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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.

The advent of value-based maintenance and how to reap the rewards

Servitization is too often looked at in isolation as an independent trend, but it represents the entirety of a customer journey. To reap the benefits of it, organizations can make changes such as apply intelligence to the approach.

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Application Development and Integration

Blue Marine Foundation: Saving our seas in real time

Blue Marine's project with integrator City Dynamics is proof that while stargazing is an easy habit to fall into when it comes to tech, sometimes the best stories of transformation are happening “down to Earth”. Such stories are happening very much in the here and now, with real-time consequences for everyone on our embattled planet.

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ERP at the center of sustainability and human impact

The role of ERP systems has evolved beyond their function as operational tools and they have emerged as instruments for sustainable business.

An Iphone with Netflix on screen connected to headphones | SAP and ServiceNow

It’s 2007 all over again for SAP and ServiceNow

Two vendors with different products but a common link search for their defining moment. Will they find it?

A view inside the IBM Quantum System One, a programmed computer that uses quantum circuits | Quantum

Quantum creeps closer – ready or not?

Will quantum computing decrypt all our secrets in the next decade? IBM, Deloitte and Accenture security and quantum compute experts think so.

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Solid air: building secure clouds

Building contemporary software applications is complex, we still exist in a world where systems are created with instabilities.

Object-centric process mining: how ERP’s x-ray becomes an MRI

OCPM provides a robust and unified representation of an entire organization's internal processes, as Celonis' chief scientist explains.

Birmingham shows ERP is an existential threat for councils

When Birmingham City Council declared itself “essentially bankrupt”, we couldn't unsee its eye-wateringly over-budget ERP implementation bill.

image of laptop with code on the screen, in the background abstract red, pink and green lights | AI and ML

Will AI take the “human” out of human resources?

How can busy HR executives ensure they are benefiting from the AI revolution, while working safely and ethically?

A human brain with a memory board inside it. SAP AI Cloud

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.

Analytics and AI

Meet Maxi, Earth CEO – and savior of humanity

Welcome to 2033. On the anniversary of its ascendancy, we interview the benevolent AGI which runs our planet and drove CxOs to extinction, MAX1-GPT.

On the brink of evolution

Every earnings call and each event that I have attended has been dominated by one topic - Generative Artificial Intelligence - and so too is this issue of ERP Today.

Beyond batch, how ERP steers faster with data streaming

Living the data streaming dream, ERP shifts up a gear, as IFS and more explain.

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

Oracle Cloud World represents the final piece in the jigsaw for Oracle's own journey of transformation and discovery.

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.

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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.”

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.