Stephanie Ball, Author at ERP Today

Stephanie Ball

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Brian Duffy, president of Cloud at SAP, has announced he will be handing back the reins after 13 months in the role. This follows 3000 job cuts and a proposed sale of SAP's stake in Qualtrics. Despite extraordinary cloud growth in recent quarters, the world's biggest enterprise technology vendor is not immune to the pressures of a toughening economy.

Microsoft prunes as even industrial metaverse isn’t safe from industry woes

Microsoft has announced a fresh round of job cuts, effectively culling its industrial metaverse unit, amid slowing growth and ongoing waves of macroeconomic uncertainty.

Accelerating Oracle modernization with Tricentis solutions

AWS Q4 results mixed in 2022 headwinds

Amazon has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year, with revenue topping Q4 expectations, while AWS falls short amongst macroeconomic headwinds.

Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer | IBM third-quarter

IBM hits highest growth in a decade with mid-digit push for 2022

IBM has announced its financial results for 2022, with success across business segments producing the highest revenue growth in a decade for the firm. A six percent rise has seen revenues of $60.5bn for the full year and $16.7bn for the fourth-quarter.

High five: IFS sees double-digits for fifth consecutive year

IFS, the global cloud enterprise applications company, today announced its financial results for the full year ending 31 December 2022, showing the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth.

Why can’t SAP keep a UK MD for longer than two years?

SAP has announced that yet another UK MD is moving on. Michiel Verhoeven will step down as managing director of SAP UK and Ireland at the end of Q1 2023. The announcement comes 2 years and 7 months after his appointment. The latest departure marks the twelfth UK&I managing director to leave SAP in 16 years.

Meta and Google fined. Who’s next in the data scandal saga?

It was only last year that Google was caught red handed over a data handling scandal, now Meta too has been fined. Who will be next in this big tech data saga, and what does this mean for enterprise technology?

St. Helens Borough Council selects Unit4 ERP

Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organizations, has announced that St. Helens Borough Council has selected Unit4 ERP and financial planning and analysis software (FP&A), together with Proactis Invoice Capture, to replace in-house legacy solutions.

Kuwait government picks Google Cloud

Google Cloud has announced a strategic alliance with the Government of Kuwait. The agreement is another important milestone in Google Cloud’s expansion in the Middle East region.

Piecemeal ERP: why Travis Perkins is tech stacking brick by brick

Are pickings getting a whole lot slimmer for the big ERP software vendors? It seems the days of having a one-catch-all software vendor have passed. ERP today hears about Travis Perkins' implementation journey.

Oracle second quarter boosted by staggering cloud growth

Oracle Corporation has announced its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2023, showing strong double-digit growth and big numbers for cloud and OCI. The increase was largely driven by huge growth in overall cloud revenue.

Big Miner: the hot potato in automation ethics

Intelligent automation is the hot potato every business wants to grab. But what will businesses need to consider to ensure data privacy for employees? And how long before hands are burnt as automation technology moves faster than ethics?

Doctor Bot, curing the NHS backlog?

Technologists are out to heal the deficit in NHS resources, creating battalions of digital workers to bolster the front lines with intelligent automation. Neeti Mehta Shukla and Tremaine Richard-Noel are leading the charge.

New PwC and SAP strategy supports ESG enterprise targets

PwC and SAP have announced a new co-innovation strategy to make sustainability an integral part of standard business operations and address key environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) business-wide challenges.

PwC building | PwC UK launches tax AI assistant with Harvey and OpenAI

PwC to quadruple partner poaching from EY amidst split

PwC is seeking to capitalize on the landmark EY business split, and will seek direct admit hires by poaching senior executives from EY.

Double digits for UiPath Q3 results

UiPath, a leading intelligent automation provider, has announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2023.

Samsara financial results - Sanjit Biswas CEO | Samsara Q2

Samsara reports strong earnings and 47 percent year-on-year growth

Samsara has announced its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2023, indicating a slowing in growth for the firm.

Snowflake grows 67 percent in Q3 results

Snowflake, has announced financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2023, reporting $557m quarterly revenue and 67 percent year-over-year growth for the firm.

image of Accenture building | Accenture acquires management consultancy Insight Sourcing

Accenture partners with AWS to launch Velocity enterprise cloud platform

Accenture has launched Velocity, a jointly funded and co-developed platform with Amazon Web Services. The new platform will enable a 50 percent faster adoption.

Workday Q3 subscribes success despite small operating loss

Workday has announced its Q3 financial results, with revenues reaching $1.6bn for the quarter, up 20.5 percent from Q3 2022. The HR and finance software vendor showed strong growth in its subscription services, with subscription revenues hitting $1.43bn, up 22.3 percent year over year this quarter.

AWS Supply Chain app announced at AWS re:Invent 2022

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of AWS Supply Chain, a new application that helps businesses increase supply chain visibility.

SAP user stats show dissatisfaction as S/4HANA deadline looms

This year’s UKISUG Connect event at the ICC in Birmingham continued to bring a mixed bag of news for SAP.

Encrypted Enterprise? Amazon messaging service

Encrypted Enterprise? Amazon’s private messaging service turns business-only for 2023

It’s been a disastrous year for Amazon consumer encryption services. Wickr Me is being axed as the tech giant redirects its focus on encrypted messaging for enterprise.

Mass Workday EMEA expansion points to global ramp up

Workday has launched the first wave of its key accelerator program in EMEA, as announced at its Workday Rising conference in Stockholm.

UiPath targets midmarket with Neostella partnership

Enterprise automation vendor, UiPath, has announced an enhanced diamond partnership with Neostella, to provide flexible automation investment and usage models for midmarket businesses.

Aiman Ezzat - CEO Capgemini | Capgemini Group

Capgemini Q3 hails company-wide double-digit growth

Capgemini Group reports sustained growth in revenues, after seeing a 22 percent year-on-year rise as third quarter results go live.

Microsoft Q1 reveals cloud wins amidst net income falls

Microsoft's first quarter 2023 financial results show an 11 percent revenue increase, to $50.1bn year on year. The net income for the technology giant, however, has fallen by 14 percent.

Warner Music accounts sing with SplashBI

Warner Music Group needed an improved view of accounts, with the ability to give users the ad-hoc capability to run and create reports.

David Deane, EY Americas consulting digital leader | EY Nexus FS

EY launches Nexus FS solution in $10bn investment plan

EY has announced a global launch of EY Nexus for the financial services (FS) industry.

Imagine 2022 Automation Anywhere Mihir Shukla CEO

Automation Anywhere citizen dev launch: “Automation to a billion more workers”

Automation Anywhere CEO on the breadth of new software enhancements to keep ‘humans in the loop’ of intelligent automation. Word of the new automation success platform features came today at the automation provider’s Imagine 2022 conference in New York City.