Adrian Bridgwater
Technology Editor
160 Articles Published
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...
AWS widens database fabric 
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) doesn’t necessarily call out ERP as a core competency for application use cases when it updates the major tiers and strata of its platform. It doesn’t have to. In actuality, it leaves many of the...
Enterprise software ‘security gates’ needed to lock down automation intelligence 
We are of course living in an era of spiraling automation intelligence. Every month we are fed with more messages detailing how software platforms, products and tools are being bumped-up, bolstered and boosted by AI & ML driven automation through...
Cloud expectations vs cloud clarity, reality & functionality
For many enterprises, the cloud computing model of service-based IT represents a promised land of new opportunities, leaving behind headaches that have challenged IT teams and businesses for years. ERP Today spoke to the engineering team at UK, USA and...
The eco-production line 2.0 runs on ‘microsecond moments’
Nobody needs much of a lesson in the industrial revolution this year; given the COP26 climate summit (26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties) and the focus on how private and public enterprises are contributing to carbon emissions, the...
Aurachain on low-code ERP: don’t juggle jugulars & jumbos
There are very few open and shut subjects in information technology and the always-thorny issue of technical debt (clunky code that results from quick-fix software engineering moves that fail to integrate into the wider fabric of system operations for the...
Workday at Google: a ‘cloud-based people system’
Almost everyone has had a tough job that they really found hard to cope with on a professional level at some point in their lifetime. In those kinds of roles, the Human Resources (HR) function can feel like quite an...
Epicor SecturaSOFT deal: ERP goes heavy metal
The strategic stratagem scrutinisers at Epicor have teamed the company’s industry-specific enterprise ERP software in a new partnership integration with SecturaSOFT. Known as an independent software vendor (ISV) focused on developing web-based applications for the metal fabrication industry, SecturaSOFT will...
RPA
UiPath: ERP is ripe for RPA, business bots get busier
When you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Of all the application use cases for RPA, the world of ERP is a perfect attack surface.
Lemongrass mixes strategic multi-cloud combo cocktail
Sometime after the PC revolution, the summer of love and the eventual arrival of the so-called information superhighway, enterprise organisations in every vertical realised that they needed a technology strategy. These days known by the now hackneyed term digital transformation,...
ERP needs smarter (than the average bear) code testing
It’s a simple enough truism to state. People (by which we mean C-suite managers, systems-level software engineering professionals and plain old users) think that ERP systems are generally large-scale robust systems that have a highly robust degree of strength and...
Will low-code / no-code drive or fix ERP technical debt?
It’s easy to jump on a bandwagon, especially in technology circles. When the next ‘killer app’ comes along (or the next Twitter starts to emerge), every protagonist, futurist, evangelist (and possibly a few tech-polygamists) wants a share of voice and a slice of the market pie.
Living the EAM Dream: How asset management has changed
Asset Performance Management (APM) is the evolution of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), so how will this technology now be applied inside the Industry 4.0 universe to give us the Maintenance 4.0 intelligence we will need to keep running?
SAP Ariba ‘buys’ into speedier route to Amazon Business 
There’s a fleeting moment during SAP technology conference keynotes when the company posts up a slide that displays all its brands. With some homegrown products (SAP HANA, SAP Leonardo etc.) and some acquired brands (SuccessFactors, Concur, Fieldglass, Hybris etc.) that...
ServiceNow tech guru appointed Sapphire Systems CIO 
The colour palette of connections was logically laid out in the stars.  Ex-SAP CEO Bill McDermott left the German softwarehaus after many years to lead ServiceNow. Once a favourite at the SAP Sapphire user event, McDermott’s New York keynote drawl...
Why ERP needs an enterprise data fabric 
The use of analytics in ERP [data & development] shops, suites, software solutions and systems is no longer news. We have been applying big data analytics to the ERP landscape for many moons now and no significant system worth its...
Fruitful ERP relies on successful automation
In operational real life, SAP users are constantly torn between the need to perform the mundane and time-consuming day-to-day tasks (required just to maintain performance on a highly complex system) and the growing pressure exerted by management to innovate. Most...
Imperva: Serverless shouldn’t mean security-less
Cloud-centric software application developers (Ed: Is there any other kind?) have been driven to the world of serverless development for its promise of backend freedom, if you will pardon the expression. As TechTarget reminds us, serverless computing is part of...
Tradeshift: Legacy digital e-business has been ‘lousy’
You can’t build a wholly complete ERP stack without an e-invoicing function. In wider terms, the financial automation element of any cloud-based ERP deployment worth its salt should arguably also include a degree of accounts payable intelligence with a well-connected...
Be Modern ‘furnishes itself’ with Epicor ERP
UK-based home furniture manufacturer Be Modern has transitioned from its previous legacy IT software systems to adopt a modern ERP system to support continued business growth. What could be more modern than Be Modern modernising its legacy stack with modern...
Cloud ‘posture visibility’ is the new observability
Cloud is complex, yes, we know that part. So convoluted, coalesced, co-located and essentially complex is cloud that an entire sub-genre of information technology has grown up to provide APM (or Application Performance Management to afford it its full moniker) in...
Perforce acquires 21 Labs, scriptless shifts-left
Perforce Software this summer acquired 21 Labs, an AI-based mobile testing provider that helps businesses deliver quality software faster. Perforce works extensively in the software application development space (and does a lot of work in the video games sector) and...
Nokia dials into blockchain-powered data marketplace
Known the world over for its classic ringtone that inspired a whole series of comedy sketches, Nokia has entered the data marketplace race. The company this year announced the launch of Nokia Data Marketplace as-a-service (Ed: would that be NDM-aaS?)...
KX is A-OK with Databricks for ultra-real-time
The interestingly named KX is a specialist in real-time streaming analytics. The company has partnered with data AI company Databricks to accelerate the growth of what it calls ultra-real-time analytics in new market sectors. The partnership combines the Databricks Lakehouse platform...
Forterro enters UK, buys 123 Insight
Forterro sounds like it could be a brand of 1980s retro ice cream, a sporty but surprisingly spacious new model from Fiat or Masserati, or perhaps a ‘battle royale’ style MMORG shoot-em-up release for Xbox Series S and PlayStation. In...
Blue Prism: reworking the human-machine dovetail join
Goodness, do you remember (like, inside the last decade) when we as the tech industry were only just getting to grips with automation? Back in the good old pre-millennial age, we most of considered any reasonable element of robotics, auto-driven...
Automation
UiPath automates automation Ops implementation
Enterprises have been waking up to automation. It’s no secret, the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the various strains of machine learning (ML) that compose it are impacting the way firms in all business verticals are thinking about modernising their IT stacks.
Vuealta puts the P in strategic supply chain ERP-lanning
Of its three central acronym components, ERP specialists are all too often focused on E for ‘enterprise’ goals, targets, deliverables and profits margins. While R for ‘resources’ comes a close second as ERP systems work to apply big data analytics...
Epicor energises Kinetic to ‘manufacture’ new ERP brand
Epicor has released Kinetic, a cloud-based ERP solution built with manufacturers, for manufacturers. The company insists that there should be no one-size-fits all ERP solution. As such, it designs tailored, custom-aligned technology platforms that it says are ‘laser focused’ on the needs...
Quantum ERP: a business ‘superposition’ for the future
Although still largely in its early stages of development, quantum computing could represent significant advancements for the way we operate and run the ERP systems of the future. But before we get to a ‘superposition’ in business with quantum ERP,...
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