2023

Infor is one of those organizations that falls into the smaller (rarer) 10% or so of firms that actually preview its forthcoming events with a fully-detailed set of information and stories related to what attendees might expect. Not known as...

UiPath takes AI to new altitude with Project Wingman

Enterprise automation software company UiPath has taken its automation platform one cloud strata higher with its latest Artificial Intelligence (AI)-fuelled updates. The newly announced Project Wingman enables users to create RPA-style automations from simple natural language prompts. The project is...

Cohesity C-suite: We’re ‘radically simplifying’ secure data management

Data security and information management company Cohesity is aiming to fuel its next stage of company, platform, ecosystem and leadership growth with specific developments in both back office (infrastructure enhancement and augmentation) and front of office developments. Among the more...

Databricks lays down pattern for deeper AI, buys MosaicML

AI is multifarious, multiform, multi-vector, multi-workflow and both multi-model & multi-modal in its form, use cases and underlying architecture. Because of this core truism – and the fact that AI is only ever as smart as the data resources and...

Infor: Pressure points for secure code structures

We need to build secure systems. Because enterprise organizations naturally want to be able to run their operational workflows on a fabric of scalably robust services now augmented with increasing levels of intelligent automation, we need to ensure that those...

Puppet by Perforce: Mastering multi-cloud misconfiguration mayhem

Cloud grew. There are a lot of clouds – and we don’t just mean in terms of Cloud Service Provider (CSP) hyperscaler instances (although, okay yeah, that too), there are a lot of compute cloud formations across what is now...

Cohesity: Ransomware is cashing in on cyber insurance payouts

The cloud is safer. Putting our networked compute resources into public cloud services is inherently safer than 'plopping' all our IT estate into an on-prem company datacenter facility.

Beyond batch, how ERP steers faster with data streaming

Living the data streaming dream, ERP shifts up a gear, as IFS and more explain.

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.

Amplitude waves in Snowflake-native app

Among the more vocal companies vying for share of voice at the recent Snowflake Summit 2023 was Amplitude, Inc. a digital analytics platform company with a key focus on user visibility and application integration. The company’s new application promises to...

Conquering the industry-specific data mountain: MongoDB Atlas for Industries

Organizations use data. Although this might sound like the most obvious statement ever made in the modern age of digital business, there is a deeper contextual meaning to draw from this home truth. Organizations do use data, but across different...

ERP Today editorial team drive UiPath AI10 awards judging panel

ERP Today is known as a trusted adjudicating arbiter of fairness and authority. It is perhaps no surprise then to find ERP Today editorial staff forming a key part of the judging panel for the inaugural UiPath AI10 Awards. Known...

PegaWorld iNspire 2023: The birth of the autonomous enterprise

In the world of low-code software application development, the use of generative AI is key among the factors now impacting the way platforms, suites, services and tools in this space are now developing. This is certainly true for Pega. Alan...

CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure completes three-way hyperscaler DBaaS vision

We want databases. Moreover, we want cloud-native databases because organizations need to offer cloud-first information services architected in line with the nature of the virtualized and abstracted breed of enterprise applications now in proliferation. We also need distributed SQL databases,...

Jitterbit: To stream is not to dream

We know that ERP systems process workloads, channel workflow processes, ingest information and make multifarious connections to systems of record, systems of transaction and wider systems of cloud-native enablement. What all that means is – ERP data is generally on...

KX dials up ‘telco-grade’ generative AI

Enterprise technology is trend-based. Go to any IT trade conference some five years ago and no vendor worth their salt would be able to deliver a platform upgrade or update without talking up Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and all manner...

SAP extends cloud vision with ‘modernized’ form & functions

Cloud is modern. By its very nature, we know that cloud computing and the all wider disciplines related to the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) computing form a key part of our contemporary approach to modernized enterprise software application delivery and data services....

Temenos on MongoDB Atlas, caching in on banking clouds

Temenos has published a new ‘high-water’ benchmark performance result for the company’s own Temenos Banking Cloud on Microsoft Azure and MongoDB Atlas infrastructure. But why does any of that matter? It matters because Temenos is a company that makes enterprise...