Editor’s Choice

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Supply Chain Management

M&D has a long way to go in protecting the supply chain

Very few manufacturers and distributors seemed invested in supply chain readiness during the pandemic.

SAP sorts out supply chains and sustainability for Sapphire 2022

Returning to Orlando for its 2022 iteration, the ERP giant stood face to face with a world decidedly different to that of 2019. Supply chains, sustainability and social inequality have all come to the fore during the pandemic, and SAP CEO Christian Klein came to the stage with a timely message for the masses.

All work and all play: Do young professionals really want an office metaverse?

The tools to make work more engaging in the metaverse are already here. But who are they for? And does anyone want them?

Cloud healthcare and the data state of play

Big Tech is muscling in on health big time: look no further than recent acquisitions such as the Microsoft-Nuance and Oracle-Cerner mega-deals.

AI in healthcare: What now after Watson?

IBM’s Watson health venture was so beleaguered, it can be forgiven if AI in healthcare seems like a poor business bet.

Legacy tech lingers in healthcare after Covid. What’s the fix?

It's still too early to say the NHS has shed off enough of its legacy technology, even after the pandemic.

Editor’s Words: capability and complexity

In a previous editorial, I quoted Tom Peters who famously said: “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention” - but that sentiment is already outdated.

ERP Today Vendor Review 2022

ERP’s role has changed – and finally the vendors are listening. This year’s vendor review takes a close look at the 10 key ERP vendors that are suited to mid-market and enterprise customers.

The art of enterprise intelligence

Amazon, Venmo and Uber Eats: none of these iconic brands allow us to do anything we couldn’t do before. After all, I bought stuff on the internet, paid the babysitter, and ordered food delivery for years before any of those companies came around.

The great hybrid multi-cloud myth

Dan Scarfe with an alternative look at the trend for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures – does the world really need to be this complex?

Industry clouds: a key ingredient for agility and business opportunity

The astonishing pace of change in the world today driven by extraordinary levels of technology innovation has been pushing business towards the cloud for years.

What can we learn from the ERP project of the year?

At this year’s ERP Today Awards, Social Work England was voted the best ERP project of the year by a panel of judges that included industry heavyweights, independent analysts and seasoned media commentators. It wasn’t the biggest project the judges considered nor was it the most complex – so why did six experts agree it was the standout submission?

Editor’s Words

It’s 2021 and ERP buyers are getting serious about their tech choices. They have several decades of experience to inform their next big purchasing decisions and many are making brave choices...