Blogs

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

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.

Financial Management

How you can upgrade your reporting capabilities with GL Connect

Finding inefficiencies in your processes and improving upon them is a standard affair for any modern business looking to improve. GL Connect improves upon data analysis and reporting speed - meaning any necessary business changes can be acted on quickly.

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.

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.

A screen showing 2 graphs and sets of important looking statistics | Data Nextworld

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.

Image of an orange neon AI sign on a dark wall | AI risk

Analytics and AI

Eliminate generative AI risk by uncovering the data nuances

How can businesses harness the full potential of LLMs, while minimizing risks of pushing sensitive data into publicly hosted models? Snowflake's James Petter talks security, privacy, and governance.

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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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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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Application Development and Integration

Help lead the revolution by integrating your healthcare data

As healthcare continues to evolve, data will remain the pillar for success, enabling organizations to achieve the delicate balance between cost control and enhanced patient experiences.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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Analytics and AI

Will LLMs stop healthcare worker burnout? Checking up on future Healthcare ERPs

The stressors piled on by administrative tasks are only adding to healthcare worker burnout. Are LLMs for healthcare ERPs a healer?

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.