Adrian Bridgwater, Author at ERP Today

Adrian Bridgwater

Technology Editor

160 Articles Published

The big clean up: welcome to data clean rooms

Data clean rooms are allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze their data in a protected environment.

More lustre in the cluster, Civo extends key Kubernetes controller

Self-styled ‘pure-play cloud-native’ service provider Civo has launched OpenCP. The company used its inaugural Civo Navigate conference held in Tampa, Florida this week to explain how its approach to cloud management technologies and tools has been augmented with this new...

Peter van der Putten, director, AI Lab at Pegasystems

Pegasystems AI guru: welcome to automated decisioning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is badly named. It is only as a result of us actually sourcing, corralling, feeding and managing our AI systems with real world (and very often real-time) data that we can hope to achieve reasonable, usable and...

Software AG widens API accessibility aperture with webMethods

In the still-growing world of cloud computing and its neurally-networked fabric of interlaced layers, we have fast come to rely upon Application Programming Programming Interfaces (APIs) as a means of forming the glue between different applications and services. On paper...

Chronosphere on cloud-native observability insight

It’s a big claim. To say that your firm is the only cloud-native observability platform would be too much for any single cloud insight specialist. For balance then, Chronosphere calls itself the only cloud-native observability platform that ‘tames rampant data...

Process orchestration rising in the automation mix

Camunda is a process orchestration software company. Its software helps orchestrate complex business processes that span people, systems and devices. As such, Camunda is obviously keen to promote process orchestration software and, further, to engage in surveys and other promotional...

Cleaner clouds, the rise of API PenTesting

The rise of Application Programming Interface (API) technologies has continued apace over the last year and is set to do the same throughout 2023.

Datadog tightens leash on universal service monitoring

Datadog is a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Its SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management. The sum result is described as a unified, real-time observability platform capable of spanning a customers’...

Cognizant ‘fuels’ SAP power for energy and utilities

Fact number one, technology modernization company Cognizant is headquartered in Teaneck – not a made-up name, it’s a real place in New Jersey. Fact number two, it’s winter 2022 and the planet is in the middle of an energy crisis...

Supermarket Sweep: the enterprise app store is open for business

As enterprise technology vendors now seek to make the software procurement process simpler and safer for clients, the use of enterprise app stores to present a ‘curated showcase of solutions’ is an appealing customer proposition for many.

The evolution of platform programmatic automation

Where did RPA come from and how are its roots related to its recent rapid development? Read the story behind screen scraping, smart workflows and AI intersection - and vitally, the road ahead.

A new intersection: IT Policy-as-Code

Moving commercial business policy forwards into the digital age requires a deeper reliance upon cloud-native automation control. Here's why business policy and IT policy-as-code is the next intersection in ERP.

Machine learning in erp needs Clarity with a capital C

Develops want speed, functionality and choice with software tools, while operations want security and compliance. The worlds don't always align: to find a middle ground, what comes next is MLOps.

Qualys tightens security for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud computing has evolved. Where we once discussed cloud migration, we are now increasingly talking about cloud-native development across hybrid (sometimes poly) cloud instances that are drawn from a stock of pure cloud-first DNA. This of course throws up the...

Odaseva CISO: Stepping up SaaS security

This is a contributed commentary piece for ERP Today written by Arnaud Treps, CISO at Odaseva, a company known for its enterprise data platform services for Salesforce, offering tools to keep Salesforce data protected. Treps writes as follows… The ever-increasing...

Workday Rising C-Suite Panel: Platform solutions, partner evolutions & innovation revolutions

Workday staged a C-suite panel discussion session at Workday Rising Europe 2022 this year in Stockholm, Sweden and ERP Today attended to drink in from the firehose. Speakers included: Chano Fernandez, co-CEO – Pete Schlampp, chief strategy officer – Sayan...

The birth of automation-native, Avantra drives SAP Ops

AIOps is a potentially tautological term. While we understand Artificial Intelligence (AI) and operations (Ops) as distinct entities, we might normally think of developer (Dev) and DevOps as a cultural workplace approach and discipline that would stand to benefit from...

Workday Rising 2022 event preview

What can we expect from Workday Rising Europe 2022?

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Hello caller, CNCF cloud-native network function certification engages

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is all about creating, building and nurturing sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software. In line with the organization’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCo conference this week in Detroit, Michigan, the CNCF has announced its first set of certified products that form part of the newly launched (May 2022) Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Certification Program.

Cleaner clouds: IFS drives platform (and planet) towards ESG goals

Of the new capabilities in the latest release of IFS Cloud, many features are aimed at making it easier and faster for customers to collect, manage and record key data that provides visibility into their environmental performance.

Hyperscaler no brainer, Nutanix puts Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure

Some things in cloud are complex. Okay, that’s too kind – most aspects of cloud computing are typified by their inherent complexity and the lengthy technical specifications, intertwined dependencies and intricate deployment (and ongoing management) process that they require in...

Moment of (Joint) Service: IFS details partner of the year

As we’ve said before, don’t knock a partner award. Yes it’s a chance to mention all a company’s key go-to-market connections, yes it’s a chance to pop out a news story and shake a few hands, yes it’s a chance...

Tibco analytics research lead: Data ‘storytelling’ needs a narrative

This is a guest blog for ERP Today written by Lori Witzel in her role as director of research for analytics and data management at TIBCO. Data is creating ‘stories’ today inside organizations that use information flows to denote, describe...

OutSystems UiPath partner for low-code RPA

As a company focused on what it calls ‘high-performance’ application development, OutSystems is clearly aligning its engineering stack to develop, nurture and partner with technologies designed to bring the new era of automation intelligence and autonomous control to bear upon...

Building ‘smart’ ERP demands continuous software intelligence

Is it time to introduce ERPSI into the lexicon: the development of ERP suites with an inherent ability to exert software intelligence functions?

Citizen technologists, it takes more than a lion taming hat

A reminder why just because you’ve got the title, doesn’t mean you’re necessarily qualified to do the job

Snowflake: building data clouds around the world

Snowflake’s EMEA chief Alison Tierney on adapting to new regions and dishing data across all dimensions

Workday EMEA president: people-centricity promotes product & platform

Newly appointed in the role, Workday president for EMEA region Angelique de Vries has said that – with almost three decades of experience working in the enterprise software industry – she views people-centricity as key to innovation and development in...

Yes Chef! Progress serves up 2022 partner plaudits

Technology awards are the slightly flaky bonhomie padding that IT vendors roll out every year to sidle up a little closer to some of their key industry partners in a move to ingratiate themselves and, possibly, also impress their own...

AutoRABIT hops higher on code scanning health for Salesforce

AutoRabit should be a brand name denoting a firm specializing in the autonomous supply of high-protein low-fat bunny meat in doe and buck varieties for indigenous Spanish, Portuguese and other dishes. Unfortunately, it’s not. Instead, AutoRabit (stylized for marketing purposes...