Stephanie Ball
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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.
abstract image of data swamp
Data and Data Management
Cleaning up the data swamp
In a world amassing a colossal amount of data, how are we wading through the swamp? Beyond dumping our data somewhere, it also needs to be handled and put to good use.
Image of Richard Pepper speaking at the UKOUG 23 conference
Cloud Platform and Technology
UKOUG is all for Oracle’s fresh face
At its 2023 user group conference, UKOUG has praised Oracle’s work to ‘freshen up’ its reputation, as Big Red continues to soften its approach to customer service, reacting to the rise in SaaS delivery requirements.
Google Could Next London Keynote - GenAI
Brit brands Gymshark, Unilever are getting ‘appy with Google Cloud GenAI
As Google turned 25 years old, Google Cloud Next London took place at Tobacco Dock, with an expanding list of UK customer GenAI innovations.
It’s “snow time”: Snowflake World Tour AI advancements mark shift to inclusive data
During its Data Cloud World Tour event at ExCel London this week, Snowflake announced new feature and partnership developments, marking the platform's shift to increasingly democratized data access and analytics capabilities across its users.
Behind the grid at Red Bull Racing with Oracle and IBM
To see the work going on behind the checkered flag, ERP Today was invited by Oracle and IBM and heard how enterprise technology is helping to deliver race day success for Red Bull Racing. Arriving at the Red Bull Racing...
A view inside the IBM Quantum System One, a programmed computer that uses quantum circuits | Quantum
Quantum creeps closer – ready or not?
Will quantum computing decrypt all our secrets in the next decade? IBM, Deloitte and Accenture security and quantum compute experts think so.
GenAI LLM | Image of a Minecraft sandcastle
GenAI guardrails ahoy with LLM sandboxes
GenAI LLMs can transform enterprises without rocking the boat. Jeremy Barnes, ServiceNow and Dave Kanter, Accenture ServiceNow Business Group, explain.
Image of Birmingham City Council | ERP
Birmingham shows ERP is an existential threat for councils
When Birmingham City Council declared itself “essentially bankrupt”, we couldn't unsee its eye-wateringly over-budget ERP implementation bill.
Green/blue/orange chameleon in a human hand | SUSE Private
SUSE changes colors again in private ownership pivot
After just over two years as a public listed firm, SUSE is to take operations private following an announcement by its biggest shareholder, EQT Private Equity.
Image of Raj Mistry, Automation Anywhere | Google Cloud
Automation Anywhere steps up genAI offering with Google Cloud
Automation Anywhere and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership, combining generative AI and intelligent automation for enterprises.
Oracle chair and CTO Larry Ellison speaks | Oracle Q4
Oracle Q4 cloud wins “doing better” than SAP, AWS, Ellison claims
Oracle has announced its fourth quarter financial results, with rising demand for its cloud offerings said to be driven by AI technology investment and what Oracle chair and CTO Larry Ellison claims are “dramatically lower costs" compared to other vendors.
a person sitting at a table, paying via a card machine | Snowflake Affinity Solutions customer purchase insights
Snowflake consumer insights add up with Affinity Solutions
Affinity Solutions, a consumer purchase data platform, has announced its Consumer Purchase Insights offering is now available via Snowflake Marketplace.
image of healthcare specialists | Google Cloud Mayo Clinic
Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic genAI to boost healthcare efficiency
Google Cloud has today announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to bring generative AI to healthcare settings with Gen App Builder.
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