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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...
The eco-production line 2.0 runs on ‘microsecond moments’
Nobody needs much of a lesson in the industrial revolution this year; given the COP26 climate summit (26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties) and the focus on how private and public enterprises are contributing to carbon emissions, the...
Mike Etting of Unit 4 interview by Paul Esherwood, Mayfair, London | Unit4 Q2
Unit4’s ‘annus mirabilis’
A panel of independent judges concluded that Unit4 was ERP Vendor of the Year at the recent ERP Today Awards and their customer, Social Work England, also won ERP Project of the Year. It was a tremendous endorsement of the...
Aurachain on low-code ERP: don’t juggle jugulars & jumbos
There are very few open and shut subjects in information technology and the always-thorny issue of technical debt (clunky code that results from quick-fix software engineering moves that fail to integrate into the wider fabric of system operations for the...
Workday at Google: a ‘cloud-based people system’
Almost everyone has had a tough job that they really found hard to cope with on a professional level at some point in their lifetime. In those kinds of roles, the Human Resources (HR) function can feel like quite an...
Can ERP save the world?
There’s a hypothesis in cosmology and astrophysics called the Fermi Paradox that ponders a simple question – where are the aliens? This thought experiment illuminates the contradiction between the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial life and the mathematical prediction that life should be evident throughout the cosmos
Oracle’s modernised partner network
Historically ERP vendors sold licences and left their partners to worry about the success, or otherwise, of the implementation thereof. In the old world, when projects took years to complete and value was an immeasurable notion, the relationship between vendor,...
Under par and counting my blessings
It is hard to believe that we are approaching a year since the first lockdown due to the pandemic. In many ways it has felt like forever and in other ways it has flown by – a year of working from home, looking out the window of my home office and still scratching my head and wondering if this is just a dream.
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Who is Really Benefitting from the Oracle Continuous Innovation Model?
portfolio. The model supposedly eliminates disruptions from major upgrades, lets licensees pick and choose upgrade implementation, and provides long-term premium support. Sounds great…but for whom? Dan Woods from Early Adopter Research surfaces some important pitfalls of the continuous delivery model.
Is your application landscape an appreciating asset?
Businesses that are thriving now are in large part the ones that had already embraced digital subscription models, transactions that flow without intervention, and remote workforces. These measures helped them during the pandemic as customers pivoted to online commerce in greater numbers and offices shut down.
Be the Pace of Innovation – Move from SAP to Oracle Cloud – The True Cloud
It is well-established that the dramatic productivity improvements offered by modern cloud applications...
Paul Esherwood with an alternative review of Oracle OpenWorld Europe 2020
It’s true to say that if you are an Oracle partner, customer or even a casual user – OpenWorld is a great place to connect and collaborate....
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