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IBM Watson health status resurrected with NHS virtual assistant

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has launched Enquire, a new intelligent virtual assistant powered by IBM Watson Assistant on IBM Cloud

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de Novo forms strategic alliance with Rapid4Cloud

de Novo Solutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Rapid4Cloud to accelerate digital transformation and demonstrate its commitment to investing in leading technologies.

KPMG goes big on physical work with £5.5m Manchester expansion

KPMG has revealed a £5.5m investment in its flagship Manchester office, set to enhance services offered to businesses in the region and provide improved working spaces for colleagues.

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Colt and IBM create Industry 4.0 Lab in the UK

Colt technology services and IBM have launched a joint lab environment to bring secured Edge Cloud services backed by IBM Cloud Satellite to end customers, and address challenges in adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing value chain.

Wipro launches cybersecurity consulting in Europe

Wipro is launching cybersecurity consulting in Europe, as part of its vision to help global clients with dynamic threat and regulatory environments.

EY forms alliance with Alteryx

The EY organization has formed an alliance with Alteryx to help organizations unlock the power of data through automation and digital transformation.

Capgemini acquires 23red to boost UK sustainability and design offerings

Capgemini has acquired 23red, a UK-based agency with clients in the public and third sectors, to boost its sustainability and creative brand design capabilities in the UK.

Snowflake announces UK availability on Microsoft Azure

Snowflake has announced its general availability on Microsoft Azure in the UK, driven by high customer demand for local data residency from both the private and public sectors.

Swedish Väderstad drives international growth with IFS

IFS has revealed that Swedish Väderstad, one of the world’s leading companies in tillage, seeding and planting, has purchased IFS Cloud to drive international growth.

Duke Energy drives clean energy transition with AWS

Duke Energy is entering into a multiyear strategic collaboration with AWS to accelerate the utility’s development of industry-leading grid solutions that will benefit customers to help advance Duke Energy’s clean energy transition.

Mass Workday EMEA expansion points to global ramp up

Workday has launched the first wave of its key accelerator program in EMEA, as announced at its Workday Rising conference in Stockholm.

Unit4 survey reveals flexi-work isn’t working as it should

Unit4 has revealed the people and HR-related findings of its second annual Business Future Index.

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Workday surpasses 2000 customers in Europe and rising

Workday has revealed its applications are now used by over 2,000 customers in the EMEA region, as the company kicks off its Workday Rising event in Stockholm. The figures come as Workday continues to scale rapidly in EMEA, spanning across European-headquartered companies including Asda, Basic Fit, franprix, Glovo, Mazars, and Telpark. The company has also seen significant growth in France, Germany, and the UK, along with other European countries. Workday applications are now used by more than 40 percent of the FTSE100 and DAX40, and more than 30 percent of the CAC40.

Barclaycard taps Sapphire to power payments

Barclaycard, the leading global payments business, has teamed up with Sapphire to offer customers a means of making simple one-off supplier payments.

Google Cloud launches new ‘accelerators’ for healthcare

Google Cloud has launched three new Healthcare Data Engine (HDE) accelerators to help organizations address common use cases around health equity, patient flow, and value-based care.

Microsoft in supply chain first for disruptive decade

The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform, which bundles together AI, collaboration, low-code, security and SaaS apps, is not a scare tactic. As Redmond tells ERP Today, supply chain disruption is the new status quo.

Highland Council turns to TechnologyOne for digital overhaul

The UK’s largest council by land mass, Highland Council, has chosen TechnologyOne to support its digital transformation.

Vodafone and IBM in quantum partnership

Vodafone Group is collaborating with IBM on quantum-safe cybersecurity and also joining the IBM Quantum Network, it has been announced at the IBM Quantum Summit 2022.

Google to Acquire Wiz for $32 Billion in Cloud Security Push

Deloitte reveals large-scale expansion with Google Cloud

Deloitte and Google Cloud have made the most significant expansion of their alliance to date, to continue industry-leading cloud solution builds.

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Salesforce unveils Patient 360 for Health innovations to lower costs

Salesforce has unveiled Patient 360 for Health innovations, providing cost-saving automation for healthcare and life sciences organizations.

Landmark business split leads to EY-AuditBoard alliance

Following news of a business split, EY has entered into an alliance with AuditBoard, a leading audit, risk and compliance management platform.

UiPath targets midmarket with Neostella partnership

Enterprise automation vendor, UiPath, has announced an enhanced diamond partnership with Neostella, to provide flexible automation investment and usage models for midmarket businesses.

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Celonis adds ‘third dimension’ to process mining and supply chains

Celonis has launched two new updates to its process mining software. Co-CEO Alex Rinke explains exclusively to ERP Today how the new platforms represent a potential game changer for the tech.

Renault Group steers new innovations with Google

Google and Renault Group have expanded their partnership, accelerating Renault’s digitalization and the digital architecture for the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV).

Retail therapy for all with EY and Shopify alliance

An EY-Shopify global alliance is to help enterprise organizations maximize the potential of online commerce and support the sale of regulated products.

Microsoft Azure to power Lakeba marketplace

Microsoft has entered into a strategic partnership with global venture catalyst firm Lakeba to boost the scalability and security of its technology-led businesses.

Salesforce unveils new initiatives for COP27

With the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) just around the corner, Salesforce is launching three new environmental initiatives to bolster world leaders’ efforts to advance climate solutions.

Deloitte and AWS partnership to fuel fintech, crypto

Deloitte is embarking on a multi-year co-investment and engineering collaboration with AWS in a push to help banks and non-banks bring products and services to market with more ease on Amazon Web Services.

Kobelco selects IFS Cloud to construct business growth

Kobelco Construction Machinery CO, LTD, the global leader in construction equipment, has selected IFS CloudTM to improve their ability to respond to customers.

ServiceNow serves up NHS Digital backbone and beyond

Exclusive: The ServiceNow platform is powering NHS Digital, the national information and technology partner of the UK health and care system. The partnership will also continue once NHS Digital merges with NHS England and NHSX in 2023.