Lisa Dodson, Author at ERP Today

Lisa Dodson

180 Articles Published

The document outlines how SMBs can leverage AI-first ERP platforms to enhance efficiency, automate workflows, and improve decision-making. It contrasts traditional systems with modern AI-driven solutions, emphasizing benefits like real-time insights, scalability, and intuitive interfaces. It also highlights the importance of assessing organizational readiness for AI adoption and provides a checklist to guide SMBs in transitioning to AI-powered tools for competitive growth.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Modern Shipbuilding Demands the Right ERP and the Right Partner

Digital transformation is imperative for shipbuilders facing increasing complexities, and employing a capable ERP platform alongside a knowledgeable partner is crucial for achieving sustainable competitive advantages.

Security

Public Administrations and Secure SAP Operations

Germany's public administration struggles with digitalization, lagging behind EU standards, prompting the need for BSI-certified cloud solutions like the SAP platform from T-Systems to enhance cybersecurity and meet increasing demands for digital services.

Analytics and AI

A Secure AI Environment for SAP Customers

ABAP, SAP's programming language essential for system customization, is transitioning to the ABAP Cloud Development Model, enhanced by AI tools that aid in code analysis and optimization while addressing documentation gaps left by past developers.

ERP Strategy and Planning

E-book: Business transformation with RISE with SAP

RISE with SAP empowers organizations to become more agile, scalable, and innovative by transitioning to cloud-based ERP systems. With T-Systems as a trusted partner, businesses can navigate this transformation securely and efficiently, leveraging AI, compliance, and customized cloud strategies.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Deutsche Telekom moved to RISE with SAP | Insights | Deutsche Telekom IT and T-Systems

In an interview, Joop Jansen and Frank Scharpenberg discuss Deutsche Telekom's strategic migration of over 500 ERP systems to the cloud via RISE with SAP, detailing the transformation roadmap and offering insights for other companies embarking on similar journeys.

Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP and T-Systems – Partners for your Digital Journey

T-Systems, a trusted SAP partner for over 20 years, has achieved certification for SAP Business Technology Platform operations and RISE with SAP Premium Supplier status in Germany, facilitating seamless cloud migration and access to innovations like AI and sustainability solutions.

Human Capital Management

White Paper: Future-Proof HR Management with SAP HCM

SAP’s shift to cloud-only HR solutions presents both a challenge and an opportunity for companies to reevaluate and modernize their HR systems. T-Systems supports this transformation with comprehensive SAP services, helping organizations implement scalable, AI-enhanced, and future-ready HR infrastructures.

Human Capital Management

SAP HCM transformation

We guide HR and IT decision-makers on maximizing the benefits of SAP SuccessFactors cloud technology (HCM Suite).

ERP Strategy and Planning

RISE with SAP, Thrive with T-Systems

As a premium supplier of RISE with SAP, T-Systems offers a bundle of end-to-end SAP transformation services that includes consulting, migration, implementation and operation of RISE with SAP.

ERP Strategy and Planning

End-to-end SAP Solutions

Transform into an intelligent and sustainable enterprise with our complete gamut of SAP solutions and services.

Supply Chain Management

How Agile is Your Supply Chain in the Age of AI?

The 2025 Agility Index highlights the critical role of AI in supply chain management for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, urging organizations to adopt real-time data-sharing and automation to enhance agility and competitiveness amid various market challenges.

Application Development and Integration

Epicor Propello | Built for Modern Retailers

Epicor Propello is a comprehensive cloud-based retail management solution tailored for both single and multi-store retailers, aiming to enhance operations, boost sales, and facilitate growth across various channels.

Supply Chain Management

Customer Success: TAL Building Centers

TAL Building Centers, a family-owned business with over a century of history, has experienced rapid growth and operational transformation through the implementation of Epicor's BisTrack ERP solution, which has streamlined processes, enhanced pricing strategies, and improved inventory management while fostering a long-term partnership aimed at maximizing efficiency and customer value.

Security

Protect Your Valuable Data

With ransomware attacks occurring every 11 seconds and projected to rise to every 2 seconds by 2031, ensuring robust cybersecurity for vital ERP systems is crucial for businesses, demanding constant attention to people, processes, and technology.

Turning Manufacturing Data into Competitive Advantage with CData

Data and Data Management

Orbit DataJump Vs. Fivetran for Oracle Fusion Cloud Data Extraction

Orbit DataJump is specifically designed for Oracle Fusion Cloud and E-Business Suite, addressing integration challenges such as schema changes and audit compliance, enabling reliable, real-time data pipelines that traditional connectors struggle to maintain.

Data and Data Management

Unlocking Advanced Analytics: Oracle Fusion ERP + Databricks Integration

As enterprises utilizing Oracle Cloud ERP seek advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, integrating their data into Databricks through Orbit's no-code data pipeline solution simplifies the process, enabling real-time updates and eliminating the complexities of manual ETL.

Data and Data Management

From Oracle Fusion Cloud to Databricks: Simplifying SaaS Data Pipelines + Data Models with Orbit Datajump

Orbit Datajump seamlessly integrates with Oracle Fusion and Databricks to provide an intelligent data orchestration and modeling layer, enabling efficient data ingestion, schema management, and accelerated analytics by transforming Fusion data into analytics-ready models.

Data and Data Management

Beyond Data Integration – How Orbit’s Intelligent Data Pipelines Transform Raw Data into Business Value

Orbit offers an intelligent, end-to-end pipeline solution that goes beyond integration, seamlessly transforming raw data into real business value, driving innovation and growth, and empowering strategic decision-making.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Aptean AppCentral

Future proof with Aptean AppCentral.

Analytics and AI

The Algorithm: What It Means to Be an AI-First Company

“We’re moving beyond the hype cycle into a period where AI’s real value is emerging. Yet, many manufacturers are struggling to bridge the gap between its potential and its practical implementation.” — TVN Reddy, CEO, Aptean

Data and Data Management

Is your legacy data a ticking time bomb or an untapped goldmine?

Join a hard-hitting conversation that cuts through the noise on enterprise data transformation. Discover the biggest lie companies tell themselves about legacy data: it's "useless," and learn how data "historicization" is becoming the secret context weapon for AI-ready enterprises. Stream it now!

Financial Management

The Urgency of Modernizing Order-to-Revenue Processes

Businesses must modernize their revenue systems and adopt flexible, data-driven monetization strategies to adapt to rapidly changing buyer expectations and complex pricing models, as legacy systems lead to inefficiencies and customer dissatisfaction.

Financial Management

Enercare Case Study

Zuora not only filled this gap by enabling Enercare to directly bill its large customer base but provided the company with a richer platform to manage customer relationships and support growth beyond billing, improving operations across the entire quote-to-revenue process.

Analytics and AI

Zuora + Workday: The Proven Path to Order to Cash Confidence

Workday and Zuora are partnering to provide dynamic companies with a comprehensive Order-to-Cash solution that enhances revenue visibility and growth through advanced financial systems and monetization capabilities.

Financial Management

Zuora Order to Cash

Zuora streamlines quoting, billing, usage, and collections with automated revenue recognition, allowing businesses to concentrate on strategy rather than error-prone reconciliation.

ERP Strategy and Planning

Zuora Subscription Management

Zuora provides a comprehensive subscription management platform that streamlines the entire subscriber experience from storefront to revenue recognition, enabling faster launches and simplified operations for confident growth.

Financial Management

Empowering Manufacturing Leaders with Self-Service BI & Predictive Insights

Manufacturing leaders are under pressure to make faster, more informed decisions as supply chains and market demands evolve. By leveraging self-service BI and predictive insights, organizations can reduce reliance on IT while empowering leaders to take immediate action backed by data.

Data and Data Management

Bringing ERP Data into Excel: Seamless Integration with Orbit Analytics

Orbit Analytics reimagines how organizations interact with their ERP data by delivering a seamless, live connection between enterprise systems and Excel. By embedding live ERP data directly into the tool users trust most, Orbit removes the friction between IT systems and business reporting, enabling faster, data-backed decisions.

Financial Management

AARO Joins Forces with Aico & Mercur to Form Unified and Complete Financial Corporate Performance SaaS Platform; Michael Teixeira Named Group CEO

Accel-KKR has successfully merged AARO with Aico and Mercur to create a unified SaaS platform for Corporate Performance Management, led by CEO Michael Teixeira, enhancing financial operations for CFOs across EMEA.