Giacomo Lee, Author at ERP Today

Giacomo Lee

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114 Articles Published

Google further exits Smart City stage with Cloud closure

Five years after its inception, Google Cloud's IoT Core system is no more, pointing towards a further pivot away from smart city technology for Google and parent company Alphabet. The news comes not even one year after Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet's controversial urban planning subsidiary, was folded back into Google. The IoT Core closure was announced with a message on the product's page stating the service will be retired on August 16, 2023.

Deepfake data will mean real money in finance – but reality is key

Can synthetic data resolve bias, privacy and data gaps for financial services?

Netflix and chill on the Mega-Deal?

The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.

SAP moves first to control costs in wake of economic uncertainty

A certain existential crisis of the employee sort has been spreading across enterprise as of late. Microsoft announced small layoffs as part of a business realignment this week, while a staff-wide email on Tuesday from Google's CEO warned employees of consolidation due to the “uncertain global economic outlook.”

Red Hat names Matt Hicks as new CEO

Hicks, who previously served as Red Hat’s executive VP of products and technologies, succeeds Paul Cormier.

HPE esports deal is more about data than anything meta

HPE partners with esports organization Evil Geniuses, augmenting the latter's data analytics capabilities.

Windows incompatibility poses a dual threat to enterprise

The end of Internet Explorer grabbed a lot of tech news headlines. But another interesting nugget of Microsoft-related news went under the radar recently.

Biden, Zero Trust and cybersecurity

Cybersecurity presents pressing issues for the ERP community, with few glimpses of hope to be found in the current landscape.

Young professionals are keeping office space alive

Despite all the hype about remote work, Big Tech is still clearly invested in big bricks – and so are its younger workers.

The metaverse is a shiny new hammer, but what are the nails in enterprise tech?

Deloitte, ServiceNow, Zoom and more reveal exactly what they’re thinking about a business metaverse.

M&D has a long way to go in protecting the supply chain

Very few manufacturers and distributors seemed invested in supply chain readiness during the pandemic.

Augmenting the butterfly’s wing: new frontiers in supply chain technology

Tech can’t prevent every freak incident, but, as HS2, Accenture and Boomi reveal, innovative software can help industries protect their supply chains during times of chaos.

Ukraine and the state of play in Enterprise Security

When it comes to cybersecurity, enterprise tech can no longer afford to ignore the threat of hostile nation states.

SAP sorts out supply chains and sustainability for Sapphire 2022

Returning to Orlando for its 2022 iteration, the ERP giant stood face to face with a world decidedly different to that of 2019. Supply chains, sustainability and social inequality have all come to the fore during the pandemic, and SAP CEO Christian Klein came to the stage with a timely message for the masses.

All work and all play: Do young professionals really want an office metaverse?

The tools to make work more engaging in the metaverse are already here. But who are they for? And does anyone want them?

Cloud healthcare and the data state of play

Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.

AI in healthcare: What now after Watson?

IBM’s Watson health venture was so beleaguered, it can be forgiven if AI in healthcare seems like a poor business bet.

Legacy tech lingers in healthcare after Covid. What’s the fix?

It's still too early to say the NHS has shed off enough of its legacy technology, even after the pandemic.

Ukraine needs more than just ‘flag washing’ from Big Tech

ERP Today asks why the Big Tech brigade hasn’t put its money where its mouth is and shut off current services to their Russian client base.

Microsoft eyes healthcare AI supremacy with Nuance deal closure

Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion enhances its healthcare portfolio with AI tools designed to improve the efficiency and accessibility of healthcare services.

Cognizant and Microsoft partner in boost to virtual healthcare

Cognizant and Microsoft have partnered to create a virtual healthcare solution that enhances remote patient monitoring and medical care using Microsoft Cloud services, aiming to improve patient engagement and health outcomes through advanced technology.

SAP Hackathon 2022 winners reveal sustainable blueprints for future smart cities

Atos, Deloitte, and IBM won the UK&I Innovation Labs’ SAP Hackathon 2022 for their innovative solutions aimed at addressing future urban challenges in smart city planning, food distribution, and waste management.

Enterprises better strap in for a journey to the metaverse

When social media giant Facebook changed the name of its holding company to Meta in late 2021, both the internet and enterprise world were abuzz with confusion over what it all meant.