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Yes Chef! Progress serves up 2022 partner plaudits

Technology awards are the slightly flaky bonhomie padding that IT vendors roll out every year to sidle up a little closer to some of their key industry partners in a move to ingratiate themselves and, possibly, also impress their own...

AutoRABIT hops higher on code scanning health for Salesforce

AutoRabit should be a brand name denoting a firm specializing in the autonomous supply of high-protein low-fat bunny meat in doe and buck varieties for indigenous Spanish, Portuguese and other dishes. Unfortunately, it’s not. Instead, AutoRabit (stylized for marketing purposes...

Automation and arresting Robocop’s drug dealer

20 trucks were parked outside the warehouse. I’d single-handedly stopped the business from supplying the UK’s loo rolls.

Datanomix & ProShop ERP get tactical on ‘takt’ time targets

To the casual observer, job costing is a fairly run-of-the-mill corporate process that might even border on the mundane. But, as we know, every aspect of business operations is now ripe for digitization and data-driven empowerment… and job costing...

Does ESG + ERP Make for a Better Planet?

Human nature dictates that we must sit on a precipice of near destruction until change happens; in which, let’s do nothing until then, right? Brilliant! The problem is, change is expensive, disruptive, and unwelcome by those who fear having to...

Rimini Street tracks first moves to seconded third-party ERP support

Rimini Street is a provider of third-party support for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. Background enough then, arguably, for the organisation to know a thing or two about ERP implementations. The firm’s 2022 Valoir Research report...

Alation cloud service for Snowflake is a data catalog leapfrog

Enterprise data intelligence company Alation Inc has launched its eponymously named Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake. Snowflake calls itself the data cloud company, but we know the firm for its SaaS-based data warehouse, data lake, data engineering, data science, data...

Incorta turns up heat on raw business data analytics

In the beginning, there was Microsoft Excel. Businesspeople in every industry vertical accepted, for that time at least, that this was the full toolset when it came to analytics and information insight… it was even possible to get an ‘auto-sum’...

FinancialForce: Get savvy to SaaS with SaaB

Keen fans of alliteration, customer-centric ERP, Professional Services Automation (PSA) company FinancialForce has celebrated summer 2023 with freshly cut cucumber sandwiches, icy pitchers of lemonade and a new platform release. In a cloud-centric world where Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) reigns supreme for...

Moveworks: Building (and running) teams with circular model theory

The number one focus of IT teams is enabling employees to be productive, they can do this by providing the technology and tech support needed to create the most impact. An organisation can align its our IT team with one...

Iguazio sees ‘Sense’ in MLOps automation

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platform company Iguazio has this summer noted work carried out with Artificial Intelligence (AI) talent engagement for recruiting specialist Sense. Sense is using automation and AI to speed up the recruitment process, while also delivering what...

Deepfake data will mean real money in finance – but reality is key

Can synthetic data resolve bias, privacy and data gaps for financial services?

Netflix and chill on the Mega-Deal?

The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.

New Relic goes native on SAP agentless observability

New Relic wants to up the monitoring game for SAP deployments. But let’s step back, why is New Relic called New Relic? As a cloud-based application and web service monitoring specialist, New Relic should be called New Relic because its...

OutSystems joins SAP PartnerEdge program

Progressive enterprise software companies evolve, reinvent their technology stacks (occasionally also divesting of lines or business units that no longer sync with the wider corporate mission) and go through various iterations of themselves on the road to their current status....

The Quest to uncover unknown & unused ERP data

ERP deployments are highly functional suites, stacks and solutions of always timely, perfectly de-duplicated, parsimoniously parsed and properly presented data blocks. Except, of course, they’re not. The typical ERP deployment will have any number of unknown, unused and uncared for...

HPE announces cloud, data, and recovery tools at Discover 2022

HPE's biggest announcement came from the unveiling of new and advanced hybrid cloud platform capabilities, namely with HPE Greenlake for Private Cloud Enterprise.

HPE esports deal is more about data than anything meta

HPE partners with esports organization Evil Geniuses, augmenting the latter's data analytics capabilities.

Five ways to establish better habits

Learning a language, eating healthier and being more fit all have one thing in common: they need to be executed regularly. Otherwise, the effect will not show. I have struggled with improving my habits for a long time, and I am still not in a place where I have mastered them.

Inside Confluent’s Microsoft commercial partner of the year success

Technology vendors love a partner ecosystem. The partner program inside any given enterprise software vendor is typically billed as key place for platform-level collaboration with a view to enabling successful integrations, co-developed innovations and an all round tighter approach to...

Does your ERP stack need an integration boost?

The modern ERP stack is a beautiful thing. But, as beautiful as it is, it’s often a complex interwoven multi-tiered network of software services, application endpoints, data-flows and (now, in the modern era of the Internet of Things) a computing...

Windows incompatibility poses a dual threat to enterprise

The end of Internet Explorer grabbed a lot of tech news headlines. But another interesting nugget of Microsoft-related news went under the radar recently.

Biden, Zero Trust and cybersecurity

Cybersecurity presents pressing issues for the ERP community, with few glimpses of hope to be found in the current landscape.

Digital Hive creates buzz around Analytics & BI (ABI)

Keen to provide a means of working to the modern scale of big data is Digital Hive with its intelligent analytics portal

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Infor product guru on adopting a ‘composed’ ERP disposition

Massimo Capoccia, EVP for product management at Infor, examines the emergence of what the technology industry is calling ‘composable’ ERP

SAP Sapphire 2022: The 5 key takeaways for enterprise leaders

Having been staged virtually for the last two years, SAP Sapphire made a return to Orlando last week, with this year’s conference touted as a ‘hybrid series’ – a virtual event combined with a nine-city, in-person world tour experience.

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The hidden gem in SAP RISE’s crown: the SAP Business Network

SAP’s RISE initiative has a lot of moving parts that together offer customers and prospects important incentives to move to the cloud.

Is the business world ready for Zoomer SaaS apps?

As Gen Z joins the workforce, businesses have to adapt to the shifting expectations employees bring to the office.

Optimising your SAP data strategy

Data remains one of a business’s most valuable assets, with organisations increasingly using insights derived from analytics to drive decisions and strategy. According to our latest survey of 116 SAP user organisations across the UK and Ireland, three quarters of...

SAP delivers innovation to meet customers’ needs

Revealed at its flagship Sapphire event in Orlando, the new innovations aim to deliver business value for SAP customers in four critical areas: supply chain resilience, sustainability, business process transformation and no-code application development.