Shawn Byers
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12 Weeks to Success: Transform Your Business with Cloud and GenAI
Everything is about to change. Are you ready to ride the wave of technological revolution?  We're witnessing an exponential increase in the speed at which companies deploy and adopt new technologies. Innovations such as AI, process automation, and predictive analytics are no longer futuristic - they're here, and they're now within reach of virtually any organization. Is your company prepared to keep up? In this session, we'll explore the challenges and game-changing opportunities of today's business landscape and share real-life examples of companies transforming their operations by moving to the cloud. Join our webinar to hear success stories from visionaries and get your questions answered by industry experts. Get ready to reimagine your business processes, drive growth, and accelerate your company's success.
From Legacy to Legendary: How DHL Freight Transformed Reporting with Orbit Analytics
Having access to timely and accurate reporting is essential for making informed decisions and driving strategic outcomes. Advanced analytics are a vital part of to uncovering insights, improving operational visibility, and remaining competitive in rapidly evolving markets. This session explores this value by looking at how DHL Freight, a global leader in logistics and supply chain management, transformed its reporting infrastructure to achieve operational excellence. Faced with the challenge of migrating from Oracle’s decommissioned legacy tool, DHL Freight partnered with Orbit Analytics to implement a cutting-edge reporting solution on Oracle E-Business Suite and other applications. Topics covered include how DHL Freight seamlessly transitioned over 75 reports using Orbit’s Discoverer Migration Utility, avoiding unnecessary work while achieving immediate ROI. Learn how this migration enhanced data accessibility, improved decision-making, and fortified security across their operations. This case study showcases the power of modern analytics tools in overcoming complex logistical challenges. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into DHL Freight’s journey and learn how you can redefine your reporting capabilities. Attend the session to: Understand the challenges of legacy tool decommissioning and report migration. Explore Orbit Analytics’ innovative approach to automated report conversion. See the real-world impact: Simplified access via Single Sign-On and maximized ROI.
The 2025 Guide on What’s Next for SAP Automation
As the enterprise landscape becomes increasingly complex, organizations are looking at automation to help them address business challenges like reducing manual effort in repetitive tasks, streamlining operations, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and freeing up resources for higher-value strategic initiatives. In addition, there is a need to manage integration challenges across multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, streamlining the move to SAP S/4HANA, adoption of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), and the growing role of citizen developers and low-code/no-code solutions. This session will explore the evolving landscape of process automation for SAP and look at key trends that are shaping its future. Recent research will be explained that highlights how organizations are advancing in automation maturity, adoption and usage patterns of tools like SAP Fiori and SAP BTP, and the challenges that integration needs present. Whether you’re an SAP professional or a business leader, this webinar will provide valuable insights to help drive digital transformation in your organization. Attend the webinar to: Gain actionable insights into the current state of SAP process automation. Understand the key challenges faced by large enterprises today. Learn how to leverage SAP tools to drive innovation and efficiency in your organization.
6 Steps to Build an AI-Ready Finance Team
With AI dominating the business agenda, CFOs and finance leaders are being called on to do more than crunch numbers—they're expected to steer enterprise-wide innovation. But as breakthrough technologies reshape the finance landscape, one truth becomes clear: success hinges on your team’s ability to keep up. Facing a persistent talent shortage and an evolving skills gap, there’s never been a better moment to reassess your finance talent strategy. From finding valuable AI use cases to upskilling your current team, finance leaders must take action now to ensure their departments are ready for what’s next. Join this session for practical steps to build an AI-ready finance organization—starting with the talent behind the tech. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Understand the impact of AI on the finance industry and its potential to transform daily tasks and operations. Explore talent acquisition strategies focused on the skills needed in an AI-driven environment. Discover how AI-powered tools can automate routine finance tasks, improve efficiency, and enhance overall productivity. Recognize the role of AI in enabling finance teams to focus on strategic work—including AI-generated narratives, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. This ERP Today live session will cover how DuPont were able to substantially reduce IT costs by decommissioning legacy infrastructure, eliminate compliance and cybersecurity risks with audit-proof access to historical data, streamline global system architecture, reduce complexity, and eliminate technical debt. Despite the goals, the entire project was completed in just 12 months, an industry-record timeline for a project of this scale. In addition, the project delivered significant gains in energy efficiency in support of ESG targets. By attending this session, you will be able to: Identify the financial, compliance, and cybersecurity risks associated with continuing to run outdated SAP ECC systems. Explain how legacy system retirement can reduce IT operating costs by up to 80% while maintaining audit-proof data access. Describe the key steps and best practices in executing a large-scale SAP system decommissioning project without disrupting business operations. Assess how a platform-based approach like JiVS IMP can simplify IT landscapes and support long-term data governance and ESG goals.
SAP Legacy System Retirement in Record Time: How DuPont, Accenture & JiVS Did It Fast
DuPont, a global Fortune 500 leader in science and innovation, faced a complex and fragmented IT landscape after years of mergers, divestitures, and organizational change. The challenges of maintaining 17 separate legacy SAP systems, primarily for compliance purposes, were becoming unsustainable. The operational costs involved in supporting these obsolete systems were escalating, systems faced increased cybersecurity exposure, outdated hardware was causing energy inefficiencies, new global compliance requirements needed to be met, and the amount of technical debt had resulted in an overall lack of IT agility. To address these challenges, DuPont launched a bold initiative: retire all 17 legacy SAP systems and archive more than 50 terabytes of historical data, including hundreds of ADK and archival files, without compromising compliance, auditability, or business continuity. Together with Accenture and powered by JiVS Information Management Platform (IMP) from Data Migration International, the company achieved results few believed possible. This ERP Today live session will cover how DuPont were able to substantially reduce IT costs by decommissioning legacy infrastructure, eliminate compliance and cybersecurity risks with audit-proof access to historical data, streamline global system architecture, reduce complexity, and eliminate technical debt. Despite the goals, the entire project was completed in just 12 months, an industry-record timeline for a project of this scale. In addition, the project delivered significant gains in energy efficiency in support of ESG targets. By attending this session, you will be able to: Identify the financial, compliance, and cybersecurity risks associated with continuing to run outdated SAP ECC systems. Explain how legacy system retirement can reduce IT operating costs by up to 80% while maintaining audit-proof data access. Describe the key steps and best practices in executing a large-scale SAP system decommissioning project without disrupting business operations. Assess how a platform-based approach like JiVS IMP can simplify IT landscapes and support long-term data governance and ESG goals.
Navigating the Manufacturing Maze with Rootstock’s Cloud ERP
Strategies for Success while Navigating the ERP Journey
Embarking on an ERP implementation can be daunting, but with the right guidance and experience, it can transform your business operations. In this webinar, we explore the critical evaluation phase of an ERP journey, addressing key questions and challenges organizations face when selecting the right vendor and systems integrator. Drawing from real customer experiences, we share practical examples, lessons learned, and how to avoid common pitfalls. By watching, you’ll receive expert advice on mitigating the risks associated with ERP projects and making informed decisions that set your organization up for success. This is an opportunity to learn from professionals who are deeply immersed in these projects every day. Watch this session to: Understand what to look for when selecting an ERP Vendor. Learn about the right questions to ask, and common questions that can lead you down the wrong path. Explore the risks associated with ERP projects, helping ensure greater success.
Beyond the Hype: A Guide to Selecting ERP for Manufacturing
This session will start by exploring what analyst reports can and cannot tell you about ERP selection. It will then explore why a CIO of a global automotive supplier selected QAD despite knowing where it stood in the rankings. This will include how leaders should evaluate ERP solutions factoring in topics like industry expertise, implementation realities, and long-term business impact. The session will also include a moderated discussion that provides a raw, insightful look at how manufacturing leaders navigate ERP decisions based on business realities. Attend the session to: Differentiate between ERP market reports and real-world decision criteria. Identify key factors beyond rankings that impact manufacturing ERP success. Understand why industry-specific expertise matters more than broad evaluations. Apply insights from an experienced ERP leader’s journey to their own selection process.
Epicor
Mastering Data Readiness for Generative AI Success
In today’s AI-driven landscape, businesses struggle with data readiness—poor quality, limited volume, and ethical constraints threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. In addition, questions are frequently asked about improving data quality, what to do with limited data volume, and how to address ethical constraints that threaten the success of generative AI initiatives. This session will explore why these challenges can lead to biased, inaccurate, or outdated outputs that erode customer trust and ROI. By attending this session, you will: Learn strategies to ensure high-quality, diverse datasets that power reliable AI outcomes. Discover how to streamline preprocessing, scale infrastructure, and maintain current data in a compliant way. Leave with insights to transform your data into a competitive edge for Generative AI innovation.
Beyond the Hype: A Guide to Selecting ERP for Manufacturing
This session will start by exploring what analyst reports can and cannot tell you about ERP selection. It will then explore why a CIO of a global automotive supplier selected QAD despite knowing where it stood in the rankings. This will include how leaders should evaluate ERP solutions factoring in topics like industry expertise, implementation realities, and long-term business impact. The session will also include a moderated discussion that provides a raw, insightful look at how manufacturing leaders navigate ERP decisions based on business realities. Attend the session to: Differentiate between ERP market reports and real-world decision criteria. Identify key factors beyond rankings that impact manufacturing ERP success. Understand why industry-specific expertise matters more than broad evaluations. Apply insights from an experienced ERP leader’s journey to their own selection process.
Automating the SAP Financial Close
This webinar discusses how enterprises can enhance the efficiency and quality of their financial closing processes through automation and standardization, focusing on integrating with SAP systems to streamline various closing activities. Watch this webinar on-demand to Watch this webinar to: *Learn how to identify areas of weakness in current financial close processes. *Understand how Aico’s live integration to SAP and other data sources improves efficiency. *Explore options for monitoring and optimising performance during period-end close. *Ensure closing activities align with corporate governance requirements and internal controls.