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EY split halted as Project Everest climb proves too steep – for now

EY has announced it is halting its plan to divide its auditing and consulting divisions, after executives at the American portion of the firm decided not to push ahead with so-called ‘Project Everest’.

Ex-SAP president Brian Duffy to head SoftwareOne

SoftwareOne, the global software and cloud solutions provider, has appointed Brian Duffy as its new chief executive, succeeding Dieter Schlosser effective May this year.

Unilever building | Accenture and Unilever

Unilever goes cloud-only with Accenture and Microsoft

Accenture, Microsoft, and Unilever have successfully completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry.

Workday races to the finish line with McLaren

McLaren Racing announced a multi-year partnership with Workday, as an official partner of the 2023 McLaren Formula 1 Team.

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, incoming CEO SUSE

SUSE changes hats: new CEO to lead accelerated growth

SUSE has announced the appointment of ex-Red Hatter Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen as the firm’s new CEO. Melissa Di Donato is to leave the company effective immediately after almost four years in the CEO role.

Zig Serafin, CEO of Qualtrics | SAP and Qualtrics

SAP sells 423m shares of Qualtrics in $12.5bn acquisition

SAP has agreed to sell all of its 423 million shares of Qualtrics International Inc as part of the acquisition of Qualtrics by funds affiliated with Silver Lake as well as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments).

EY presses pause on split as partner disagreement ensues

The EY split has been placed on pause by the firm, as EY US auditors campaign for a larger slice of the tax practice post-divide.

Workday overshoots in Q4, gaining ground on $10bn target

Workday has announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter and full year ended 31 January 2023, with revenue wins inching the firm ever closer to its 2025 $10bn target.

Punit Renjen to replace Hasso Plattner as SAP chairman

Punit Renjen, the former global CEO at Deloitte, is set to replace Hasso Plattner as the new SAP chairman. Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner, who co-founded SAP in 1972 with Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector, is the only remaining founder still involved in an operational role at the German software company and will retire from his position at the end of his current term. His departure heralds another new era for SAP which will be confirmed at the company’s AGM in May this year.

SAP’s cloud chief quits

Brian Duffy, president of Cloud at SAP, has announced he will be handing back the reins after 13 months in the role. This follows 3000 job cuts and a proposed sale of SAP's stake in Qualtrics. Despite extraordinary cloud growth in recent quarters, the world's biggest enterprise technology vendor is not immune to the pressures of a toughening economy.

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Microsoft prunes as even industrial metaverse isn’t safe from industry woes

Microsoft has announced a fresh round of job cuts, effectively culling its industrial metaverse unit, amid slowing growth and ongoing waves of macroeconomic uncertainty.

Bard for business? Google enters the chatbot game

Google has entered the AI chatbot arena with Bard, an artificial intelligence search tool. What does it mean for enterprise?

BMW Group drives new growth with RISE with SAP

BMW Group have expanded its strategic partnership with SAP to accelerate its digital transformation.

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

IBM hits highest growth in a decade with mid-digit push for 2022

IBM has announced its financial results for 2022, with success across business segments producing the highest revenue growth in a decade for the firm. A six percent rise has seen revenues of $60.5bn for the full year and $16.7bn for the fourth-quarter.

High five: IFS sees double-digits for fifth consecutive year

IFS, the global cloud enterprise applications company, today announced its financial results for the full year ending 31 December 2022, showing the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth.

Unit4 launches new Marketplace platform

Unit4 has launched Unit4 Marketplace, a new platform where its ISV, Reseller and Service partners can showcase their innovative, bespoke industry and vertical Apps that link to Unit4’s ERP solutions.

Why can’t SAP keep a UK MD for longer than two years?

SAP has announced that yet another UK MD is moving on. Michiel Verhoeven will step down as managing director of SAP UK and Ireland at the end of Q1 2023. The announcement comes 2 years and 7 months after his appointment. The latest departure marks the twelfth UK&I managing director to leave SAP in 16 years.

All change at Workday as CEO Bhusri paves way for successor

Workday has announced the appointment of Carl Eschenbach to co-CEO, effective immediately, as part of a succession plan that will see Aneel Bhusri step back from the business in a year's time. Chano Fernandez is leaving Workday, also with effective immediately.

Oracle second quarter boosted by staggering cloud growth

Oracle Corporation has announced its results for the second quarter of fiscal 2023, showing strong double-digit growth and big numbers for cloud and OCI. The increase was largely driven by huge growth in overall cloud revenue.

LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft have entered into a new long-term strategic partnership to architect LSEG’s data infrastructure using the Microsoft Cloud, and to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics.

Rob Enslin of UiPath interview: All paths lead to automation

UiPath has been the market leader in automation for as long as automation has been a thing. But a sharp decline in value as a public company and a big shift in its go-to-market strategy poses fresh challenges for new co-CEO, Rob Enslin.

Workday Q3 subscribes success despite small operating loss

Workday has announced its Q3 financial results, with revenues reaching $1.6bn for the quarter, up 20.5 percent from Q3 2022. The HR and finance software vendor showed strong growth in its subscription services, with subscription revenues hitting $1.43bn, up 22.3 percent year over year this quarter.

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.

image of Workday building | Interview with Jim Stratton

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.

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.

image of Celonis building | Philippe Mathieu

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.

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.

Can IFS do for assets what Salesforce did for CRM?

Identity is everything in today’s super-competitive enterprise tech market. Oracle built an imperious business on its database credentials and then dominated finance. Salesforce has owned the CRM space for two decades and became the world’s biggest biz apps vendor as a result. Workday emerged to tackle HCM for big enterprises and is now the default choice for HR leaders.

Oracle banks partnership with HSBC

Under the multi-year agreement, HSBC will upgrade and migrate select database systems to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, a cloud platform delivered as a managed infrastructure service in HSBC’s own data centers.