Expert Opinions

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.

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.

Machine learning in erp needs Clarity with a capital C

Develops want speed, functionality and choice with software tools, while operations want security and compliance. The worlds don't always align: to find a middle ground, what comes next is MLOps.

Electric Sheep: The two-horse race in AI

Which company is the Switzerland of AI? Why have AWS and Microsoft failed? Who is leading in artificial intelligence? Find out with Holger Mueller, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research.

Composable by nature

Today the buzzword du jour is ‘composable, ’composable business, composable thinking, composable architecture and even composable ERP.

Are you ready to weather the economic storm with agile working capital management?

With soaring inflation and interest rate rises, SAP's Thomas Mehlkopf says its time to revisit liquidity forecasting and working capital management.

From lipstick on a pig to the experience economy, the evolution of UX

Why spending vast amounts of money just to make something look good without the underlying functionality was - and still is - fool’s gold

Building ‘smart’ ERP demands continuous software intelligence

Is it time to introduce ERPSI into the lexicon: the development of ERP suites with an inherent ability to exert software intelligence functions?

Blurred lines: is the consumerisation of enterprise technologies creating unnecessary division?

Enterprises beware – there may be some sacrifice in software simplicity for the hybrid user

Citizen technologists, it takes more than a lion taming hat

A reminder why just because you’ve got the title, doesn’t mean you’re necessarily qualified to do the job

Premises and potentates for cloud in 2022

Quantum computing, AI, DAOs and the metaverse make for an interesting cloud race after COVID-19

Sustainability: the next frontier of digital transformation

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redefine the meaning of economics and accelerate progress towards a more sustainable world: one with zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality.

From IT delivery to business success: shifting the mid-market project mindset

In a cloud world, ensure the business objectives of your project are clear

Aligning ESG and digital strategies

In the quest to build sustainable, purpose-driven companies, technology cannot be an afterthought.

An effective metaverse strategy requires a web3 mindset

Businesses might face risks by underpinning their metaverse strategies with a web2 way of thinking.

The tipping point scenario for consumer product supply chains is now

Consumer product (CP) companies are sitting in hot water, right in the middle of a value chain that is transforming across almost every conceivable dimension. And it’s not a stretch too far to say that most are hot under the...

The state of the key HCM vendors for 2022 and beyond

The future of work is changing faster than ever, and people are the biggest asset of any enterprise.

A fair and inclusive future of work needs some planning

For a closer look at how much the Great Resignation is impacting the IT sector and its workforce plans for the future, just look at the data.

Why Ukrainians need UK business to step up refugee support

The story and personal history behind the RefuAid Ukraine business consortium.

The Rise of Industry Vertical Solutions

Both the platform vendor and systems integrator landscapes are changing. Where to put your money?

Welcome to the New World: how Capgemini is solving supply chain challenges

Before the global pandemic, public awareness of supply chains and the dependency on these to move goods around the world was taken for granted.

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The hidden gem in SAP RISE’s crown: the SAP Business Network

SAP’s RISE initiative has a lot of moving parts that together offer customers and prospects important incentives to move to the cloud.

Enterprises better strap in for a journey to the metaverse

When social media giant Facebook changed the name of its holding company to Meta in late 2021, both the internet and enterprise world were abuzz with confusion over what it all meant.

Platforms matter in 2022 EAP is key for ERP success

Back in 2019, I had the pleasure to author a piece for ERP today on why platforms matter. Since, the industry has not stood still, and platforms have become stronger, broader and more important for all ERP vendors.