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How to choose the best ERP for Manufacturing

In today’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, finding the ideal tools to streamline operations is paramount. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become indispensable for manufacturers looking to optimize processes, cut costs, and maintain top-tier production quality. However, choosing the best...

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Full automation: a vision of the future

By creating trustworthy solutions that empower users to make informed decisions confidently, AI tools can truly make a significant difference to ERP processes.

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Unsure if you want to join the ERP party? It may change your life

No longer the exclusive tools of global enterprises, modern cloud-based ERP systems are allowing many more manufacturing businesses to join the ERP party. For decades, the world’s biggest and most successful manufacturers have recognized the value of ERP. Thanks to...

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Sunken souffle? How food and beverage can avoid inflation irritation

Modern cloud-based ERP solutions can help the food and beverage industry make data-based decisions and find innovative solutions to inflation-induced issues.

AI and searching for sales in the data pile

These days, countless retail businesses are getting ahead in the online marketplace by putting data at their core. Shopify is a good example of how to embrace AI to enhance your online business.

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How Cognizant Ocean is adding more blue to our world with AI

In June, Cognizant announced its new business group, Cognizant Ocean. In this q&a, Stig Martin delves deeper into Cognizant's new business.

As NTT Data buys up SAP licenses, are SIs now horsemen of the HANA-pocalypse?

NTT DATA has announced a plan to repurchase legacy and on-premises SAP licenses to help ease customer cloud migrations. But is this enough?

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What is the first step in the healthcare industry’s digital journey?

Several vital steps have been overlooked if the government intends to capitalize on the chance to enhance patient care and the clinician experience sooner rather than later.

Digital due diligence – the new front line in business valuation

Digital due diligence is a process of investigating and reviewing a company's digital assets and data. However, it is capable of more than we traditionally use it for...

Google Could Next London Keynote - GenAI

Brit brands Gymshark, Unilever are getting ‘appy with Google Cloud GenAI

As Google turned 25 years old, Google Cloud Next London took place at Tobacco Dock, with an expanding list of UK customer GenAI innovations.

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Time to play peacekeeper: Navigating conflicts in ERP implementation

ERP system implementation is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you just need to make sure you’re putting the pieces in the right places.

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Quality and Testing

How to reduce your manual testing by up to 60%

The more you can do to make the manual testing process intuitive and painless for business users, the faster and smoother it will go.

It’s “snow time”: Snowflake World Tour AI advancements mark shift to inclusive data

During its Data Cloud World Tour event at ExCel London this week, Snowflake announced new feature and partnership developments, marking the platform's shift to increasingly democratized data access and analytics capabilities across its users.

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Be loud and proud with sustainable practices

With a world caught up in climate difficulties, sustainability needs to take the priority, along with ensuring ethical practices: studies show eight out of ten consumers said they would pay up to 5 percent more for sustainably produced goods.

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NTT DATA urges SAP community to “step out of comfort zone”

Dedicated to gathering the SAP community to learn, share and network, NTT’s Transformation NOW! 2023 event focused on all things SAP.

SAP doubles down on cloud and unveils S/4HANA Cloud, private edition

SAP has made public a number of new offerings to help its customers move over to the cloud and reap the benefits of cloud technology.

UiPath and SAP deepen partnership and endorsements at Forward VI

Automation platform technologies need pertinent software application development topographies to apply themselves to in order to shine, provide outcomes-based functionalities that lead to new efficiencies… and to illustrate and validate their effectiveness. Equally, enterprise software platforms – especially the more...

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Physical operations firms push paper to go the way of the dodo

Despite all the digital advances made in just about every other business vertical, firms that operate in physical operations have doggedly clung on to manual processes. However, all that's changing. And fast.

Gartner on why CFOs need inhuman accountants

Exclusive: Mark D. McDonald, senior director analyst in the Gartner Finance Practice, talks GenAI use in the financial space

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The rocket fuel your business needs: Cloud-based enterprise software

Cloud-based enterprise software emerges as a game-changer for businesses, offering them agile platforms that allow fast pivots in response to any market challenges

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A CIO’s dodge to IT transformation pitfalls

Let’s play a quick game of word association: what comes to your mind when I say “TSB”? If you’ve been reading the news, chances are your responses might include “expensive,” “disaster” or perhaps “fine” (but not the good kind). But...

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Think intelligent: automating positive public sector change

Public bodies have unique needs, often not operating as a typical business might. They require intelligent automation solutions that can support their particular strategic and organizational needs.

Can AI be trusted to battle money laundering and fraud?

AI has reached the scope of multiple industries, but banking might be one of the more unexpected fields to adopt the budding technology.

Infor Now 2023 – live from the Big Easy

Infor staged the US leg of its Infor Now 2023 user, partner and practitioner conference this week in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Break the endless upgrade cycles: rethinking software support to ease technical debt

ERP providers push their latest cloud-based upgrade and IT leaders think they have to buy-in, despite not being sold on the benefits. Enter third-party support.

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How to guarantee your clients are getting the most out of their ERP investment

It shouldn’t be hard to convince a client how an ERP program can help improve the processes of their business. Ultimately, it relies on if a business can take advantage of the full capabilities that ERP tech can offer. That...

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A cloud-juiced CFO can unleash a new era of financial excellence

For CFOs to stay afloat, knowledge of the latest technological developments will be necessary. Here's how cloud technology can help CFOs turboboost their respective businesses.

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Eat this! AI shakes new life into food and beverage industry

The value of AI in the food and beverage sector in particular is expected to reach $29.94bn by 2028. How is AI already being used, and to what effect?

Workday fuels future work strategies with multiple tiers of AI

Workday held the US leg of its annual user event in San Francisco this week. Workday Rising was a vibrant mix of Human Resources (HR) people, finance specialists and software application development professionals all blended into one heady mix of...

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Maximizing time for care: How tech innovation is enabling better patient outcomes in the NHS

It has always been about the people. One thing that has remained unchanged during the 75 years of the NHS has been the focus on the people who use the country’s healthcare services to get better, and the people delivering that care.