Blogs

A timelapse photo of a port city with neon streaks representing movement | AI tools Unit4

By creating trustworthy solutions that empower users to make informed decisions confidently, AI tools can truly make a significant difference to ERP processes.

Tired looking chef at a food stall, tending to several, unhappy looking customers | Infor inflation food and beverage

Supply Chain Management

Sunken souffle? How food and beverage can avoid inflation irritation

Modern cloud-based ERP solutions can help the food and beverage industry make data-based decisions and find innovative solutions to inflation-induced issues.

AI and searching for sales in the data pile

These days, countless retail businesses are getting ahead in the online marketplace by putting data at their core. Shopify is a good example of how to embrace AI to enhance your online business.

image of diver in ocean looking at coral and fish | Cognizant Ocean

How Cognizant Ocean is adding more blue to our world with AI

In June, Cognizant announced its new business group, Cognizant Ocean. In this q&a, Stig Martin delves deeper into Cognizant's new business.

Image of a doctor looking at their phone | digital health

What is the first step in the healthcare industry’s digital journey?

Several vital steps have been overlooked if the government intends to capitalize on the chance to enhance patient care and the clinician experience sooner rather than later.

Digital due diligence – the new front line in business valuation

Digital due diligence is a process of investigating and reviewing a company's digital assets and data. However, it is capable of more than we traditionally use it for...

Google Could Next London Keynote - GenAI

Brit brands Gymshark, Unilever are getting ‘appy with Google Cloud GenAI

As Google turned 25 years old, Google Cloud Next London took place at Tobacco Dock, with an expanding list of UK customer GenAI innovations.

A businesswoman mediating a dispute between 2 other businesswoman sitting at a desk | ERP Implementation Sysdoc

Time to play peacekeeper: Navigating conflicts in ERP implementation

ERP system implementation is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you just need to make sure you’re putting the pieces in the right places.

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Quality and Testing

How to reduce your manual testing by up to 60%

The more you can do to make the manual testing process intuitive and painless for business users, the faster and smoother it will go.

It’s “snow time”: Snowflake World Tour AI advancements mark shift to inclusive data

During its Data Cloud World Tour event at ExCel London this week, Snowflake announced new feature and partnership developments, marking the platform's shift to increasingly democratized data access and analytics capabilities across its users.

Attendees at NTT's transformation now event | urging SAP community to “step out of comfort zone”

Application Development and Integration

NTT DATA urges SAP community to “step out of comfort zone”

Dedicated to gathering the SAP community to learn, share and network, NTT’s Transformation NOW! 2023 event focused on all things SAP.

SAP doubles down on cloud and unveils S/4HANA Cloud, private edition

SAP has made public a number of new offerings to help its customers move over to the cloud and reap the benefits of cloud technology.

Stacks of old folder filled with paper piled on top of each other precariously | Physical operations Samsara

Physical operations firms push paper to go the way of the dodo

Despite all the digital advances made in just about every other business vertical, firms that operate in physical operations have doggedly clung on to manual processes. However, all that's changing. And fast.

Rocket that's blasting into space from the launchpad with lots of smoke | cloud-based Infor

Cloud Platform and Technology

The rocket fuel your business needs: Cloud-based enterprise software

Cloud-based enterprise software emerges as a game-changer for businesses, offering them agile platforms that allow fast pivots in response to any market challenges

A city skyline at night with a circuitboard superimposed over it | Embridge intelligent automation

Think intelligent: automating positive public sector change

Public bodies have unique needs, often not operating as a typical business might. They require intelligent automation solutions that can support their particular strategic and organizational needs.

Analytics and AI

Can AI be trusted to battle money laundering and fraud?

AI has reached the scope of multiple industries, but banking might be one of the more unexpected fields to adopt the budding technology.

Infor Now 2023 – live from the Big Easy

Infor staged the US leg of its Infor Now 2023 user, partner and practitioner conference this week in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Image of a colourful ferris wheel | upgrade cycles software support

Break the endless upgrade cycles: rethinking software support to ease technical debt

ERP providers push their latest cloud-based upgrade and IT leaders think they have to buy-in, despite not being sold on the benefits. Enter third-party support.

Two laptops on a desk with a close up camera shot of two pairs of hands, each of them writing plans on a shared piece of paper | CFOs cloud

Cloud Platform and Technology

A cloud-juiced CFO can unleash a new era of financial excellence

For CFOs to stay afloat, knowledge of the latest technological developments will be necessary. Here's how cloud technology can help CFOs turboboost their respective businesses.

Several farmers in hoodies, bent over harvesting fruit from a green field on a cloudy morning | AI food and beverage

Eat this! AI shakes new life into food and beverage industry

The value of AI in the food and beverage sector in particular is expected to reach $29.94bn by 2028. How is AI already being used, and to what effect?

image of doctor in white coat holding a stethoscope | NHS

Maximizing time for care: How tech innovation is enabling better patient outcomes in the NHS

It has always been about the people. One thing that has remained unchanged during the 75 years of the NHS has been the focus on the people who use the country’s healthcare services to get better, and the people delivering that care.

Effective business process management (BPM): A smartwatch analogy.

A smartwatch analogy: Keep effective business process management ticking

Using a watch analogy, understanding a business process management is easy - and just as we made our watches smart - we have now the chance to make our business processes intelligent and smart.

Close up of a magnifying glass being held over the keyboard of a Macbook | Test automation

Quality and Testing

Myth-busting your test automation beliefs

Misunderstandings about the protocols, cost and requirements of automated testing often get in the way of clients making the changes they need to make to stay ahead of the curve.

Implementing Cloud ERP: Codestone’s Six-Phase Approach

Weighing up when and how to move to the cloud

When moving to the cloud, some things you must consider are: time and resources, customized applications and code, implementation partners and more...

image of outside warehouse | distribution industry

Analytics and AI

Hear me out: treat emerging tech as your warehouse’s forklift

Emerging technologies in the distribution industry can and are transforming the way goods are transported and delivered.

Two people have their backs to the viewer in an office setting, working on complex coding on their computers | Infor testing

Time to think testing when implementing Infor Cloudsuite

Testing an Infor platform should be the first thing you do before you roll it out. It's important you're prepared for what that takes.

Will EU scrutiny of Microsoft Teams impact Big Tech?

Microsoft has been working with regulators to resolve the Teams-related issues but is EU’s scrutiny likely to impact more Big Tech?