Blogs

Vendors set out their AI stalls in 2023. Where were all the skills?

Vendor conferences are over for the year, with all their wins news and GenAI hype. Not so much on the checklist? Skills.

Cloud Platform and Technology

EY expert expands on SAP and EY sustainability alliance

Just over a month ago, in October, SAP and EY expanded their alliance to help organizations accelerate value-led sustainability action.

Cloud Platform and Technology

How to be an AWS partner at re:Invent 2023

The biggest re:Invent 2023 takeaway: you have to be tough to be a partner working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Unleashing the power of digital transformation

Whether it's a complete digital reinvention or a stepwise modernization, the time for action is now. A digital transformation can help boost effectiveness across the board and improve process efficiencies exponentially. What are you waiting for?

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Quality and Testing

AI – beyond chatbots and into testing automation

The latest technological advances are here to help your job, not replace it. Generative AI software can enhance the ERP testing lifecycle at every stage, boosting efficiency in multiple ways.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

UKOUG is all for Oracle’s fresh face

At its 2023 user group conference, UKOUG has praised Oracle’s work to ‘freshen up’ its reputation, as Big Red continues to soften its approach to customer service, reacting to the rise in SaaS delivery requirements.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

How technology can help organizations get their houses in order

The new EPR legislation will come into effect in 2025 and will require most large organizations to collect and report on plastic usage in their supply chain. Technology will be key in aiding companies to do so.

Cloud Platform and Technology

Playbook to negotiate with SaaS vendors

SaaS challenges that usually arise include strategic negotiation, understanding team needs, avoiding surplus, leveraging competition and maintaining friendly relations for lasting deals.

Application Development and Integration

NTT ‘inclusive core’ network technologies point to 6G era

Networks are changing. As we draw to the end of a computing era defined by Moore’s Law and the proposition that processing power can continue doubling (roughly every 18-months) due to advances in silicon wafer technologies, organizations have been working...

Empowering Women in Supply Chain Breakfast | SAP Women

Supply Chain Management

Uncovering your superpower as a woman in the SAP world

“What is your superpower?” You would be mistaken to think this is your guide to becoming the world’s next Wonder Woman. Rather, this is a snapshot into the Empowering Women in Supply Chain Breakfast session held at this year’s Mastering...

Mastering SAP EAM + Supply Chain & Procurement

Supply Chain Management

Mastering SAP empowers women in supply chain at latest event

Mastering SAP EAM + Supply Chain & Procurement held its first ever Empowering Women in Supply Chain Breakfast session.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Celonis launches new Material Emissions App to ease Scope 3 reporting

Celonis has launched its new Material Emissions App to simplify how organizations measure, report and reduce Scope 3 emissions in procurement

Human Capital Management

Workday rising – and dancing – with EMEA industry takeover

Workday Rising EMEA highlighted customers wins with over 100 European-headquartered companies from more than 35 different industries.

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Analytics and AI

Preventing business boondoggles with Boomi

The already pressing need for organizations to transform their operations to stay competitive exploded into an “or else” during the pandemic. Companies suddenly had to provide digital access to anywhere, anytime services.

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Enterprise Architecture

Maintain first place with enterprise automation

New technology and the widespread adoption of digital solutions have revolutionized how businesses operate, connect with customers and optimize their processes. It has become increasingly clear that leveraging technology is a necessity for sustained success.

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Enterprise Architecture

Elevating Workday ERP with Boomi and Huron

Having proper data governance and preparation can prevent errors, duplicate data and inefficiencies, but this can be difficult to achieve without the right tools and partners in place to elevate your ERP implementations.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

At your service: SAP rolls out Cloud ALM SaaS extension

SAP Cloud ALM is extending its capabilities to centrally operate SaaS applications and custom extensions built and operated on SAP BTP.

Automation

These advances in test automation could change everything for your ERP

While every new platform promises to “maximize efficiency” and “streamline processes,” it’s often a process of trial-and-error to find what really works. The cloud is exploding and test automation, as well as AI, are rising up to meet the world’s QA demands.

Security

Qualys CEO Thakar: A unified view of business-related risk management & remediation

There are cybersecurity companies, but there are also enterprise software vendors who work in the vulnerability management zone that we would not classify as cyber firms in the traditional sense of technologies ‘simply’ circulating around malware, ransomware and system security...

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Cloud Platform and Technology

What the public sector can (and can’t) learn from private sector IT

Public sector IT professionals are liable to occasionally react skeptically when people try to apply what works for the private sector to their area of expertise – and well they might.

Neste builds a sustainable future with IBM and SAP S/4HANA

Neste and IBM’s partnership dates back from 2015, a time where the oil company made the decision to drop the “Oil” from its name and devote itself to adopt more sustainability measures in order to meet its ESG goals and assist in the fight against climate change.

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Here’s what the IoT industry needs to learn about trust

The IoT industry is overlooking some vital elements when trying to gain the trust of its prospective users. Here's what it can learn from the financial services sector.

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Live awareness tech is shaping tomorrow’s smart cities

The quest for sustainable solutions and operational efficiency is a mission that has captured the world's attention. While the notion of smart cities is not new, the innovative power of sensory AI is rewriting the narrative, presenting not just promises - but tangible results.

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These megatrends are revolutionizing manufacturing and service; but cross-functionality is key

Disruptions are intensifying, occurring faster and with greater impact and no event is the same as the one preceding it. Welcome to the ‘next’ reality, where riding megatrends could mean make or break for your organization.

a man holding a sticky note with AI written on it | Will the UK’s AI safety summit actually make an impact?

Vendors are all over UK’s AI Safety Summit – but will it “generate” any impact?

The first-ever AI safety summit held in the UK has all eyes set on it and many hope it will trailblaze an international discussion on AI.

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Hark! The era of AI beckons at SAP TechEd 2023 with new GenAI series

At the SAP TechEd 2023 event in Bangalore India, SAP announced a comprehensive series of new generative AI capabilities.

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Flip the approach to ERP training to save time, money and implementations

Let’s avoid the pitfall of not investing in the correct training methods; time and time again, poor training can result in an ERP implementation in complete disarray.

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Saying bon voyage to ‘just in time’ and hello to better supply chain solutions

It’s never been more important to have the right supply chain management (SCM) software, enabling your business to survive, react to disruption and use it as a true differentiator to thrive and grow.

Castle in the Clouds : SAP Microsoft cloud collab

Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP and Microsoft’s fairytale ending with cloud collab success story

As Microsoft credits successful Q1 24 to cloud initiatives, has the Microsoft/SAP cloud collab gotten its 'fairytale in the cloud' ending?

In a world of deep fakes, securing an organization’s crown jewels gets real

The closer you get to full cyber protection, the more expensive and resource-intensive cyber defense becomes. That's why many businesses are choosing to focus on their crown jewels.