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Inside Confluent’s Microsoft commercial partner of the year success
Technology vendors love a partner ecosystem. The partner program inside any given enterprise software vendor is typically billed as key place for platform-level collaboration with a view to enabling successful integrations, co-developed innovations and an all round tighter approach to...
Does your ERP stack need an integration boost?
The modern ERP stack is a beautiful thing. But, as beautiful as it is, it’s often a complex interwoven multi-tiered network of software services, application endpoints, data-flows and (now, in the modern era of the Internet of Things) a computing...
Windows incompatibility poses a dual threat to enterprise
The end of Internet Explorer grabbed a lot of tech news headlines. But another interesting nugget of Microsoft-related news went under the radar recently.
Biden, Zero Trust and cybersecurity
Cybersecurity presents pressing issues for the ERP community, with few glimpses of hope to be found in the current landscape.
Digital Hive creates buzz around Analytics & BI (ABI)
Keen to provide a means of working to the modern scale of big data is Digital Hive with its intelligent analytics portal
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Infor product guru on adopting a ‘composed’ ERP disposition
Massimo Capoccia, EVP for product management at Infor, examines the emergence of what the technology industry is calling ‘composable’ ERP
SAP Sapphire 2022: The 5 key takeaways for enterprise leaders
Having been staged virtually for the last two years, SAP Sapphire made a return to Orlando last week, with this year’s conference touted as a ‘hybrid series’ – a virtual event combined with a nine-city, in-person world tour experience.
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The hidden gem in SAP RISE’s crown: the SAP Business Network
SAP’s RISE initiative has a lot of moving parts that together offer customers and prospects important incentives to move to the cloud.
Is the business world ready for Zoomer SaaS apps?
As Gen Z joins the workforce, businesses have to adapt to the shifting expectations employees bring to the office.
Optimising your SAP data strategy
Data remains one of a business’s most valuable assets, with organisations increasingly using insights derived from analytics to drive decisions and strategy. According to our latest survey of 116 SAP user organisations across the UK and Ireland, three quarters of...
SAP delivers innovation to meet customers’ needs
Revealed at its flagship Sapphire event in Orlando, the new innovations aim to deliver business value for SAP customers in four critical areas: supply chain resilience, sustainability, business process transformation and no-code application development.
ThoughtSpot aims to shake up modern data stack
ThoughtSpot has announced a consumption-based pricing model, where customers pay only for what they use.
Odaseva accelerates drive in UK & APAC
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.
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