Blogs

Why automation is vital for the future of business

IFS’ Martin Schirmer on how automation, driven by enterprise service management, is changing workplaces everywhere.

Phil Lewis, Senior VP, Solution Consulting, Infor, demystifies the different types of cloud currently available, and explains why the future favours a multi-tenant model.

Retail technology: Time for retailers to get a grip

If we want to change the world for the better, it all starts with retailers, their buyers, their range, and their balance of profit with doing the right thing.

How ERP software can accelerate our journey to a more sustainable future

Paul Cooper, Chairman UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) discusses how ERP software can accelerate our journey to a more sustainable future.

Automation and arresting Robocop’s drug dealer

20 trucks were parked outside the warehouse. I’d single-handedly stopped the business from supplying the UK’s loo rolls.

Deepfake data will mean real money in finance – but reality is key

Can synthetic data resolve bias, privacy and data gaps for financial services?

Netflix and chill on the Mega-Deal?

The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.

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

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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.

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.

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.