Blogs

Financial Management
How you can upgrade your reporting capabilities with GL Connect
Finding inefficiencies in your processes and improving upon them is a standard affair for any modern business looking to improve. GL Connect improves upon data analysis and reporting speed - meaning any necessary business changes can be acted on quickly.
Enterprise Asset Management
Choosing the right devices to supercharge your business’ productivity
Choosing the right technology can sometimes feel daunting and complicated. But when and how do we re-look at our device portfolio? Microsoft's Alan Slothower explains.
Analytics and AI
NTT & Red Hat ‘edge up’ AI analytics with IOWN 
Chips are great. Whether we’re talking about the fried potato variety or the silicon wafer kind in either Central Processing Unit (CPU) or Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) variants. But processing always has a shelf-life and we all know the wider...
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Business Process Management and Automation
The evolution of the tax technologist
The transition to global economy via digital age reshapes business operations. Centralized systems and tax technologists are also pivotal in tax management evolution for efficient compliance.
What is UAT and how can you do it better?
Quality and Testing
What is UAT and how can you do it better?
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) verifies if software meets user needs before launch, which is crucial for smooth operations. Howver, some of its challenges include managing updates and processes effectively.
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Quality and Testing
The secret to reducing outsourced software testing
In-house tools such as Original Software offers faster, cheaper and better software testing solutions, surpassing outsourcing in efficiency, cost-effectiveness and effectiveness.
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Analytics and AI
Singapore ups its AI strategy with Google Cloud collaboration
Singapore is acting on its ambitions to be at the forefront of global innovation as one of the first countries to introduce an AI Strategy.
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Analytics and AI
How using AI can break big data down to byte-size chunks
AI can do wonders in consolidating, translating and extrapolating the potential hidden deep within your data, with the potential to unlock your business’ potential, predictively and protectively. 
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Analytics and AI
Eliminate generative AI risk by uncovering the data nuances
How can businesses harness the full potential of LLMs, while minimizing risks of pushing sensitive data into publicly hosted models? Snowflake's James Petter talks security, privacy, and governance.
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Analytics and AI
How can the legal industry get to grips with the AI skills gap?
AI has the capacity to automate labor-intensive aspects of many jobs, impacting our day-to-day. Law is an industry that has much to gain.
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Analytics and AI
Will ERP delivery get better for customers? Because it hasn’t yet
Today, a new ERP customer is promised an almost infinite set of opportunities with modern technology and easy deployment. But are they able to harvest these winnings and are they better off than before? 
Automation
CloudBolt drives ‘cloud ROI’ with augmented FinOps
CloudBolt styles itself as the cloud ROI company – a statement that it brands with an appropriately bold trademark™. The company pledges to be ‘singularly focused’ on solving the most pressing problem with cloud today i.e. increasing return on investment...
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Predicting the future of ERP testing
With AI threatening to stick a thumb in every pie it comes across, what kind of effects will it have on testing as a whole? Original Software’s Carl Andrews shares his thoughts on the pipeline for the foreseeable future.
Application Development and Integration
SAP observability widened by Dynatrace & SoftwareOne collaboration
What’s better than one enterprise sofwarehaus? Two of course. This month sees Swiss SoftwareOne Holdings AG open new observability views into SAP environments by working with Dynatrace. The collaboration is hoped to allow companies to use  AI to optimize SAP...
Analytics and AI
Dynatrace acquires Runecast, a new vector in cloud-native context-rich security
  Bidding to validate its claim as the leader in unified observability and security, Dynatrace started its annual user, practitioner & partner convention this year with a ‘day zero’ style announcement that preceded the main Dynatrace Perform event itself. Before...
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Application Development and Integration
Help lead the revolution by integrating your healthcare data
As healthcare continues to evolve, data will remain the pillar for success, enabling organizations to achieve the delicate balance between cost control and enhanced patient experiences.
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Data and Data Management
IFS and Farrow & Ball talk sustainability: it needs all the backing it can get
In a recent IFS sustainability roundtable, it became clear that pursuing sustainability goals takes much more than just good intentions.
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Building a resilient workplace: Enterprise of the future
The definition of work is continually changing due to technology, skill-based approaches, and the shift to hybrid models for a future-ready workplace.
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Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Smart factory success rests in the Cloud (ERP)
Smart factories represent the next frontier in operational performance, combining human ingenuity, advanced technologies and data-driven insights. With data at the core, smart factories empower manufacturers to navigate the digital landscape and thrive in an increasingly competitive market.
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Analytics and AI
Do more with more: are you taking full advantage of artificial intelligence capabilities?
How can AI make us capable of more? Instead of contemplating how artificial intelligence can do more with less, we're finding ways to enable companies everywhere to do more with more.
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Application Development and Integration
Three challenges CIOs currently face – and how to fix them
The challenges that CIOs currently face would have been impossible 20 years ago, but choosing the right technologies of today will help ease the job.
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Application Development and Integration
Composable ERP solutions: providing distributors with future-proofing, flexibility and agility
With business leaders now at the forefront of digital evolution, composable ERP solutions have taken priority. Thanks to modern cloud-based ERP solutions, it's easier than ever to stay competitive in the ever-evolving world of technology.
e-Government
Service Management
Some e-Gov projects that actually deliver public value
Here's how e-gov can actually deliver efficient, transparent and accessible public services for citizens, businesses and governments.
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Clinical Applications
Has NHS privacy faux pas set transformation and skills alarm bells ringing?
Modernising NHS health systems and data sharing across integrated care systems will prove a trust and data literacy challenge.
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Clinical Applications
United Kingdom of data: how we can get NHS digital transformation right
effectively digitally transforming the NHS includes creating a pool of data from all sources, building the planning models, and mining for insights to inform future operations.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Why the data sovereignty push will require complexity and cost controls
Data sovereignty has gone viral. Businesses recognize the need to address it, with 41 percent of them claiming data compliance and security as a top barrier to achieving expected cloud value. Here's what you need to know.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Cloud software: the key to unlocking a digital-first world for your enterprise
Legacy systems have become tangled webs with decades-old processes, preventing enterprises from achieving efficiency in their digital operations. Cloud software can help your business grow to unparalleled heights by innovating processes for peak efficiency.
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Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Is IFS a good choice for Aerospace & Defence companies?
In the highly regulated and complex industries of aerospace & defence, choosing the right Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is paramount. The unique needs, strict compliance requirements, and intricate operations of these sectors demand specialized ERP solutions. One contender in...
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Application Development and Integration
The untapped potential of citizen development
What if there was a way to meet your company’s IT demands without having to hire expensive developers or ask your current team to work after-hours? The solution is already working for you, investigate citizen development.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
Retiring spreadsheets: the business case you’ve been waiting for
The spreadsheet… Perhaps the most prolific office tool since the dawn of electronic admin. As the future marches ever on, is it time to upgrade, kick spreadsheets to the wind and look for better tech?  
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