Giacomo Lee, Author at ERP Today

Giacomo Lee

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CloudWorld sees Oracle & IBM strengthen AI and supply chains

Oracle CloudWorld 2024 took over Las Vegas last week, pitching up in The Venetian Convention and Expo Center to showcase the latest updates regarding Oracle’s software and its ecosystem. The flagship event for Oracle is also worth watching for more...

Financial Management

What Pricing Can Learn From AI Game Champions

How AI-driven pricing guidance comes from a deep integration between price optimization and CPQ solutions.

Enterprise Asset Management

Beyond AI, IFS and Copperleaf completion to bolster sustainability in EAM

IFS CEO Mark Moffat on the sustainability strategy behind the Copperleaf mega-deal.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Citizen developers and governance in enterprise software today

The recent push of AI into today’s ERP systems has seen a resurgence in the old debate about the risk in employing low-code and no-code solutions. With the rise of citizen developers, enterprises saw a quick fix for the tech...

Analytics and AI

AWS walks into The O2 with Just Walk Out tech

Think Amazon and in-person retail and you’re likely to think of its Go and Fresh stores, where an Amazon phone app lets you shop and leave said brands without any checkout touchpoints. The experience is designed to remove friction from...

Supply Chain Management

Steve Murphy: Returning the engine to search

Epicor CEO Steve Murphy on putting the engine back into search, and solving the supply chain challenge by leaning on ERP.

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Automation

Vitesco: Driving a 4.0 sky-high, sustainable world

CIO Thomas Buck talks cloud and sustainable transformation for electric powertrain engine technology firm, Vitesco Technologies, plus the possibilities of Industry 4.0, across its AWS, SAP and Microsoft stack.

Analytics and AI

SAP GenAI gets boost with AWS cloud and chips

Ahead of its Sapphire 2024 conference in Orlando, SAP has announced an expanded, strategic collaboration with AWS to change modern cloud ERP experiences and help end users drive new capabilities and efficiencies with SAP GenAI (generative artificial intelligence).

Supply Chain Management

Where AI and digital twins meet supply chain in Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM

As companies face significant supply chain challenges, from component shortages to disrupted shipping routes, changing global trade agreements and volatile customer demand, smarter approaches are in high demand. Naturally this extends to the use of AI in supply chain management....

Analytics and AI

Government, commercial industries to get AI boost from Oracle and Palantir partnership

Oracle and Palantir have joined forces to deliver mission critical AI to businesses and governments around the world

Cloud Platform and Technology

CloudWorld: the key takeaways from Oracle UK leader and users

CloudWorld saw Oracle UK set out its agenda for 2024 - what's the message from VPs and customers?

Human Capital Management

Workday CTO: AI in HCM has real use cases

Workday's CTO discusses AI, ERP, empowering next-gen tech, and industry trends in the HCM landscape

Application Development and Integration

Integration is Innovation

Boomi CEO Steve Lucas on being inspired by connecting the world and why AI transformation can only happen with your data house in order.

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Service Management

Editor’s words: The Year of the Customer

ERP Today readers, welcome to the Year of the Customer. Our editor, Giacomo Lee, reminisces on 2023 which was the Year of the Partner.

Human Capital Management

Cloudy with a chance of curveballs

The times are a-changing: Giacomo Lee discusses human capital management today with consultancy CloudRock's CEO, Minos Ataliotis.

Cloud Platform and Technology

New SAP financials a pivotal point on cloud roadmap, with AI focus

CEO Christian Klein comments on Q4 results that "SAP is opening the next chapter... intensifying the shift of investments to strategic growth areas, above all AI."

Cloud Platform and Technology

IFS appoints Mark Moffat as CEO for the AI age

Mark Moffat has been promoted to CEO of IFS, as previous chief Darren Roos becomes the company’s Chair of the Board.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Infor Innovations Day: It’s RPA, Jim, but not as we know it

Probing deeper into the latest updates to CloudSuite, as unveiled at Infor Innovations Day Nordics.

Analytics and AI

Vendors set out their AI stalls in 2023. Where were all the skills?

Vendor conferences are over for the year, with all their wins news and GenAI hype. Not so much on the checklist? Skills.

Human Capital Management

Workday rising – and dancing – with EMEA industry takeover

Workday Rising EMEA highlighted customers wins with over 100 European-headquartered companies from more than 35 different industries.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Workday is not just a people platform, bet your bottom dollar on it

Equiniti on the financial management side of Workday.

Infor dares to mix AI with blockchain in CloudSuite upgrade

Infor has unveiled a wealth of updates to its industry-specific CloudSuites, with new features developed for industries including food & beverage, fashion, automotive and more.

Gartner on why CFOs need inhuman accountants

Exclusive: Mark D. McDonald, senior director analyst in the Gartner Finance Practice, talks GenAI use in the financial space

Would Albert Einstein approve of Salesforce AI stance?

Salesforce Dreamforce 2023 finished last week, and AI was the big theme of the company's flagship event. But what would the real Einstein make of Salesforce in this current moment?

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Application Development and Integration

Blue Marine Foundation: Saving our seas in real time

Blue Marine's project with integrator City Dynamics is proof that while stargazing is an easy habit to fall into when it comes to tech, sometimes the best stories of transformation are happening “down to Earth”. Such stories are happening very much in the here and now, with real-time consequences for everyone on our embattled planet.

Cormac Watters, executive vice president of applications for Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa

Oracle: you got a big friend in Big Red

Cormac Watters tells ERP Today how Oracle is opening up, to become best friends with some of the world’s most philanthropic organizations.

Workday EMEA mid-size enterprise success

Winning Workday Q2 results show “trust” and stealth AI leadership

Workday Q2 results show $1.79bn in total revenues, with a clear sentiment of customer trust guiding the company's messaging to investors.

“Smart” FSM: from SAP to Samsara, Apple to Android

For field or off-site workers in physical operations, using connected devices such as smartphones or tablets is a relatively new concept.

Capgemini results boast good news, generative AI “patisserie”

Capgemini results for the first half (H1) of 2023 saw revenues of €11.426m, up 6.9 percent from the same period last year.

Google Cloud results a profitable sequel, hint to hybrid AI future

Google Cloud has made profit for two quarters in a row, as revealed in the latest Q2 2023 results from parent company Alphabet.

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ServiceNow an AI “lighthouse” shining bright with caution in Q2 results

ServiceNow has revealed its Q2 results for 2023 alongside an AI NVIDIA partnership and a vision for AI to save the workforce - whilst admitting to a GenAI prudence.