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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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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....