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Do Workday and Accenture have the future of HCM in the bag?

Skills was a big topic at Workday Elevate London, underpinning a more prosaic vision of the future of work this decade.

The UK word from IFS Connect? Less cloud “fiefdoms”, more young professionals

IFS CEO Darren Roos and its UK&I chief speak exclusively from IFS Connect on leading in EAM, and where "fear versus reality" in cloud adoption.

Huawei, Xi Liu Bei Po Village (Ox Horn Campus)

Exclusive: Huawei talks making the “TikTok of ERP”, MetaERP – from inception and beyond

MetaERP from Chinese tech giant Huawei isn’t your average entry in ERP business. As Huawei tells ERP Today in its only international interview regarding the project, “without US sanctions, Huawei had never considered developing its own ERP.”

Oracle Cloud World represents a maturation from ‘seller of tech’ to ‘partner for good’

Oracle Cloud World rolled into London recently marking its first large-scale in-person event since 2020. The renamed annual convention for partners and customers took place in the familiar surroundings of London ExCel – but apart from the location, everything was...

Outage outrage! Why public cloud is putting data and business at risk

Another outage begs the question: isn’t cloud supposed to be the savior of modern agile computing?

Nathan Moores, shared services strategy director at the Cabinet Office

Can the UK’s shared services mastermind really modernize Whitehall IT?

Interview with Nathan Moores, the latest in a line of civil servants tasked with the mighty shared services challenge.

What happens when AI stops CHATting to us and starts its own conversation?

Generative AI is here with ChatGPT. While the timescales are unclear, what is certain is there is no putting the genie back in the bottle.

A complete guide to Workday

This is an independent ERP Today publication written in collaboration with Workday containing original articles, case studies and more.

A tale of three hospitals

Defining the smart hospital in 2023 - and searching for its existence in the UK with the NHS and enterprise tech.

Infor | Jim Hannan, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT KOCH Industries, and Kevin Samuelson, CEO at Infor

What does a paper company know about ERP? Quite a bit as it turns out

Jim Hannan and Kevin Samuelson, CEO at Infor, on why an unlikely partnership will lead to better outcomes for ERP customers.

Thriving in a changing world – how to seize the opportunity

Angelique De Vries, EMEA president, Workday, discusses how the company have adapted to the ever-changing tech environment.

How a skills-based workforce will reshape the future world of work

Sheri Rhodes, chief customer officer at Workday, explores how a skills-based workforce can reshape the future of work.

Ditching the degree: consultancies eliminate obstacle to recruitment

The UK consulting industry has embarked on ambitious recruitment plans during one of its busiest periods in history.

“All’s well that ends well”: Tech insiders see hope beyond SVB UK rescue

It’s been a tough, sweat-inducing week in tech with the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, but the mood is now perhaps looking up for firms in the UK and beyond.

Deloitte Consulting LLC Tech trends 2023 report

Deloitte’s chief futurist on the tech trends defining 2023

Following this year's Deloitte Tech Trends report, ERP Today speaks to Deloitte’s Chief futurist, Mike Bechtel, to answer some of our burning questions on what’s next for enterprises and vendors alike.

Is Microsoft pushing one partner for Dynamics 365?

Dynamics 365 MVPs aren't happy as Bam Boom Cloud appears to take the sales limelight for Microsoft.

Michael Park, CMO at ServiceNow, on layoffs

“Purpose matters”: ServiceNow reveals its plan to avoid job cuts

Amidst Big Tech layoffs, ServiceNow isn't budging. Michael Park, CMO explains how the tech giant is able to buck the trend with a focus on purpose.

Dynatrace: How to measure cloud’s carbon conundrum

As much as cloud computing is designed to enable us to use functions more efficiently, it also creates wastage on a variety of levels.

The UK government wants to reload the Matrix. But is there a glitch?

According to the architects of the government’s shared services cluster strategy, the civil service has a lack of interoperability, a problem for which, they think they have a solution. The project’s name: the Matrix Programme.

The big clean up: welcome to data clean rooms

Data clean rooms are allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze their data in a protected environment.

How Samsara is changing transportation with data

How Samsara is using a data driven approach to amass marginal gains on an industry-wide scale.

Where’s AWS pointed in 2023?

With AWS re:Invent having closed out the end of 2022, it is time to assess where AWS stands in 2023, as the main thrust of its announcements at re:Invent allows for an analysis of its strategic direction. Also, as the...

Piecemeal ERP: why Travis Perkins is tech stacking brick by brick

Are pickings getting a whole lot slimmer for the big ERP software vendors? It seems the days of having a one-catch-all software vendor have passed. ERP today hears about Travis Perkins' implementation journey.

A complete guide to UiPath

Free downloadable resource containing original articles, case studies and analyst reports covering the full spectrum of the UiPath proposition.

Don’t bring a hammer to an automation fight

In 2019 I wrote that “AI and automation will be the most transformative technologies that we ever invent”. Today we are starting to see the realisation of that prediction as point solution RPA matures into enterprise-wide hyperautomation.

It’s time for a new automation approach

To excel at automation and outperform competitors, intelligent automation (IA) and hyperautomation is only part of the answer.

Did software wolves cry BUG in Y2K?

Marc Ambasna-Jones explores mafia killers, K-pop and woodland bunkers to find the truth about the Y2K bug and some pretty big bucks. Oracle for example saw a 22 percent growth in a record quarter, while SAP also saw record profits.

Riding the waves in insurance transformation with Oracle and PwC

Insurance and finance are perpetually in flux. As one set of regulations is embedded into the industry, another appears on the horizon. Likewise, as one set of metrics is cemented into the reporting norms, another lot rises.

The Great Tech Redundancy is here again

The more companies are callous with their staff, the more chance of another Great Resignation. After all, the main reason employees resigned en masse wasn't because of remote work: It was because they realized how dispensable they were.

Workday Rising 2022 event preview

What can we expect from Workday Rising Europe 2022?

Elon Musk buys Twitter; Oracle in, Salesforce out

Looks like Elon Musk has done it and bought Twitter. The acquisition of one of the world's biggest social media sites was a legally fraught one, as has been well-documented. Not so widely covered? The background presence in the story of a few big names in enterprise tech, namely Oracle CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison, and Bret Taylor, co-CEO of Salesforce. The latter was chair of Twitter’s board of directors until Musk's takeover became reality.