Paul Esherwood
Former editor
162 Articles Published
ERP Today Live! Platforms are the key to enterprise modernisation – with Infor
This is the first in a 3 part series looking back at articles we wrote in 2019 so we can find out if our predictions were correct and what’s changed in the last 2 years. This session focusses on platforms...
Automation Anywhere and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust launch white paper series
Automation Anywhere and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH) are collaborating on a series of white papers that outline their vision of how automation can serve as a force for good across the global healthcare industry and public sector. The...
Mike Etting of Unit 4 interview by Paul Esherwood, Mayfair, London | Unit4 Q2
Unit4 acquires Compright to support compensation management and planning
Unit4 has extended its SaaS compensation planning capabilities with the acquisition of Compright, a comprehensive compensation planning solution with customers in over 40 countries. The acquisition enhances the capabilities of Unit4’s ERPx, with customers now able to automate the entire...
New analysis from Priority Software reveals ERP trends for 2022
Innovations in technology platforms and ERP systems will be a natural progression of digital transformation, according to new analysis from Priority Software. The ERP vendor, which is based in Israel, says that ERP trends will continue to be driven by...
Unit4 announces ‘Industry Mesh’ to deliver seamless integrations
Unit4 announces the launch of Unit4 Industry Mesh – a new multi-tenant cloud service available as part of the ERPx cloud platform that delivers industry-specific ERP and packaged integrations for mid-market organisations. Industry Mesh builds upon the value of ERPx...
SAP Q4
UKISUG research reveals 30 percent of UK SAP customers don’t know what RISE is
Research from the UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG), the independent not-for-profit organisation representing all users of SAP software, has revealed that a staggering 30 percent of SAP customers it polled had never heard of RISE with SAP. Only one...
Agilyx Group to expand into Ireland
Agilyx Group has announced it will be opening a new office in the Republic of Ireland to strengthen its position in the EMEA region. The move will enhance Agilyx Group’s ability to deliver transformational change on a global scale with...
ERP Today launches Young Professionals Network
ERP Today’s Young Professionals Network (YPN) is the new resource for young professionals in the ERP ecosystem which will provide opportunities for emerging talent. The seven finalists in this year’s award event have formed the first YPN council, with Yassy...
ERP Today Live! Young Professionals Network Launches
An ERP Today first! Yassy Shayesteh, newly appointed chair of the ERP Today Young Professional Network, interviews Melissa Di Donato, CEO at SUSE, to ask why nurturing young talent is so important and to find out what all young professionals...
Mike Etting of Unit 4 interview by Paul Esherwood, Mayfair, London | Unit4 Q2
Unit4’s ‘annus mirabilis’
A panel of independent judges concluded that Unit4 was ERP Vendor of the Year at the recent ERP Today Awards and their customer, Social Work England, also won ERP Project of the Year. It was a tremendous endorsement of the...
ERP Today Live! with UKISUG
UKISUG is the independent voice for SAP users in the UK & Ireland. Its annual ‘Connect’ conference brings SAP customers together with exhibitors, and experts for a three day conference in Birmingham. We talk to Craig Dale, CEO, about what...
Avanade acquires Dynamics expert QUANTIQ
Avanade has agreed to acquire QUANTIQ, a London-headquartered Microsoft Business Applications-focussed systems integrator and the only Microsoft Partner in the UK that can sell, implement and support the full Dynamics stack in the cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premise. The acquisition will significantly...
IBM building
Can a new badge save IBM?
It used to be said that no one got fired for buying IBM. But that mantra has sounded increasingly hollow for almost a decade as the once blue-riband brand of enterprise technology has seen its revenues and value consistently slide....
ERP Today appoints Andy Bird and Paul Cooper to editorial committee
ERP Today is launching two new vendor channels from November where it will collate all Oracle and SAP-related content. The new monthly blogs will provide a round-up and analysis of the hottest topics in the Oracle and SAP ecosystems written...
What can we learn from the ERP project of the year?
At this year’s ERP Today Awards, Social Work England was voted the best ERP project of the year by a panel of judges that included industry heavyweights, independent analysts and seasoned media commentators. It wasn’t the biggest project the judges considered nor was it the most complex – so why did six experts agree it was the standout submission?
Can ERP save the world?
There’s a hypothesis in cosmology and astrophysics called the Fermi Paradox that ponders a simple question – where are the aliens? This thought experiment illuminates the contradiction between the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial life and the mathematical prediction that life should be evident throughout the cosmos
Can a new entrant change the game in the experience economy?
Getting the band back together is not always a prudent idea. How many times have we seen legends reform in their twilight years only to undo their previous good work and rewrite their legacy with a failed attempt at making it again?
Social Work England creates new benchmark for ERP projects
Kindness, wellbeing and mindfulness embedded as a key tenet of the project - implemented on time, to budget and already delivering benefits.
Editor’s words
What story does this tattoo tell? Sure, it’s funny that the poor lad started out with a vision for something meaningful and ended up with a permanent reminder that he should have paid more attention at school. But does that...
Global consultancies
Are they all the same and how are they meeting the growing demands from customers? When we hosted a similar session with three ERP vendors, it was quite easy to identify their different strategies, products and road maps, but of...
Oracle’s modernised partner network
Historically ERP vendors sold licences and left their partners to worry about the success, or otherwise, of the implementation thereof. In the old world, when projects took years to complete and value was an immeasurable notion, the relationship between vendor,...
Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO UK&I, Salesforce
A 22 year veteran of consulting giant Accenture, Zahra Bahrololoumi – or Z as she is known to her friends – has made the monumental leap from consultancy to vendor and now finds herself sitting at the top table within...
SUSE goes public
SUSE, the open source Linux and Kubernetes platform provider, has gone public. Despite a lukewarm reception from the Frankfurt market, its debut valued the business at more than $5bn.  SUSE had hoped shares would trade between €30 and €34 but...
ServiceNow Dublin
ServiceNow to quadruple Dublin footprint
ServiceNow has announced the expansion of its Dublin office where it will create 300 jobs over the next three years as part of its EMEA growth plans.
Unit4 launches ERPx into general availability
It’s been a big few weeks for Unit4 following the announcement at the end of March that it had been acquired by TA Associates in a deal that valued the business at more than $2bn. That news brought an end...
Darren Roos on the launch of IFS Cloud
IFS CEO, Darren Roos, talks to ERP Today about the launch of the new IFS Cloud. The culmination of three year's work since taking over as CEO, IFS Cloud is a single application platform that gives customers flexibility, choice and deep industry capabilities...
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Acumatica takes on Sage in the UK
Acumatica is the US-based cloud-native ERP vendor that has set its sights on a big slice of the UK market that is currently occupied by Sage. Acumatica is from the same stable as IFS...
Michiel Verhoeven: Can a new MD move the needle for UK customers?
Back in July 2020, SAP appointed Michiel Verhoeven as managing director in the UK&I – until now we haven’t heard much from the new top man. In his first media interview since taking over the hot seat...
Chris Pope: Digital Workflows
ServiceNow is the digital workflow organisation that has been around for 15 years but has recently seen a huge rise in uptake for its services and has been catapulted into the media headlines following the arrival...