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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.

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.

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.

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....