Blogs

Cut the waste: achieving sustainability goals with ERP

The role of sustainability has expanded from a tactic for cost containment to a critical competitive strategy. As sustainability-focused firms prosper, Steve Bieszczat discusses the role of ERP in achieving ESG initiatives.

Dialling into communications mining

We now live in an age of autonomous intelligence where automation is no discretionary line item. Shouldn’t we be able to use it to communicate better, faster and with less white noise? The solution is communications mining.

Robot resilience: Testing our way to sweeter scalability

Automation directly translates to business innovation, growth and scale. The very rationale and raison d’etre behind automation is the need to capture, coalesce and commoditise workplace tasks and processes in order to operate more efficiently and to innovate with greater...

Qualys tightens security for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud computing has evolved. Where we once discussed cloud migration, we are now increasingly talking about cloud-native development across hybrid (sometimes poly) cloud instances that are drawn from a stock of pure cloud-first DNA. This of course throws up the...

Male hand touching in global network connection

Struggling with data silos? Know more about unified data model

Making the most of data and insights tools requires you to take a long, hard look at your data culture and break the silos and efficiencies in your data stack.

Industry Clouds: A smart choice for fast companies

As customers evaluate their best approach to modernize their existing ERP systems it is therefore no surprise they ask: are industry clouds delivering on their promises?

Atos story more about digital pivot than recession gloom

Recession is here again, meaning deals proliferate as companies sell off underperforming operations and divest anything other than their core business. Against this climate signals French IT giant Atos, with news in October that it plans to split into two publicly listed...

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.

Odaseva CISO: Stepping up SaaS security

This is a contributed commentary piece for ERP Today written by Arnaud Treps, CISO at Odaseva, a company known for its enterprise data platform services for Salesforce, offering tools to keep Salesforce data protected. Treps writes as follows… The ever-increasing...

Are you ready to weather the economic storm with agile working capital management?

With soaring inflation and interest rate rises, SAP's Thomas Mehlkopf says its time to revisit liquidity forecasting and working capital management.

The Carolean Era: crypto country change for the UK?

Britcoin and a 'royally minted' NFT are still plausible developments for Britain under a new monarch – even if PM Rishi Sunak stops being a crypto bro and FTX-esque crashes keep happening.

The Metaverse – saving the world, one avatar at a time?

The metaverse: an alternate digital world that changes the face of work, or simply a nuisance to the environment? With the introduction of the metaverse, people all over the world can explore this new type of virtual reality all via a digital oasis. This brave new world will likely come powered by AI, cloud, web3 and Big Data.

Workday Rising C-Suite Panel: Platform solutions, partner evolutions & innovation revolutions

Workday staged a C-suite panel discussion session at Workday Rising Europe 2022 this year in Stockholm, Sweden and ERP Today attended to drink in from the firehose. Speakers included: Chano Fernandez, co-CEO – Pete Schlampp, chief strategy officer – Sayan...

Succession planning: A key to business continuity

Departures don’t have to equal disruptions Employee departures are inevitable. Team members across every department, and even those in leadership positions, will come and go. Workforces are no longer as static as they once were, and labor fluidity has only...

Partnering for performance with global tech services powerhouse

Stephanie Robertson, Communications Advisor at Agilyx Group, explains the features you should look for in your next tech consulting partner.

Adobe has already doomed the metaverse

Pantone blues and Figma fallout: Adobe, not Meta, is the metaverse's biggest threat.

The Great Tech Redundancy is here again

The more companies are callous with their staff, the more chance of another Great Resignation. After all, the main reason employees resigned en masse wasn't because of remote work: It was because they realized how dispensable they were.

Samuel Beckett Bridge and Convention Centre, Dublin

IBM Grants $500,000 in-kind for City of Dublin Cybersecurity Education

City of Dublin Education Training Board (ETB) is one of ten grant recipients globally, as part of the IBM Education Security Preparedness Grants program.

Introducing PSA: productivity and profit, despite rising costs

Neil Davidson, regional vice president EMEA and APAC at Deltek, discusses how professional services can boost productivity and profit through choosing the right system, despite rising costs.

Your software support contract is up for renewal. Here’s what you need to know

Every year businesses spend millions on their software support, and whatever software your business is using – whether that’s Oracle, SAP, Salesforce – you’ll have a software maintenance package to accompany it. Typically, these contracts are renewed annually, and when...

The birth of automation-native, Avantra drives SAP Ops

AIOps is a potentially tautological term. While we understand Artificial Intelligence (AI) and operations (Ops) as distinct entities, we might normally think of developer (Dev) and DevOps as a cultural workplace approach and discipline that would stand to benefit from...

Workday Rising 2022 event preview

What can we expect from Workday Rising Europe 2022?

Trig_Hill_Telecommunication_Towers_@_Sandakan

Hello caller, CNCF cloud-native network function certification engages

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is all about creating, building and nurturing sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software. In line with the organization’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCo conference this week in Detroit, Michigan, the CNCF has announced its first set of certified products that form part of the newly launched (May 2022) Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Certification Program.

“We will not work with you anymore”: how SAP pressure led to IFS Arcwide

Launched in April this year, Arcwide is a joint venture between IFS and its platinum service partner BearingPoint. The move has left some industry-watchers scratching their heads as to why IFS would create its own SI – especially as it risks putting the enterprise ERP software vendor at odds with its established partner ecosystem.

Cleaner clouds: IFS drives platform (and planet) towards ESG goals

Of the new capabilities in the latest release of IFS Cloud, many features are aimed at making it easier and faster for customers to collect, manage and record key data that provides visibility into their environmental performance.

Why automation is vital for the future of business

IFS’ Martin Schirmer on how automation, driven by enterprise service management, is changing workplaces everywhere.

Hyperscaler no brainer, Nutanix puts Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure

Some things in cloud are complex. Okay, that’s too kind – most aspects of cloud computing are typified by their inherent complexity and the lengthy technical specifications, intertwined dependencies and intricate deployment (and ongoing management) process that they require in...

Moment of (Joint) Service: IFS details partner of the year

As we’ve said before, don’t knock a partner award. Yes it’s a chance to mention all a company’s key go-to-market connections, yes it’s a chance to pop out a news story and shake a few hands, yes it’s a chance...

Why Cloud is not always enough

Phil Lewis, Senior VP, Solution Consulting, Infor, demystifies the different types of cloud currently available, and explains why the future favours a multi-tenant model.

Tibco analytics research lead: Data ‘storytelling’ needs a narrative

This is a guest blog for ERP Today written by Lori Witzel in her role as director of research for analytics and data management at TIBCO. Data is creating ‘stories’ today inside organizations that use information flows to denote, describe...