Expert Opinions

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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.
Chris Mason | From bedroom to boardroom
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
Infor Innovations Day: It’s RPA, Jim, but not as we know it
Probing deeper into the latest updates to CloudSuite, as unveiled at Infor Innovations Day Nordics.
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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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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!
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.
A puddle of oil : DaaS
After the oil spill comes AI to fill in the gaps for enterprises
For AI to succeed it needs data and computation, so let’s look into the reasons why CxOs need to now have DaaSrolling off their tongues.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.  
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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.
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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.
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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.
Robot-Resilience | RPA
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.
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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.
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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
Composable by nature
Today the buzzword du jour is ‘composable, ’composable business, composable thinking, composable architecture and even composable ERP.
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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
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
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?
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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
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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
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Premises and potentates for cloud in 2022
Quantum computing, AI, DAOs and the metaverse make for an interesting cloud race after COVID-19