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ERP Strategy and Planning
The ERP Elephant in the Room: Why Legacy System Decommissioning is Business Critical
Modern enterprises face significant challenges with legacy ERP decommissioning, as maintaining outdated systems poses financial, security, and compliance risks, making it imperative for organizations to strategically sunset these systems to unlock the full potential of their digital transformation efforts.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How Inetum’s BOS2 Win Signals a New Era for UK Public Sector Tech
The UK's civil service faces a digital skills gap with only 4.5% of its workforce in tech roles, presenting a significant opportunity for private sector innovation, exemplified by Inetum's strategic entry into the BOS2 procurement framework, which allows access to robust SaaS solutions that could transform public sector services amid rising demand for digital transformation.
ERP Strategy and Planning
SAP Sapphire 2025 Customer Keynote: “Bring Out Your Best” and Reinvent the Future of Enterprise ERP
At SAP Sapphire 2025, leaders emphasized that agility is essential for survival in a rapidly changing business landscape, showcasing innovative transformations from major companies like Mercedes-Benz and Mars Inc. and announcing a focus on embedded, agentic AI to overcome data barriers and complexity in enterprise applications.
Business Process Management and Automation
Unsung Signavio: Business process kingmaker?
Celonis is suing SAP for alleged antitrust violations related to data access, asserting that SAP's practices favor its own business process product, Signavio, amidst a shifting landscape where companies vie for dominance in process mining and data control.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Fluence Commits to ‘Speed Over Perfection’ on Hypergrowth Trajectory with SAP
Fluence rapidly grew from $900 million to nearly $4 billion in two years under Dean Crounse's leadership by implementing a 99.7% clean core SAP deployment for digital transformation and supply chain orchestration, enabling them to manage large-scale energy storage projects while focusing on sustainability and AI integration.
ERP Strategy and Planning
From SAP Sapphire 2025: How SAP Helps Jabil Achieve Resilience at the Speed of Industry
Chase Christensen, Jabil's Vice President and CIO, emphasizes resilience as a business imperative, showcasing how the company's strategic partnership with SAP enables operational efficiency and adaptability through a consolidated ERP framework, real-time analytics, and a focus on AI-driven augmentation of workforce capabilities.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: How SAP and Google Cloud Are Accelerating Real-World Impact from AI
The collaboration between SAP and Google Cloud focuses on developing practical, AI-powered enterprise systems that enhance innovation and reduce project risk, leveraging tools like SAP Joule and Google’s Gemini models for real-time access to actionable data and robust infrastructure, exemplified by successful implementations at companies like AMD and Suzano.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Joule Everywhere – How SAP Is Making Business AI Omnipresent and Proactive
SAP's upcoming Joule Everywhere update in 2025 integrates generative AI agents across its entire ecosystem, enabling intelligent co-piloting and seamless decision-making within workflows while enhancing security and governance.
Analytics and AI
From SAP Sapphire 2025: The New Operating System for Business AI
SAP introduces AI Foundation, a unified operating system for Business AI that simplifies enterprise AI development, reduces costs, and accelerates innovation through features like low-code tools and built-in governance, empowering organizations to quickly transform data into actionable insights.
Business Process Management and Automation
From SAP Sapphire 2025: Smart Suite, Fast Track – SAP’s Packaged Approach to Business Transformation
SAP is transforming enterprise application consumption and implementation with its Business Transformation Packages, which offer pre-integrated, outcome-focused solutions designed to facilitate faster, modular cloud ERP modernization tied to key business objectives.
Data and Data Management
Cutting Clean: How SNP Enabled Lulu Group’s IPO-Ready SAP Carve-Out in Record Time
Lulu Group International achieved a significant business transformation by successfully migrating 20% of its 6-terabyte SAP database from non-retail units in India, Egypt, and the UAE to new systems with minimal downtime, thanks to SNP SE's technology-driven approach, ahead of its IPO, setting the stage for future SAP S/4HANA migration.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
EY and SAP Launch Integrated Finance Managed Service Built on S/4HANA Cloud
EY and SAP have introduced an Integrated Finance Managed Service solution utilizing SAP S/4HANA Cloud to enhance enterprise transformation by streamlining critical functions and leveraging AI capabilities, enabling organizations to focus on strategic growth.
Unlocking Digital Impact: Inetum Redefines Transformation Through Platform Ecosystems and AI Innovation
ERP Strategy and Planning
Unlocking Digital Impact: Inetum Redefines Transformation Through Platform Ecosystems and AI Innovation
Inetum, under the leadership of Kathy Quashie and Hemant Lamba, positions itself as a trustworthy partner in digital transformation for European clients by leveraging a platform-based strategy, deep client intimacy, industry-specific solutions, and a focus on AI readiness to deliver tangible business outcomes.
security
Security
Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability Impacts SAP
SAP has issued critical Security Notes including a highly severe vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload malicious files, prompting organizations to urgently patch or implement workarounds to protect their systems.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
NTT DATA Business Solutions Positions for the Platform Era: SAP, ServiceNow, and the New Face of Enterprise Transformation
NTT DATA Business Solutions is uniquely positioned to bridge SAP and ServiceNow through a pragmatic transformation framework that emphasizes customer proximity, platform integration, and outcome-driven innovation, making it a top-tier partner for organizations seeking comprehensive business transformation.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Accelerating Digital Impact: Inetum and SAP Drive Future-Ready Transformation
Inetum, a European leader in digital services, is enhancing its strategic partnership with SAP under new leadership to drive agile, AI-integrated business outcomes, while prioritizing clean data governance, pragmatic cloud transformation, and the importance of human-centered processes.
NTT DATA Business Solutions Gets SAP Certification for Finance Accelerated Package
Cloud Platform and Technology
NTT DATA Business Solutions gets SAP certification for Finance Accelerated package
NTT DATA Business Solutions has achieved SAP-qualified partner packaged solution certification for its Finance Accelerated for GROW with SAP, a scalable financial solution designed to aid high-growth businesses by leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud and industry best practices, promising rapid implementation and enhanced operational efficiency through advanced analytics and automation.
Lumenia ERP HEADtoHEAD
ERP Strategy and Planning
Compare ERP Solutions at Lumenia’s ERP HEADtoHEAD Event
Lumenia Consulting's ERP HEADtoHEAD event returns to the U.K. on April 2-3, 2025, offering finance and IT executives insights into leading ERP solutions, hands-on demonstrations, and expert guidance to enhance their understanding and selection of ERP systems.
Supply Chain Management
Alloy.ai & CloudPaths partner for real-time supply chains
Alloy.ai and CloudPaths are collaborating to enhance consumer brands' supply chain efficiency and demand forecasting through real-time data integration and SAP expertise, enabling businesses to respond swiftly to market changes and reduce inventory-related risks.
Safra Catz ERP Today
Supply Chain Management
Oracle AI Agents Help Transform Supply Chain Workflows
Oracle has introduced new role-based AI agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM, set for release in January 2025, to automate routine supply chain tasks, enhance productivity, and enable professionals to focus on strategic initiatives, thus transforming operational efficiency across various supply chain functions.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Microsoft Announces 2025 Release Wave 1 Plan for Dynamics 365
Microsoft's recently announced 2025 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365, scheduled for April to September 2025, introduces various AI-integrated enhancements aimed at improving user productivity across sales, customer service, finance, supply chain management, and business central applications, while also emphasizing the importance of thorough planning and user training for effective implementation.
Human Capital Management
Skillsoft expands SAP SuccessFactors partnership
Skillsoft is set to launch a new integration with SAP SuccessFactors in early 2025 that enhances workforce skills management by providing personalized learning paths, improved talent mobility, and strategic workforce planning through a centralized talent intelligence hub.
Datacor
Business Process Management and Automation
Digital transformation: Why it matters for the food and beverage industry
The food and beverage industry faces pressing challenges from outdated legacy systems that hinder compliance and efficiency, significantly pushing the need for digital transformation and the adoption of modern ERP solutions to meet new regulations and improve operations through enhanced data accuracy, automation, and sustainability initiatives.
Blue Diamond
Supply Chain Management
The power of 4: How Blue Diamond Growers solved supply chain issues
Between 2022 and 2023, Blue Diamond Growers enhanced its supply chain efficiency through the integration of SAP Transportation Management with SAP Integrated Business Planning, improving logistics visibility and forecasting while also exploring AI for sustainability and innovation.
Accenture
Supply Chain Management
Accenture SAP deal cements its supply chain ambitions
Accenture's recent acquisition of SAP consultancy Camelot Management Consultants strengthens its supply chain capabilities, particularly in the DACH region, complementing previous acquisitions aimed at boosting its presence in the global supply chain optimization landscape.
Amazon AWS and DXC Technology
Analytics and AI
The biggest reveals and announcements from Amazon re:Invent 2024
At Amazon re:Invent 2024, AWS unveiled significant advancements in AI technologies, including the launch of Amazon Nova foundation models, integration of GenAI with GitLab via Amazon Q Developer, a collaboration with SAP for cloud ERP solutions, enhanced capabilities in the next generation of SageMaker and the introduction of a 'Buy with AWS' button, all aimed at solidifying AWS's position in the competitive AI and cloud services market.
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Application Development and Integration
Five ways to master an SAP S/4HANA migration
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA poses significant challenges for enterprises, as evidenced by costly failures like Lidl and Revlon, highlighting the need for meticulous planning, risk management and effective data integration strategies to ensure successful transitions before the 2027 deadline.
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