Giacomo Lee, Author at ERP Today

Giacomo Lee

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114 Articles Published

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.

Huawei, Xi Liu Bei Po Village (Ox Horn Campus)

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.

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.

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.

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."

Is Microsoft pushing one partner for Dynamics 365?

Dynamics 365 MVPs aren't happy as Bam Boom Cloud appears to take the sales limelight for Microsoft.

Snowflake reports 54 percent growth in Q4; bets big on hiring

Q4 results from Snowflake reported $555.3m in product revenue for the data cloud company, representing 54 percent YoY growth.

Bard for business? Google enters the chatbot game

Google has entered the AI chatbot arena with Bard, an artificial intelligence search tool. What does it mean for enterprise?

Salesforce earnings up but Slack shows with second CEO exit

Salesforce reported a Q3 2023 revenue of $7.84bn, exceeding expectations, but faced stock declines following the announcement of Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield's resignation amidst leadership changes within the company.

IBM Watson health status resurrected with NHS virtual assistant

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has launched Enquire, a new intelligent virtual assistant powered by IBM Watson Assistant on IBM Cloud

Atos story more about digital pivot than recession gloom

Atos, struggling since 2021, plans to split into two companies by mid-2023, focusing on a digital pivot amidst a tech recession while facing declining revenues in its IT infrastructure management sector.

The Carolean Era: crypto country change for the UK?

Britcoin and a 'royally minted' NFT are still plausible developments for Britain under a new monarch – even if PM Rishi Sunak stops being a crypto bro and FTX-esque crashes keep happening.

image of Workday building | Interview with Jim Stratton

Workday surpasses 2000 customers in Europe and rising

Workday has revealed its applications are now used by over 2,000 customers in the EMEA region, as the company kicks off its Workday Rising event in Stockholm. The figures come as Workday continues to scale rapidly in EMEA, spanning across European-headquartered companies including Asda, Basic Fit, franprix, Glovo, Mazars, and Telpark. The company has also seen significant growth in France, Germany, and the UK, along with other European countries. Workday applications are now used by more than 40 percent of the FTSE100 and DAX40, and more than 30 percent of the CAC40.

Microsoft in supply chain first for disruptive decade

The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, which bundles together AI, collaboration, low-code, security and SaaS apps, is not a scare tactic. As Redmond tells ERP Today, supply chain disruption is the new status quo.

Adobe has already doomed the metaverse

Pantone blues and Figma fallout: Adobe, not Meta, is the metaverse's biggest threat.

The Great Tech Redundancy is here again

The more companies are callous with their staff, the more chance of another Great Resignation. After all, the main reason employees resigned en masse wasn't because of remote work: It was because they realized how dispensable they were.

image of Celonis building | Celonis:Next unveils product enhancements, investments and more

Celonis adds ‘third dimension’ to process mining and supply chains

Celonis has launched two new updates to its process mining software. Co-CEO Alex Rinke explains exclusively to ERP Today how the new platforms represent a potential game changer for the tech.

Deloitte and AWS partnership to fuel fintech, crypto

Deloitte is embarking on a multi-year co-investment and engineering collaboration with AWS in a push to help banks and non-banks bring products and services to market with more ease on Amazon Web Services.

ServiceNow serves up NHS Digital backbone and beyond

Exclusive: The ServiceNow platform is powering NHS Digital, the national information and technology partner of the UK health and care system. The partnership will also continue once NHS Digital merges with NHS England and NHSX in 2023.

Elon Musk buys Twitter; Oracle in, Salesforce out

Looks like Elon Musk has done it and bought Twitter. The acquisition of one of the world's biggest social media sites was a legally fraught one, as has been well-documented. Not so widely covered? The background presence in the story of a few big names in enterprise tech, namely Oracle CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison, and Bret Taylor, co-CEO of Salesforce. The latter was chair of Twitter’s board of directors until Musk's takeover became reality.

EY does the metaverse – can it save all things Meta?

EY has updated its metaverse space. The news comes one day after lacking financial results from Facebook owner Meta, the current figurehead of extended reality in enterprise.

IFS Cloud Cable Car brings B2B, TikTok to Royal Docks

The IFS Cloud Cable Car is IFS’ biggest brand activation to date, climbing high over a very different landscape.

Crypto hedge bet? Google combines Coinbase into Cloud

Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase has selected Google Cloud as a strategic cloud provider, in a move touted as one driving Web3 innovation and development. The news comes after Google's recent partnership with the blockchain arm of embattled crypto service Binance.

APAC’s QR code solution solves a 21st century problem

The humble QR code represents a possible quantum leap in cross-border payment for Southeast Asia.

Money in Web3 needs neither crypto nor cyberspace

Accenture, Alibaba and more explain why the future of finance doesn’t necessarily involve cryptocurrency and extended reality

Automation stock image | Deloitte and Alibaba

Alibaba adds more autonomous autos to its Cloud

Deloitte China and Alibaba Cloud have launched the Deloitte-Alibaba Cloud Auto Industry Center in Hangzhou to provide end-to-end solutions for the automobile industry, focusing on autonomous driving, intelligent manufacturing, and digital marketing, while facilitating the digital transformation of China's automotive sector.