Guest Voices

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Analytics and AI

Even Oprah has an AI Strategy: What GenAI Means for You

Riz Ahmed offers observations on AI and its emergence, as well as what it means for ERP communities.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Cloud Today

When looking at cloud adoption, it’s often the financial products and older ERP systems that are slow to move off-prem.

Financial Management

Balancing the books: can ERP cash in on FinOps?

It’s time to cash in and balance the books. Experts from Workday, Red Hat, Nutanix and more talk about FinOps’ influence on ERP.

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Analytics and AI

AI in HR: the tightrope walker of recruitment

A string of media outlets and research reports today are discussing the crisis in the global job market, with employers struggling to find talent and more candidates finding themselves without a job.

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Security

The train outta cyber trouble in the smart city

When we rely on a growing network of interconnected systems to help our urban societies function, how can we keep them cyber secure? Answers can be found in case studies from the likes of Transport for London and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, as made possible by the work and offerings of AWS and Deloitte respectively.

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Cloud Platform and Technology

Vivien Boche means business

For Gen Z, TikTok is the new search engine - and SAP’s Vivien Boche knows that ideas sell best in a digestible, 60 second video.

Application Development and Integration

Crossing the digital divide in the public sector

ServiceNow’s Dr Raj Iyer tells all on public sector passions, challenges and what cloud technology can do for governments and citizens now.

Human Capital Management

Cloudy with a chance of curveballs

The times are a-changing: Giacomo Lee discusses human capital management today with consultancy CloudRock's CEO, Minos Ataliotis.

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Enterprise Architecture

Cloud vendors can’t ditch on-prem: It’s a love/hate relationship

Is it a good match? The history and happenings of cloud vendors' difficult relationship with on-premise solutions.

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Data and Data Management

Dated but still feted: The Big Data universe

Big Data is big. To paraphrase the late, great Douglas Adams on space: You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. And that's nothing compared to the hype around it.

Cloud Platform and Technology

From bedroom to boardroom

Chris Mason started Namos Solutions from his bedroom 11 years ago. Today, it boasts 130 employees and has opened offices in Europe and the US

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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.

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Analytics and AI

Race for the prize: An update on the AI race as ChatGPT speeds ahead

All vendors bring distinctive value propositions to enterprises - choose wisely or find yourself obsolete in the age of AI!

Cloud Platform and Technology

Cloudy vision begone? How to clarify our view of SaaS in the name of security

A murky mass of cloud instances is not good for business. Instead, we want cloud clarity, visibility and observability to secure virtualized compute and data services.

GenAI for enterprise: the AI guru view

Pascal Bornet and Kieran Gilmurray discuss the impact of GenAI, its impact in the workplace and how it has changed the workforce.

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The big supply chain data green-up

James Veale, co-founder at GreenToken by SAP discusses ESG 'washing' and turning a green blockchain into reality.

How Kubernetes is steering ERP cloud deployments

For many people, the real age of cloud composability started just less than a decade ago with the birth of Kubernetes in 2014.

The start of a beautiful friendship

Workday’s partner strategy historically leveraged two key global relationships and a small cohort of boutique partners to deliver.

Thriving in a changing world – how to seize the opportunity

Angelique De Vries, EMEA president, Workday, discusses how the company have adapted to the ever-changing tech environment.

How a skills-based workforce will reshape the future world of work

Sheri Rhodes, chief customer officer at Workday, explores how a skills-based workforce can reshape the future of work.

The state of the Workday EAP platform

Workday has made substantial progress on its EAP recently, so time to dig into the new capabilities and approach.

Microsoft’s supply chain VP gives the hard macro outlook

Interview with Ray Smith, vice president supply chain at Microsoft on black swan events and data lakes.

Inside The Software Automation Revolution

The popularization of software application development tools designed to empower ‘citizen developers’ has burgeoned over the last half-decade.

Human Capital Management

HR tech will embrace employee experience and talent marketplace

HR analyst Josh Bersin sees much for the sector and HR tech market to be optimistic about this year.

How to be ruler, and not rube, in the sovereign cloud

Legislation is catching up in the cloud race, as Mueller discusses how to keep your sovereign cloud safe from outside forces.

Automation leading to greater innovation

We at UiPath have created a form of automation that emulates people performing a business activity on a computer. The software infrastructure, existing applications, and workflows are reused, reducing complexity and cost of implementation.

The vision for automation

Automation should empower both devs and business users to reach new capacity with their work, no matter background and experience. Our core automation platform continues to expand, combining UI automation and API integration, ML, and AI.

Unlimited opportunities for customers with intelligent automation

Today, the remit for automation goes far beyond narrow optimisation. It's providing radical alterations in the way data, processes and humans interact. Hear how the conversation is evolving from leading technologists.