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Analytics and AI
Do more with more: are you taking full advantage of artificial intelligence capabilities?
How can AI make us capable of more? Instead of contemplating how artificial intelligence can do more with less, we're finding ways to enable companies everywhere to do more with more.
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Application Development and Integration
Three challenges CIOs currently face – and how to fix them
The challenges that CIOs currently face would have been impossible 20 years ago, but choosing the right technologies of today will help ease the job.
A top down view of a lorry distribution centre | composable ERP solutions Infor
Application Development and Integration
Composable ERP solutions: providing distributors with future-proofing, flexibility and agility
With business leaders now at the forefront of digital evolution, composable ERP solutions have taken priority. Thanks to modern cloud-based ERP solutions, it's easier than ever to stay competitive in the ever-evolving world of technology.
e-Government
Service Management
Some e-Gov projects that actually deliver public value
Here's how e-gov can actually deliver efficient, transparent and accessible public services for citizens, businesses and governments.
NHS ribbon | digitally transforming NHS data
Clinical Applications
United Kingdom of data: how we can get NHS digital transformation right
effectively digitally transforming the NHS includes creating a pool of data from all sources, building the planning models, and mining for insights to inform future operations.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Why the data sovereignty push will require complexity and cost controls
Data sovereignty has gone viral. Businesses recognize the need to address it, with 41 percent of them claiming data compliance and security as a top barrier to achieving expected cloud value. Here's what you need to know.
Open blue skies with a giant cloud creeping in from the right hand side | Cloud software Infor
Cloud Platform and Technology
Cloud software: the key to unlocking a digital-first world for your enterprise
Legacy systems have become tangled webs with decades-old processes, preventing enterprises from achieving efficiency in their digital operations. Cloud software can help your business grow to unparalleled heights by innovating processes for peak efficiency.
Close up of a screen of coding with a developer in the the forefront of the picture but isn't in focus | citizen development Nextworld
Application Development and Integration
The untapped potential of citizen development
What if there was a way to meet your company’s IT demands without having to hire expensive developers or ask your current team to work after-hours? The solution is already working for you, investigate citizen development.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Retiring spreadsheets: the business case you’ve been waiting for
The spreadsheet… Perhaps the most prolific office tool since the dawn of electronic admin. As the future marches ever on, is it time to upgrade, kick spreadsheets to the wind and look for better tech?  
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Analytics and AI
The takeaway from NetHope Global Summit: ERPs must evolve to accommodate nonprofits
Large organizations have built up diverse application environments and an ERP system could become a force multiplier to create a more dynamic and responsive IT environment in the nonprofit sector.
Cloud Platform and Technology
Testing the 2024 waters: predictions and insights from Pankaj Goel, CEO of Opkey
The ERP world is in constant motion, with waves and eddies of technological breakthroughs causing ripples across the industry’s software landscape. Pankaj Goel, co-founder and CEO of Opkey, shares his insights into what he believes is in store for 2024. 
UKISUG 2023 : SAP
Cloud Platform and Technology
UKISUG 2023: Every cloud has a silver lining
Despite the on-premise conundrum, conversations at UKISUG have shifted from whether to deploy S/4 to how to deploy S/4.
Supply Chain Management
Women supporting women: Empowering beyond the supply chain
Darcy MacClaren, global head of digital supply chain at SAP interviewed Lindsey Vonn who shared the challenges she has faced in her career.
Analytics and AI
Vendors set out their AI stalls in 2023. Where were all the skills?
Vendor conferences are over for the year, with all their wins news and GenAI hype. Not so much on the checklist? Skills.
image of rainforest | SAP and EY
Cloud Platform and Technology
EY expert expands on SAP and EY sustainability alliance
Just over a month ago, in October, SAP and EY expanded their alliance to help organizations accelerate value-led sustainability action.
Cloud Platform and Technology
How to be an AWS partner at re:Invent 2023
The biggest re:Invent 2023 takeaway: you have to be tough to be a partner working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Unleashing the power of digital transformation
Whether it's a complete digital reinvention or a stepwise modernization, the time for action is now. A digital transformation can help boost effectiveness across the board and improve process efficiencies exponentially. What are you waiting for?
Close up of a robot hand made of white polymers and futuristic material, it's reaching out as if to offer someone help | Opkey Generative AI
Quality and Testing
AI – beyond chatbots and into testing automation
The latest technological advances are here to help your job, not replace it. Generative AI software can enhance the ERP testing lifecycle at every stage, boosting efficiency in multiple ways. 
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.
laptop / how technology can help organizations get their houses in order
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
How technology can help organizations get their houses in order
The new EPR legislation will come into effect in 2025 and will require most large organizations to collect and report on plastic usage in their supply chain. Technology will be key in aiding companies to do so.
Playbook to negotiate with SaaS vendors
Cloud Platform and Technology
Playbook to negotiate with SaaS vendors
SaaS challenges that usually arise include strategic negotiation, understanding team needs, avoiding surplus, leveraging competition and maintaining friendly relations for lasting deals.
Mastering SAP EAM + Supply Chain & Procurement
Supply Chain Management
Mastering SAP empowers women in supply chain at latest event
Mastering SAP EAM + Supply Chain & Procurement held its first ever Empowering Women in Supply Chain Breakfast session.
Human Capital Management
Workday rising – and dancing – with EMEA industry takeover
Workday Rising EMEA highlighted customers wins with over 100 European-headquartered companies from more than 35 different industries.
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Analytics and AI
Preventing business boondoggles with Boomi
The already pressing need for organizations to transform their operations to stay competitive exploded into an “or else” during the pandemic. Companies suddenly had to provide digital access to anywhere, anytime services.
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Enterprise Architecture
Maintain first place with enterprise automation
New technology and the widespread adoption of digital solutions have revolutionized how businesses operate, connect with customers and optimize their processes. It has become increasingly clear that leveraging technology is a necessity for sustained success.
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Enterprise Architecture
Elevating Workday ERP with Boomi and Huron
Having proper data governance and preparation can prevent errors, duplicate data and inefficiencies, but this can be difficult to achieve without the right tools and partners in place to elevate your ERP implementations.
A singular cloud pictured against a blue sky | SAP
Cloud Platform and Technology
At your service: SAP rolls out Cloud ALM SaaS extension
SAP Cloud ALM is extending its capabilities to centrally operate SaaS applications and custom extensions built and operated on SAP BTP.
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