Giacomo Lee, Author at ERP Today

Giacomo Lee

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124 Articles Published

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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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.

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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.