Adrian Bridgwater
Technology Editor
159 Articles Published
Rimini Street tracks first moves to seconded third-party ERP support
Rimini Street is a provider of third-party support for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. Background enough then, arguably, for the organisation to know a thing or two about ERP implementations. The firm’s 2022 Valoir Research report...
Alation cloud service for Snowflake is a data catalog leapfrog
Enterprise data intelligence company Alation Inc has launched its eponymously named Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake.  Snowflake calls itself the data cloud company, but we know the firm for its SaaS-based data warehouse, data lake, data engineering, data science, data...
Incorta turns up heat on raw business data analytics
In the beginning, there was Microsoft Excel. Businesspeople in every industry vertical accepted, for that time at least, that this was the full toolset when it came to analytics and information insight… it was even possible to get an ‘auto-sum’...
FinancialForce: Get savvy to SaaS with SaaB
Keen fans of alliteration, customer-centric ERP, Professional Services Automation (PSA) company FinancialForce has celebrated summer 2023 with freshly cut cucumber sandwiches, icy pitchers of lemonade and a new platform release. In a cloud-centric world where Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) reigns supreme for...
Iguazio sees ‘Sense’ in MLOps automation
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...
New Relic goes native on SAP agentless observability 
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...
OutSystems joins SAP PartnerEdge program
Progressive enterprise software companies evolve, reinvent their technology stacks (occasionally also divesting of lines or business units that no longer sync with the wider corporate mission) and go through various iterations of themselves on the road to their current status....
The Quest to uncover unknown & unused ERP data
ERP deployments are highly functional suites, stacks and solutions of always timely, perfectly de-duplicated, parsimoniously parsed and properly presented data blocks. Except, of course, they’re not. The typical ERP deployment will have any number of unknown, unused and uncared for...
Inside Confluent’s Microsoft commercial partner of the year success
Technology vendors love a partner ecosystem. The partner program inside any given enterprise software vendor is typically billed as key place for platform-level collaboration with a view to enabling successful integrations, co-developed innovations and an all round tighter approach to...
Does your ERP stack need an integration boost?
The modern ERP stack is a beautiful thing. But, as beautiful as it is, it’s often a complex interwoven multi-tiered network of software services, application endpoints, data-flows and (now, in the modern era of the Internet of Things) a computing...
Digital Hive creates buzz around Analytics & BI (ABI)
Keen to provide a means of working to the modern scale of big data is Digital Hive with its intelligent analytics portal
Matt Hicks, Red Hat CEO
Red Hat: an open shift in the enterprise cloud
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."
Open Source ERP is no free lunch
The community contribution model of open source centralises around the practice of ‘code commits’ that sees users, teams and organisations actively working to share advancements for the collective benefit of others. 
SAP Suite sweet spots: how well do you know your SAP Suite?
A tour around the sometimes lesser-known elements of the SAP software suite is guaranteed to provide additional insight into how the company has built a whole which has always intended to be greater than the sum of its parts.
Is the business world ready for Zoomer SaaS apps?
As Gen Z joins the workforce, businesses have to adapt to the shifting expectations employees bring to the office.
ThoughtSpot aims to shake up modern data stack
ThoughtSpot has announced a consumption-based pricing model, where customers pay only for what they use.
Odaseva accelerates drive in UK & APAC
Pushing its data-centric technology is Odaseva, which works specifically to deliver an enterprise data platform service for Salesforce.
Appian drives low-code for ESG in ERP
There’s a thorny confluence point between ERP and low-code software. On the one hand, there are low-code platform specialist purists i.e. company’s known for their low-code (and sometimes no-code) declarative model software that provides pre-architected templates, accelerators and intelligence-driven shortcuts...
ThoughtSpot aims to ‘dominate data’ with new global SVP Kuntal Vahalia
Cloud-native data analytics company ThoughtSpot has appointed Kuntal Vahalia as senior vice president of worldwide channels and alliances.
Celonis
Celonis buys PAF to sharpen execution management
Celonis has announced the acquisition of PAF, a provider of process mining technology for Microsoft Power BI.
Microsoft Work Trends: Because you’re (work is) ‘worth it’
Somewhere deep in the depth of the Microsoft marcoms (marketing communications) machine, the team is sitting back and looking quite pleased with itself. They have completed the company’s 2022 Work Trend Index and ‘revealed its insights’ for us. Whether Microsoft...
Is your ERP datacenter footprint sustainable?
We all want to tackle climate change as we progress towards both living and working in a more maintainable and essentially sustainable way of being. Although not every person is capable of going full-Greta (as in Thunberg, obviously), almost all...
Infor flicks sustainable software switch at Britishvolt
Once ‘just’ an ERP specialist, once an industry-specific ERP specialist with extended supply chain specialism – and now, all of the above plus a broader ‘industry cloud’ specialist with user experience (UX) competencies. It seems Infor isn’t too busy rebranding its company...
Bünting trades mit ‘observability’ auf ERP
In North-West Germany, when they hang out the bunting, they often start by going to Bünting. This Europe-wide trading company employs some 12,000 people and has interests in food and drink distribution as well as retailing and e-commerce.
The COVID-19 transformation of business transformation
According to management consultancy firm McKinsey, the average business in EMEA accelerated its digitisation by a factor of some seven years over the course of 2020.
10 things to know Now about ServiceNow
ServiceNow is a company dedicated to making work, work better. With many of its core competencies resting in IT services management and IT operations management, ServiceNow was founded according to a simple vision detailed by founder and chairman of the board Fred Luddy.
Absoft’s hard-line strategy for SAP cloud migration
There’s an awful lot of talk about cloud computing and the migration strategies, tactics and operational nuances required to evolve our pre-existing IT stacks and wider data estates to the new world of cloud. Pick any consultant, specialist cloud advocate...
UpperEdge offers higher-sharper guidance to SAP on cloud hyperscalers
Move to the cloud, they say.  The problem, oftentimes, is that talk is cheap and any generalised move to ‘shunt’ enterprise application management to cloud (or indeed cloud-native) deployment environments takes strategic engineering planning, architectural insight and a wide-ranging view...
Forterro ups Germany-Bulgaria ‘midmarket’ ERP presence
As a piece of terminology, the label industrial ‘middle market’ may be somewhat misleading. Midmarket still generally means fairly big business, but (depending upon which measure you use to gauge it) it simply means that level of business operations that does not fall into the Small to Medium sized Enterprise (SME) category… and is not large enough to rank as major scale corporate enterprise.
Jitterbit: After the disruption starting pistol, what next?  
This is a contributed commentary written by Steve Sichtman in his capacity as VP of multi-channel development at Jitterbit, a company that describes itself as an API transformation specialist with an acute interest in the ERP market and wider transept...
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