Giacomo Lee
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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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Eviden: How Atos is living the EY dream
For those not in the know, the French IT giant is now two brands: Atos and Eviden, as Eviden's global AWS head confirmed at AWS's recent London summit.
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Deltek: how the D.C. giant is going global with PSA
ERP Today sits down with Deltek CEO Michael Corkery to discuss the company’s European chapter.
Andy Green, COO Arcwide
Arcwide – tall and proud
Happy first birthday to Arcwide as chief operating exec Andy Green discusses the integrator's unique position in the IFS ecosystem.
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Scaling startups for sustainable cities is a billion-dollar business
ERP Today talks to AWS’ Jeff Kratz, general manager, worldwide public sector partners about scaling startups for sustainable cities.
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Into Samsara’s new wares – what’s the ERP hook beyond IoT?
June ended with Samsara Beyond, Samsara's flagship event and a big one in the Internet of Things (IoT) calendar.
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Cost of living leads the conversation at AWS’s biggest UK&I summit
The cost-of-living crisis was a key theme at the AWS Summit in London, the hyperscaler's biggest conference in the UK&I region.
Workday Elevate
Do Workday and Accenture have the future of HCM in the bag?
Skills was a big topic at Workday Elevate London, underpinning a more prosaic vision of the future of work this decade.
IFS Connect with CEO Darren Roos
The UK word from IFS Connect? Less cloud “fiefdoms”, more young professionals
IFS CEO Darren Roos and its UK&I chief speak exclusively from IFS Connect on leading in EAM, and where "fear versus reality" in cloud adoption.
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Exclusive: Huawei talks making the “TikTok of ERP”, MetaERP – from inception and beyond
MetaERP from Chinese tech giant Huawei isn’t your average entry in ERP business. As Huawei tells ERP Today in its only international interview regarding the project, “without US sanctions, Huawei had never considered developing its own ERP.”
Aiman Ezzat, Capgemini CEO | Capgemini Q3
UK&I leads Capgemini Q1 growth after Whitehall wonder win
Capgemini Q1 results show biggest EMEA growth following headline UK government deal.
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ERP Today, SAPinsider, Mastering SAP and Channel Metrics team up to create a global media powerhouse
ERP Today is acquired by Wellesley Information Services to join the same family as SAPinsider, creating a new media powerhouse for the enterprise technology sector.
ServiceNow “fastest ever” as it reaches $2bn revenue first
ServiceNow has surpassed the $2bn quarterly revenue barrier for the first time, according to its first quarter (Q1) results.
A tale of three hospitals
Defining the smart hospital in 2023 - and searching for its existence in the UK with the NHS and enterprise tech.
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Celonis – mining within 3D and ESG
Celonis co-CEO Alex Rinke exclusively talks with ERP Today about how Celonis Process Sphere eases supply chain disruption.
Microsoft’s supply chain VP gives the hard macro outlook
Interview with Ray Smith, vice president supply chain at Microsoft on black swan events and data lakes.
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Salesforce first to sell ChatGPT, promising IP safety
ChatGPT hype sees Salesforce launch Einstein GPT, billed as the "world’s first generative AI CRM technology."