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What to expect from Infor Now 2023

Infor is one of those organizations that falls into the smaller (rarer) 10% or so of firms that actually preview its forthcoming events with a fully-detailed set of information and stories related to what attendees might expect. Not known as...

UiPath takes AI to new altitude with Project Wingman

Enterprise automation software company UiPath has taken its automation platform one cloud strata higher with its latest Artificial Intelligence (AI)-fuelled updates. The newly announced Project Wingman enables users to create RPA-style automations from simple natural language prompts. The project is...

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Zoom is applying to be your new office administrator

While Zoom made headlines this week allegedly mandating a return to the office, the reality of its move is an entirely different story.

Did SAP drink the cloud AI Kool-Aid? Enterprise reacts

When it comes to messaging, we have to ask whether SAP has drunk a little too much of the cloud and AI "Kool-Aid" lately.

Cohesity C-suite: We’re ‘radically simplifying’ secure data management

Data security and information management company Cohesity is aiming to fuel its next stage of company, platform, ecosystem and leadership growth with specific developments in both back office (infrastructure enhancement and augmentation) and front of office developments. Among the more...

Databricks lays down pattern for deeper AI, buys MosaicML

AI is multifarious, multiform, multi-vector, multi-workflow and both multi-model & multi-modal in its form, use cases and underlying architecture. Because of this core truism – and the fact that AI is only ever as smart as the data resources and...

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High-performance computing and AI will rewrite the future of healthcare

High-performance computing (HPC) offers the speed and power needed to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.

“Smart” FSM: from SAP to Samsara, Apple to Android

For field or off-site workers in physical operations, using connected devices such as smartphones or tablets is a relatively new concept.

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How to avoid the cross-border marketplace conundrum

The global e-commerce market is expected to be worth a staggering $7tn by 2025, with online shopping increasingly becoming popular.

Infor: Pressure points for secure code structures

We need to build secure systems. Because enterprise organizations naturally want to be able to run their operational workflows on a fabric of scalably robust services now augmented with increasing levels of intelligent automation, we need to ensure that those...

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Unleashing the power of Generative AI for cloud ERP

In the context of ERP, generative AI will usher in a wave of innovation that will dramatically change how businesses run.

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ERP testing is the undervalued backbone of your digital immune system

The term digital immune systems is rising as a response to an unprecedented escalation in cyber threats, but how can we implement them well?

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The physical world is hungry for digital transformation

Samsara reveals that physical and technological shifts are underway, from autonomous vehicles and AI, to alternative energies and robotics.

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Lessons learned: how the pandemic has changed SAP project delivery

SAP customers, like most businesses, were forced by the pandemic to make radical changes to their working culture.

Puppet by Perforce: Mastering multi-cloud misconfiguration mayhem

Cloud grew. There are a lot of clouds – and we don’t just mean in terms of Cloud Service Provider (CSP) hyperscaler instances (although, okay yeah, that too), there are a lot of compute cloud formations across what is now...

Eviden: How Atos is living the EY dream

For those not in the know, the French IT giant is now two brands: Atos and Eviden, as Eviden's global AWS head confirmed at AWS's recent London summit.

Cohesity: Ransomware is cashing in on cyber insurance payouts

The cloud is safer. Putting our networked compute resources into public cloud services is inherently safer than 'plopping' all our IT estate into an on-prem company datacenter facility.

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Cloud transactional carbon accounting is set to revolutionize businesses

With ever-improving ESG rules and regulations, how can businesses use carbon accounting in the Cloud to reduce their carbon footprint?

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The steps to take before AI embeds ServiceNow challenges

Artificial Intelligence AI is coming to ServiceNow, and it could create even more challenges for companies.

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CRM and Customer Experience

Shut up and listen to your customers

Customer satisfaction broken down into three primary elements: Simplify, focus and listen!

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Seven principles for success in the era of services

The only constant in business is change, and the ability to adapt and thrive is becoming ever more daunting.

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Google addresses concerns about lack of AI regulation

AI is developing at a rapid rate, which has raised concerns about its lack of restrictions. Because of this, Google has been having early conversations with the EU about implementing AI regulation.

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Customer experience and the true cost of doing nothing

Customer loyalty has gone through a turbulent time in the last few years. However, the maturing of SaaS applications, combined with more agile development models and volatile market forces, means that B2B vendors must pay more attention to their customers’ needs.

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The rise of subscription economy: a win-win for consumers and businesses

Industries have seen an explosive demand for subscription-based services over the last few years, leading the subscription economy to thrive.

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How to ditch technical debt in the C-suite workforce strategy

To avoid customer and employee frustration with outdated technology, c-suites need to reimagine their workforce strategy.

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How to take advantage of valuable data assets in a data-driven world

Today's data-driven world has enabled enterprises to make confident decisions using facts, metrics, and key performance indicators.

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Cost of living leads the conversation at AWS’s biggest UK&I summit

The cost-of-living crisis was a key theme at the AWS Summit in London, the hyperscaler's biggest conference in the UK&I region.

CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure completes three-way hyperscaler DBaaS vision

We want databases. Moreover, we want cloud-native databases because organizations need to offer cloud-first information services architected in line with the nature of the virtualized and abstracted breed of enterprise applications now in proliferation. We also need distributed SQL databases,...

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Paving the reimagined road with Samsara’s CPO

According to Samsara chief product officer Jeffrey Hausman, the world of operations is a significantly underserved sector regarding connectivity.

Jitterbit: To stream is not to dream

We know that ERP systems process workloads, channel workflow processes, ingest information and make multifarious connections to systems of record, systems of transaction and wider systems of cloud-native enablement. What all that means is – ERP data is generally on...