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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

Infor partners with NMIS to power model digital factory

Infor has entered into a long-term strategic partnership agreement with the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS). Infor’s investment will underpin the development of Model Digital Factory Demonstrators for the NMIS Digital Factory environment at the new NMIS 11,500m² headquarters.

IFS Cloud upgrades to unleash automation

As announced at IFS Unleashed 2022, the October release of IFS Cloud is now in general availability. The platform upgrade focuses on enabling organizations through intelligent insight and the acceleration of automation efforts.

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Automation Anywhere citizen dev launch: “Automation to a billion more workers”

Automation Anywhere CEO on the breadth of new software enhancements to keep ‘humans in the loop’ of intelligent automation. Word of the new automation success platform features came today at the automation provider’s Imagine 2022 conference in New York City.

‘Big Four’ accountancy firm EY announces business split

Ernst & Young has pushed ahead on a partner vote to break up the business into separate audit and advisory firms. Leaders across the 15 biggest member organizations, which represent 80 percent of the firm’s £39bn annual revenues, unanimously agreed on the much-mooted pivot late last week.

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Samsara bolsters enterprise weight with Q2 results

Samsara has announced its Q2 fiscal 2023 financial results. The report indicates a strong quarter of growth at scale, as the company surpassed $660m of annual recurring revenue, growing more than 50 percent YoY.

Celonis secures $1bn at $13bn valuation to tackle supply chain challenges

Celonis has secured an additional $1bn in funds to accelerate its position to help customers thrive in challenging economic environments. This $1bn in liquidity is anchored by a $400m equity raise at a post money valuation of nearly $13bn. In addition, Celonis has expanded its revolving credit facility to obtain access to as much as $600m with a syndicate of leading global banks.

Google further exits Smart City stage with Cloud closure

Five years after its inception, Google Cloud's IoT Core system is no more, pointing towards a further pivot away from smart city technology for Google and parent company Alphabet. The news comes not even one year after Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet's controversial urban planning subsidiary, was folded back into Google. The IoT Core closure was announced with a message on the product's page stating the service will be retired on August 16, 2023.

Latest results a turning point for IFS

IFS has revealed another set of stellar results which confirm the business is firmly on the path to £1bn in revenue and underscores the recent valuation of $10bn following a recent recap with Hg Capital. IFS’s growth in H1 2022 is put down to acquiring net new customers as well as from the IFS install base continuing to upgrade to its IFS Cloud product. In the first 12 months of IFS Cloud’s general availability, the company reported the same number of new users as it secured over a 25-year period with previous generation software.

Sage and Microsoft expand partnership to simplify workflows

Sage has expanded its partnership with Microsoft with new plans to integrate Microsoft Business Products, including Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, as embedded services in Sage products and the Sage Digital Network.

SAP moves first to control costs in wake of economic uncertainty

A certain existential crisis of the employee sort has been spreading across enterprise as of late. Microsoft announced small layoffs as part of a business realignment this week, while a staff-wide email on Tuesday from Google's CEO warned employees of consolidation due to the “uncertain global economic outlook.”

Boeing cloud mega-deal takes flight

Boeing has strengthened its strategic partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft in a cloud mega-deal that will reduce the company’s reliance on on-premises systems and provide employees with connected digital solutions.

Microsoft and SAP share the love in new mega deal

Microsoft has chosen RISE with SAP on Microsoft Cloud, making it the first public cloud provider to adopt the solution. Microsoft and SAP have a long track record of collaboration and the Redmond giant has run large parts of its internal operations on SAP ERP for decades. However, the announcement that Microsoft has signed up to RISE with SAP to deploy S/4HANA Cloud (private edition) is still a huge endorsement of SAP’s cloud credentials - considering Microsoft has its own cloud ERP solution in the form of Dynamics 365.

Microsoft in rude health with Azure and AI boost

Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.

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

Google adds AI to BT in cloud partnership

Google Cloud has been selected by BT in a strategic five-year partnership to accelerate its company-wide digital transformation. BT will use a suite of Google Cloud products and services including cloud infrastructure, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, security and API management with the aim of delivering better customer experiences, reducing costs and risk, and building new revenue streams.

Ukraine needs more than just ‘flag washing’ from Big Tech

ERP Today asks why the Big Tech brigade hasn’t put its money where its mouth is and shut off current services to their Russian client base.

Workday results top revenue estimates but fall down at profit, again

Workday has announced results for Q4 2022 and full year ended 31 January 2022, revealing an operating loss of $101m on the quarter and an overall loss of $116.5m for the year. For Q4 2022, total revenues were $1.38bn, up 21.6 percent against the same period last year with subscription revenues at $1.23bn, an increase of 22.2 percent. For the full fiscal year 2022, Workday recorded revenues of $5.14bn, an increase of 19 percent compared to last year.

IBM bolsters Azure capabilities with Neudesic acquisition

IBM has acquired Neudesic, the US cloud services consultancy specialising in the Microsoft Azure platform. Headquartered in California, Neudesic has more than 1,500 cloud and data experts located across the US and in India and provides the full scope of digital transformation services.