Editor’s Choice

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.

Cloud Platform and Technology

The midmarket moment has arrived

If you’re reading ERP Today, you know that ERP was critical yesterday and it will remain so tomorrow.

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.

How Samsara is changing transportation with data

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

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.

Mary Ann’s Specialty Foods Enhances Efficiency with QAD Advanced Scheduling

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.

EY wins top prize at the ERP Today Awards 2022

The ERP Today Awards have once again ended with a bang, seeing EY win top prize for 'Transformation Project of the Year'. EY's stellar work for Network Rail saw the consultancy giant walk away from Ascot Racecourse with the major gong. The ERP Today Awards & Fundraiser 2022 also saw IFS win 'ERP Vendor of the Year'.

Editor’s Words: Strength in adversity

A sombre mood has been cast across the United Kingdom with its effects reaching all four corners of the globe. Queen Elizabeth II has passed and Charles III has been proclaimed king. As the world adjusted to the loss of the longest serving monarch on record, the ERP Today community shared a unique opportunity to pay tribute to Her Majesty at Royal Ascot, one of the late Queen’s most cherished venues.

Deepfake data will mean real money in finance – but reality is key

Can synthetic data resolve bias, privacy and data gaps for financial services?

Netflix and chill on the Mega-Deal?

The recent spate of Microsoft mega-deals looks to be over in the current market.

Editor’s words: what kind of future do we want?

Our future is being designed for us and we have very little say in the process. Drucker told us we could predict the future by designing it, the only question that remains is what kind of future do we want?

Microsoft and SAP continue 25 year innovation partnership

Microsoft and SAP continue to advance our partnership by deepening our commitment to each other’s platform. Microsoft will be the first public cloud provider to adopt the RISE with SAP solution internally to transform some of its large SAP ERP deployments.

Red Hat: an open shift in the enterprise cloud

An interview with Matt Hicks, Red Hat’s global executive VP of products and technologies. "Disrupting a critical application is never the right path, but deliberately evolving into an open ERP foundation is absolutely a well-trodden and successful approach."

Orbis non sufficit – the race for cloud supremacy

Is anyone else bored by the numbers? Do you find the race for cloud dominance a bit dull? Are vendor boasts reminding you of a recent time in history when getting rich and grabbing more played out pretty badly for most of us? Fundamental market dynamics dictate that big tech companies must sell more to satisfy shareholders but the persistent desire for growth is taking its toll on workers and the markets are finally realising that not every cloud business has a future.