Paul Esherwood, Author at ERP Today

Paul Esherwood

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ERP Today Awards & NHS Fundraiser film 2022

The #1 corporate event for the tech community. 3000 attendees, £150k raised for the NHS. 400 ERPers dancing the night away. Thank you to everyone who supported. We are already planning 2023....see you at Ascot :)

Editor’s Words: Strength in adversity

A sombre mood has been cast across the United Kingdom with its effects reaching all four corners of the globe. Queen Elizabeth II has passed and Charles III has been proclaimed king. As the world adjusted to the loss of the longest serving monarch on record, the ERP Today community shared a unique opportunity to pay tribute to Her Majesty at Royal Ascot, one of the late Queen’s most cherished venues.

Network Rail: everyone home safe every day

Network Rail and EY team up to deliver a comprehensive package of measures to improve safety, drive efficiencies and boost employee experience

ERP Today Live! with Acumatica

John Case is the new CEO at Acumatica. 6 months into his role, we ask what has been achieved in the first half-year of his tenure and does the world really need another mid-market ERP vendor? Case discusses the traction Acumatica is getting with an increasingly focussed cohort of customers and how Acumatica’s points of differentiation help set the cloud-native ERP publisher apart from the competition.

ERP Today Live! RISE with SAP, Brian Duffy

In this session of ERP Today Live! we speak to Brian Duffy, President of Cloud at SAP, to discuss RISE with SAP and how customers of all shapes and sizes can benefit from this revolutionary way to buy, consume and implement ERP software.

Latest results a turning point for IFS

IFS has revealed another set of stellar results which confirm the business is firmly on the path to £1bn in revenue and underscores the recent valuation of $10bn following a recent recap with Hg Capital. IFS’s growth in H1 2022 is put down to acquiring net new customers as well as from the IFS install base continuing to upgrade to its IFS Cloud product. In the first 12 months of IFS Cloud’s general availability, the company reported the same number of new users as it secured over a 25-year period with previous generation software.

Talent Tech Strategies – with Unit4

The battle for talent is on! Without doubt one of the greatest challenges facing enterprises of all sizes and types is the battle for talent. Company culture is now a boardroom priority as businesses attempt to appeal to candidates that...

Oracle partners collaborate on event for EBS customers

ERP Today attended Oracle5:LIVE last month, a one-day conference in London that promised to cut through business software “techno-babble” and explore what the latest developments in the industry really mean for Oracle users.

Recruiting challenges in consulting with EY

In this ERP Today Live! session, we talk to Benoit Laclau, managing partner for consulting at EY UK&I, about plans to hire 5,000 new recruits and the challenges of attracting and retaining talent in a fiercely competitive labour market.

Editor’s words: what kind of future do we want?

Our future is being designed for us and we have very little say in the process. Drucker told us we could predict the future by designing it, the only question that remains is what kind of future do we want?

50 years of SAP, Klein says, “We’re just getting started.”

50 years ago five former IBM executives started the conversation by forming a company called Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung. Since then, new protagonists have emerged, markets have shifted, share prices have fluctuated and products have evolved, but one thing has remained constant. SAP is the market leader….by a mile.

Samsara poised to disrupt world of physical operations

The IoT industry is more than 40 years old, but until recently most companies that strapped a device to a physical asset got little more than some binary data with almost zero value.

Orbis non sufficit – the race for cloud supremacy

Is anyone else bored by the numbers? Do you find the race for cloud dominance a bit dull? Are vendor boasts reminding you of a recent time in history when getting rich and grabbing more played out pretty badly for most of us? Fundamental market dynamics dictate that big tech companies must sell more to satisfy shareholders but the persistent desire for growth is taking its toll on workers and the markets are finally realising that not every cloud business has a future.

Christian Klein, cover story preview

Christian Klein, talks exclusively to Paul Esherwood in this access all interview. As SAP turns 50, Klein opens up on his journey to the CEO role, the work SAP has done on its own transformation, and discusses S/4HANA, RISE and sustainability. This 8 minutes preview forms the basis for the cover story in the June issue of ERP Today. Subscribe for free to get the full story.

Oracle ecosystem stalwart joins Inoapps to lead EMEA business

Fiona Martin, the former KPMG exec and Oracle ecosystem stalwart, has joined Inoapps as managing director for EMEA. Martin has 25 year’s experience in the IT industry including time spent as a board director for UKOUG and as a member...

Ellie Orton OBE, CEO at NHS Charities Together – the need to support the NHS has never been greater

The NHS and its staff are under more pressure than ever - face masks and restrictions may be over but the challenges for the NHS continue - that is why the whole ERP community stands as one to support the NHS.

Oracle deepens its reach into social media, sort of

On the back of a deal to support TikTok when it came under pressure from the Trump administration, Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, has now agreed to pump $1bn of his own cash into the funding pool to acquire...

The world wants to work with ServiceNow…..new recruits flock to the fold as quickly as enterprise customers

ServiceNow has just announced its latest set of financial results which demonstrate strong growth across all metrics. Its Q1 2022 revenues were $1.72bn representing 26 percent growth compared to the same period last year with net new contracts valued at...

New investment boosts value of IFS and Workwave to $10bn

Hg, a leading software and services investor, is set to become a significant minority shareholder in IFS and WorkWave. Long-term investor EQT remains the majority shareholder with Hg and TA Associates as significant minority shareholders. The transaction values IFS and...

ERP Today Live! with Jellyfish

In this ERP Today Live! session we explore the benefits of an integrated platform and single data model for end-to-end transformation and analyse the impact it has on delivering customer and employee experience.

Microsoft and SAP share the love in new mega deal

Microsoft has chosen RISE with SAP on Microsoft Cloud, making it the first public cloud provider to adopt the solution. Microsoft and SAP have a long track record of collaboration and the Redmond giant has run large parts of its internal operations on SAP ERP for decades. However, the announcement that Microsoft has signed up to RISE with SAP to deploy S/4HANA Cloud (private edition) is still a huge endorsement of SAP’s cloud credentials - considering Microsoft has its own cloud ERP solution in the form of Dynamics 365.

ERP Today Live! International Women’s Day

Paul Esherwood talks to Abigail Allman, CMO at ERP Dynamics and Steph Poore, sales manager at IFS on International Women's Day. #breakthebias - is the industry doing enough? If you work in the ERP sector - male or female - check out #womeninerp - a community support network for the ERP community.

Workday results top revenue estimates but fall down at profit, again

Workday has announced results for Q4 2022 and full year ended 31 January 2022, revealing an operating loss of $101m on the quarter and an overall loss of $116.5m for the year. For Q4 2022, total revenues were $1.38bn, up 21.6 percent against the same period last year with subscription revenues at $1.23bn, an increase of 22.2 percent. For the full fiscal year 2022, Workday recorded revenues of $5.14bn, an increase of 19 percent compared to last year.

IBM bolsters Azure capabilities with Neudesic acquisition

IBM has acquired Neudesic, the US cloud services consultancy specialising in the Microsoft Azure platform. Headquartered in California, Neudesic has more than 1,500 cloud and data experts located across the US and in India and provides the full scope of digital transformation services.

Dream Big

Bill McDermott Dreams Big. His aspirations are not bound by convention nor are they constrained by tradition. They are driven by a conviction that anything is possible and we all have the ability to reimagine our future on whatever scale we conceive.

Editor’s Words: capability and complexity

In a previous editorial, I quoted Tom Peters who famously said: “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention” - but that sentiment is already outdated.

Being #2 set the stage for #1 in cloud ERP

Oracle has been on a journey of self-reflection over the last few years.The once brash and spiky vendor has reinvented itself with a new customer-centric narrative, a modernised partner network and a portfolio of products that has escalated it to the undisputed position as the world’s leading cloud ERP vendor.

Partnerships key to mass-adoption

When the world’s largest consulting firms like Accenture, Deloitte and EY start talking about a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ the rest of the world better sit up and take note

Cute acquisitions augment the core offering

ServiceNow is building-out its offering with highly targeted acquisitions that enrich the core proposition rather than making huge plays that history knows are sometimes difficult to integrate.

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Tech Trends Report 2022

The Deloitte Tech Trends report is in its thirteenth year and looks at current, emerging and future technology trends. It is essential reading for any digital leader and is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and thorough reports of its kind.