The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.
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HPE announces cloud, data, and recovery tools at Discover 2022
HPE's biggest announcement came from the unveiling of new and advanced hybrid cloud platform capabilities, namely with HPE Greenlake for Private Cloud Enterprise.
HPE esports deal is more about data than anything meta
HPE partners with esports organization Evil Geniuses, augmenting the latter's data analytics capabilities.
Five ways to establish better habits
Learning a language, eating healthier and being more fit all have one thing in common: they need to be executed regularly. Otherwise, the effect will not show. I have struggled with improving my habits for a long time, and I am still not in a place where I have mastered them.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
