Stephanie Ball
Former Deputy Editor. Contact: info@erp.today
110 Articles Published
ERP Strategy and Planning
Making sustainability an advantage: ERP Today TV x IFS Unleashed
At the IFS Unleashed event in Orlando, experts discussed how sustainability efforts, driven by regulations and technology, are increasingly viewed as essential for business value.
Image of a red Person looking up at a tangled web of string with different keys hanging throughout. | Accelalpha Oracle implementation
Cloud Platform and Technology
“No implementation is the same” says Accelalpha partner, shares three Oracle stories
Accelalpha partner Joe Spear shares three different Oracle Cloud implementations across various industries, highlighting unique transformation challenges faced by a consumer packaged goods company, a global shipbuilding firm, and a billion-dollar advertising agency.
Enterprise Asset Management
A partnership staying afloat – Anglian Water and Copperleaf: ERP Today TV X IFS Unleashed
As water service provider Anglian Water approaches ten years in its partnership with Copperleaf, the ERP Today TV news team hears how the partnership continues to create value. 
Medical researcher looks at viral testing dish | SNP SAP Novartis
Enterprise Architecture
Pharma firm Novartis carves out SAP BW with SNP
Pharmaceuticals firm Novartis has announced a successful SAP Business Warehouse carve out, with SNP Group as its partner of choice.
Image of the opening keynote of IFS Unleashed 2024, CEO Mark Moffat on stage | IFS Industrial AI
Enterprise Asset Management
Moffat pushes IFS to be “undisputed category leader”, embeds industrial AI tools 
Amidst diversifying tech rivals, IFS Unleashed 2024 saw CEO Mark Moffat reiterate the company's commitment to six key industrial sectors while unveiling its customer-focused industrial AI and partnership strategy.
Analytics and AI
AI-Powered Value Engineering: ERP Today TV x IFS Unleashed
Reporting from the ERP Today News Desk, live at the IFS Unleashed event in Orlando, Florida, Mark Vigoroso and Stephanie Ball sit down with IFS' Brendan Viggers, to hear how AI is powering value engineering for enterprises.
Service Management
One year on – IFS’ Poka acquisition: ERP Today TV x IFS Unleashed
ERP Today's news duo Mark Vigoroso and Stephanie Ball speak live with Poka CEO Alexandre Leclerc and Kathrin Schneider, SVP global sales at Poka, one year on from IFS' acqusition of Poka.
Analytics and AI
Addressing AI bias: ERP Today TV x IFS Unleashed
Reporting from Orlando, Florida, ERP Today TV talks to AI experts at IFS Unleashed 2024, discussing the best ways to mitigate AI bias.
Image of Internet City Dubai | SNP Dubai office
Data and Data Management
SNP Group expands reach with Dubai office opening
SNP Group has today announced the expansion of its operations in the Middle East, opening a new office in Dubai’s Internet City neighborhood.
Image of a business person running with a suitcase in a large glass building | Nextworld JD Edwards Oracle
Application Development and Integration
Rip and replace is not the only option: Nextworld steps in for JD Edwards users
Big ERP vendors often recommend a complete replacement of legacy systems with modern solutions. Nextworld says not so fast - and is stepping in for JD Edwards users.
An image of a field, half brown, half green with a bright blue and cloudy sky | SNP Bluefield
Cloud Platform and Technology
Is Bluefield the Goldilocks of S/4HANA implementation strategies? SNP says it depends
What’s the best approach to S/4HANA implementation? ERP Today talks to SNP about greenfield, brownfield, and that Bluefield in the middle.
Image of three gummy bear sweets, green, amber and red. | M&A M and A SNP
Systems Administration
What’s harder – Closing an M&A deal or migrating a technology ecosystem?
Try planning both - simultaneously. SNP shares how to speed processes up for M&A deals needing technology integration insights.
Image of orange robotic arms assembling in an automative part factory | Manufacturer Oracle GTM
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Global manufacturer secures trade compliance with Oracle GTM integration
A global manufacturer of trucks, buses and construction equipment needed to enhance its connectivity with customs authorities across its Swedish, Belgian, and Mexican operations and sought to integrate its existing software with Oracle GTM, partnering with system integrator, Accelalpha, for the task.
Small ships heading towards bigger ship in the ocean | IBM Oracle Accelalpha
Cloud Platform and Technology
All aboard IBM: Big Blue to acquire Oracle consultancy Accelalpha
IBM has announced its intention to acquire Accelalpha, a global Oracle Cloud Applications consultancy, to enhance its capabilities in supply chain, finance, and cloud application adoption, marking its fifth acquisition this year.
Image of a large body of water with a splash in the centre | Accelalpha Oracle
CRM and Customer Experience
Stirring up water treatment sales with Oracle CPQ
A global water and waste treatment provider faced significant challenges with its software maintenance for a complex legacy sales stack. With financial pressure building, it turned to Oracle and Accelalpha.
Image of a dusty computer in an old house, plants and sunshine visible through window | ERP Nextworld
Cloud Platform and Technology
Is ERP, as we know it, dying? Nextworld says yessiree
EAP vendor Nextworld's Vito Solimen and Lyle Ekdahl speak to ERP Today to discuss the future of ERP and how to give systems a second life.
Image of an aeroplane in flight with TUI branding. | AWS
Analytics and AI
Up, up and away… TUI takes a warmer approach to travel with AWS AI
TUI’s Group CIO on its hyperscaler journey through the pandemic and beyond.
image of Capgemini building | Capgemini | Nive Bhagat
Data and Data Management
Capgemini to acquire Syniti for greater data management reach
Capgemini has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Syniti, the enterprise data management software and services provider.
Image of Coop Switzerland building against blue sky | SNP
Cloud Platform and Technology
Just ten hours downtime: SNP rapidly shifts Coop to the cloud
Coop Switzerland partnered with SNP to migrate its critical SAP systems to the cloud, seeking minimal downtime and enhanced operational continuity.
Image showing a view of America at night from space | Oracle AT&T
Application Development and Integration
Oracle and AT&T: “Co-creation at its best” with 5G IoT and APIs boost for US regions
Oracle has announced a partnership with American telecommunications firm, AT&T, to help cloud customers manage IoT devices in one platform.
Image of an elderflower plant | Bionorica S/4HANA SNP
Cloud Platform and Technology
Herbal medicine manufacturer makes S/4HANA shift with SNP
Global herbal medicine manufacturer, Bionorica, sought to convert its existing ERP ECC 6.0 system to SAP S/4HANA, and the project was made more complex by including new process changes in accounting.
image of goldfish floating above its water bowl | permacrisis
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
How can users come up for air in a permacrisis?
Manufacturers and supply chains are feeling the permacrisis pressure. EY’s global consulting head of SAP, Dr. Tom Janoshalmi, shares how users can resurface from the slump.
Analytics and AI
“Data quality makes or breaks”: Qlik CEO pushes for better data at Connect 2024
Qlik Connect 2024 sees new cloud, AI and analytics solutions, AWS and Snowflake partnerships and UNFCCC, Van Oord user wins.
Image of a couple on top of a snowy mountain, looking out at the landscape | SAP and IBM
Application Development and Integration
A long marriage made in innovation: What’s next for IBM and SAP?
IBM’s global head of SAP, Mike Perera, shares the wins and next step wonderings of an over 50-year-strong partnership, with cloud migration and emerging GenAI and Quantum technologies high on the roster.
AWS Summit London keynote stage
Analytics and AI
AWS London Summit heralds user opportunity during times of crisis
London is calling for the AWS Summit: Here’s what you need to know from this year’s conference, from Bedrock updates to the latest user wins.
Image taken at Oracle NetSuite Suite Connect event London, during the Keynote talks.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Oracle NetSuite announcements entice UK customers to “Suite up”
Oracle NetSuite’s SuiteConnect event has reached London, with the announcement that the platform developments teased in the US last month, including GenAI, FSM and more, are now available to UK customers.
image of air hostess with plane and blue sky in the background | Delta Air Lines AI
Analytics and AI
Delta Air Lines takes flight with AI tools
As the American airline brings its HR AI vision to life, will the intelligent land of SAP’s Joule be its next destination?
Dilpesh Patel and Sean Doherty, Galliford Try | Galliford Try: Building up to the HCM clouds
Human Capital Management
Galliford Try: Building up to the HCM clouds
Stephanie Ball speaks to Galliford Try to hear of the company’s shift from EBS to Cloud HCM and payroll with Oracle and eAppSys.
Sanjit Biswas Samsara CEO | Samsara
Enterprise Asset Management
Samsara secures $1bn and “aggressively hires” for market opportunity
Samsara has announced its fourth quarter and year-end earnings, hitting $1.1bn ARR and increasing headcount by 30 percent. CEO Sanjit Biswas calls the win a reflection of the firm's ongoing "large market opportunity".
Carl Eschenbach
Human Capital Management
Carl Eschenbach leads solo for Workday
As Workday steps into its new financial year, its year-long co-CEO Carl Eschenbach will be taking a solo lead starting today. Aneel Bhusri, Workday’s co-CEO, co-founder and chair will step into a strategic advisor to the CEO role and will remain integral to the organization as co-founder and executive chair of the Workday board of directors.
Image of a hand reaching into a fridge full of appealing looking food, in date. | LLM data
Data and Data Management
LLM use-by data – who’s keeping the data up to date?
Your chatbot is leveling up, but who's keeping the data up to date for our LLMs? Microsoft, Google and specialist researchers give their take.
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