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Finalists announced for the ERP Today Awards
The incredible response to the ERP Today Awards & Fundraiser event continued with an overwhelming volume of quality entries into each of the Awards’ categories. The high calibre of each nomination made the shortlisting task challenging, but finally, we’re proud...
Acumatica announces opening of new London office
Acumatica, a fastest-growing, global cloud ERP company, announced the opening of its new London office and the hiring of Deljit (Del) Singh as country manager for the UK.  In this role, Singh will lead partner and customer-facing operations in the UK and Ireland with the current...
Infor sells EAM system to Hexagon for $2.75bn
When Infor announced its intention to sell its enterprise asset management (EAM) business to Hexagon, a digital reality solutions company, we immediately thought, why? It can’t be about the money – despite the astronomical sale price, Infor is owned by...
Back to basics: ensure your business’s successful ERP implementations
With the drive to move ERP solutions to the cloud coupled with an increased focus on a clean core with innovation at the edges, it seems that old school ERP principles are almost forgotten. What happens around the edges is...
QAD is acquired by Thoma Bravo
QAD is set to be acquired by Thoma Bravo in a deal that values the business at approximately $2bn. Once the transaction has been completed, QAD will become a private company with the flexibility to continue investing in the development...
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Agilyx Group announces merger with Myriad Consulting – strengthening Unit4 expertise in the UK
Agilyx Group, a global change-ready technology services organisation, announced today that it has entered into a binding agreement to merge its UK operations with Myriad Consulting, an independent Unit4 partner based in the UK. This collaboration, effective from the 1st of July, brings...
IATA switches to Rimini Street for integrated support and application management services
Rimini Street, Inc. a global provider of enterprise software products and services, third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that International Air Transport Association (IATA), the commercial aviation trade association headquartered in Montreal, Canada, has...
Tech trends report 2021
The Deloitte Tech Trends Report is in its twelfth year and looks at current, emerging and future technology trends. It’s essential reading for any digital leader considering it’s widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and thorough reports of...
Employee expectations in a post-COVID world – a report from Workday and Peakon
2020 was the most disruptive year we’ve seen in recent history for both organisations and their employees when the global spread of COVID-19 completely changed the way we live and work. COVID-19, together with the wave of awareness that flooded...
A hospitality transformation journey into the unknown
After a year of virtually no international travel, the government has finally lifted restrictions and implemented a traffic light system for UK travellers to use at their discretion. Within hours of the announcement, thousands of Britons took to the web...
The student [e]xperience in higher education
Last year in March, ERP Today editor Paul Esherwood wrote a critical article on the dismal attempts at digital transformation in higher education (HE) facilities. Who was to know that a few days after that was published in ERP Today, that...
Chris McClelland, director at Unitherm
Unitherm is hitting the UK market using Acumatica
Unitherm is a supplier of heating solutions for residential and commercial applications in Ireland. Today, they announced their partnership with Acumatica Cloud ERP to support their expansion into the UK.  Unitherm was established in 2004 and is well-known in Ireland for their...
Slack Q1 results top expectations
Slack has reported its first quarter fiscal 2022 results, revealing a 36 percent year-on-year increase in total revenue to $273.4m.  With its $27.7 bn acquisition by Salesforce still ongoing, Slack said it added 13,000 net new paid customers during Q1, including 102 paid...
Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE
HPE reports double-digit revenue growth
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) the global, edge-to-cloud Platform-as-a-Service company has reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat expectations as it returned to revenue growth for the first time since 2018.  The household name in computing reported a profit before certain costs such as stock...
Epicor Acquires KBMax a Technology Leader in the CPQ Market
Epicor, a global leader of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, announced today that it has acquired Configure Price Quote (CPQ) and visualisation software provider KBMax. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.  KBMax software solutions will be marketed under...
Centrica names Cognizant as Exclusive Partner for SAP Business Process Transformation
Professional services company, Cognizant, has been selected by leading international energy services and solutions company, Centrica, as the sole technology services partner to manage and transform the SAP environment supporting its UK operations.  Centrica provides energy supply and services to 10 million business...
Workday unveils talent investment and expansion plans
Workday Inc., the enterprise cloud application provider for finance and human resources, has revealed plans to create 2,500 new roles and expand office locations to create new talent pools. The business announced this week the plans to expand office locations...
Snowflake reports strong Q1 financial results
Financial results released today (27 May 2021) by Data Cloud company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), reveal 110% year-on-year growth in revenue and product revenue in Q1 of the 2021/2022 financial year. Revenue for the quarter was $228.9m, representing 110% year-over-year growth.  Product revenue...
University of Oxford and Oracle partner in identification of COVID-19 variants
Oracle has recently announced undoubtedly lucrative partnerships with Honda Red Bull Racing and The Premier League. But taking into account where the world finds itself right now, with the emergence of COVID-19 variants threatening to slow the global recovery, Oracle is also taking great...
Advanced World 2021 – Software Powered Agility
My journey into the world of ERP is in its infancy and as every new recruit should, I relish the chance to devour information, knowledge and opinions on the industry that I find myself in for the first time. In...
Briggs of Burton Rises to Global Challenges with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Sapphire Systems
SAP SE today announced that Briggs of Burton, the hygienic process engineering company, has selected RISE with SAP to drive its business transformation into the cloud with leading digital operating platform provider Sapphire Systems. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP system, has embedded AI and machine learning,...
Z Nautic Group floats to the cloud with Infor
Infor, leading cloud company, today announced that Z Nautic Group (formerly known as Zodiac) is deploying Infor CloudSuite Equipment, a multi-tenant cloud ERP system specifically designed for equipment manufacturers, dealers and rental companies. The project follows the group’s demerger and the...
EY announces acquisition of UK technology business, Pythagoras Communications
EY announced yesterday, the acquisition of Pythagoras Communications Holdings Limited (Pythagoras), a leading UK technology company and Microsoft Gold Partner. Pythagoras provides professional services and solutions using technology platforms including Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and the Power Platform. Pythagoras employs 118 people...
Oracle announced as new Premier League signing
Oracle has partnered with Premier League football as its official cloud provider to deliver football match statistics, live, during games. Machine learning models will be developed to generate immediate results based on live data streams, real-time tracking data, and facts...
SUSE files to go public
SUSE, the EQT-owned open source company has filed its ITF (Intention to Float) ahead of a planned listing on the Frankfurt Exchange later in the year. Rumours of an IPO first surfaced at the end of last year but, until...
ERP Today announce fundraiser and awards event in aid of NHS Charities Together
Over the last year we’ve seen our economy battered by the onslaught of COVID-19. Industries across the board have fallen victim to relentless lockdowns, people the world over have lost civil liberties and our NHS has been overwhelmed to near breaking point. But while we hear the despondent stories over and over, there is hope and a much-needed light at the end of the tunnel.
TA Associates buys Unit4 for $2bn
Unit4 has been acquired by TA associates, a global growth private equity firm with significant other interests in the enterprise software space.
ERP Today Partners With Lumenia At The Virtual HeadtoHead Event
ERP Today and Lumenia Consulting are partnering, once again, for Lumenia’s virtual vendor selection event that is taking place on 23rd and 24th of March. A collection of 14 ERP vendors will go head-to-head to showcase their ERP solutions in...
Working from home
In March 2017, a video of two young children interrupting their father’s BBC interview about South Korea went viral. Professor Robert Kelly was quoted as saying: “I thought I’d blown it in front of the whole world,” when his children...