Blogs

ThoughtSpot aims to shake up modern data stack

ThoughtSpot has announced a consumption-based pricing model, where customers pay only for what they use.

Pushing its data-centric technology is Odaseva, which works specifically to deliver an enterprise data platform service for Salesforce.

The Young Professionals Network; Outreach and Celebration

The ERP Today’s Young Professionals Network (YPN) celebrates and connects under 30s who are working in enterprise technology. Chaired by Yasaman Shayesteh, the YPN is led by a council of brilliant young professionals working in the industry. As outreach, access...

Oracle deepens its reach into social media, sort of

On the back of a deal to support TikTok when it came under pressure from the Trump administration, Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, has now agreed to pump $1bn of his own cash into the funding pool to acquire...

It’s time to stop using ERP for reporting and analytics

Graham Spicer, country head, EMEA at SplashBI Analytics, outlines five ways why a self-service reporting system is vital for business.

Appian drives low-code for ESG in ERP

There’s a thorny confluence point between ERP and low-code software. On the one hand, there are low-code platform specialist purists i.e. company’s known for their low-code (and sometimes no-code) declarative model software that provides pre-architected templates, accelerators and intelligence-driven shortcuts...

All work and all play: Do young professionals really want an office metaverse?

The tools to make work more engaging in the metaverse are already here. But who are they for? And does anyone want them?

Perfect ploys to prevent ERP procurement process pitfalls

When an ERP project fails, the implementation phase is often thought to be at fault when in retrospect these projects are doomed to fail years before the contract is even signed.

Cloud healthcare and the data state of play

Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.

AI in healthcare: What now after Watson?

IBM’s Watson health venture was so beleaguered, it can be forgiven if AI in healthcare seems like a poor business bet.

Microsoft Work Trends: Because you’re (work is) ‘worth it’

Somewhere deep in the depth of the Microsoft marcoms (marketing communications) machine, the team is sitting back and looking quite pleased with itself. They have completed the company’s 2022 Work Trend Index and ‘revealed its insights’ for us. Whether Microsoft...

Is your ERP datacenter footprint sustainable?

We all want to tackle climate change as we progress towards both living and working in a more maintainable and essentially sustainable way of being. Although not every person is capable of going full-Greta (as in Thunberg, obviously), almost all...

Legacy tech lingers in healthcare after Covid. What’s the fix?

It's still too early to say the NHS has shed off enough of its legacy technology, even after the pandemic.

5 vital steps to developing an agile, change ready organization

Wendy Henry, head of business change and digital adoption, Embridge Consulting, reveals how your organization and people can adapt to change in new, smarter ways.

Where next for MACH? The dawn of the mature, composable architecture market

As we move into the second quarter of 2022, MACH (Microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless) architecture has become common parlance amongst IT leadership facing the demands of digital transformation.

Infor flicks sustainable software switch at Britishvolt

Once ‘just’ an ERP specialist, once an industry-specific ERP specialist with extended supply chain specialism – and now, all of the above plus a broader ‘industry cloud’ specialist with user experience (UX) competencies. It seems Infor isn’t too busy rebranding its company...

Bünting trades mit ‘observability’ auf ERP

In North-West Germany, when they hang out the bunting, they often start by going to Bünting. This Europe-wide trading company employs some 12,000 people and has interests in food and drink distribution as well as retailing and e-commerce.

ServiceNow’s critical role in today’s HR tech market

The HR technology market is massive. More than $80bn per year is spent on tools to hire, pay, manage, develop and support employees around the world.

What is the cost of change? Implications for your SAP roadmap

With the maintenance deadline for SAP ECC 6.0 fast approaching, organisations are deciding how they will use SAP going forward. For many, their ERP system is the heartbeat of the business, so they are currently evaluating the role it will play and what needs to change for it to be fit for purpose in today’s digital world.

Unit4 Q&A with Emma O’Brien, Founder and CEO, Embridge Consulting

Embridge Consulting has been working successfully with Unit4 since the business was founded in 2009 and became Unit4’s first official systems integrator partner within UK&I in 2015. Since then, the partnership has grown from strength to strength. Expanding the partnership to reseller...

Absoft’s hard-line strategy for SAP cloud migration

There’s an awful lot of talk about cloud computing and the migration strategies, tactics and operational nuances required to evolve our pre-existing IT stacks and wider data estates to the new world of cloud. Pick any consultant, specialist cloud advocate...

UpperEdge offers higher-sharper guidance to SAP on cloud hyperscalers

Move to the cloud, they say. The problem, oftentimes, is that talk is cheap and any generalised move to ‘shunt’ enterprise application management to cloud (or indeed cloud-native) deployment environments takes strategic engineering planning, architectural insight and a wide-ranging view...

Jitterbit: After the disruption starting pistol, what next?

This is a contributed commentary written by Steve Sichtman in his capacity as VP of multi-channel development at Jitterbit, a company that describes itself as an API transformation specialist with an acute interest in the ERP market and wider transept...

Working From Home: Love it or Loathe it?

I used to think I was less productive working from home; always fitting personal jobs around work, for example putting on some washing or walking the dogs at lunchtime. It was a nice treat a few times a month, with the opportunity to grab an extra hour’s sleep in the morning.

AWS widens database fabric

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) doesn’t necessarily call out ERP as a core competency for application use cases when it updates the major tiers and strata of its platform. It doesn’t have to. In actuality, it leaves many of the...

Oracle’s move to vertically-focussed sales teams

At the turn of Oracle’s financial year in June, they restructured a large number of their sales teams to be more industry-focussed. This could be because Oracle is already experiencing more success in settings where vertical expertise is important - they are listed at #6 in the Cloud Wars ranking but have reached #3 in Industry Cloud rankings.

Enterprise software ‘security gates’ needed to lock down automation intelligence

We are of course living in an era of spiraling automation intelligence. Every month we are fed with more messages detailing how software platforms, products and tools are being bumped-up, bolstered and boosted by AI & ML driven automation through...

BLM: a retrospective

In May 2020, the world was frozen as it witnessed the tragic murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the Minnesota Police Department. Over the next few months it seemed like nothing else was important as protests swept...

Automation Anywhere and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust launch white paper series

Automation Anywhere and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH) are collaborating on a series of white papers that outline their vision of how automation can serve as a force for good across the global healthcare industry and public sector. The...

Cloud expectations vs cloud clarity, reality & functionality

For many enterprises, the cloud computing model of service-based IT represents a promised land of new opportunities, leaving behind headaches that have challenged IT teams and businesses for years. ERP Today spoke to the engineering team at UK, USA and...