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Best ERP retail
Enterprise Architecture
What is the best ERP for retail?
In the fast-paced world of retail, staying ahead means not only offering sought-after products but also ensuring seamless operations. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have emerged as a cornerstone in achieving this balance, helping retailers manage inventory, sales, customer data,...
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Analytics and AI
The takeaway from NetHope Global Summit: ERPs must evolve to accommodate nonprofits
Large organizations have built up diverse application environments and an ERP system could become a force multiplier to create a more dynamic and responsive IT environment in the nonprofit sector.
Is Infor ERP Manufacturing good?
Application Development and Integration
Is Infor ERP good for manufacturing?
In today’s fast-paced manufacturing landscape, businesses are continually seeking ways to optimize their operations, streamline processes, and boost productivity. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software plays a critical role in achieving these objectives, providing a comprehensive suite of tools for managing...
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Analytics and AI
Will LLMs stop healthcare worker burnout? Checking up on future Healthcare ERPs
The stressors piled on by administrative tasks are only adding to healthcare worker burnout. Are LLMs for healthcare ERPs a healer?
Oracle or SAP
Cloud Platform and Technology
Oracle or SAP, which is best?
Choosing which is best out of Oracle and SAP is a bit like deciding which is your least favourite child. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations, both big and small, are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and...
Cloud Platform and Technology
Testing the 2024 waters: predictions and insights from Pankaj Goel, CEO of Opkey
The ERP world is in constant motion, with waves and eddies of technological breakthroughs causing ripples across the industry’s software landscape. Pankaj Goel, co-founder and CEO of Opkey, shares his insights into what he believes is in store for 2024. 
UKISUG 2023 : SAP
Cloud Platform and Technology
UKISUG 2023: Every cloud has a silver lining
Despite the on-premise conundrum, conversations at UKISUG have shifted from whether to deploy S/4 to how to deploy S/4.
Digital Commerce
Everlane dresses sharper with Algolia AI search
As much as we filter, prepare, provision, powder and preen the web, not every user is able to find what they need at the right point in time across the device they prefer (or are compelled to use) in every...
Supply Chain Management
Women supporting women: Empowering beyond the supply chain
Darcy MacClaren, global head of digital supply chain at SAP interviewed Lindsey Vonn who shared the challenges she has faced in her career.
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Cloud Platform and Technology
ERP solutions: not just for the corporate giants
Whether it's a giant corporation or a small-to-medium-sized business, ERP solutions can enhance processes and boost efficiency across the board. Many smaller businesses don't take into account that there are still many vendors out there willing to partner with them.
Product Lifecycle Management
The open source energy infrastructure stack strengthens
There’s the Linux Foundation, that body that we all know and respect to act as stewards of the Linux kernel and champion the use of open source technologies first and foremost for their efficiency as well as their (cost &...
Analytics and AI
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.
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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.
laptop / how technology can help organizations get their houses in order
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.
Playbook to negotiate with SaaS vendors
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.
Janina Bauer and Renske Prins at Celosphere | Celonis launches new Material Emissions App to ease Scope 3 reporting
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.
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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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