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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

ERP solutions: not just for the corporate giants

Whether it's a giant corporation or a small-to-medium-sized business, ERP solutions can enhance processes and boost efficiency across the board. Many smaller businesses don't take into account that there are still many vendors out there willing to partner with them.

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.

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?

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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.

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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.

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.

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.