Beckie Barrett, Author at ERP Today

Beckie Barrett

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New Salesforce AppExchange partners fuel future of marketing

Salesforce has expanded its Customer Data Platform and Commerce ecosystems on the Salesforce AppExchange with a number of new partnerships. The company will grow its Customer Data Platform ecosystem through partnerships with Annalect, Acxiom, Criteo, LiveRamp, MediaMath, Metarouter, Neustar, Nine Digital, Streamlytics, The Trade Desk,...

IBM adds Randori to cybersecurity arsenal

IBM has revealed plans to acquire Randori to help advance its hybrid cloud strategy and strengthen its portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products and services. Randori is a hacker-led attack surface management (ASM) and offensive cybersecurity provider based in the Boston area that...

The Access Group hits £9.2bn valuation following £1bn investment

The Access Group (Access) has announced further investment from its shareholders that is believed to make it one of the largest UK headquartered software providers, with a total enterprise value of £9.2bn. The company, which provides business management software to...

Infor and Everstream Analytics join forces

Infor has entered into a technology partnership with Everstream Analytics, the global supply chain insights and risk analytics company, to help organizations better anticipate and navigate supply chain risks and disruptions. Through the partnership, Infor will integrate Everstream’s end-to-end supply chain...

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ServiceNow acquires Hitch to help customers address talent gaps

ServiceNow has signed an agreement to acquire Hitch Works (Hitch), a skills mapping and intelligence company. Hitch will add a new layer of AI-powered skills insights to the Now Platform to help customers address talent gaps by tying employee learning...

HPE reports flatlining Q2 revenues despite strong orders

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced results for Q2 2022 ended April 30, 2022, revealing revenues of $6.7bn, up just 0.2 percent year-on-year. Customer demand drove order growth up 20 percent from the prior-year period, with As-a-Service orders increasing by...

Outdoor goods retailer Bradshaw Taylor chooses Microsoft Cloud

Bradshaw Taylor, the outdoor and country goods retailer, has selected Microsoft Cloud to give a real-time view of the business and quickly respond to customer demand. The company has built a new centralized and integrated system on Microsoft Dynamics 365...

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Unit4 acquires Scanmarket

Unit4 has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Scanmarket, a global vendor of cloud source-to-contract software. The acquisition will enable Unit4 to provide organizations with a unified source-to-pay journey while building on its existing ERP and procure-to-pay (P2P), also...

Salesforce announces solid set of Q1 2023 results

Salesforce has reported results for Q1 2023 ended April 30, 2022, revealing a 24 percent year-on-year increase in revenue to $7.41bn. The company’s Q1 subscription and support revenues totalled $6.86bn, a year-on-year increase of 24 percent. Professional services and other...

BW Energy chooses IFS to drive global oilfield development

BW Energy, a global oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company, has selected IFS Applications enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM) software to support its global oilfield production and development strategy. The implementation will allow BW...

Salesforce commits to investing $100m in carbon removal technologies

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Salesforce announced its plans to purchase $100m worth of durable carbon credits from technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere. The investment forms part of an initiative from the First Movers Coalition, a...

DSP-Explorer acquires Oracle applications partner Claremont

DSP-Explorer, the Oracle Cloud and database technology specialist, has announced the completion of its acquisition of UK-based Oracle applications partner Claremont. The acquisition – its fifth to date – helps build on DSP’s ‘Oracle Anywhere’ strategy, offering a complete 360°...

HCL Technologies signs global digital transformation deal with VELUX

HCL Technologies (HCL) has signed an end-to-end IT services transformation agreement with the VELUX Group, the Danish manufacturer of roof windows. HCL will deliver a cloud-first, user-centric digital transformation program for the VELUX Group, adopting business-driven automation to modernize its...

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Workday announces modest set of Q1 2023 results

Workday has announced results for Q1 2023 ended April 30, 2022, reporting total revenue of $1.43bn, up 22.1 percent year-on-year. Workday’s subscription revenues totalled $1.27bn, an increase of 23.2 percent from the same period last year. The company reported a...

Snowflake reports strong Q1 revenue but stock tumbles

Snowflake has announced its results for Q1 2023 ended April 30, 2022, revealing total revenue of $422.4m, representing year-on-year growth of 85 percent and beating analysts’ expectations of $414m. However, shares of Snowflake tumbled in after-hours trading on Wednesday after...

ServiceNow solution modernizes procurement across the enterprise

ServiceNow has introduced its new Procurement Service Management solution to help transform procurement across the enterprise through self-service and automation, leading to faster delivery times. Procurement modernization is a priority for organizations looking to digitally transform operations and redirect resources to...

NatWest teams up with Accenture and Microsoft to improve customer engagement

NatWest is working with Accenture and Microsoft to build a new customer engagement platform that will replace its multi-system, legacy frontline architecture. The new platform will integrate all of NatWest’s legacy front office systems across its contact center and branch...

EY and IBM expand alliance to help businesses navigate new talent landscape

EY and IBM have expanded their alliance through a new initiative to help businesses around the world address some of the most pressing workforce challenges, including employee recruiting, retention, upskilling and the need to transform HR systems technology at speed...

Oracle enhances cloud security with integrated threat management

Oracle is expanding the built-in security services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help customers protect their cloud applications and data against emerging threats. The new capabilities round out OCI’s security offering, including a new built-in and cloud-native firewall service,...

IBM and Red Hat reach for the stars with EnduroSat

Open source, hybrid cloud and AI technologies from IBM and Red Hat will be part of EnduroSat’s second mission, which is scheduled to launch to low earth orbit at 2:25pm ET today from Cape Canaveral, Florida. An earth observation and in-orbit edge...

Zoom Q1 2023 earnings beat expectations

Zoom has reported stronger-than-expected financial results for Q1 2023 ended 30 April 2022, revealing a 12 percent increase in total revenue to $1.073bn. For the first quarter, Zoom’s GAAP income from operations was $187.1m and GAAP operating margin was 17.4 percent....

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PwC research highlights pressure on pay in the tech sector amid great resignation

Findings from a global survey by PwC show that the great resignation will continue apace in the year ahead as almost one in five UK workers (18 percent) say they are likely to switch to a new employer within the...

Stripe launches Data Pipeline to enable users to sync payment data in Snowflake

Stripe, the payments platform for businesses, has joined the Snowflake Data Cloud and Retail Data Cloud to enable joint customers in any industry, including retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG), to access and leverage their Stripe payment data directly in...

UiPath and airSlate team up to accelerate workflow automation

UiPath and airSlate have joined forces to accelerate workflow automation and empower individuals and small businesses to digitally transform their organizations. With over 900,000 customers and 100 million users worldwide, airSlate offers a range of solutions from electronic signature offerings to...

SUSE strengthens cloud native security with advancements to NeuVector

SUSE has released SUSE NeuVector 5.0, the first edition of its container security platform since SUSE open sourced NeuVector in January. Timed to coincide with the latest update of SUSE Rancher, the platform will provide full management of clients’ Kubernetes...

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Capgemini bolsters financial services consulting expertise with acquisition

Capgemini Group has signed an agreement to acquire Chappuis Halder & Cie (Chappuis Halder), a global strategy and management consulting firm specializing in the financial services industry, spanning transformation, finance, risk and compliance. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Chappuis Halder is a...

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Skills shortage stalling UK’s AI adoption, IBM study finds

A global study from IBM has shown UK businesses are not progressing their use of AI at the same pace as other major European nations. The findings from the IBM Global AI Adoption Index, conducted online through Morning Consult’s proprietary...

BT aims for £25m in savings with ServiceNow partnership

BT Digital is consolidating its legacy service management platforms with ServiceNow as part of a large group-wide transformation programme, which is forecasted to save the company over £25m by 2027. ServiceNow will roll out across all of BT Group as...

Unit4 appoints Adobe veteran to accelerate growth

Unit4 has appointed Tania Garrett as chief people officer to oversee the company’s people success function and drive sustainable growth. With over 20 years’ human resources experience, Tania joins Unit4 from Adobe where she led international employee experience, covering the...

TalkTalk rolls out Microsoft Viva to boost employee experience

TalkTalk is the latest major company to embrace flexible working and is using Microsoft Viva Suite as a tool to help improve the employee experience. Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources and insights directly...