Blogs

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...

Retail technology: Time for retailers to get a grip

If we want to change the world for the better, it all starts with retailers, their buyers, their range, and their balance of profit with doing the right thing.

How ERP software can accelerate our journey to a more sustainable future

Paul Cooper, Chairman UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) discusses how ERP software can accelerate our journey to a more sustainable future.

OutSystems UiPath partner for low-code RPA

As a company focused on what it calls ‘high-performance’ application development, OutSystems is clearly aligning its engineering stack to develop, nurture and partner with technologies designed to bring the new era of automation intelligence and autonomous control to bear upon...

Workday EMEA president: people-centricity promotes product & platform

Newly appointed in the role, Workday president for EMEA region Angelique de Vries has said that – with almost three decades of experience working in the enterprise software industry – she views people-centricity as key to innovation and development in...

How employees are shaping the future of work

Magnus Falk, CIO Advisor at Zoom on how initiatives such as asynchronous working, meeting-free days and the four-day week could shape the workplace of the future

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.

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