Editor’s Choice

Women supporting women: Empowering beyond the supply chain

Darcy MacClaren, global head of digital supply chain at SAP interviewed Lindsey Vonn who shared the challenges she has faced in her career.

Analytics and AI

Vendors set out their AI stalls in 2023. Where were all the skills?

Vendor conferences are over for the year, with all their wins news and GenAI hype. Not so much on the checklist? Skills.

Cloud Platform and Technology

How to be an AWS partner at re:Invent 2023

The biggest re:Invent 2023 takeaway: you have to be tough to be a partner working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

UKOUG is all for Oracle’s fresh face

At its 2023 user group conference, UKOUG has praised Oracle’s work to ‘freshen up’ its reputation, as Big Red continues to soften its approach to customer service, reacting to the rise in SaaS delivery requirements.

Castle in the Clouds : SAP Microsoft cloud collab

Cloud Platform and Technology

SAP and Microsoft’s fairytale ending with cloud collab success story

As Microsoft credits successful Q1 24 to cloud initiatives, has the Microsoft/SAP cloud collab gotten its 'fairytale in the cloud' ending?

As NTT Data buys up SAP licenses, are SIs now horsemen of the HANA-pocalypse?

NTT DATA has announced a plan to repurchase legacy and on-premises SAP licenses to help ease customer cloud migrations. But is this enough?

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Quality and Testing

How to reduce your manual testing by up to 60%

The more you can do to make the manual testing process intuitive and painless for business users, the faster and smoother it will go.

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Financial Management

Move over finance, it’s time for a new value metric

Jon Chorley, chief sustainability officer at Oracle and Jonathan Wright, senior managing director at IBM, share how sustainability goals can be met by leveraging the power of ERPs.

Gartner on why CFOs need inhuman accountants

Exclusive: Mark D. McDonald, senior director analyst in the Gartner Finance Practice, talks GenAI use in the financial space

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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.

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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.

Cormac Watters, executive vice president of applications for Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa

Oracle: you got a big friend in Big Red

Cormac Watters tells ERP Today how Oracle is opening up, to become best friends with some of the world’s most philanthropic organizations.

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.

An abstract image showing blue rays in a black background | Software applications

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.

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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?

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.

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.

Deltek: how the D.C. giant is going global with PSA

ERP Today sits down with Deltek CEO Michael Corkery to discuss the company’s European chapter.

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.

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.”