Mark Vigoroso
Mark Vigoroso, CEO, ERP Today
108 Articles Published
Application Development and Integration
Accelerating Smart Manufacturing: QAD and Boomi’s Strategic Alliance Redefines ERP Integration
QAD Inc. and Boomi have formed a strategic alliance to revolutionize manufacturing ERP by offering pre-built integrations, AI-driven insights, and plug-and-play connectivity, aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and accelerating digital transformation for manufacturers.
Application Development and Integration
Beyond the Interface: How Whatfix Is Redefining ERP Adoption for the AI Era
Vara Kumar, co-founder of Whatfix, emphasizes the importance of digital adoption in enterprise software beyond basic training, advocating for personalized, ongoing support that integrates seamless human and AI collaboration to enhance user experience across diverse applications.
Digital Commerce
Marketplace Momentum: How Google Cloud is Rewiring the Economics of Enterprise Software
Google Cloud is transforming its Marketplace to drive growth and streamline partner economics through a new variable revenue share model, simplified commit drawdown for channels, and customer incentives, positioning itself as a central hub for enterprise software procurement and AI solutions.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Unlocking Efficiency for Public Education: Chicago Public Schools Goes All-In on Oracle Fusion
Chicago Public Schools is transitioning to Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to enhance its operational efficiency and resource allocation by moving from outdated systems to a unified, AI-driven cloud platform that will streamline finance, HR, and supply chain management.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Structural Technologies Reinforces Vision with Rootstock ERP
Structural Technologies has upgraded to Rootstock's cloud-based ERP system to address the limitations of its outdated legacy system and enhance operational efficiency, real-time visibility, and scalability across its manufacturing processes.
Quality and Testing
The Quiet Revolution in ERP: How Opkey is Automating the Impossible
Amid a looming crisis in ERP transformations—where 70% of projects may fail by 2027—Opkey, an AI-driven platform, is revolutionizing the process by turning software testing, training, and change management into efficient accelerators through its innovative use of agentic automation and ERP-specific language models.
Analytics and AI
The Digital Transformation Trap: Inside HCLSoftware’s Pragmatic AI Strategy
HCL Software is redefining the enterprise software landscape with an outcome-based, empathy-driven approach to AI and automation, focusing on customer needs and integrating advanced technologies into existing platforms without discarding legacy systems.
Unlocking Digital Impact: Inetum Redefines Transformation Through Platform Ecosystems and AI Innovation
ERP Strategy and Planning
Unlocking Digital Impact: Inetum Redefines Transformation Through Platform Ecosystems and AI Innovation
Inetum, under the leadership of Kathy Quashie and Hemant Lamba, positions itself as a trustworthy partner in digital transformation for European clients by leveraging a platform-based strategy, deep client intimacy, industry-specific solutions, and a focus on AI readiness to deliver tangible business outcomes.
ERP Strategy and Planning
ERP Today TV – with Mark Moffat, CEO, IFS
IFS What does it take to become the undisputed leader in industrial enterprise software? In this bold, unscripted interview, IFS CEO Mark Moffat shares the inside story on how IFS is redefining the ERP landscape—one industry, one customer, one innovation...
ERP Strategy and Planning
Enterprise Views: Global Pharmaceutical Distributor Advances Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA
An international pharmaceutical wholesaler is implementing SAP S/4HANA to modernize its enterprise systems, enhance operational efficiency, and leverage AI-driven insights across its multi-country operations, with a structured three-phase transformation roadmap set between 2025 and 2028.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Technical Debt is the Silent Killer of ERP Transformation
ERP systems, often burdened by hidden technical debt from outdated customizations, are crucial for enterprise success but require a shift towards clean, agile practices and a mindset of ongoing modernization to avoid costly transformation failures.
Epicor
Analytics and AI
AI, Data and Automation: Cutting through the Noise and Navigating the New Frontier of Enterprise Value
In the era of digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automation are not merely buzzwords—they are strategic imperatives. The convergence of these technologies is reshaping industries, redefining competitive advantage, and demanding a recalibration of executive decision-making. For C-level...
Samsara Data-Driven
Data and Data Management
Adeptia’s Innovation Engine: Deepak Singh on Simplifying Data Integration for the Modern Enterprise
Adeptia, an enterprise-class data integration platform led by Deepak Singh, distinguishes itself with a no-code, drag-and-drop interface that empowers non-technical users to automate data connections without heavy IT reliance, offering flexible deployment options and AI-driven automation to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.
Your Next ERP Will Think for Itself: Microsoft’s Bold Vision for Autonomous ERP
Analytics and AI
Your Next ERP Will Think for Itself: Microsoft’s Bold Vision for Autonomous ERP
Microsoft is transforming ERP systems from traditional user-initiated processes to intelligent, autonomous platforms that execute tasks independently, emphasizing continuous business value and adapting to user needs rather than the other way around.
A wide angle view of an NTT DATA building, taken on an evening | NTT Sapphire
ERP Strategy and Planning
NTT DATA Business Solutions Positions for the Platform Era: SAP, ServiceNow, and the New Face of Enterprise Transformation
NTT DATA Business Solutions is uniquely positioned to bridge SAP and ServiceNow through a pragmatic transformation framework that emphasizes customer proximity, platform integration, and outcome-driven innovation, making it a top-tier partner for organizations seeking comprehensive business transformation.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From Checkout to Connected Commerce: How TCS is Modernizing Retail Tech and Operations
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) distinguishes itself in the retail sector by combining deep domain expertise with proprietary technologies and outcome-based delivery models, exemplified by its successful long-term partnership with Coop Denmark, focusing on continuous value realization post-ERP implementation through innovative solutions like AI-driven Optumera™ and OmniStore™, while prioritizing strategic partnerships over volume sales.
Renewable_Energy_Development
ERP Strategy and Planning
Powering the Net Zero Race: How EDF Renewables Scales with IFS Cloud
EDF Renewables is strategically utilizing IFS Cloud to enhance its growth and operational efficiency in clean energy production, targeting 10 GW annually by 2035, while integrating asset management and planning capabilities within a scalable cloud-native platform.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From ESG Burden to Business Edge: IFS Embeds Sustainability at the Core of Industrial ERP
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS highlighted the necessity of integrating sustainability as a core business function within industrial enterprises amidst evolving regulations and stakeholder expectations, showcasing its new cloud platform modules designed to operationalize sustainability through enhanced ESG insights and data-driven decision-making.
SSTL and NTT DATA Partner for Cloud-Powered Space Innovation
ERP Strategy and Planning
Mission Ready: IFS Stays Focused on Key Verticals and Drives Innovation for Aerospace & Defense
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS showcased its cloud platform and AI innovations tailored for the aerospace and defense industry, emphasizing precision, compliance, operational resilience, and security, while introducing advanced functionalities designed to meet the sector's unique challenges and regulatory requirements.
ERP Strategy and Planning
IFS CEO and CPO Offer Candid Views on Industrial AI and Speed-to-Value as the Differentiator in Enterprise Tech
IFS is shifting towards rapid AI adoption with its Nexus Black initiative and aims to double its valuation every three years, focusing on agentic AI tailored for core industries while maintaining a commitment to practical, scalable solutions despite the challenges of industrial AI.
Analytics and AI
Inside Nexus Black: IFS Launches a Fast-Track AI Lab for Industrial Innovation
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS launched Nexus Black™, an innovative AI initiative aimed at rapidly transforming industrial AI aspirations into operational advantages for sectors like manufacturing and energy, addressing the fragmentation of existing tools and emphasizing co-development with clients while integrating successful solutions into the IFS Cloud.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From Productivity to Precision: IFS Unveils Its Industrial AI Reality
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, IFS executives Christian Pedersen and James Greaves emphasized that AI has become the core foundation of enterprise software, showcasing IFS.ai's capabilities in providing embedded, real-time intelligence for industrial businesses through over 200 integrated AI services that enhance operations and decision-making without human intervention.
IFS Valuation Soars Past €15 B on Major Investment & Strong Growth
ERP Strategy and Planning
From Birmingham, UK: IFS Bets Big on Industrial AI—and Invites Its Customers to Lead the Charge
At IFS Connect UKI 2025, CEO Mark Moffat emphasized IFS's urgent ambition to lead industrial enterprise software by 2029 through AI integration, focused R&D investments, and real-world operational value, while urging customers to embrace AI as a mindset for optimizing asset-heavy industries.
Select Accelerating Digital Impact: Inetum and SAP Drive Future-Ready Transformation Accelerating Digital Impact: Inetum and SAP Drive Future-Ready Transformation
Cloud Platform and Technology
Accelerating Digital Impact: Inetum and SAP Drive Future-Ready Transformation
Inetum, a European leader in digital services, is enhancing its strategic partnership with SAP under new leadership to drive agile, AI-integrated business outcomes, while prioritizing clean data governance, pragmatic cloud transformation, and the importance of human-centered processes.
image of Larry Ellison, Oracle CTO | CloudWorld
Cloud Platform and Technology
Lloyds Banking Group Deepens Strategic Cloud Partnership with Oracle to Drive Innovation and Agility
Lloyds Banking Group has expanded its partnership with Oracle to adopt next-generation multicloud infrastructure solutions, migrating critical databases to Oracle Database@Azure and deploying Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, enhancing innovation and customer satisfaction in its digital transformation journey within the UK financial services sector.
Dell and Microsoft cybersecurity
Security
Dell Strengthens Cybersecurity for Microsoft Customers
Dell Technologies and Microsoft are enhancing AI adoption to protect data and improve cybersecurity for multicloud environments.
Inetum
Analytics and AI
The Future of Digital Transformation
Insights from Intetum UK CEO Kathy Quashie 
Infor Targets business velocity
Cloud Platform and Technology
Infor Targets Business Velocity with ESG & AI Capabilities
Inside Infor's major updates to its cloud portfolio.
ibm_headquarters | IBM AI
Cloud Platform and Technology
IBM Acquires HashiCorp, Enhancing Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities
IBM has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4 billion, aiming to enhance its hybrid cloud and AI capabilities through the integration of HashiCorp's automation and security products, ultimately helping clients optimize and secure their cloud infrastructure.
ERP Strategy and Planning
IFS Chief Product Officer Discusses Future of AI, Automation, and Quantum Computing in Enterprise Software
IFS Chief Product Officer Christian Pedersen discusses the future of enterprise software, emphasizing the imperative of AI-driven automation and quantum computing to address evolving workforce dynamics and productivity challenges, while ensuring that IFS helps customers navigate these technological advancements seamlessly.
Follow us on LinkedIn for the latest updates