Beckie Barrett, Author at ERP Today

Beckie Barrett

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Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE | HPE second quarter

HPE has reported net revenue of $7bn in its Q3 financial results, exceeding its outlook for the quarter. Annualized revenue run-rate was $858m, up 22 percent (28 percent adjusted for currency) from the prior-year period, while the company’s total as-a-Service...

Icon Water to digitize finance function with Unit4 ERP

Icon Water, an Australian critical infrastructure public company, has selected Unit4’s ERP to modernize and digitize its financial functions. Icon Water provides essential water and wastewater services to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), employing over 400 people in the region....

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Workday reports healthy Q2 growth

Workday has experienced sustained strong global demand for its product in Q2 of fiscal 2023, as organizations continue to drive digital transformation across finance and HR to support the changing world of work. The company reported adjusted earnings of 83 cents...

Salesforce trims earnings and revenue expectations for 2023

Salesforce has announced results for Q2 2023 ended July 31, 2022, beating analysts’ expectations with revenue of $7.72bn, up 22 percent year-on-year, but falling short on guidance for the current quarter and the full fiscal year. The company reported subscription...

Sales boom for Snowflake in Q2

Snowflake has announced financial results for Q2 2023, ended July 31, 2022, topping estimates with an 83 per cent year-on-year revenue increase to $497.2m. Product revenue for the quarter was $466.3m, also representing growth of 83 per cent, whilst remaining...

Infor dishes up cloud solution for Paulig

Paulig has selected Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage to harmonize its business processes and streamline its operating model internationally. With 2,300 employees in 13 countries, Paulig is a Finnish family-owned food and beverage company that provides primarily coffees and beverages, Tex...

Mike Etting of Unit 4 interview by Paul Esherwood, Mayfair, London | Unit4 Q2

Unit4 continues strong growth trajectory in Q2

Unit4 has reported results for Q2 and the first half of 2022, ending June 30, 2022, revealing 91 go-lives and 18 new customers signed, as well as unveiling a new support service for cloud customers, Success4U. Unit4’s ERPx customer wins...

IBM and USTA renew partnership ahead of US Open

IBM and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) have renewed their longstanding, 30-year partnership by five years. From the launch of USOpen.org in 1995 to the introduction of the mobile app in 2009, and last year’s debut of the IBM Power...

Eureka Solutions provides drive for change at home of golf

Eureka Solutions has rolled out a tailored Oracle NetSuite solution at St Andrews Links Trust to help keep the home of golf at the forefront of the global game. St Andrews Links Trust, which manages the world-famous Old Course and...

PwC building | PwC UK launches tax AI assistant with Harvey and OpenAI

PwC Ireland and Alteryx announce new partnership

PwC Ireland and Alteryx have formed a new joint business relationship, leveraging data automation to accelerate digital transformation for businesses. Through the agreement, PwC Ireland and Alteryx will bring together advanced analytics and data science with PwC’s services and technologies...

Oracle extends AT&T cloud agreement with new five-year deal

Oracle has renewed a strategic agreement with US telecommunications provider, AT&T, that will help give new capacity and capabilities for the company’s database and application workloads running in Oracle Cloud. The new five-year deal will build on AT&T’s use of Oracle...

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Oracle and Anaconda partner to accelerate open-source innovation

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Anaconda Inc, the data science platform provider, have collaborated to offer secure open-source Python and R tools and packages by embedding and enabling Anaconda’s repository across OCI’s artificial intelligence and machine learning services. Through the partnership, customers...

New Salesforce commerce solution will help retailers ‘go headless’ fast

Salesforce has unveiled Composable Storefront, a fully-customizable, headless digital storefront that gives online retailers the ability to make site changes with speed and flexibility in order to increase sales, conversions and basket size, while driving down costs. Pre-built packages made...

Capgemini links up with Unity on metaverse solutions

Capgemini and Unity, a development platform for creating and operating real-time 3D content, are joining forces to help organizations seize the benefits of immersive and metaverse experiences. Over the years, Capgemini and Unity have delivered numerous projects for global companies...

Crown Commerical Service signs MOU with Salesforce

Crown Commercial Service has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Salesforce to enable the UK public sector to achieve savings, accelerate the delivery of digital public services and reduce its dependence on expensive legacy solutions. Salesforce provides public sector...

Acumatica named as Paretta Autosport INDYCAR sponsor

Acumatica will be the primary sponsor of Paretta Autosport in the NTT INDYCAR Series at the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in Nashville, Tennessee. With more than 62 percent of the team comprised of women across all roles, Paretta...

Embridge Consulting delivers Unit4 ERP for Norwich City Council

Embridge Consulting has been selected by Norwich City Council to implement Unit4’s next-generation ERP software, as the Council looks to modernize its finance and HR functions. This project will be the first major Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment across...

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Strong AWS performance drives Q2 revenues for Amazon

Amazon has announced financial results for Q2 ended June 30, 2022, reporting revenue of $19.7bn for its cloud segment, Amazon Web Services (AWS), representing year-on-year growth of 33 percent. Revenue from AWS beat estimates, with analysts polled by StreetAccount expecting...

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ServiceNow exceeds on Q2 earnings targets whilst revenues fall short

ServiceNow has reported financial results for Q2 ended June 30, 2022, showing subscription revenues of $1.65bn, representing 25 percent year‑on‑year growth. However, the company’s total revenues for Q2 were up 24 percent to $1.75bn, just falling short of the $1.76bn...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO | KPMG and Microsoft

Microsoft predicts upbeat 2023 with latest earnings

Microsoft has reported revenue of $51.9bn for Q4 2022, up 12 percent compared to the corresponding period of last year but falling short of Wall Street expectations. However, in better-than-expected guidance for the fiscal year ahead, the software giant has...

No blues in SUSE Q2 news

SUSE has reported its Q2 financial results, revealing year-on-year revenue growth of 18 percent, to $161.3m.

SAP acquires search-driven analytics capabilities

SAP has acquired Askdata, a start-up focused on search-driven analytics, to strengthen its ability to help organizations make better-informed decisions by leveraging AI-driven natural language searches. Askdata applies artificial intelligence technology to natural language processing, which gives users the ability...

EY and Planon unite to meet digital workplace needs

EY has formed an alliance with Planon to help businesses optimize their real estate and workplace strategies in achieving growth, long-term value and sustainability. The alliance has been activated in the Netherlands and the US with additional global expansion planned...

SAP up in the clouds for Q2, but profits fall

SAP has reported financial results for its Q2 2022 and half year ended 30 June 2022, revealing a 34 percent year-on-year increase in cloud revenue to €3.06bn, driven by growth across its SaaS and PaaS portfolio. SAP’s current cloud backlog...

Strong Q2 for IBM but cash forecast sees stocks slide

IBM has reported better-than-expected Q2 2022 results, revealing a 9 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to $15.5bn, but shares fell in extended trading hours after the company cut its 2022 cash forecast. During the quarter, the company saw a 16...

Capgemini research reveals growing interest in sovereign cloud

Global organizations are prioritizing cloud sovereignty as a secure, innovative and scalable solution to manage data, according to Capgemini Research Institute’s (CRI) latest report. The report demonstrates that cloud sovereignty adoption is primarily driven by regulation and organizations’ need to...

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Over 90 percent of businesses report surge in automation demand

A new study from Salesforce and Vanson Bourne has revealed business demand for automation has surged and now spans multiple departments in a bid to accelerate efficiency and productivity due to macroeconomic uncertainty. Commissioned by Salesforce, the global survey of...

Inoapps fuels delivery of health services across LA

Oracle partner Inoapps has developed a guest registration application for TeleHealth Network, an innovative solution designed to meet the healthcare needs of members of the Los Angeles population whom otherwise would not be able to access services. Founded by LA county commissioner, Dion...

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Insufficient tech investment hinders NHS staff wellbeing

61 percent of NHS frontline staff believe their managers do not have access to adequate tools and systems to assess and track their performance and wellbeing, according to new research commissioned by SAP. Conducted through YouGov, the research found that...

Delta Air Lines continues cloud journey with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a multi-year agreement to serve as Delta Air Lines’s preferred cloud provider as part of its latest digital business transformation. AWS will help Delta unlock technologies and streamline processes that will make the customer experience faster, smoother,...

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Nordic Paper upgrades to IFS Cloud

IFS has been selected by Nordic Paper to upgrade its existing on-premise enterprise asset management (EAM) software to the latest IFS Cloud solution to drive efficiencies across its global operations. The upgrade will be implemented by Sweden-based IFS channel partner,...