Charles Whitmore, Author at ERP Today

Charles Whitmore

Commercial Editor - Cybersecurity & Hyperscaler Analyst

121 Articles Published

A classroom of middle-school children listening intently to a male teacher, standing at the front of the class | ServiceNow digital education

ServiceNow research: UK workforce agrees on mandatory digital education

New research from ServiceNow has found that 54 percent of UK office workers feel their formal education didn't adequately prepare them for working life.

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Play it again, Johnny! HPE deliver infrastructure-as-a-service to Australia’s fasting growing podcast platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been selected by Southern Cross Austereo to implement a flexible IT infrastructure using the HPE GreenLake platform, enabling improved audio consumption and advertising capabilities while supporting the company's growth strategy and scalability needs.

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Nextworld welcomes two new members to its advisory board

Nextworld has announced the appointment of two new members to its executive advisory board: Lyle Ekdahl and Greg Petraetis. Their appointment is said by the firm to mark a move towards an enhanced strategic direction for Nextworld and its ecosystem.

Latest Nextworld release reveals AI and inventory updates

Nextworld has unveiled 23.2, its second product release of this year, which looks to deliver improvements across all its business suites, including finance, sales, procurement, manufacturing and inventory.

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Samsara adds the City of Houston to its list of 2023 public sector partnerships

Samsara has announced it has been selected by the City of Houston to digitize its operations, with aims to help increase service transparency and sustainability, improve community safety and take data-informed actions.

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Analytics and AI

AI and ML dominate for UK manufacturers, says Infor

A survey released by Infor and Make UK reveals AI and ML usage is set to surge, as manufacturers push to achieve automation and improvements in productivity, efficiency and quality.

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Unit4’s Experience4U event is back for a third year, showcasing finance and HR solutions

X4U is for customers, prospects and partners from the Unit4 community, where the attendees will learn more about industry trends, best practices and latest developments and also get access to the opportunity for collaboration.

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UiPath Clipboard AI named on TIME’s Best Inventions 2023

UiPath Clipboard AI has been selected as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023. Named in the Productivity Category, Clipboard AI removes the need for anyone to manually copy-paste.

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Tech breakthroughs unveiled at Celosphere 2023 could skyrocket process mining to the stars

Celonis announced that more than 3,000 of the world’s top process mining experts will convene at Celosphere 2023 in Munich, Germany on November 14-15.

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Daudruy take a bite of Infor’s Food and Beverage solution

French company Daudruy Van Cauwenberghe, a nearly two-century-old oils manufacturer offering vegetable, animal and human food, oil seeds and greases, has chosen to deploy the Infor CloudSuite Food and Beverage solution, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Financial Management

Accenture’s North America take-over continues with Comtech Group acquisition

Accenture has acquired Comtech Group, a consulting and program management company for infrastructure projects, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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Devon County Council pick Unit4 and Embridge for extensive digitization

Unit4 has announced that Devon County Council has selected its Unit4 ERP system to digitize its organization, data and services. The Council has additionally selected Embridge Consulting as its implementation partner.

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Inoapps Managed Services snag Business Impact Award

Inoapps has won the Business Impact Award UK & Ireland at the 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, an award that recognizes promising managed services businesses and the positive impact on customer outcomes.

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Infor entices devs with new Developer Portal and Program

Infor have announced the launch of its new Developer Program and Developer Portal, both of which are designed to give devs the information and tools they need to build on top of Infor cloud systems.

Top-down view of trucks in a depot, half covered in snow | Samsara privacy

AI can revolutionize physical operations, but could come at the cost of privacy

New Samsara data reveals how AI is presenting opportunities for improved road safety and upskilling of the UK's driver workforce, but could come at the cost of driver privacy.

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Unit4 research reveals non-profits are primed for digital transformation

Unit4 has shared research at the NetHope Global Summit 2023 that reveals non-profit organizations in the US and UK are making significant progress in digital transformation.

Emma O’Brien named in EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Class of 2023

Emma O’Brien, CEO of Embridge Consulting, has been named as one of the founders to join the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women EMEIA Class of 2023.

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Opkey testing now available on Coupa App Marketplace

The Opkey solution has been certified by Coupa for use within the Coupa Business Spend Management (BSM) platform to further its mission of helping teams create spend strategies and build agile and sustainable operations.

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Open wide! Portman Dental Care chooses Inoapps Oracle partnership

Portman Dental Care merged with Dentex and has grown significantly. With over 400 practices, a robust, efficient and scalable back-office solution was needed. Enter Inoapps.

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Latest Unit4 research unveils global trends in shared services adoption

Unit4 has commissioned research into shared services adoption trends, unveiling important global movements that can't be ignored.

de Novo CEO shortlisted for entrepreneurship award

Mark Sweeny, for his work building de Novo Solutions, has been shortlisted for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

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Opkey to sponsor Oracle CloudWorld, Las Vegas

Opkey, the test-automation firm and long-time partners with Oracle, are sponsoring their CloudWorld event hosted in Las Vegas from September 18-21, 2023.

Samsara listed for UK’s best SME tech workplaces

Global surveyor of workplace culture vote Samsara workplaces as one of the best in the UK tech industry for 2023.

Blue prints of a highly complex, technologically advanced machine | Infor Brentwood

Brentwood Industries extends Infor partnership to modernize manufacturing

Industry cloud company Infor has been chosen to modernize Brentwood Industries Inc. with CloudSuite Industrial.

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Infor and animal nutrition firm Nutreco to nurture global standardization

Animal nutrition firm deploys an Infor cloud native, industry solution to feed global standardization, harmonized processes and sustainability best practices.

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Unit4 adds up for East Hampshire District Council financials

Unit4 announce a new partnership to help automate East Hampshire District Council processes.

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Infor and Project 3 Mobility support European urban mobility project

Infor has has completed the first two stages of a multi-tenant cloud ERP deployment at Project 3 Mobility (P3).

People pointing at report | Samsara Inc research report reskill workers

Samsara research reveals operations leaders want to develop existing workers

Samsara's research indicates that over half of physical operations leaders in the UK and Ireland aim to leverage new technologies to train and reskill existing employees, with significant investments planned to address identified skill gaps in safety, digital proficiency, and sustainability.

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de Novo and MATA to assist education reform with Odyssea cloud

de Novo Solutions has announced a strategic partnership with Multi Academy Trust Association (MATA), a dedicated education trust leader organization, to help transform the education sector by leveraging cloud technology advancements.

Infor WMS to revolutionize South America’s Zofri Logistics

Infor has announced a new partnership with Zona Franca de Iquique (Zofri), a center of commerce and industry in South America, to enhance the firm’s logistics operation.