News

Rise in AI demand drives strong IFS results in 2023

IFS has announced its financial results for its third quarter 2023, reporting total revenues of €749m, an increase of 33 percent year-on-year (YOY).

Analytics and AI

Fujitsu forms merger to enhance cloud services

Japanese multinational conglomerate Fujitsu has announced its decision to form an “absorption-type merger” of its public cloud business.

ERP Today’s weekly hotlist: 23-27 October

We’re bringing you ERP Today’s weekly hotlist, featuring our top news picks from the previous week of October.

abstract business image | KPMG India and Vianai Systems

KPMG India transforms financial workloads with Vianai Systems

KPMG in India has announced an alliance with Vianai Systems to put conversational AI directly into the hands of finance users with Vianai’s hila Enterprise.

Application Development and Integration

AWS Q3 results show higher revenue, but slow sales

Amazon announced its Q3 financial results with the AWS cloud platform becoming a key driver of revenue, despite recently slow sales.

image of small figurines standing on a pile of coins | LSEG and Oracle

LSEG upgrades financial operations with Oracle Cloud

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), a global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, has chosen Oracle Cloud to transform its finance operations.

image of white fluffy cloud with blue sky | Microsoft and Submittable

Microsoft and Submittable collaborate on a new future of cloud

Microsoft has entered into a strategic partnership with Submittable to collaborate and innovate together to enable Submittable to develop new solutions powered by Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI Service.

SAP debuts new CX generative AI capabilities

SAP has announced new generative AI capabilities dedicated to spanning its SAP Customer Experience (CX) portfolio.

Storm clouds for Google as Q3 misses expectations despite AI flurry

Google parent company, Alphabet, has announced its financial results for its third quarter, ending September 30, 2023. The company reported total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY).

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Financial Management

Accenture’s North America take-over continues with Comtech Group acquisition

Accenture has acquired Comtech Group, a consulting and program management company for infrastructure projects, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Accenture to acquire ConcentricLife to boost marketing capabilities

Accenture has agreed to acquire ConcentricLife, a healthcare marketing agency helping Life Sciences brands build optimal experiences.

Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer | IBM third-quarter

IBM’s Q3 23 growth driven by software and consulting

IBM has announced its third-quarter 2023 results with revenue totaling $14.8bn, an increase of 4.6 percent, up 3.5 percent at constant currency.

CEO Bill McDermott | ServiceNow sees “tailwind of growth” with GenAI in Q3 23 success

Analytics and AI

ServiceNow teases rivals with real GenAI “product” in Q3 23 success

ServiceNow has outperformed its guidance across most Q3 23 profitability metrics, citing GenAI impact as it increased 2023 guidance.

IBM building | IBM earns AWS Generative AI Competency award

IBM and KPMG expand partnership to aid client use of SAP S/4HANA

IBM and KPMG have shown evidence of being successful as a team from their comprehensive business transformation program at Liberty Utilities.

image of person in lab using microscope | Salesforce | Life Sciences Cloud

Salesforce unveils Life Sciences Cloud for pharma organizations

Salesforce has announced Life Sciences Cloud, a secure platform for pharmaceutical and medical technology organizations to help them speed up drug and device development, enlist and retain patients across the clinical trail journey and leverage AI to deliver personalized experiences.

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Smart Communications personalizes digital services with Google Cloud

Google Cloud and Smart Communications, the mobile services arm of PLDT Group, have entered into a collaboration to improve the accessibility of essential digital services for Filipinos, with Searce providing technical implementation support.

Microsoft's office building | Microsoft’s shows positive Q1 2024 results amid faster cloud growth

Application Development and Integration

Microsoft shows positive Q1 24 results amid faster cloud growth

Microsoft’s fiscal first-quarter earnings outperformed analyst forecasts driven by revenue in Intelligent Cloud rising 19 percent to $24.3bn.

AWS announces new data-secure AWS European Sovereign Cloud

The new AWS European Sovereign Cloud will give its customers who are in highly regulated industries and the public sector further choice and flexibility to address evolving data residency and resilience requirements in the European Union.

A person holding a phone with a digital cloud projection coming from it | Anthropic

Cohesity upgrades to the cloud with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat has announced that Cohesity has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundational operating system of its Cohesity Data Cloud platform.

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Devon County Council pick Unit4 and Embridge for extensive digitization

Unit4 has announced that Devon County Council has selected its Unit4 ERP system to digitize its organization, data and services. The Council has additionally selected Embridge Consulting as its implementation partner.

A man and a woman, both in business attire, high-fiving at a desk, with smiles on their faces | Oracle Partner Award Inoapps

Inoapps Managed Services snag Business Impact Award

Inoapps has won the Business Impact Award UK & Ireland at the 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, an award that recognizes promising managed services businesses and the positive impact on customer outcomes.

SAP S/4HANA takes over BT Group’s finance transformation

BT Group will now run SAP S/4HANA to support its 'Making Finance Brilliant' finance transformation initiative.

Accenture acquires cybersecurity company, MNEMO Mexico

Accenture has acquired MNEMO Mexico, hopping to help organizations build more cyber-resilient businesses and secure their digital cores, technologies and supply chains.

Google Cloud and Moody’s boost financial operations

Google Cloud and Moody’s Corporation have announced a new strategic partnership to help Moody’s customers and employees leverage new LLMs.

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Infor entices devs with new Developer Portal and Program

Infor have announced the launch of its new Developer Program and Developer Portal, both of which are designed to give devs the information and tools they need to build on top of Infor cloud systems.

image of padlock and gold cards on laptop | Microsoft and Amazon

Microsoft and Amazon join fight to diminish tech support fraud

Microsoft and Amazon have joined forces along with international law enforcement in the fight against perpetrators of tech support fraud.

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ERP Today’s weekly hotlist: 16-20 October

We’re bringing you ERP Today’s weekly hotlist, featuring our top news picks from 16-20 October.

image of indoors Oracle HQ | NVIDIA AI Enterprise

NVIDIA AI Enterprise and DGX Cloud take to Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Oracle has announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise and the NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing platform are now available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

image of cloud over lake with blue skies and trees in background | Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks unveils industry’s first Code to Cloud

Palo Alto Networks has introduced the industry’s first integrated Code to Cloud intelligence as part of the Prisma Cloud Darwin release.

abstract image, using blue and orange colour cubes | IBM and AWS

IBM expands partnership with AWS to deliver GenAI to businesses

IBM has expanded its relationship with AWS to help more mutual clients operationalize and derive value from GenAI.