Blogs

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Converting time into value with Oracle Cloud Apps and Inoapps

Around your evolving Oracle Applications roadmap, you need to be able to signpost a direction of travel that underpins your business strategy, while taking advantage of new opportunities that arise from alignment with the Oracle roadmap and updates.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Moving to the cloud? Here are three things you need to consider before you do

Oracle ERP Cloud technology is a powerful tool that’s ideal for reinforcing your financial and accounting systems. Remember the factors you need to consider when deciding on what ERP technology to invest in and your business could see improvements in record time.

IFS CEO Mark Moffat and UKI MD Stephanie Poore | IFS Connect: new CEO Moffat will lead into “evolution, not revolution”

Cloud Platform and Technology

IFS Connect: Moffat will lead “evolution, not revolution”

The fresh leadership changes of the IFS team, seeing Mark Moffat as CEO and Stephanie Poore as UKI MD, spell a spring in the step of the firm

Supply Chain Management

Reinforcing your supply chain with Accelalpha’s Supply Chain Management

Accelalpha’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) solutions tap into four different factors that could enhance your supply chain processes: order management, manufacturing, inventory management and Internet of Things devices.

Enterprise Asset Management

Choosing the right devices to supercharge your business’ productivity

Choosing the right technology can sometimes feel daunting and complicated. But when and how do we re-look at our device portfolio? Microsoft's Alan Slothower explains.

Business Process Management and Automation

The evolution of the tax technologist

The transition to global economy via digital age reshapes business operations. Centralized systems and tax technologists are also pivotal in tax management evolution for efficient compliance.

Quality and Testing

What is UAT and how can you do it better?

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) verifies if software meets user needs before launch, which is crucial for smooth operations. Howver, some of its challenges include managing updates and processes effectively.

Quality and Testing

The secret to reducing outsourced software testing

In-house tools such as Original Software offers faster, cheaper and better software testing solutions, surpassing outsourcing in efficiency, cost-effectiveness and effectiveness.

Analytics and AI

Singapore ups its AI strategy with Google Cloud collaboration

Singapore is acting on its ambitions to be at the forefront of global innovation as one of the first countries to introduce an AI Strategy.

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Analytics and AI

How using AI can break big data down to byte-size chunks

AI can do wonders in consolidating, translating and extrapolating the potential hidden deep within your data, with the potential to unlock your business’ potential, predictively and protectively.

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Analytics and AI

How can the legal industry get to grips with the AI skills gap?

AI has the capacity to automate labor-intensive aspects of many jobs, impacting our day-to-day. Law is an industry that has much to gain.

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Analytics and AI

Will ERP delivery get better for customers? Because it hasn’t yet

Today, a new ERP customer is promised an almost infinite set of opportunities with modern technology and easy deployment. But are they able to harvest these winnings and are they better off than before?

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Predicting the future of ERP testing

With AI threatening to stick a thumb in every pie it comes across, what kind of effects will it have on testing as a whole? Original Software’s Carl Andrews shares his thoughts on the pipeline for the foreseeable future.

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Data and Data Management

IFS and Farrow & Ball talk sustainability: it needs all the backing it can get

In a recent IFS sustainability roundtable, it became clear that pursuing sustainability goals takes much more than just good intentions.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Building a resilient workplace: Enterprise of the future

The definition of work is continually changing due to technology, skill-based approaches, and the shift to hybrid models for a future-ready workplace.

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Manufacturing Systems and Automation

Smart factory success rests in the Cloud (ERP)

Smart factories represent the next frontier in operational performance, combining human ingenuity, advanced technologies and data-driven insights. With data at the core, smart factories empower manufacturers to navigate the digital landscape and thrive in an increasingly competitive market.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

Clinical Applications

Has NHS privacy faux pas set transformation and skills alarm bells ringing?

Modernising NHS health systems and data sharing across integrated care systems will prove a trust and data literacy challenge.

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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.

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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.

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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.